Off to Pérola!

 Olá!!!  It's a new week and a new email!!! 

So last week was transfers and first off, I STAYED WITH SISTER ANDRADE!!!  WAHOO!  And second, I got transferred...kind of.  I am in the same zone but I moved to our other area.  We were covering 2 areas, Boa Vista (which is in Araçatuba) and Pérola (which is in Birigui) but now we are only covering 1, which I am happy about.  So anyway, Sister Andrade and I moved to Pérola!  And we are really excited!!
The ward is really good and they have already helped us out a bunch!  The area is also really good! 
The only hard thing, is that we didn't have very many people to teach here in Pérola.  So this last week, we pretty much were starting from scratch.  This week was alllll about contacting!  And let me tell ya, we made a bunch of contacts!!
So we are really looking forward to this week to start teaching more people!
Our apartment that we are living in, is NASTY!  Elders lived there before us, but a while before us.  So the house was closed for some time.  So no one has been there to clean things, so literally everything is dirty!  We are trying to get our house cleaned, but it's been taking us a while.  So hopefully this week we can finally get things cleaned and organized.
It's starting to look a lot more like Christmas!!  I've seen more Christmas lights and other decorations, I've heard Christmas music, and more.  The heat...still doesn't make it feel like Christmas but whatever lol!  
But seriously the heat...wow I'm dying!  Literally every day, I say, "NOSSA, que calor!" or "Está muito QUENTE!"
Ok I don't really have much more to say for this week.  
I love you all!  Hope you are enjoying the Christmas season!  I love this time of year, being able to think about our Savior.  And about everything He did for us.  He literally died for us so that we can live, eternally, and have experiences, and have happiness!!  I love my Savior, and I love this gospel!  I love the joy that it brings me and to all of us! 
Hope everyone is doing well!  Have a GREAT week!
Sister Findlay












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