Bom dia! (bong-gee-ah) good day! Since I am in provo, not Brazil, if you were planning on sending a package, I'd love some real lotion from the outside world, I forgot how dry it gets here. And oreos. And maybe a symphony bar for my companion, just because we love her. :) If you have time, just some suggestions.
So, lots happening here! You know how I said we need to have a talk prepared for Sacrament meeting, and the Branch President calls you up on the spot? Guess who got to give the first talk on their first week! Yep, me! I'm really glad though because the first week can be in English. From now on we have to prepare them in Portuguese. Hopefully I won't get called twice in a row, but you never know with this Branch President. I also got a calling! I'm the Branch music coordinator. Its like the only calling besides District leader and Zone leader here. I'm one of only 2 people that plays piano, and I'm supposed to get a special musical number every week. And it has to be in Portuguese. I can do it though, I'm excited because I miss the piano and music in my life.
So some interesting things, on Sunday nights we get to watch church films. this week was the Testaments, and my companion and I were a little concerned that we found it so entertaining. We think maybe this place is messing with us. For example, we find really strange and silly things to be funny. I can't even tell you because it would come out sounding so ridiculous. But at least we're having a lot of fun. On Tuesday we have devtional. The five weeks preceding us were all Apostles, last Tuesday was Elder Bednar, which I'm sad I missed out on. But it was still really good! We started off by singing the Armies of Helaman, singing that with 2,000 missionaries was so amazing! There was a lot of power, it was one of those moments where they were real missionaries, not just a bunch of obnoxious 19 year-old boys (they remind me of that enough).
The language is going okay. I can pray pretty well, i have our purpose memorized, and the first vision memorized in Portuguese. And I can bear my testimony, and make a sort of choppy contact. I need to work on the contacting. Especially since I'll have to be teaching in portuguses pretty soon. One of our teachers, i really connect with on the language front, the other one not so much. But the other one i have learned so much about how to teach well and be a missionary. so they balance each other out.One of the districts in our Branch leaves this week, out of 12 people only 1 got their visa. The others are going to Boston, Arizona or St. George Utah. Its a new mission, we think maybe they opened it just so they had a place to stick us Brazil people :)
Our schedule changes a lot, and things work a little different for us since we technically aren't supposed to be here. They try to fit us in, but so little people are making it to Brazil MTC, they try to squeeze us in here. Its okay, we go with the flow.
So we have these pretend progressing investigators, I think I told you about them. There is one named Paulo and we taught the first lesson. Everyone was supposed to prepare the second one, but none of the Elders prepared, they were in trouble, but we got to teach the second one, and we committed him to baptism! it was exciting, even though its not real, but it seems so real when you're teaching him. i can't describe it. We were excited though.
Also, you guys should try Dear Elder.com You can just write on there, and it gets mail here really fast! Mail moves slow, it tooke me 3 days to get a letter from nancy who is only in SLC. I'm not sure how dear elder works, but its not hard. it gives me letters in the mail! or just keep hand writing, i love that too!
Times up! I Love you ALL!! Miss you tons!!
Sister Emma Pratt
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