tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28902705894389683832023-11-16T07:41:43.798-08:00tiffcarvTiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357463633869729noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890270589438968383.post-53527323860380263552015-06-29T13:28:00.001-07:002015-06-29T18:03:29.333-07:00A Quick Update on My Very Exciting LifeI suck at this whole blogging business. My dreams of becoming a Mormon mommy fashion blogger might be dashed. (sarcasm people)<br />
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The last post I had been home ten days. That was 7 months ago. Here is a life recap in bullet points:</div>
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<li>I now go to BYU, which is pretty rad. While I was on my mission, I kept feeling like I should go to BYU. Which I thought was kind of dumb to be honest because I had a full ride to ASU. So why would I risk having to pay money out of my pocket when I had free schooling, lived at home, and semi-enjoyed ASU. Plus, I always thought BYU was super overrated. I kept on feeling like I should go though so I prayed about it and got some pretty strong confirmations that I should go. So I was like okay so I'll apply when I get home. Just a little after that I found out that I had lost my scholarship at ASU because it was an academic and need based scholarship, and my parents had made too much money that year. Lame. I got home and applied for BYU and wasn't very confident I'd even get in. I mean, let's be honest here, 3298348247 return missionaries were all coming home the same time I was and would apply. My grades were decent, but not amazing. I don't have anything spectacular about me. Not trying to be woe is me here, but there isn't anything shiny about me. Like I don't dance, sing, play an instrument, sports (ha, remember that time I got hit in the face with a basketball?), etc. so I didn't have an extracurricular thing going for me either. So I was just like, hey I felt like I should do this, so I will, and if I am supposed to get in, I will. Whatta ya know, I got accepted! I've only done a semester, but I LOVE BYU. Really really really love it. I love the approach of learning, I love the classes,I love the Spirit on campus, I love that it isn't hotter than hell here. The whole experience just really showed me that the Lord knows what's up. If we trust in that and do His will, it'll all work out.</li>
<li>I got braces...AGAIN. As a 21 year old. My top teeth were fine, but there was a tooth on the bottom that moved when my wisdom tooth came in and it looked like I had a snaggle tooth. Which....YIKES. So I got braces, and everyone literally thinks I'm like 17/18. Here is a conversation I've had:</li>
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Lady: Oh so what are you doing here? (I was at Elder Perry's funeral)</div>
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Me: Oh I am at BYU and just got home from my mission</div>
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Lady: NO. You can't be old enough to do have gone on a mission and be in college.</div>
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Me in my head: Yeah, ACTUALLY I'm lying to you for fun and I like making things up about myself. </div>
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Me in real life: (charmingly laughs) It's just my braces! I'm actually 21.</div>
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Lady: Oh that must be it! I should get braces.</div>
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<li>I am going to Disneyland next month and I already have a countdown. Besides Christmas, Disneyland is the thing I am most obsessed with. I loveeeeeeeeeeee it.</li>
<li>Chan, Sher, and I found a condo. We would always drive by them and Sheridan would comment on how cute they are. One fine day Alison texted me that a girl in her ward was selling all three contracts to her condo so we jumped on that. They were the cute condos. It is in Alison's ward. It is by Sodalicious. It has a washer and dryer. YES.</li>
<li>Since moving out on my own, I have found I can cook, and I can actually cook well. It makes me happy. Chicken and quinoa? You know I'm down.</li>
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Life is good. Sometimes it gets crazy, and sometimes I don't know what the heck I'm doing, but I really enjoy this chapter of my life.<br />
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Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357463633869729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890270589438968383.post-3481845424764215882014-11-21T15:29:00.002-08:002014-11-21T15:31:43.105-08:00Post-Mission Sister Carvalho Who is Now Commonly Known as TiffSo I know that Meags hasn't updated my blog for the last little bit of the mission, so I'll do that sometime.<br />
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Anyways, these are my real alive feelings on being home. It has been strange. Really strange, but really good? Upon getting close to going home I feel like Heavenly Father really tried to show me exactly what I needed to do and what attitude I needed to have so I could handle the situation. I felt "prepared" to go home if that makes sense. One day I was flippin through Liahonas and I found this talk from Elder Holland about Lot's wife and not looking back. Here is a power statement from the talk: "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 14px;"><b> </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 14px;"><b>In short, her attachment to the past outweighed her confidence in the future. That, apparently, was at least part of her sin".</b> That hit me SO hard. I couldn't be like ohhhh man, I just wish I was in Brasil, wow I want to be on my mission, my mission was the best time ever and I will never be as happy again because that was just the best. false. Here is another gem: <b>"</b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 14px;"><b>The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead, we remember that </b></span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 14px;"><b>faith is always pointed toward the future"</b> </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 14px;"> YES! Yes, that was exactly what I needed to hear. I have learned AMAZING things on my mission and have had AMAZING experiences, but I need to take that and try and improve even more. Sister Sirmans (another sister who is my instant BFF and was going home too) and I had a discussion about progression, and how each and everyone of us need progression. If we stayed on our missions our entire lives, we wouldn't progress! We need our missions. We really do, but the 18 month mission is part of a much bigger mission...and that is called life. It is like when we are trained on the mission. You get trained and it is like boom, be a star missionary. Well we were trained for 18/24 months to be the best member missionaries, and to know how to constantly and always help the Lord's work. So here are some gems of my first week:</span><br />
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<b>Awkwardness</b>:<br />
