I'm In A TRIO!!!

 Olá a todos!!!


It's my 4th week in the HMTC and I'm loving it!  This week's email is going to be kind of short because there wasn't much that happened.

My new instructors this week have been awesome!  I've learned a lot just from being able to listen to more Portuguese.  Sometimes we don't even know what they are saying and there are some awkward silences in class haha but we make the best of it!

I've been speaking more Portuguese outside of class.  I speak it around the house and my companion and I made it a goal to try and speak as much Portuguese as possible during our studies.  It's been hard and I have used quite a bit of google translate, but you have to start somewhere right?!

On Wednesday Sister Matsen and I got a new companion, Sister Bancroft...which makes us a TRIO!  There were four of us sisters in the district but one of the other sisters got transferred to a different district.  So that was sad this week, but it has been so fun being a trio!

We've had a few teaching opportunities this week.  One was our investigator that the MTC gave us.  We teach her every Tuesday and Friday.  This week we taught about the Book of Mormon.  I think the lesson went pretty well, it was my first time really teaching about that.  It has been fun to plan lessons and be able to teach while still in the MTC.

This week while we were waiting in one of our classes my district thought it would be a good idea to play some games on zoom.  We got it to keep it fun and interesting lol!!  We played tic tac toe, the dot/line game, connect 4, and even hangman...i mean build a snowman because "is hangman really appropriate for missionaries?"  Haha that's what an Elder in my district said.  Someone had just shared their screen as a whiteboard on zoom and we were all able to draw on it.

That's kind of it for this week!

Love you all!  Amo vocês!!

Sister Findlay

Pictures this week are just of our games on zoom lol!




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