OI!!! Percebi que faz muito tempot que não escrevo em Português mas vou
ser curto porque so tenho 15 minutos. Amo vocês!!! Esta domingo eu
discursei e fiz um desafio por todo mundo Quero fazer para vocês
tambem. Se conheca alguem afastado ou menos ativo ou inativo na igreja
liga para eles or faça uma visita lá esta semana. Ver se você nâo puder
mudar una vida. BOA SORTE!!! Amo vocês D+!!!!
Sister Ottley
Hey family sorry I suck and this is going ot be
way way short I had a bunch of stuff to look up and email for people
and it ate up quite a bit of my time. I love you all sooo much.
Etch-a-sketch I am WAY sorry you are like super sick. I am praying for
you tons and tons and I am also praying that this little pipsqueek
decides to come like a week and a half late so if I come home on the 14
of August I can meet it. ha ha sorry but my prayers are pretty
faithful.....just sayin.
I mis syou all sooo much but I really don´t know how easy it is
going to be to come home. They say that home is where the heart is well
a HUGE portion of my heart is here in Brasil. Espescially here in
Catú. There is a little girl like 18 months old and we teach her dad.
Everytime we come to the dooor you can hear her in the background
"sita...sita..." she is adorable and now bows her head and says amen
like 50 times durring the prayer when before she had no idea what a
prayer was.
I love these people sooo much I can`t stand to think that someday I
will have to leave I am counting my lucky stars and I thank my Heavenly
Father everyday that I still have so much time here. I really do feel
lucky for all the things and experiences that I am learning from here on
the mission.
I gave a talk on sunday and I wanted to make the same challenge for
all of you that i made in the ward. I recapped the parable of the
prodigal son and explained the doctrine. Then I asked for a show of
hand of all the people who know someone who is a member but that person
is not going to church. Do YOU know anyone who is inactive? THink
about that person. When was the last time YOU personnally went to that
persons house? Or called them up if they live far away? when was the
last time YOU invited them to church? when was the last time YOU beared
your testimony to them? I want each of you to think about that person
and in an attitude of prayer. Give them a call. I promise you that the
holy Ghost will guide you and help you know what to say. It is my
experience that as a ward member/friend/family member it is 100 times
easier for you to reactivate someone then it is for a missionary who has
zero relationship ties with someone. It is the same way with
non-members and conversion. BUT seriously call them.. and the key to
reactivation is DON`T give up!!!! Keep inviting and keep trying to
serve them.
anyways, I love you alll soooo much Keep reading the book of
mormon. It is the best and truest book on the planet. Keep going to
church because you can`t take the sacrament at home and EVERYONE needs
to take the sacrament. Keep praying because even those with arthritic
knees need they´re daddy everyonce in a while. GO to the temple because
there are people that NEED you to give them the opportunity of Eternal
Life, who are you to deny them?
Stay awesome!!!! Never regret!!! XOXOXOXOXO
SIster Ottley
Friday, January 20, 2012
This house is like an oven
Hey Everybody!!!
I only have 25 minutes to write this email because I was trying to send pictures at the same time. I gotta figure out a better way to do that. It takes like a lifetime; I think it is because I choose the camera with the worlds most highest definition. OH well.
Anyways this week was pretty awesome. We laughed a ton, we worked loads, and then just were awesome. ha ha we had the sedding of lourdes and hamilton...don`t know if I have already told you about them. They are the parents of my first baptism when I was here in Catú the first time. and we helped them get married this weekend. They are the bestest. I love it!!! we are going to baptise them hopefully next week. They are going out of town this week so we have to wait unfortunately.
Had interviews with president Hart this week. He is the coolest guy ever!!! I went in and he was like well before you even ask, yes, yes you and Sister Turner can stay together another transfer. I about peed. Apparently he can read minds.....he is a swift one that President Hart. Ha ha Sister Turner and I have been sending emails just about every week talking about how much we love eachother and our area and how we want to stay together another transfer. Ha ha it was real real funny. he is the greatest. anyways transfers are in a week but now we don`t even have to worry about it.