I have honestly been awkward my ENTIRE life. Once on the mission, my sweet daughter (hahahhaha we hated the term "daughter") Sister Falcao told me "You are the most awkward person I have ever met, you just know how to play it off." Touche, Sister Falcao, touche. I feel like me being awkward is like people who have a disability, like blindness for example. Once in Lorena, I met a man who was blind but looked me straight in the eye. But he was blind. He learned how to deal. So it is to my awkwardness. People look at me and they say comments like, "Hey you aren't too bad!" Yeah, well I am faking it people, because I am awkward as heck.<br />
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So I went on my first date today. It was kind of hilarious because I just kept feeling like okay I am alone with a boy... ALERT ALERT ALERT WHERE IS MY COMPANION I CAN'T EVEN DO THIS. It was a lunch date and let me just tell you, I am a mess. We were chatting and eating and then some of my sweet pork salad fell out of my mouth....oh haaaaaai that's cool. Also, I just talked about my mission the whole time. Good times.<br />
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<b>Missing Pangs</b>:<br />
The second day I got home my mom took me out to lunch. "Hey get ready Tiff!" Okay. Got on an outfit that looked atrocious, and then was like okay, badge. Badge badge badge, I need my badge. Then I realized I don't wear a badge anymore. Sad.<br />
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At the same lunch some guy was talking to his friend and said the word "SISTER" really loudly. I frantically looked around for who was calling me. No one was calling me.<br />
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That night my dad took me out to dinner and to thank the waitress I cheerfully said "Obrigada!" Then my family just stared. And I was like you guys, what? I said thank you. "You said it in Portuguese Tiff" Oh...<br />
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Then this week Aurora had her Evening of Excellence in Young Women's and I came along. I decided to look at my mission plaque in the hall. oh.my.gosh. Worst thing ever. Tears instantly swelled up and then mom was like okay we are leaving. We drove for a while then I broke down in the car and bawwwwwwwwled. You know it is hard. You really miss it. But I have found that if we just take our experiences and don't look back, and keep on being faithful, you'll be just fine.<br />
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"So how was your mission?" In those exact words. My answer: The most incredible experience I have had in my entire life.<br />
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"So what are your plans?" Work, maybe do a class or two online at ASU and go up to UVU/BYU (if I get in) for summer semester.<br />
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"So are you dating anyone?"<b> NO. </b>LIKE, I got home a week ago. BYE.<br />
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"So what did you like best about Brasil?" The people. Hands down the people. I love my Brasileiros.<br />
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So I went to my Mom's work today to drop her off something and she goes, hey there are these people I want you to meet, I have told them all about you throughout your mission. Okay! So I went over to talk this older couple who were the sweetest ever and they just asked me all about my mission. Turns out they are non-members. My mom comes back around and laughingly just says, they are Mormons they just don't know it yet. And the man just says yeah I don't drink,smoke, or drink coffee. So we get to talking and talk about my areas, and how some were pretty Catholic and he told me about his own family and how his mother was a Protestant and his father was Catholic and how they just always fought and he felt it shouldn't be that way. YES EXACTLY. His wife then chimes in, you know I believe that all religion just started with people just having different opinions and then branching off, like Henry the 8th, he started the Church of England because the Catholic church wouldn't grant him a divorce. UH YEAH. So then I asked if they had met with the missionaries before, and the only the husband had once. So then I thought okay, calma, calma, Tiff. So I invited them to my homecoming this Sunday! And they are COMING! I could've done like 20 happy jumps. I am grateful for my mission. I am grateful for the experiences and blessings that the Lord has so generously given me. I am grateful for Christ and His perfect example. I am grateful for all the miracles I have seen. I am grateful that the Lord is still giving me oppurtunities to be a missionary. What a beautiful life we all live.<br />
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Elder Holland's Talk:<br />
https://www.lds.org/ensign/2010/01/the-best-is-yet-to-be?lang=eng<br />
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<br />Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357463633869729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890270589438968383.post-72014734771204303012014-06-12T13:34:00.003-07:002014-06-12T13:34:41.729-07:00Guess Where I am? 6/2/2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How are all my favorite people doing? I am doing great, thank you. So guess where I am??? I GOT MOVED MISSIONS! I AM NOW IN INTERLAGOS! Just kidding. Got ya! Hahahahha Sister Beazer and I got blessed with staying another transfer together here in Cachoeira Paulista! I LOVE SISTER BEAZER. She balances me out perfectly, because she is so calm and the definition of the word sweet. Honestly, I am so grateful. We have HEAPS of work to do. Sister and Beazer and I really feel that the Lord wants His work here to move along undisturbed. We have the best people ever that we are teaching. I know that miracles will absolutely happen this transfer! </div>
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As the week started we were pretty anxious. I am always a wreck the day before transfers, I can´t even lie. We visited all of our investigators, just in case. When we got the call, it was the best thing ever! So I know I haven´t mentioned Linda. But, oh my goodness. GOLDEN GOLDEN investigator. We actually met her mom first. I have been the queen of random street contacts here in Cachoeira that have been golden. Linda´s mom Tiana didn´t even really want to talk to us at first. As we kept chatting though, she invited us in. She just said, I really don´t know why I let you guys come in, I don´t even like talking about religion. Linda then came home (she is 15) and we taught them both the Restoartion. Tiana hasn´t been very interested at all, but Linda just kept saying wow, you guys have answered all the questions that no other religion has been able to answer! She come to church every single week, and is just the sweetest, most special girl ever. We even did her Personal Progress with her last week! She keeps every commitment, and goes to activities and church on her own. We really want to teach her parents as well though, but they always work on SUndays and never are interested in staying. Tiana did say a prayer though during one of the lessons and got really choked up and asked so earnestly that Linda would follow the church! Currently, Linda is marked to be baptized in August, and she always talks about how excited she is! I just love Linda.</div>
