Sooo
much stuff happened this week, but we'll see how much I can get through!
Really hope you all had a better week!! Hope the kids are all settling
into school, especially Payson! How's Nolan doing? Any more crazy
storms?
OK so this Tuesday the topic of our district meeting was
about "administering money" (everyone in the mission is focusing on
self-reliance right now) so we took some time to organize all of our
money, with the goal that it will not simply disappear this month haha.
It's funny though that I think everyone in our district said that our
biggest spending is on food. Missionaries love food haha. Oh, except one
elder said his was by far personal heigyne. Like how many products do
elders need?? But whatever.
Tuesday night we taught our college
friends about the Plan of Salvation with a cute little graphic that they
loved. Two of them came to church yesterday!
This is out of
order, but speaking of people that came to church, yesterday we had
Patricia, whose brother left on his mission last week, and who was being
taught by the elders, before they discovered that she actually lives in
our area. She's awesome and also the cutest little thing ever, but
she's worried about being baptized because her whole family is very
catholic. We would appreciate lots of prayers on her behalf!
Probably
the biggest excitement this week was our double splits. The sister
training leaders came to Teófilo this time, and they had to stay 2 days
because of the bus schedule. It was tons of fun (if a little cramped) to
have 4 sisters in the house. Also, they were basically on vacation, so
they wanted to explore everything. I convinced one of them to visit the
cemetery with me (neither of my comps here has been willing to go!) and
then we also got to visit the international rock fair! I bought two
pairs of earrings, and also got given a mini turtle and dolphin because
people thought I was funny hahahah.
Saturday we got to paint a
house! (or at least one room of a house) for our friend Joyce. She
absolutely could not believe that we all paint things ourselves there.
Apparently it's not something they do here in Brazil!
Our
baking continued strong with baked potatoes, torta de mousse, cookies,
failed pumpkin bread (and pumpkin pancakes), and calzones (those were
the best!).
Our district is also focusing on sacrifice and
consecration, so my comp and I gave up on popular songs and decided to
put our musical skills to better use...which would be writing impromptu
missionary parodies to every single primary song we could remember--and
there were many! The corny, bad, and ridiculous ones will stay on the
streets of Minas where they were created, but I wrote down and am
attaching pictures of the best ones, for your enjoyment :P We plan to
continue this project, so if anyone has any ideas or funny stories,
please share! (Here's a hint: the next verse of BOM stories will be
about crocheting).
Ok that's it for this week! Love you all! Pictures to come (if my comp remembers to send them to me...)
-Love from Sister Kirkham
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