So it sounds like it hasn`t been a real cold winter there huh? well it hasn`t been all that cold here either. I remember before the mission I was all excited because Google told me that it was an average of around 75 degrees here all year round.....LIES!!!! Never trustin that lying cheating peice o´ junk Google again!!! ha ha it is like your walking around on a frying pan all day and you can hear your skin sizzling. Awesome. You are looking around with a desperate look on your face just wanting to go into ANYONE´S house you are sooooo hott. and your knocking doors or trying to find investigators at home. and then someone gratiously lets you in and you sit down and you realise it is a trick...... It is even hotter INSIDE!!! It is like you just walked into an OVEN!!! they are slow baking you to feed you to the dogs in the street a little later. It was actually cooler in the street with the slight breese. But now you are sitting in this slow cooker where the air doesn`t move. and you are trying to breath the air but it won`t flow into your lungs because your body is trying to reject the million degree thick stuff that is flowing around you....I can`t really call it air because it is like trying to breath hott water. Oh My Word!!! is all you can think and you are trying soooo hard to think in Portuguese but all you can do is drink the boiling hott water that you have in your backpack. and you just stare at these poor people with sweat literally dripping off your face and they look at you like.....weirdo, why the heck are you walking around out there? ha ha but then you share the gospel with them and you feel the spirit and all I can say is "like a fire is burning" has now become a literal term for me :) but it makes all of the heat and the bug bites and the exhaustion worth it.
Anyways so that is what the weather is like here in Bahia. Basically just hot. ha ha but I think after a couple months it will get better. and I am counting my lucky stars because I will go home from the bahian winter into the us summer and so I won`t really have to get used to the cold right at first because I have basically morphed into this weird being who feel a little chilly in the mornings before the sun comes up....rediculous I know. But hey, we are dealing with some pretty hott weather here.
I am sorry I feel like all I ever do is complain about the heat. I am actually doing really really well. I love my mission. I love bahia. I don`t even care if they are known as the most lazy people. I love them. I love the heat just as much as I hate it. it makes me sooo happy to be on a mission. I don`t know why I waited as long as I did after turning 21 to come out here. This has to be the best thing EVER!!!
I am sooo glad to hear all about you guys and that you are all doing sooo well. I am sorry about the colds that are going around I hope you all are feeling better soon. I love to hear about you guys and all your adventures just as much as you guys like to hear about my silly stories I am sure. Ha ha I EVEN like to get the updates of the cats at home mom.....can you believe it?
I have not gotten any more packages since Amber`s sorry, maybe something happened at the post office. Don`t know. I will try and see if I can`t get ahold of someone at the office to send them at transfers with my ZL´s. we shall see.
So sorry, but nothing super exciting happened this week. we ended up running around like chickens with no heads for the wedding and trying to get everything done in time for them and didn`t have the chance to teach a whole lot but it was still a really good week.
I love you all soooo much I can`t wait to hear from you all next week!!! HOpe you have an awesome week!!! Stay awesome!!! XOXOXOXOXOX
Sister Ottley
I only have 25 minutes to write this email because I was trying to send pictures at the same time. I gotta figure out a better way to do that. It takes like a lifetime; I think it is because I choose the camera with the worlds most highest definition. OH well.
Anyways this week was pretty awesome. We laughed a ton, we worked loads, and then just were awesome. ha ha we had the sedding of lourdes and hamilton...don`t know if I have already told you about them. They are the parents of my first baptism when I was here in Catú the first time. and we helped them get married this weekend. They are the bestest. I love it!!! we are going to baptise them hopefully next week. They are going out of town this week so we have to wait unfortunately.
Had interviews with president Hart this week. He is the coolest guy ever!!! I went in and he was like well before you even ask, yes, yes you and Sister Turner can stay together another transfer. I about peed. Apparently he can read minds.....he is a swift one that President Hart. Ha ha Sister Turner and I have been sending emails just about every week talking about how much we love eachother and our area and how we want to stay together another transfer. Ha ha it was real real funny. he is the greatest. anyways transfers are in a week but now we don`t even have to worry about it.
So it sounds like it hasn`t been a real cold winter there huh? well it hasn`t been all that cold here either. I remember before the mission I was all excited because Google told me that it was an average of around 75 degrees here all year round.....LIES!!!! Never trustin that lying cheating peice o´ junk Google again!!! ha ha it is like your walking around on a frying pan all day and you can hear your skin sizzling. Awesome. You are looking around with a desperate look on your face just wanting to go into ANYONE´S house you are sooooo hott. and your knocking doors or trying to find investigators at home. and then someone gratiously lets you in and you sit down and you realise it is a trick...... It is even hotter INSIDE!!! It is like you just walked into an OVEN!!! they are slow baking you to feed you to the dogs in the street a little later. It was actually cooler in the street with the slight breese. But now you are sitting in this slow cooker where the air doesn`t move. and you are trying to breath the air but it won`t flow into your lungs because your body is trying to reject the million degree thick stuff that is flowing around you....I can`t really call it air because it is like trying to breath hott water. Oh My Word!!! is all you can think and you are trying soooo hard to think in Portuguese but all you can do is drink the boiling hott water that you have in your backpack. and you just stare at these poor people with sweat literally dripping off your face and they look at you like.....weirdo, why the heck are you walking around out there? ha ha but then you share the gospel with them and you feel the spirit and all I can say is "like a fire is burning" has now become a literal term for me :) but it makes all of the heat and the bug bites and the exhaustion worth it.
