CARNIVAL IS OVER!!

 

YAY! carnival is over and we can work and leave our apartment!! (attatched i have a picture of us "drinking" juice, that was our party for carnival!) it is nice to be able to work again and to be out on the streets! 

We had alot of lessons this week. We are teaching this man name Pedro and he is great, and we gave him the book of mormon and when he came to church the bishopbric gave him more book and so when we went to his house he had all the books on the table and he has been studing them and had alot of questions. he has a really strong accent so i feel bad cause i dont understand EVERYTHING he says. but I do understand more then I did the first day so i feel pretty successful! :)

we are also teaching these two teenagers right now, they are really cool. it is the same boys that we stoppend and played baseball with that one day a few weeks back. They are both really intrested and have lots of questions everytime we talk to them, and they always want us to come and talk to them. they read the book of mormon together and pray together. I am glad that we are teaching them together cause they have the support. their parents dont care that we are teaching them but they dont want to hear it, i am hoping that we can get them all to listen one of these days. it is really funny cause this whole family lives on one street. so i feel like i know their whole family, aunts, cousins, second cousins. they are really sweet! :)

I gave a talk in church.. it was the scariest thing i have ever done in my life. noramlly i like speaking in church but.. not in portuguese. I honestly dont think anyone understood a word i said cause of how nervous i was, but a bunch of ladies in the ward were sweet and said they understood me though the spirit. and gave the elders a hard time when they teased me.

every week we have a thing here were the whole ward gets together with members and investogators and we have a little message and play games and have food. its like mutual for everyone in the whole city haha :) I have a picture from it attached. 

I am doing good outhere, the langauge is coming slowly but it is coming so i am not to worried about it :) the gift of tounges is real though!!

I love you all, read the bom cause there is some good stuff in there!!

xoxox

Sister Hernandez! 

ps. it is raining here, and it got to like 70 degrees and i was cold.. cold. i am scared to ever come home haha! 



Carnival!

This past week carnival started. for those of you who dont know what carnival is, it is a week where everyone just gets together and parties. Like new years, halloween, and the fourth of july, combined. but alot worse!

so the teaching has been really hard cause we need to be in our house the whole night, and the people dont want to listen cause they all are partying. but on the upside i have been able to study the language and docturine alot while we were inside, and the bishop of the other ward lent us some church movies to watch. and i got to see the beautiful sunset of my city. 

the langauge is coming alot, i am starting to understand a little bit more and more, everyday i see a little more improvement. 

i am sorry cause i dont have alot to say this week! next week will be better! :) i hope! 

i am sending a picture of the sunset, and also a selfie of me and sister rios, and sister moraes. sister rios mom got baptised yeterday so we all threw a party for her here and were able to skype with her family to watch it. i didnt understand anything cause it was all in spanish, but the spirit was there. and everyone kept calling me the american gringa, haha

i love you guys!

xoxo

Sister Hernandez

OI!

so this week was a little weird beacuse we had to go to Natal, (5 hours from my area) and my comp needed some medical attention. nothing to crazy, but my area just doesnt have as good as medical attention as Natal. Those people who say Natal are hot have NO idea. Cicou is WAY hotter haha. 

Once we got back we went to work. and we were leaving a members house thursday night and we met this man named Padro. he was great! we were talking and invited him to chuch. and then the next day he drove passed us and we talked to him again and he said he would go. then sunday morning guess who was at church PADRO!! i was so happy. my comp spoke in church so i had to sit by him and try and explain different parts of church and help himwith the hymns and i dont think he understood a thing i said, but he is really sweet and tried to undertand and that was really helpful. 

also, we had a huge "family night" with some non members, it was this women who loves the missionaries (her granddaughter is on a mission right now in san paulo, her granddaughter  is the only member) and so we had a bunch of members and non members and inactives all together and we shared a message and played games. i really hope they could feel how much we care about them. the members here are AMAZING. i seriosly am shocked by how much they help with the missionary work here. and how nice they all are to us. they all try to understand me too so it makes me feel like i can communicate a little haha.

we were walking the other day and these kids were playing "baseball" not american but in a werid way similar. and we asked if we could play, they had a blast making fun of us. and asked us to come back next week and play again. i love these pepople!!

i love you guys!!

xoxox

sis h

100 contacts

i am not writing a big group email this week cause i dont have time. BUT, this week was sister Rios birthday, and so her and i went and did 100 contacts in her area together. it wsa so tiring but so much fun, we invited 100 different people to church in 3 hours. we seriously talked to every single person on every street!! 

 

Sis. Moraes and I may or may not have a bap this week. hopefully he actually does commit. hes 17 and his name is jadison. 

 

the funny thing here is that everyone wants me to say their name in english. and most the time it is the same but they think my accent is cool haha. 

 

I love you guys!! stay safe!! 

 

xoxo sis h.