Natal no Brasil é muito estranho. Não tem neve e não tem pessoas
cantando nas ruas. Mas eu estou amando. Vou ter a oportunidade de
falar com a minha família no natal e vai ser bom de mais. Eu acho que
as vezes a gente esquece o proposito de natal porque nos comemoramos
todo ano.....Eu sou tão grata por meu salvador Jesus Cristo e o
sacrifício que ele fez para mim. eu preciso esquecer de mim mesmo e
pensar mais nele. Lembrar que meu Pai Celestial mandou ele á terra
para morrer. Só atravez ele eu posso voltar um dia e viver com meu pai
celestial. Como eu sou grata por essas coisas.
Espero que cada um de vocês lembram do real
significado de Natal e faz alguma coise para lembrar de Cristo entre
toda a família e todas as festas. Eu amo vocês estou com saudades!!!
BEIJOS!!!
Merry Christmas my friends and
family!!! I love you alll sooo much. I am not as home sick as I
thought I would be around Christmas time. I think it is because it
honestly doesn`t feel like Christmas.....at all. There is NO snow. The
decorations are completely different. there are only a few houses that
have lights on them and I will be honest I find a few of them very
tacky, but I will be honest I think that is why I love it!!! ha
ha it is so amazing. But there isn`t Christmas music in every street,
every house, every radio station. It is SUPER weird....like for reals.
So I just feel like there are some people who just forgot to take their
Christmas Decrations down from last year and are celebrating Christmas
in July.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter. It is fun
but I am told it will only get worse. Ha ha Summer officially starts
tomorrow and I am really worried because I am basically a brown
brazilean already. so this should be fun :)
We had a really awesome baptism on saturday. Her
name is Zene....well I call her Zene. It turns out that when sister
Bezerra and I found her we were told her name was vionade and I guess
Sister Bezerra couldn`t say her name or something and gave her the
nickname of Zene. I had NO IDEA!!! ha ha so I have been calling the
poor lady by the wrong name for MONTHS!!! ha ha oh well.. SOOOO she was
baptised and it was perfect. I don`t think she will EVER forget her
baptism. She wanted a guy from the ward to baptise her but he had to
work and so Bishop decided that a youth in the ward would baptise
her.....k, great bishop, you do that. ha ha it took FIVE tries!!!! ha
ha FIVE!!!! Rediculous. I wanted to get in the water and baptise her
myself!!! But there is only ONE little itsy bitsy flaw with that......I
don`t have the preisthood power.
ANYWAYS she was finally baptised and I told her she
was EXTRA clean and she just laughed. SHe is super excited to go to the
temple. We went to her house yesterdaya nd showed her pictures of all
the temples. She LOVED it!!!! she make the church website her
homepage. ha ha it was a great experience!!!
Anyways things with an American companion are super
interesting. I love it sooo much because I am learning loads of stuff
about myself with Sister Turner. It is soo weird. I can speak
Portuguese. I can express what I want to say and I can teach all the
principles of the Gospel. I understand everything that people say to me
and I don`t feel like I have to ask people to repeat themselves very
much. BUT when I am talking to Sister Turner at our house in English I
feel like I can just express myself SOOOO much better. My stories are
funnier, my feelings have more meaning. I don`t know what that means.
But someday I am sure I will have the same feelings about
Portuguese...well that is my goal at least.
As two americans we get quite a bit of attention in
the street. I kind of hate it. Sometimes I just want to walk around
with a sign that says "yes, I am american stop starring" but I have to
be a representative of Christ.....always and so I just say Good Day and
keep walking. But one day I had had just about enough......ha ha It was
just soooo much and I was getting irritated. and we were walking past
this guy who was washing his car and so he was bent over and we saw
about half of him bottom......this was not exactly what I would call a
good moment. But as we were passing He got up and checked us out and
said something to the effect of well hello there.....We walked away and
under my breath to my companion I said "I just saw half your butt sir,
please don`t hit on me" Sister Turner and I got a good laugh from that
one. ha ha It really is funny how we become celebrities just because we
aren`t from this country. So if you ever want to feel popular I
suggest coming to Brasil. ha ha It is super great!
ANYWAYS....I love you all I am sooo excited for
Christmas. It is a lot easier to remeber the meaning of Christmas here
because there isn`t a whole crap ton of parties and music and
distractions. I love it. I cvan really just focus my studies and mind
on Christ and the fact that we was sent to this earth to save all of us.
I hope you all can remember Christ this reay too!!! I love you all!!
Christmas Call: So we can
use skype but I am in Brasil and the internet is not super reliable and
it is Sunday so I have to find a member who has internet in their
house......I found one who is willing to let us use thier computer but I
don`know what time still. ha ha so I am thinking at like 7:30ish my
time which would be more or less 3:30ish your time in Washington ( I
think) so what ya`ll can do is call our phone here in Catú 71-9978-5344. It is the same phone that you called for mother´s day. and from there we can get on skype and talk face to face.
If worse comes to worse we will just talk on the
cell phone. No problem. I am really excited to talk to you guys...I am
not sure why, I don`t really have anything to say. but maybe I will
think of something. ha ha
I love you all soooo much!!! I miss you!!! I am
happy healthy and doing soo great. No need to worry about me. I am
praying for all of you. Let me know how you all are!!! Have an awesome
week and an awesome christmas!!!!
LOVE YA!!!
XOXOXOXOXOXOX
Sister Ottley
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