Sister Kennedy Findlay Brazil Ribeirão Preto & Arizona Gilbert Mission 2021-2022

  Opa, boa tarde meus amigos!! Tudo bem com vocês? This email will be a little short! So this week we had Zone Conference on Wednesday, which means it was another travel day!  Our bus left at 6am that morning so it was an early morning!  Then we got to the mission office in Ribeirão at about 8.  Then the Elders called us an uber to get the church for Zone Conference.  Conference was good!  We talked a lot about teaching people and helping them have spiritual experiences to be able to recognize the gospel is true.  I took that in and actually really thought about that.  Having spiritual experiences is the only way to grow our testimonies!  One of the ways that we have these spiritual experiences to grow our testimonies is to study the gospel.  Studying everyday here on the mission has been such a blessing!  I have been able to focus on specific things to learn about and specific things to help the people we are teaching!...

  Hello everyone!!! How's everyone doing!? I don't have a ton of time to write things today, so I will do a few updates... 1. Last week was transfers and I was transferred to an area on the opposite side of the mission called Franca! 2. I am senior companion now and I have been working on getting used to that.  My companion is really nice and we have a good time!  Her name is Sister Barbosa!  She is from Manaus. 3. I am loving the area and it's just a tad bit cooler here so I am wayyyy excited about that!! 4. THE SISTERS ARE FAMOUS!  Haha we white washed our area... And sisters haven't been in this ward for like 3 or 13 years...I know that's a big difference but I have heard both so I'm not exactly sure how much time haha!  Let's just say it's been a reallyyy long time that Sisters have been in Franca! 5. I thought my apartment was haunted for two nights lol!  Long story short, I heard banging and knocking sounds on the wall, and our power going out!...

  This email was from two weeks ago...sorry for the delay in getting it out for her.  There is no email from last week as she had transfers, but she will have some good updates this week! Hello everybody!!  Another week!  I feel like I just had pday like yesterday!  Anyway there isn't too much from this week.  It's just been the normal -- contacting on the street, and trying to find more people.  Seriously that's it!  It's been hard this whole transfer finding new people to teach.  But all we've had to do is keep going! This week we had a lot of treats, and can you guess what treat we got?! AÇAÍ!!  Of course!  One time we got it, either the place made a mistake or they ran out of cups of the size we ordered, so they gave us a free bonus of açaí!  And of course it was sooo good! Other things, we had interviews this week.  They ended up being online so I didn't have to travel this week.  He always says my Portuguese is ...