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We had two huge miracles happen along the way this week as well. One is that as we taught Marcelo, he told us he gets the cage off his leg either this week or next week! Which means that he will be able to go to church, and be baptized! He was telling us this week, how he is excited to be baptized with the right authority, and how he knows that The Book of Mormon is true. As we taught him, a little more about the PLan of Salvation, his cousin randomly burst in the room, and said how he was feeling sad about how his friend recently died. BOOM, miracle. His name is Ricardo, and he is really cool. We gave him a Book of Mormon and we wil be visiting him more this week! Please pray for Marcelo, that his surgery will go well!</div>
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We also have started to teach Vilma´s husband Batista. He is usually always drunk and not the happiest camper, but as we taught him, he just said he wants to feel happy. He wants his life to change. He looked Sister Beazer and I straight in the eye and asked, What do I need to do to get rid of all of this saddness and hurt inside of me? We responded that Chirst is the cure. He then promised that he would go to church the next day. Not only did he go, but he went in perfect SUnday attire, and totally sober. Vilma told us later that he drank NOTHING for the all of yesterday. MILAGRES!!! I know Chirst is the Healer and the only true comfort. When we repent, and we decide to follow Him, He will heal us. I think that it is incredible that whether it is mental, emotional, spiritual, or physical, Christ can heal each and everyone us. Despite what our lives trials may have been. I know that Christ can make us whole. We can have eternal peace and happiness through our Savior. I love our Savior so very much. I am so grateful. AH HAPPINESS!!!</div>
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welp, I need to be going! I love you all. MUITO. OH, also the world cup is coming. VAI BRASIL!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: TwCenMT-Regular; font-size: 12px;">Almost all of our zone stayed the same, except for a few new people. Our zone is the funnest ever. We had our zone meeting (in proselyting clothes, don´t worry), then played soccer, then we went and ate food. Obviously eating was my favorite part.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TwCenMT-Regular; font-size: 12px;">We told Laura (one of our super cool investigators) that transfers were the next day, and she said just in case, here are some gifts! I made hot chocolate in mine the next day!</span></div>
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Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357463633869729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890270589438968383.post-29471696180496934032014-06-12T13:25:00.000-07:002014-06-12T13:25:14.039-07:00The Crazy Life of Sister Tiffany Carvalho 5/26/2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am so so grateful to be here in Cachoeira Paulista. I love this place. We have had the best transfer here. We were really humbled at times, but have also seen the Lord´s hand in His work so much.</div>
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We have had the privilege of teaching incredible people! I have mentioned Marcelo and Vando before. They are awesome! We became a bit discouraged when they would never come to church. (Marcelo can´t wake up due to medical reasons and Vando works) We passed by their home this week, and Vando said he visited the Universal church. My first thought, was just NO! He then continued on to tell us that nothing even made sense there. He also said that after he read the Book of Mormon he just knows that the church of the Mormons is true! He was like, you guys have it right! Now, we just to work on getting him to go to church. He is awesome though. Marcelo was a bit hesitant to read The Book of Mormon. He just kept telling us, but I know it is true already. I know it! So we just explained to him that he really had to read to know for himself. We visited again, and he had read! He is really desiring to read more and more now. Oh they are golden. They both have solidified my testimony of just how important The Book of Mormon is. It has such power that we don´t even realize. A lot of times I just feel like, wow, Sister Carvalho, you don´t even know. I know that the Book of Mormon is true with my whole heart. It adds depth and meaning to each of our lives, and the Lord always testifies to us through His scriptures.</div>
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I don´t know if I have ever mentioned Roberto and Cristina but I LOVE them. They are the sweetest family. They are very very firm in their faith. We even did a trade with them and went to their church one Sunday night, and this Sunday Cristina came with us to our church and she loved it. Her and her husband have also promised to go to stake conference. They really don´t understand the concept of the Celestial, Terrestial, and Telestial Kingdom. They think that it is just Heaven and Hell. The end. It makes me sad to think that people really think Heavenly Father would be so unmerciful. I think that both Sister Beazer and I testified of it so strongly, that it has made a lasting impression on me. I know that the Plan of Salvation is acutally happening as we speak. I know that Christ made this all possible for us! I think that with truly loving Roberto and Cristina, they don´t necessarily accept it still, but when we visited yesterday they kept telling us they wanted to go to eh Celestial Kingdom so I think that is a huge step!!</div>
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So the Elder Nelson got cancelled. There was going to be crazy protests and boycotts, so they thought it was best to cancel it. All the missions of Sao Paulo stayed home that day but I know it was inspired! </div>
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Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357463633869729noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890270589438968383.post-24272405440825423402014-06-12T13:00:00.003-07:002014-06-12T13:00:57.441-07:00ELDER NELSON ON WEDNESDAY!!!!!! 5/19/2014<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 4px; text-align: center;">
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I LOVE the temple. Especially Campinas. I feel the Spirit so strongly each time, and I know with a certainty that we are children of our Heavenly Father. He loves us so much. You feel that so tenderly and strognly at the temple.</div>
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This week we continued teaching Marcelo. He is awesome. We also met his brother named Vando! Marcelo also gave us three references this week which was so cool. He is awesome. Unfortunately, he hasn´t been able to make it to church because of his leg. He can´t sleep at night at all, so he can´t ever wake up. Prayers for him to make it to church this week would be AWESOME! He has such faith, he even did a fast with us for him to wake up, but he still didn´t wake up. It is okay though, because I know that Heavenly Father will help him wake up this week!!</div>
