GREVE.

Ask a Brazillian about the greve in São Paulo.

I dare you.

We had a snow day this week. Where we has to stay in our house all day because there was a huge greve AKA STRIKE of the police and buses. The good thing is our Bishop is a policia so he kept us updated. ALSO he is like everyone's who is police in 5 cities boss so... there is that... also there is the fact that our mission was GOING to go see Elder Russel M. NELSON! AHHHH. Cancelled. Then we didn't have ônibus for 3 days so we missed all of our appointments with our investigators in other cities... OH then our perfect investigator that we met last week that understands the authority of God? REMEMBER? HER HUSBAND SAID SHE CANT SEE US ANYMORE!!!!! Then we couldn't find a bus to leave her city so bispo came and got us. 

I think i'll cry.

But really the week wasn't that bad, I sort of loved it. It is freezing and rained the whole week! I taught my companion the song RAIN RAIN GO AWAY COME AGAIN ANOTHER DAYYYY! She is hilarious when she speaks English. If I wasn't already crying about everything else, the English did it! 

My companion called me gorda (fat) a total of 500000 times this week too. I think we are besties. Too bad today is transfers and almost with certainty I will be transferred. We will just wait and see na? 

We have an entire family on date to be baptized. STOKED.

The book is blue, the church is true. 

AMO VOCÊS!!!!

 

 

HELLO PEOPLE!

HELLO PEOPLE!

Sister Pereira only knows like two phrases in English and it is either WHAT? or HELLO PEOPLE! Not sure why? MAS we love it! 

We had the baptism of my favorite person in the whole world this week! (desculpnãodesculp) MAGALI! She is probably the coolest person on the planet. Sister Fuller and I found her in the area book and pretty much our first visit knew she was perfect. I have the gift of discernment, na?? But in all seriousness. On Sunday after the baptism she was given the gift of the Holy Ghost and she was STOKED. She sat next to me for sacrament and started to get all nervous! After I was like- Você sente muito bom? She was like no, better, MARVILHOSA! Soooo... I think God might let me into heaven just for finding her. JOKE. We all know God found her, we were the ones who were lost!

Hmmm other than Magali our week was um poco CRAY. We don't have electricity today? Not sure why? So I showered in LITERALLY the coldest water of my life. I felt like Jack in the Titanic. I tried to explain to my companion the phrase FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS, but turns out that doesn't translate well. She was like- you don't have problems? Then she called me DOIDA (a crazy person?)... Minha vida.

We had a ward activity for missionary work and afterwards we "GOD SQUADED" this guy... Sister Armstrong and I could not stop laughing. When you have more than one set of missionaries testifying that Jesus Christ has a church here on the earth again- you have to join right? We will wait and see with that one. But after, as Sister Sares and I were leaving we started talking to this woman Dyena. She is part of a church that... well... doesn't like us much? So after she said that I decided to become friends a little first so she would HAVE to listen to our message? So after the normal guessing game of where I am from and how many filhos (children) I have, she is like- so what is different about your church? Is it different? BOOM. We taught her about the authority of God right there in the street (Slipping her daughter cookies to stay quiet- JOKING... Not.) And she is maybe the first person my whole mission to say- So then we don't have the authority of God? None of the churches had the authority of God! Exactamente. So we are visiting her today. Obviously. Ill keep you updated!

MILAGRES!

Eu amo vocês MUITO!

Sister Haley K. Mills!

PS Tell Sister De Paula that people are starting to think I've been here for almost a year? Good sign right? But I still wont write her in Portuguese. DESCULPNÃODESCULP!

 

Sister Sares (from Bolivia), Magali, and Sister Mills

 

Data Marcada

Im not even going to say I have no time because at this point the world knows. Sooooo REAL QUICK.

We had a baptism of Andressa this week. She is maybe the cutest 12 year old I have ever met. We taught her about repentance and she starts BAWLING. Im like wow she must have something to repent of? And she goes, thats just so great that God loves us THAT MUCH! Can you say golden? Its so great to see someone make the first step towards eternal life. Especially when they are so solid and you KNOW they will become a future mission presidents wife or something. Her baptism was awesome and right after a ward activity so people were actually there. Tender mercies! AND the day after all the moças sang in church (Young  Women) and she joined them after her confirmation! If that doesnt complete my mission I dont know what does. Probably December 17 will... I meannnn....

You heard it! December 17th, now lets not get trunky! President tried to tell me when I was going home by telling me I got in trouble and would be kicked out of the mission? My heart stopped. Its FIIIIINE. Then he was like just kidding you just wont be about to call your parents for Natal (Christmas). Wait why not? Ill be home, na? He was like nooo.... Oh WOO what happened? It says your release date is January 4, 2016? I was about to tell you that you will be kicked out of the mission December 17 so....

Obviously I told him I wanted to stay til 2016 and he told me for a 3 year mission I needed to marry someone super solid and endure to the end. Of course all of this is in Portuguese because my District leader pronounced me fluent today? We all went to the temple and I was like SORRY I cant do the session in Portuguese and he was like SISTER. You understand everything. You dont know some words, but when you can explain to me what word you want, that is fluent. YOU ARE FLUENT. And he is a Brazillian so I think Ive made it?

