FELIZ NATAL!!!

 Oiii!  Boa tarde!  FELIZ NATAL!!!

How was everyone's week?  How is everyone doing?!  I hope everyone is enjoying the Christmas season!
This email will be kinda short, so sorry about that.  But, not a ton happened this week.
The biggest thing that happened this week was zone conference!  So yet again another travel day to Rio Preto! 
Wednesday morning we got up about 5:30 am and we left about 6:45 am.  Then we arrived in Rio Preto just before 9 am.  Then we started our meetings and had some trainings, then we had a really yummy lunch!  After lunch, we had a white elephant gift exchange! 
That was fun!  Had some really funny moments, as usual with this kind of stuff haha!!
After our gift exchange, we traveled back to our area.  We didn't get back until 8 pm, so seriously we were gone the entire day! 
The other thing that has happened is we've been out working on the streets everyday!  We are teaching, at least trying to teach, some people that live on the same street.  It makes it easy to teach people in person when they live so close!
We still don't have a big group of people that we are teaching, but we are trying!
That is one thing I have learned here on my mission.  Things have been sooo different than I expected.  But all I can do is TRY!  
And seriously all we can do is try our best each and every day!  Christ and His Atonement make up the rest.  This season is all about Christ and I just absolutely love it!
Anyway, that's all I've got for today! I hope everyone has a WONDERFUL Christmas this week!  FELIZ NATAL!! 
Love you all!
Sister Findlay










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