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In other news, we met an AMAZING family Saturday night. We met the mom Tiana, and she gave us t he normal responses like oh, I am really busy, sorry I just don´t know when we can meet. After chatting with her for a while though, she just asked if we wanted to come in. We accepted and as we talked she just said, you know I am really surprised I let you guys come in. Usually I let no one come in. After a little bit, her daughter came home. We started teaching them the Restoration, and before the lesson her daughter was like I have some questions. Everyone always says their church is right. And there are lots of churches. So which is right? And what happens after we die? We we were just like WHOA! Tiana couldn´t come to church because she had to work yesterdya, but her daughter and a friend came! We are super excited to teach them.</div>
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I am sorry I am just so so so so so so excited about Elder Nelson coming. I think about it at least twice a day. Okay, let´s be honest, more than two times a day. Also, I am listening to this currently : <a href="https://www.lds.org/youth/music?lang=eng">https://www.lds.org/youth/music?lang=eng</a> Christmas music in May. YES!</div>
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Wow. This week was probably the craziest week of my whole mission for a myriad of reasons. There was lots of miracles that happened here in Cachoeira. A total flip from last week! I think it is interesting that our entire mission is focusing on charity because I have pondered lots on charity this week. I was reading letters from my family and friends at home, and it sounds funny but I remembered that there is actually people that love me and I used to be around all the time at home. I just felt so much love and happiness for them. It then made me remember all of the people from my areas. Lorena, Cumbica, Vila Prudente, and Cachoeira. All of the sweet people I have had the privilege of teaching, all of the amazing members, and I just kind of sat on my bed and was just filled with gratitude and love. One of my favorite quotes says "All that we love deeply becomes a part of us" I carry all of these people in my pocket with me, I could never ever forget them. I believe that charity just expands and grows and all of a sudden pieces of your heart are just everywhere! On the flip side, I was also talking to a member in our branch who is a return missionary and she is awesome! We were talking about missions, and something she said impacted me a lot. On her mission, she was having a hard time finding people to teach and her president said "Have charity sister" to which she said, what I have charity, I pray for these people, I love these people. He then said no Sister, you just simply need to love everyone as Christ would. Not expecting to teach them, but just love them. It just hit me like a ton of bricks. If we see all of the people around us for who they truly are, sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father and had the purest love for them, we would treat each other very differently. This week I want to study charity more and develop more charity for all those around me. I want to encourage all of you to study Chapter 6 of Preach My Gospel, the charity section, and find all the scriptures you can! I will be doing the same and report next week.</div>
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This week we had three huge miracles. The first was Tuesday night. We were walking to an appointment and this guy rode by me in a bicycle. Normally it is really hard to talk to people on bikes because they move speedy quick, but I felt like I should talk to him. I just yelled after him, Hey what is your name!?! He then stopped and his name is Ulisses. During a nice chat, he told us that he was really wanting the gospel in his life and that he has already taken the discussions and been to church. WHAT! We invited him to baptism and he accepted just like that! Unfortunately, he has been really busy this week so we didn´t get to teach him, but we are looking forward to it!! A similar incident happened, when we met Marcelo. He is the sweetest. He was in an accident and has his leg with a cage thing on it with pins that go through his bones. Marcelo has also been to church already, and when we taught him he said "I believe! I will be baptized!!" We then felt impressed to talk to him about the Word of Wisdom. He doesn´t drink, smoke, and when we asked about coffee, hw just says I never drink coffee I don´t even like coffee! I was FREAKING out. Marcelo has a date set for the 18th and we are so so so so happy for him. A complete miracle. We also met a lady named Roseli, and as we spoke to her she just said she has been to a lot of churches and she just wants to find the right one. All of these people, are all people who have been prepared by the Lord. Two weeks ago I felt so strongly that the Lord was preparing people, and this week we have been finding these people who are prepared by the Lord. It so humbling to know that this is the Lord´s work. Not mine, nor Sister Beazer´s but His work, and if we are following His will, we can be effective instruments in His hands. More and more I am realizing that the whisperings of the Spirit aren´t a GO TALK TO HER, but it is very gentle, and subtle. When we follow the Spirit´s promptings, we can do the Lord´s will. It is awesome.</div>
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<span style="font-family: TwCenMT-Regular; font-size: 12px;">Some of my favorite people! Carols and Lais took us to McDonald´s as a farewell. Notice our brick phone on the table. I might have been anxious to get transfer calls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TwCenMT-Regular; font-size: 12px;">NADIA!!! AND IRMA LUZIA! Nadia is now a ward missionary and does visits every Sunday. Tender moments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TwCenMT-Regular; font-size: 12px;">The P-day before transfers Sister Jensen and I had a clothing exchange and we took a selfie. Hahahah</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TwCenMT-Regular; font-size: 12px;">We got an Easter egg from Mariana!!! She always tells me "Sister, I like offering you chocolate because you always accept!" Hahahahhaa</span></div>
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I am so excited to be able to work in Cachoeira Paulista! I almost did a flip when they called saying I was being transferred there. The members of this branch are awesome. I am so grateful to be here! There is tons of work to be done here. I have noticed that we can work lots more with the members and we have lots of ideas of things we can do here. It is our work as missionaries to get everyone else excited and full of joy about the work. It is going to be great!</div>
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We got here in Cachoeira and had a total of one investigator. We are really focusing on finding more people to add to our teaching pool. The key to this is to work with the members! We would walk on the streets this week, and we were like hey, can we share a message with you about Christ? We have found some pretty awesome people. Angela is a lady we met who is the owner of a baptist church. We decided to share the Plan of Salvation with her, and focused on families and gave her a proclamation. I really realized in that moment that no matter where you go, or who you talk to that everyone has the same focus on the family. We may not agree on everything , but family is the greatest and most important thing in every persn´s life, whether they realize it or not. On Saturday we had amazing things happen. We found this sweet sweet family that was just sitting out on their porch and we taught them the Restoratoion. All the kids gathered around, and it was awesome.We got a solid reference from a member, and we will be visii]ting them this week! Sunday was discouraging when we went to pick up people, and no one came. But, the work presses forward! This week we are going to work our tails off. </div>
