Happy Birthday to Daddy! Video to come.
Yes, I did get your emails. I will respond to them in a bit, but I'm gonna focus on this first.
So
the craziest thing this week is the semi-truck driver strike. Yup. All
of them. In all of Brazil. Nothing new is coming in anywhere. Not mail,
not subway sandwich ingredients, not rice and definitely not gasoline.
Crazy how much the country depends on a small job like that! But
luckily, because the church is cool like that, as soon as the strike
started, we were called and told to use our reserve funds (kinda sucks
if you didn't have one haha) to buy a whole bunch of food and
necessities before the prices went up (which they did). The buses are
still working (for now) and the government stepped in on a couple other
things, so life isn't stopped or anything, but like the bishop walked to
church for the first time in forever yesterday (he says he almost died
hahaha) so he has a newfound respect for missionaries :P Not that he
didn't before, but it was pretty funny. I'm sure you all have access to
way more information than me, but don't worry we're being well taken
care of.
This week we took a road trip to a
mountain/german community called Marechal Florenes (or something like
that). There's a little group of church members there that we now have
the opportunity to work with! It's really beautiful there, and it's
gonna be a little hard because of the distance, but we're planning on
going up once a week, and we're excited to be able to do some good
there!
We had an awesomely productive Thursday,
because we did splits with our SLT's. Sister Sena was also celebrating 1
year on the mission so the whole day she was like 'look! I just said my
first prayer with 1 year on the mission' and stuff like that haha. We
also had 7 sisters in the house that night (I was the ONLY one that
slept), and we all ate burgers together and then they proceeded to do
hair and trade dresses and do nails for...
...Zone
Conference (Mission Tour) with Elder Fortunato! Crazily amazingly
spiritual and motivational and awesome. I took tons of notes, but I
don't remember any of them right now haha.
As
far as the work and the people, we're still working with all the same
people, plus a few. No one came to church, and we hit a couple of walls
we weren't expecting, but we have an awesome plan and a great attitude,
so it'll all go well in the end :) Oh but it was Antonio's birthday this
week, so we threw a party for him, which was super fun! Also, we
attended the YSA FHE yesterday, which was hilarious.
Today
we travelled quite a bit, first for a doctors appt, and then to buy
fabric because my comp is going home in a month and wants a couple new
dresses, which is why I'm on so late.
Love you all, and hope you have a great week!
-Sister Kirkham
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