You all heard about most of my crazy
crazy day in Vitória last p-day. The only part you all didn't hear is
that there wasn't space in the 7pm bus, nor the 8pm, and not even the
9:30. He told me the soonest would be 11 something and I was like "no no
no that's not gonna work!" but he somehow managed to find two seats in
the 10:20 bus, which means we got home to Linhares at exactly 1am. Sister Parente and Sister Perez met us at the terminal with our stuff, and at exactly 2am, Sister Parente and I left on another bus to Bahia.
So
in case you missed the excitement last week, I have now stayed and
worked in 4 Brasilian states! The people in Bahia are a lot like the
people in Minas. We didn't see much of the city, but it seems pretty
similar to Minas as well, except the food is a lot cheaper. Seriously,
every single lanchonete has Pastel 1$R!! I know most of you don't know
what that is (haha), but it's a really good price. The highlights of the
day were district meeting (we had this super awesome training about
optimism), and a Noite Familiar with a less active family. We had
another crazy night thinking that we were going to miss our bus, but we
didn't haha--which was good, because we got back to Linhares (again)
just in time to meet Sister Creswell and Sister Rodrigues, coming from
Teófilo.
Quarta-feira I hit one year on the mission! We ate
ice cream to celebrate, but mostly because we used the time to do part
of our training. And then it rained the whole day (actually, it rained
half the week, and had tornado-like winds the other half), and we had
tons of work to do, so that was pretty much the only celebrating haha.
BUT, I got to do splits with my former companion Sister Creswell, (at
least for a few hours in the morning) AND with Sister Rodrigues (whom I
trained, so so long ago) which was super fun. It was amazing to see how
much she's grown as a missionary since I last saw her.
And
speaking of trianers! I forgot to tell you about transfers! I'll be
staying here, thank heavens, but my comp was transfered back to her old
area to finish training an american sister, and I'm going to be
companions with my trainer, Sister Farias!!!! Crazy.
Ok, I
only have like 10 mins left, but the other exciting news this week is
that Isaque is going to be baptized!!!!!! He went to church again, and
he's reading the Book of Mormon, and keeping commandments and has a good
relationship with a couple in the ward that's been helping a ton, and
he accepted a baptismal date for this Saturday! Lots and lots and lots
of prayers please!
I'd tell you about all the other cool people if I had time, buuuut I'm kind of out, sorry. More next week!
Love you all!!
-Sister Kirkham
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