Anyways so that is what the weather is like here in Bahia. Basically just hot. ha ha but I think after a couple months it will get better. and I am counting my lucky stars because I will go home from the bahian winter into the us summer and so I won`t really have to get used to the cold right at first because I have basically morphed into this weird being who feel a little chilly in the mornings before the sun comes up....rediculous I know. But hey, we are dealing with some pretty hott weather here.
I am sorry I feel like all I ever do is complain about the heat. I am actually doing really really well. I love my mission. I love bahia. I don`t even care if they are known as the most lazy people. I love them. I love the heat just as much as I hate it. it makes me sooo happy to be on a mission. I don`t know why I waited as long as I did after turning 21 to come out here. This has to be the best thing EVER!!!
I am sooo glad to hear all about you guys and that you are all doing sooo well. I am sorry about the colds that are going around I hope you all are feeling better soon. I love to hear about you guys and all your adventures just as much as you guys like to hear about my silly stories I am sure. Ha ha I EVEN like to get the updates of the cats at home mom.....can you believe it?
I have not gotten any more packages since Amber`s sorry, maybe something happened at the post office. Don`t know. I will try and see if I can`t get ahold of someone at the office to send them at transfers with my ZL´s. we shall see.
So sorry, but nothing super exciting happened this week. we ended up running around like chickens with no heads for the wedding and trying to get everything done in time for them and didn`t have the chance to teach a whole lot but it was still a really good week.
I love you all soooo much I can`t wait to hear from you all next week!!! HOpe you have an awesome week!!! Stay awesome!!! XOXOXOXOXOX
Sister Ottley
Então estou sem tempo de novo...
Oi família vai disculpando porque estou sem tempo de novo. Eu não
dei parece que uma hora não da quando você tem que pedir reembolso e
ler um milhare de e-mails. Mas Eu amo vocês felis ano novo e natal!!!!
ADAM!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!! send me an email all
about rachel because I seriously have NO idea what she is
like......what´s her favorite color...what color is her
toothbrush....does she like to take long walks on the beach....etc.
Hey this is gonna be way short. I just want everyone to know that I
love you soooo much. To answer a few questions: I have not received
anymore packages but I will see president thurday and so I think I will
get them on thursday. THANK YOU to everyone who sent packages I really
do love it!!! ya´ll are the best. As far as brasileans know there only
exists the pure sugar kind of maple syrup and so they don`t need or
even want the real vermont stuff. I LOVED my chocolate orange and so
did my companion. I felt like I was for reals at home. I even shared
the christmas orange story with Sister Turner that mom told us one
year.....I don`t know if I remembered everything right but it was fun.
So I am super well. I am sunburned which I think is ironic
concidering that all of you were SOOO white on skype. ha ha I loved to
see you all though it was super fun!!! I was complaining a little about
how I didn`t have snow for Christams but it sounds like none of you did
either. Maybe next year. As far as hair school goes I will probably
end up going in the least expensive place that will still give me time
to have a part time job on the side. So seriously you guys can fight
all you want but I am not going to have time to watch your kids as much
as you would like ha ha as much as I seriously would love to. ha ha but
thanks for all your help and love I really do appreciate that you all
want to help me.
This week was really cool but we did not baptise. Some random guy
came to fix the flood in our house....yea I´ll tell you about that one
next week. BUT anyways he told us that you weren`t a good missionary if
you dont baptise at least 50 people on your mission.....UMMM....until
today I haven`t baptised any...I asked him to give me the Priesthood, he
didn`t laugh.....apparently it`s not funny to joke about the gospel.
But anyways he kind of putr me into a depression mode thinking that I
was worthless. I didn`t like him that much. But then I remembered who
sets the standards.....HEAVENLY FATHER!!! and he said that Even ONE
soul is worth GREAT joy. So this kid can just be quiet. ha ha.
I love you all I am super healthy and happy. I miss you but I am
doing sooo good. Hugs and kisses for EVERYONE!!!! I love you!!! Stay
awesome!!! Never Regret!!!
XOXOXOXOXOX
Sister Ottley
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