wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooww...
This week was so insane my head is still reeling. With tons of conferences (zone/mission conference and general conference) together with Transfers and tons of traveling... I am simply exhausted!!! Holy moly batman!!!
Okay. Let's talk about.. .Cruz Alta. A beautiful city. And our area is... so...very... GIANT. But! all of our investigators live next to the chapel! *YES!!!* It's just that..... we live in down town... and it takes 45 minutes (walking fast) to get to our area. ...
well I'll just say that I am grateful for the days I had when I lived literally next door to the chapel ... and also when I lived in the area in which I worked. hahaha But all is well! Cruz Alta 4th Ward is awesome. Our bishop has been in this calling for 11 years and he is still on fire!! We have I think... 65 (more or less) youth in this ward!!! Holy crap! That is a ton of teenagers!!! But it is so so awesome! Today we got a couple all ready to get MARRIED! yipeeee! And then they'll get baptized and in a year from now they have plans to be sealed in the temple.
*do a little dance!* ....*but missionary appropriate;)*
My companion's name is Sharon Celeste Hernandez. This little ball of fire is from Peru!!! (which means "turkey" in Portuguese... so... yeah we make a lot of jokes about that) She is my second hispanic companion. Her Portuguese is better than Sister Ramos's was.... but her accent is still really strong and it cracks me up. Actually.... it cracks everyone up. And she is such a goof ball!! She's been a STL for two transfers already (that's 3 months) And now she's training me! Yoohoo!! She's awesome. Sister Hernandez actually was my last companion's SECOND trainer. (Sister Rocha) Sister Hernandez is on her last transfer. Yes, ladies and gentlemen I finally have the privilege and honer to "kill" a companion. And I'm stoked. Because she isn't a dead companion. We are prepared to send her flying out of the Rio Grande do Sul with the gospel still flowing in her veins! It's forbidden to speak of home. And .....we're doing a trade! I'm helping her out with her English and she's teaching me Spanish! Wooot!
Okay... let's talk about my new calling! But before I talk about my calling... let's just talk about my mission limits.
As you all know, my mission's name is called Santa Maria, Brazil Mission. But Santa Maria is actually just one city amongst the 17 cities that my mission covers. The state (or "region") that I'm in is called Rio Grande do Sul (The Great Southern River) Where... actually I think we have several missions that cover RGS... but mine fits right there in the corner where the country border line touches Uruguay and Argentina. Yes... in my mission we actually speak Portuñol. I'm learning and hearing a lot more spanish in daily vocabulary that I ever did in the States. It's pretty cool. I've already served in two cities that touch the country border line (Uruguaiana and São Borja)
What do teenagers do when they're bored? They literally leave the country. Just cross the bridge over to Argentina and hang out *shoulder shrug* aint no thang.
anywho!!! 17 cities. Cruz Alta (where I am now) is my 4th city in RGS and my 5th area. As STL's we take care of 8 sister companionships spread out throughout 7 cities. 5 of these sister companionsships are training and 4 are "whitewashing". Although we belong to the Cruz Alta Zone... because we're the STL's.. we actually take care of all the Sisters within the 3 zones around Cruz Alta. (There are 6 zones in all of our mission)
Yes.... I will be traveling a LOT. D8 hahaha but I'm excited. I've got a ton of things to learn!
Oh! quickly before I forget. of the 5 sisters that are new... one of them is American (aawww....pobrezinha has to learn portuguese!) and 2 are from Peru (they also are still learning Portuguese!) and the other 2 are from brazil.
Well! I want to say so much more! like... here I get to talk on a Radio Show every Saturday! Suuuuuper cool! aaand.... the Portuguese scriptures are coming out all new and improved and I'm sad that I'll be home by the time that happens!
okay!! Love you tons! I'll give you all the address next week! have an awesome week!
love,
Sister Hennefer
My companion's name is Sharon Celeste Hernandez. This little ball of fire is from Peru!!! (which means "turkey" in Portuguese... so... yeah we make a lot of jokes about that) She is my second hispanic companion. Her Portuguese is better than Sister Ramos's was.... but her accent is still really strong and it cracks me up. Actually.... it cracks everyone up. And she is such a goof ball!! She's been a STL for two transfers already (that's 3 months) And now she's training me! Yoohoo!! She's awesome. Sister Hernandez actually was my last companion's SECOND trainer. (Sister Rocha) Sister Hernandez is on her last transfer. Yes, ladies and gentlemen I finally have the privilege and honer to "kill" a companion. And I'm stoked. Because she isn't a dead companion. We are prepared to send her flying out of the Rio Grande do Sul with the gospel still flowing in her veins! It's forbidden to speak of home. And .....we're doing a trade! I'm helping her out with her English and she's teaching me Spanish! Wooot!
Okay... let's talk about my new calling! But before I talk about my calling... let's just talk about my mission limits.
As you all know, my mission's name is called Santa Maria, Brazil Mission. But Santa Maria is actually just one city amongst the 17 cities that my mission covers. The state (or "region") that I'm in is called Rio Grande do Sul (The Great Southern River) Where... actually I think we have several missions that cover RGS... but mine fits right there in the corner where the country border line touches Uruguay and Argentina. Yes... in my mission we actually speak Portuñol. I'm learning and hearing a lot more spanish in daily vocabulary that I ever did in the States. It's pretty cool. I've already served in two cities that touch the country border line (Uruguaiana and São Borja)
What do teenagers do when they're bored? They literally leave the country. Just cross the bridge over to Argentina and hang out *shoulder shrug* aint no thang.
anywho!!! 17 cities. Cruz Alta (where I am now) is my 4th city in RGS and my 5th area. As STL's we take care of 8 sister companionships spread out throughout 7 cities. 5 of these sister companionsships are training and 4 are "whitewashing". Although we belong to the Cruz Alta Zone... because we're the STL's.. we actually take care of all the Sisters within the 3 zones around Cruz Alta. (There are 6 zones in all of our mission)
Yes.... I will be traveling a LOT. D8 hahaha but I'm excited. I've got a ton of things to learn!
Oh! quickly before I forget. of the 5 sisters that are new... one of them is American (aawww....pobrezinha has to learn portuguese!) and 2 are from Peru (they also are still learning Portuguese!) and the other 2 are from brazil.
Well! I want to say so much more! like... here I get to talk on a Radio Show every Saturday! Suuuuuper cool! aaand.... the Portuguese scriptures are coming out all new and improved and I'm sad that I'll be home by the time that happens!
okay!! Love you tons! I'll give you all the address next week! have an awesome week!
love,
Sister Hennefer
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