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As we visited people, we also visited a recent convert named Vilma. She has had REALLY hard trials in her life. I bore my testimony to her of the Savior and His Atonement. I think in that moment, I felt everything SO strongly. Everything just fel intensified. My testimony was strengthened and it was the perfect Easter treat. I know my Savior lives. I am so grateful forHis sacrifice and that we were able to celebrate His life and our love for Him yesterday.</div>
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Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357463633869729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890270589438968383.post-44784954116616763502014-05-13T12:17:00.003-07:002014-05-13T12:17:58.379-07:00Lovely and perfect endings. 4/14/2014<div style="font-family: TwCenMT-Regular; font-size: 12px;">
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So, just as a starter, I am being transferred tomorrow! Yesterday we had a ward activity (I´ll explain later) and President came and I just asked, so should I say my goodbyes President? Yeah you probably should sister. No!!! I am so grateful that I have had the oppurtunity to serve in Vila Prudente. I absolutely love love love this area.I love all of the sweet investigators and experiences I have had here. Ramon, Silvia, Cesar, Gemeul, Tereza, and many more, I have gained a fuller testimony from these sweet people. I love the ward. The ward here really feels like my home ward and family, and I have such a love for these members. They are incredible. I have learned so much from their examples, and charity they have for others. I have just felt so much sincere love from this ward. AH I just love them so much. They will have a special place in my heart. I am grateful that I have had Sister Jensen as a companion. She is amazing. It was honestly so easy to be a missionary with her. Everything just flowed perfectly, and we had the same vision on everything. She has the best attitude towards learning quickly, loves the people, loves the work. I could go on and on about her, she is a powerhouse! I have learned lots from her, and am grateful that we got to work together.<br /><br /><br /> I also couldn´t have asked for a better ending to such a great chapter of my mission. This week was perfect. So we finished preparing Gemeul for his baptism this week. That entire family has the sweetest spirit and the most faith. He understood everything so simply and was so willing to do whatever it took to be prepared for baptism. He would read every pamphlet and then ask really thoughtful questions. The day of his baptism was perfect. Sister Jensen and I tried getting all of the youth to come to the baptism on a Saturday night because it was Gemeul´s birthday. He turned 18 and was baptized on the same day! I won´t lie, I was a little nervous that no one would come. We got there, set everything up, and then 3 young men from our ward came. My stomach dropped a little, and then somehow, all of the youth showed up one by one. Every single one of them. It was so sweet, they even sang a musical number for him!! The baptism was so sweet. People always say cliché things like oh, you were glowing but Gemeul really was glowing. The whole baptism just had a sweet feling about it.<br /><br /> This Sunday was also really special. We had two people set for going to church and one didn´t show up, and the other we went to pickup and she wasn´t there. We were determined to have one person at church, because we promised that we would have at least one investigator every week for church. So, we left and hit the streets to find someone. The streets were pretty much empty, but we happened upon this woman named Maria. She was dirty, had tattered clothes, and just seemed like she lived a hard life. We invited her to come, and she accepted the invitation. As we sat there during sacrament meeting, I just kind of observed her and started thinking. What would Christ have done? He would have been with this woman and loved her the same as everyone else. I could see her divine worth shining through. We read in the scriptures that he went about the publicans and sinners, and said that those who are well don´t need a physician. He loves each of us, equally, and wants each of us to feel of His love for us. The amazing thing of missions is that we feel so close to Christ and we get to share of His message of love to everyone we meet. I was able to learn a valuable lesson through Maria, of how the gospel is for anyone and everyone. I testify that Christ´s gospel and His Atonement is truly for all mankind, and that it is the remedy for all of life´s trials. Sunday evening we had our ward´s mini MTC, an activity Sister Falcão and I had high hopes of doing. It was perfect. So many members came, and really the members are the ones who put on the activity. I know that missionary work is going to take wildfire in Vila Prudente. To really connect and see the member´s testimonies of the work in action was so neat. I felt the Spirit so strongly throughout the whole activity.<br /><br />I am excited for transfers and feel a peace about what will happen. I am sad to leave Vila Prudente, but I am excited to see what the Lord has in store for me. I know that it will be amazing and I will love it. Hurrah for Israel!!<br /></div>
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Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357463633869729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890270589438968383.post-73505929540998820102014-05-13T12:16:00.003-07:002014-05-13T12:16:43.209-07:00I love love. I love being in love. (with my mission) 4/7/2014<div style="font-family: TwCenMT-Regular; font-size: 12px;">
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With conference, we had loads of miracles happen all week. It is interesting that Elder Nelson spoke on faith, and how it is truly through faith in our Savior. This faith is what truly leads to incredible miracles. We live in a world where it seems that faith is discouraged, like you are silly if you have faith. I know and can testify that faith will carry us through our lives. Sister Jensen were reflecting on the most successful times on our missions. Why were they so successful? We came to the conclusion that is our faith. If we truly believe that the Lord will help us, then He will. He will help us find, teach, convert, through the Spirit. He will carry us through our lowest of lows and help us be our happiest!! So we are trying to build our faith each day. We decided we really needed to focus on the members this week, so we visited seminary, visited members, and had a family home evening, the results were four references! If we really do our part as missionaries and try connect, and work the way the Lord has shown us these past few conferences, the Lord WILL bless the work. We are having a mini MTC in the ward this Sunday, and we are SO pumped. It is going to be awesome! The ward members of Vila Prudente are INCREDIBLE. I could go on and on and on about them. I love this ward so much. I have seen some of the best examples in this ward.</div>