Oh and the temple. Turns out SUPER awesome in Portuguese. President talked to me for like an hour after about the perks of studying the gospel in two languages. But now I really understand. SO many insights. Word choice sometimes im like... WAIT THATS WHAT THAT MEANS?! This is my plug for everyone to learn Portguese, but then you might realize how bad my grammer is soooo maybe not? Desculpnãodesculp.

Also, I know you know already, but for everyone else- Sister Fuller was mid transfer adjusted (sort of) because we recieved a big group of new Americans. So now I have Sister Sares from Bolivia! She is pretty great. Ive been teaching her english, and she is new so we have both been working on Portuguese because sometimes we STRUGGLE. But just in this one week- LEAPS AND BOUNDS better.

Anyway, LOVE YOU! And it was great talking to you on Sunday, sorry for BAWLING when Rory said HI HALEY I MISS YOU and blew a kiss, but who are we kidding? That girl is cute as DIRT. Irmã Maria Carmo talked about her for like an hour after that! YOUR SABRINA IS SO CUTE!!!!

TCHAU!

Sister Mills!

Sisters Fuller and Mills

Sisters Mills and Fuller

Baby, will you pray?

OIIIII!

Its preparation day agaaaain! OH and its transfers? Again? We wont know til later today if we are transferred, BUT there is a rumor that if you get an email from President that doesn't say the name of your companion in it then you are.... sooooo.... well see about that today! HA!

Dad got a jeep?! Do you have pictures? WHAT IS THIS!!!! I wanted a jeep when I got home! Oh well, it sounds awesome! And at this point Ill settle for anything that isn't a ônibus. The other day we were on one for over 2 hours, on dirt roads, going AT LEAST 60 mph. I almost vomited. AND I learned what they call roller coasters here? Montanha Russa? AKA Russian Mountain? No one can explain that one to me!

Tell Danielle happy birthday! I actually looked at my watch on the second and was like... tomorrow I have 10 months, and today is Danielle's BIRTHDAY! So she should know I thought about her on this continent! Also, I have started referring to this day as Brazilian Thanksgiving. We have this investigator, MAGALI. She is THE BEST IN THE WORLD, and on date to be baptized next week. (We want 8 baptisms this month so WATCH OUT) She feeds us EVERYTIME we come over. We can't leave without eating. So one day we got stuck there. And I mean stuck. We had like 12 courses. And she brought over all of her neighbors and family to meet us. We have like 12 contacts from her and now we are fat. Oh and then everyone tried to kiss me and I had to scream NÃO PODE and duck, but I was in a chair so people ended up like leaning on my face? EVERYONE WAS DYING LAUGHING. My life is bliss obviously. But seriously if she doesn't get baptized soon I will gain 20 kilos. 3rd world problems??? Hahahaha.Then we visited this less active Izilda and she thought we were probably starving and forced MORE food on us. Like... I took home a whole bottle of olive oil...

Still didn't get the package, but we have interviews next week AND we are going to the temple, so FYI I wont be writing til I think Tuesday? And if the package has arrived President should be bringing it to interviews!

In other exciting news we are supposed to baptize Andressa this Saturday! she is 12, and LEGAL! (cool. I realize that looks like I am saying she is legal? Oh well, you only mission once.) We asked her if she wanted to be baptized and she started crying and said - I want to be clean! Well technically she said - Eu quero ser limpo. But you get the point. She is GOLDEN. We were going to have her baptism last week but her aunt wants to make a bolo? SO... a baptism got pushed back for a cake? Only in Brazil. 

Did you know Brazil has LABOR DAY? But it is called day of the worker. Or as I mistakenly called it day of work?? Dia de trabalho. Minha preferida! We had almoço with our ward mission leader whose name is something REAL close to Voldemort? I still haven't figured that one out. And it was hilarious because everyone calls Sister Armstrong baby because she just... I don't know but they do. And so he gave us all nicknames? Sister Leite? AWFUL. Mas, Sister Bebe was my favorite. Especially when he shortened it to just bebe. I should include that he sort of looks and acts like an Indian Steve Carell. 

So just imagine this - Baby, will you pray? 

I don't think he knows what he is saying?! Mas it is MUITO hilarious. Oh then everyone here has a certain way they eat oranges and if you eat them wrong everyone FREAKS OUT. Soooo Sister Armstrong and I were made fun of for another 30 minutes. BEBE PARA!!!! Baby stoppp!!! HAHAHA. I die.

I was in a historic reunião this Sunday. The stake president came and talked to us about our ward splitting and gave us all assignments. Don't worry. Ours is to visit every single person on the ward list. Simples, na? OH and I played the piano for the first part of sacrament? Then got fired?! AWKWARD. Remind me to practice when I get home.  

Anyway, I love you. I miss you! And I will talk to you this Sunday! We are peppering the ward with obscure questions to figure out who has the fastest internet?

TCHAU!!!!

Sister Mills, Bishop Santos, Tamires. Sister Fuller

Sister Mills