Para bens para... me?

Happy 8 months to myself today! Eat something healthy for me, because we know I won't! 

Ohhh this week. 

Let me start with a little story I like to call- HEAVENLY FATHER LOVES ME. It goes a little like this...

So, I've been stressed out of my mind with, the area, the companionship sitch, the VISA waiting, my stress-eating (props to you mom for losing all that weight ps! I'm such a fatty these days, thankfully it's so cold I just throw a coat over my unzipped skirts? #FAT), and well, you know, just repenting of waking up at 6:24 instead of 6:23 AM (according to President Mecham the apostles are all 7 minutes early to everything?). 

So I heard from the parents that I had my VISA and I knew it was on the way, so I prayed that President would tell me when he was here for interviews last month, even though we aren't supposed to know til right before we leave (trunky whaaa?) I knew that I would stop getting sick every single week if I had one less thing to stress about. So I'm in my interview and President. Not kidding. Goes- just so you know, you have your VISA. I got your travel plans two days ago. And the date they wanted you to leave on was like APRIL, so I called them and they had made a mistake. You wouldn't have left til MAY when they realized it. Oh so now you leave March 10th. You have a month. (AKA DO WORK). President Mecham is a man of God (listened to the prompting) and God loves me. That is the moral of that little tale.

So.... I HAVE MY VISA AND I LEAVE MARCH 10TH! I couldn't tell anyone til March 1st, and I STINK at keeping secrets, but just for Presdient Mecham, I DID IT!  AND NEXT MONDAY I'LL BE ON A PLANE TO... SAO PAULO! ESTOU MUITO ANIMADA! EU NAO PRACTICAR MINHA LINGUA... QUE VERGONHA.

Oh yeah, this week. Umm well I sort of used up all my email time emailing everyone really excited "I got my VISA messages!" Sooo.. 

Transfers are on Wednesday and Sister Wilbert and I are getting a tri-panion. Proabably because they don't know what to do with my before I leave? Sister Erbe is her name. She served by me in Wyoming so I already know her and love her. She is an AMAZING musician. Hopefully she can sing lullabies? 

AND we had TWO snow days this week. It's super awkward as a missionary because you are like... wait... we just stay home and read the Book of Mormon for a whole day?! AWESOME! Then at like 4 pm you start to get antsy and wish the Zone Leaders would call the whole thing off. Blizzards for days up here. Yesterday it was -30 with the wind chill and we were the only ones in the area who didn't cancel church. H-core. So I go outside in just a cardigan and almost get hypothermia. No worries, I learned from my mistake. NEVER AGAIN. My hand literally stuck to the scraper and I had to rip it off (like the Christmas movie where he licks the pole!) 

Anyway,

I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU MUITO!