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SOMETHING AMAZING HAPPENED THIS WEEK. You guys! Missions are the best. Ever since I have been here we have tried teaching Gemmeul, Amanda, Geovana, and Cesar´s oldest brother. He has always been kinda like ehhhh whatever, tchau sisters. Okay! Well, he has come to church and still kind of avoided us, but after having gone to church, he wants to be baptized! AHHH! He is getting baptized this Saturday on his 18th birthday. It is so interesting to me how the Lord has timing for everything. Gemmeul was sharing with us how he has been to lots of churches and how he kind of became disenchanted with all of them. He said after going to church, he just feels something different there. Ah, we are so excited! </div>
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This week Sister Jensen got here! WOWIE. I just love her LOADS. She is the best ever. This week has been crazy cool.<br /><br />I have been learning so much about how to really let the Spirit take control of lessons lately. On Tuesday we visited Yuni, and boy were we in for a surprise. We got there and when she rung us in the interfone, she wasjust like, I need talk to guys, really bluntly. Uh okay, except I was freaked because she didn´t sound very happy. We got there and she was like I looked up your religion and you guys are a cult, and you make secret promises to get money and I am in no way wanting to be a part of this. I want to worship God and God only! The Book of Mormon is talked about in the Bible ever. I know the Bible! That was my first experience like this on my mission and I wasjust like oh my gosh, what do I do? Sister Jensen is the best at prayers and luckily we had prayed right before going in. I prayed in my mind, and just asked if we could share a few scriptures with her which she then allowed. Since we were led by the Spirit, the lesson took a whole different route. Through the Spirit she understood, and by the end agreed to come to church again. It was a miracle!! Unfortunately she didn´t come on Sunday but I am excited to see her on our visit tomorrow!! I don´t know if I have mentioned, but Adrianna can´t read or write. However, when we taught the gospel of Christ and she understod perfectly, but through the Spirit. Everytime we teach now I just think of Elder Evans, "They taught by the Spirit, they learned by the Spirit, they both rejoiced!" It was honestly so cool.<br /><br />Another really cool miracle happened this week. We have been trying really hard to get the 20 addresses every day. On one of these days, we were walking and contacting when Sister Jensen went up to this guy at a gate and started to talk to him. His name was Celio and he asked us if we were gypsies because of our clothing. It was really funny. As we started to talk to him he goes, did you know I was baptized in that church 40 years ago? He is a inactive of 20 years and none of his family is baptized! He invited us in, and wants us to teach his whole family. When we were leaving he kept saying yeah, I know lots of people you can teach! Well great!!! It was such a cool miracle to see.<br /></div>
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Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357463633869729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890270589438968383.post-23954765927864193122014-05-13T11:34:00.000-07:002014-05-13T11:34:07.125-07:00I forgot it was St. Patricks Day. SO I had to re-send this. Don´t read the other one, it isn´t even green. 3/17/2014<div style="font-family: TwCenMT-Regular; font-size: 12px;">
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Hey all you cool cats, how are all of you?? I am doing great because everything is going just so. I have seen so many miracles and so many greats things have happened.<br /><br />This week it seems that everything went just as it was supposed to. All of our investigators had miraculous progress. That is all I can describe it as. We visited Yuni to teach her the Restoration. When we got there, she happened to be walking in with her friend, and was like I was just telling her (Rosi) about you guys and how much I have loved your church. Rosi, you aren´t going to a church, come talk with us! It was so cool. Rosi used to be part of the Pentecostal church but then her pastor went off the deep end and started to drink and stuff, and as she put it "All the little sheeps got lost, and are trying to find their way back" Isn´t incredible how we are all part of the Lord´s fold? He truly wants every single one of His sheep to be found. I think that lots of times each and everyone of us feels a little lost. A little like we don´t quite know what to do, or how to approach life´s many situations. The Lord is aware and is conscious though, and is trying to safely and lovingly guide us. It was really cool to see how the Lord is trying to bring Rosi back, and how we met her friend who met us in that instant. We then taught them the Restoartion and they just believed in everything so willingly. I think it is kind of funny and amazing when all the little quotes and such from PMG come true and then they pop into your head. I just kept thinking, these ladies were just waiting to hear the truth. Yuni´s story is just a miracle though. At the end of the lesson Yuni was sharing about how she acutally went to church that first Sunday. She said that she is/was a partier. She would always go to balladas and ragers and what not and just have a good time. She had been praying to find a church because she wants to be baptized and to be a good servant in the Lord´s hands. She said she had gone to a party on Saturday and just wasn´t feeling happy the way she used to. The next morning, she got home with only a few hours of sleep and went to the market to buy stuff for lunch. She walked in front of the church, and someone invited her in. She was telling us how the more she goes, the more peace she feels in her life. Wow. My testimony of the Lord´s hand guiding us is so strong. I know that He will always show us the way.<br /> We hadn´t gone to Sonia´s on Tuesday or on Wednesday just because there wasn´t enough time to. We got there on Thursday night and were talking to her, and I was just like so, how are your prayers Sonia? Sonia: They are good! Me: Do you feel like you have gotten an answer yet? Sonia: Well, you guys hadn´t come here for two days, and the Jehovah´s Witness came and taught me some things that just didn´t seem right. It didn´t feel like it was right. You guys hadn´t come, and I just missed your teachings so much. I prayed that if it was the Lord´s will, you guys would come back. Now you guys are here. So I think my prayers have been answered." AHHHHH SHE FINALLY RECIEVED AN ANSWER TO HER PRAYERS! I couldn´t be happier. I love that lady so so much. When we went to her house yesterday night, she invited two friends to hear the lessons as well. It was so so so cool. I am so excited for Sonia, I know that she is truly a prepared lady. We also saw the two Adrianna´s. One was the super super amazing reference that we haven´t been able to see because her husband has been in and out of the hospital. We always walk in front of her house, and the other day I just prayed she would happen to come out of her house so that we could talk to her. It didn´t happen and I didn´t think much of it. On Wednesday we walked past and guess who comes out right when we are directly in front of her house!? Adrianna!! She told us she has been reading the Book of Mormon and is really liking it a lot. She said her husband is almost better and when he is, she is going to call us! Yahoo! Cleo´s Adrianna is also doing so well! We are getting ready for her wedding!! She is so tender spirited.