So many exchanges!!

 Hello!  It's another Monday!  Sorry I haven't written an email for a while...it's been busy these last few pdays.  But today I have more time so let's get into it haha!

A few weeks ago we had zone conference...wow it really has been so long since I have written an email lol...and had exchanges with some of the Sisters that we cover!  So that was fun! 
Then the next week we had exchanges with another set of Sisters!  We take care of 3 set of Sisters.  So it gets busy with that!  That is something I have had to get used to this transfer as an STL.  I have definitely enjoyed being an STL and being able to help the Sisters that we take care of. 
I definitely learned a lot with these exchanges!  I led the area both times, and that was a bit hard being so new here in my area.  But I learned to follow the Spirit.  There were times where I just didn't feel like our plans were the right things to do.  These times, I felt the Spirit so strong that I needed to change my plans. 
It was kind of hard because we were on the way to a neighborhood and were about 7 minutes or so until we got there and I just felt that I needed to change and go to another part of the city.  So I looked at Sister Heaton, my comp for the day because of exchanges, and said that this isn't right and we need to be going somewhere else.  So we headed to a different part.  I don't know why I had felt like that, but I had felt like that the whole day!  But sometimes we don't know why we are led in a different direction from what we have planned.  
I actually gave a talk in church yesterday and talked about that very thing.  How it is important to follow what the Lord has planned, and to do this we need to let God prevail in our lives!  That is one of the biggest things I have learned as a missionary.  When we let God prevail, we come to see the hand of God and come to know that God is a God of miracles!!
Other than exchanges, we have been busy with the work! Oh and we had a baptism!! 
He had been going to church for like 3 years, but just never had a big desire to be baptized.  Funny thing...I actually taught him in my first and second transfer.  I served in Jardim Palmares and took care of Jardinópolis, the area I'm in now, online.  But now when I got here, he said he is ready and felt like he needed to be baptized!!  And he was!!! Wahooo!!
But yeah, that's about it.  Just been working, working, working!!  And having fun!!  We have had a few pdays together as a zone, eating açaí of course haha, and so much more!! 
But that's all I got time for this week.  There hasn't been much else that has happened anyway.
But, I hope everyone is going well!
Love you all!
Sister Findlay















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