so much rain I thought I was going to die

3/6/17

HELLO THIS WAS AN AWESOME WEEK

First, I can't tell you how many times (at least 3) that I looked at my umbrella and then at the slightly cloudy sky and told myself, "I'm not going to need that today!" and then it ends up pouring gatos e cachorros and my companion and I are running around like mad people in the rain.

Hahaha yesterday was particularly POURING and we were in the chapel and we looked out the window and saw the streets and it was nighttime and the streets and sidewalks were flooded up to mid-calf and the walk home is all downhill hahaha so we ended up struggling for our lives not to slip in the downstream river that was the streets of São José do Rio Preto and there was lots of lightning and I was 80% sure that my short little mission (in Brasil and in life LOL) was about to end in this storm but we said a prayer and here we are hahahahahaha.

WE HAD PEOPLE IN CHURCH YESTERDAY WOOOOOOOOO. After nearly a whole transfer of nobody, we had PEOPLE. Natália, the girl with the cutest baby that I think I wrote about last week, CAME TO CHURCH and brought her baby and her baby was pretty much the star of the day haha. And then we were sitting there and I looked out the window of the door and THERE WERE 2 MORE PEOPLE COMING. One was Vanessa; she's the sister of a couple investigators we just cut. We were visiting them about a week and ago and gave her a Book or Mormon and marked Moroni 10 for her and explained a little bit about the book and that was kind of it. We came back on Saturday to talk to her sisters and Vanessa was there and the first thing she said to us was this: "I read the book you gave me. I read the part you marked, then I started at the beginning and I read a little bit every day."

!!!!!!!!!

Are you serious?? THIS IS AWESOME. When we invited her to come to church, she said, "I'll go," without any hestitation. How rad?!?! And then church was SUPER great because it was fast & testimony meeting (generally the first Sunday of the month, during part of church, members of the congregation can come up and share a testimony/their feelings about the gospel) and it was so spiritual. Everybody was bearing testimony of this wonderful, wonderful gospel and açlsdfjsj!!! It was the perfect Sunday for them to come to church.

ANYWAYS, Sister German and I are super duper excited for this next week and it's just going to be so great!!!

God is so, so good and I am so grateful, this week more than ever, to have this 1.5 years to just devote to His service and His Kingdom on earth and I love my life here!!! 

Thank you for all the support and love, always ♥

Todo o meu amor,

Sister Morata