</span><span style="color: #93c47d;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: #93c47d;">I am out of time!!! But I love all of you, and am really grateful for all the useful advice you guys have given. Thank you for the letters, packages, and emails. They mean the WORLD as a missionary. I have made it a new goal to write back every single letter. So if you send me something, I pinky promise I will write back. Send me a letter, why dontcha?</span><span style="color: #93c47d;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Sister Carvalho<br /></span></div>
<span style="color: #93c47d;">PS Sister Jensen gets here tomorrow. Woo hoo! And next week I will have a trillion pictures I promise.</span></div>
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So I forgot to say last week that was transfer week. I am staying in Vila Prudente! WOOOOOOO! I AM SO HAPPY. Sister Falcão got transferred to Taubate though. It makes me sad. We had another mission conference with a Elder Costa of the Seventy, and it just felt so weird seeing her with Sister Detlefsen. I kept wanting to be like SISTERRRRR COME SIT BY ME. Sister Detlefsen is one of my favorite people though and Guaritingeta is the best zone so I am real happy for her. Doesn´t mean I am not missing her heaps though. So now this is what happened to me: I got called Monday night by President to train again! Yahoo! So we got to transfers and President called me first to get my new companion. I skipped up there and was like here! real perky like, and then President Ferrin just laughed and goes, "Your companion isn´t here yet" and then everyone laughed at me. Hahahaha it was realy funny, I love President Ferrin he is great. So I kept waiting and then I turned to Sister Hansen (she is training as well, she is fabulous, I love her) and started to sing "On my own, pretending she´s beside meeeeeeee" #lesmis. So it turns our I am training an American that has been out for 11 months already! The mtc here is doing a new two week program so they can re-learn Portuguese or something so she only gets here March 19th. I am so so so excited! She was in Sister Aledo and Sister Oborn´s MTC district and we all know how I feel about Sister Aledo and Sister Oborn. LOVEEEE. They both have told me she is great and everyone has said she is amazing. I am really excited for SIster Jensen to get here! Meanwhile, I am with Sister Ferreira who is from Ceara. Once my companion gets here she will be in a trio with SIster Corbitt and O´Brien. She is cool, I like her! Very firm and a great missionary!! So that was transfers!<br /></div>
Vila Prudente is really taking off. We have seen so many miracles lately. Last week, we visited a member in our ward named Cleo (SWEETEST lady) and we met her helper named Adrianna. We proceeded to teach Adrianna and she is a golden investigator. SO ready and so pure. Cleo was like, she was just waiting to meet you guys I guess! I have invited her to church for the past year and she has never come until you two invited her! Our lesson with her went so well. Something that Elder Evans said while he was here was that missionaries teach by the Spirit, the investigators understand by the Spirit, and then both rejoice. That is exactly what it was. Such a simple lesson, but I have also learned that simplicity is best. It is what touched people´s hearts! I love Adrianna. She needs to get married, so we will be having a wedding here in Vila Prudente pretty soon here!! Adrianna can´t read, so we read The Book Of Mormon to her and she just listens so atentively and loves it. The Book Of Mormon has incredible power. I know that The Book of Mormon is the truest book on the face of Earth, and it converts each of us unto our Savior. Everytime I read, I feel closer to my Savior. I will never ever ever forget how Sister Waite taught me to use the scriptures and the importance of them. They contain God´s power!! Adrianna is so excited to be baptized, and is truly one of the most faithful women I have ever met. Her faith is a huge example to me. We taught her the Word of WIsdom real quick because Cleo told her about coffee, and she was like what else is there? I am not drinking coffee anymore. Ah. Solid.<br /> </div>
Last night we visited Sonia with Emerson( our LMA) and she has decided to get married as well!! YAYYY! Weddings all over the place. She still says though she hasn´t felt that total certainty. She has searched for the true church for so long, and she just wants to be totally sure. We have told her for the past two weeks: PRAYER. I have such a firm testimony that prayer is the answer to everything. Heavenly Father will always answer, we just need to have spiritual eyes to see and hear. Sonia reads her scriptures and prays, and I know that she sincerely wants to know. We also visited Yuni again, and she was raised Jehovah´s Witness so she has lots of questions! She is way neat!! Gil, a man we met also came to church!! He is way cool, he reminds me lots of Ramon!! The work here is just running like wild fire. I love it!!<br /><br /> I absolutley loved Elder Costa´s visit. These past two mission conferences have made a profound impact on me. We as missionaries are truly working on helping others return to their Heavenly home!! Our work is a work of Salvation!! We do this by truly converting others unto Christ. Something that stuck out to me is learning how to really work with the Spirit. We first need to strive to have the Spirit with us by being obdient and seeking our the scriptures for power. Once we do that is learning how to work with the Spirit. The Spirit will teach our brothers and sisters, we need to have faith in that! Faith is what really makes the miracles happen. With faith in the Lord, He will provide his miracles. I really loved that Elder Costa focused on our faith, to have the miracles truly happen. We can do anything, absolutely anything if we have faith! We can feel the Spirit guide, and we can TRULY convert people unto the Lord. What a beautiful work we are involved in. I am so grateful for the things I have learned. I know that this is everything we have learned is the Lord´s way of how HIS work should go forward. As we follow His way and His purposes, we can be the best instruments in His hands. I love the mission. The 9 months will be the best months of my entire life. With all of these techings, I am sure of it!!!<br /></div>
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This week was the best last week before transfers I have ever had. SO many miracles happened! This week we made it a focus to be obedient with exactness and the blessings came.<br /></div>
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We were cleaning the chapel as a service project and here in Brazil everyone just wets the floor and uses a squeegee thing to mop. Well we basically flooded the whole building to clean it and as we were cleaning I was pushing the water out. Sister O´Brien lifted up the hose to make it easier for me and was like: Go Sist-uh go (Brit accent) so I started being spazzy and guess what happens: yep I slipped and fell right on my back. Like I was laying down. And all the members saw. So that was pretty cool. I will never not be awkward. On the plus side, Sister O´Brien did say that it was the most graceful fall she has ever seen and that I should be on Swan Lake.<br /></div>
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Hello everybody!!! This subject line probably threw you off. But I am just full of happiness and hope!! Today has been absolutely AMAZING. On Thursday we found out we would be having an unplanned mission conference, with Elder David F. Evans of the Seventy who is in charge of ALL of the missionaries in the entire world. I am just floored by it. It was so good. I will talk more about that in a little though because first, I want to share all of the miracles and awesome experiences of this week!!! (Oh ps none of the apostrophe marks or question marks etc. are working on this computer so please, dont hate me. I dont write this bad I promise)<br /></div>
So since the area here in Vila Prudente sort of divided, Sister Falcao and kind of opened an area again because we went to an area within our area that has hardly been worked in. As we have been working here, we have found the COOLEST people. I have already talked about some, but really, Sister Falcao and I were talking and there is just something different about each and everyone of these investigators. You can just tell that they are so prepared and each of them has this hunger to know of Heavenly Father´s plan for them, and to truly follow the Savior. We have been trying to work with the members a lot more, and a recently returned missonary passed this amazing reference. Her name is Aline and she is 19. As we taught her the Restoartion, she got emotional and the Spirit was just so sweet the whole time. Heine had passed her but didn´t really know that she was elect I think. We invited her to be baptized at the end, and she accepted so sincerely. She was like I intend to be baptized, I know everything you guys have taught me is true. I know it is true, I just want to read the scriptures and know more for myself. WHAT!?! Okay, yes, perfect. She even said she is talking to her mom about all of these things and bringing her to church this next week. YAHOO!<br /></div>
As we were contacting people on the streets this week we also met a guy named Gil. Yesterday after church we went to visit him with our ward mission leader and it was really short, but it was a good visit. I see in him the same type of person as Ramon. I am really excited to actually teach him, he is really busy with work, but I am sure when we teach him it will be a special experience. We also taught Sonia lots this week. She has such an eagerness to read the scriptures and learn. When we got there on Tuesday, she was like I watched a movie about the prophet. I as just thinking, uh oh, and then she goes yeah off that site you showed me! It answered one of her questions of the Book of Mormon and she watched it. So cool. As we were talking to her, she was like I had never heard of this church. But you guys are different, I love what you guys teach. Sonia just wants a sure answer and and as she was saying that Sara (Her daughter) goes I know! Their church and points to us! So cute. PLease pray for Sonia to receive and realize her answer. It may be taking a while, but I know that her answer is coming and that she will be truly converted to the Lord.<br /><br />And now for the miracles of today. Many things that Elder Evans said today really just made such an impact on me. I kept feeling before the conference and during the conference that whatever he would say would really bring such a change on me as amissionary and it has. I am so excited to go home, and reflect on all my notes. I think something that really struck me today was the importance of families. I love m family. SO MUCH. The Carvalhos are crazy people, let me just tell ya, but the love I feel for them. Man. I want to live with them for all eternity. I can live with them for all eternity and that just fills me with joy. My sweet mom, my hard working dad, my sweet sweet Laura, my twin Aurora, and my most favorite brother Will. Just thinking about them makes me happy. As a missionary, we are helping other families to have this sweetness in their lives. Families ar the most important thing, and every human being is my family as well. I want this for everyone. I want others to feel the SAviors love for them. To really come to know Him and our Father in Heaven. As a missioary, we need to help others repent. To really have this everlasting happiness, we must change ourselves. We must become more Christ like. Work a lot harder to become more like Him. All this comes from repentance. That is why our Savior came, so that all of us can go back to our Heavenly Home. I have been thinking lots of repentance and how we can really really help others to change and repent in their lives. I as well as all the other missionaries in the world have the most sacred calling.I want to work with all my might and strength, with my whole soul, because I know that I can do a little to help other have true joy. I have so many more thoughts to say, and so many thing to think about it, but for now all I can say is that I want to work my hardest. I want to help others to taste this sweetness, and with the things I learned today I know that I have so much to work on and to work for. The field is white and ready to harvest, and I want to go do this harvesting.<br /></div>
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How are all of you doing? I am doing splendid, thank you! Despite the lan house REEKING because of this one gamer in here I am splendid. I had a good Valentines Day. Had 3 other Valentines besides my mom this year!! Lais &Carol, Sister Corbitt, and Courtney Eyring. It was really fun. I have lots of pictures to send. On that note of loving things, I have loved everything about the latest and greatest in Vila Prudente!!</div>
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So I don´t know if I have mentioned Sonia but she is the super awesome contact we did and she just accepted for us to go and teach her. We have been teaching her and she came to church once.She has such a sincere desire to find out what is right and true. She has had a hard life, and now wants to follow Christ. We went over this week and we were like hey, how is your reading? And she goes to be honest I stopped reading because I had some questions about the prophet and looked online and basically saw a lot of anti stuff. So we then showed her <a href="http://mormon.org/">mormon.org</a>, <a href="http://lds.org/">lds.org</a>, and the mormon channel on youtube and explained things to her and she was golden. Since having gone back, she has been reading, and really progressing lots. We finally taught the Plan of Salvation to her and she said she believed in it all. She then followed with, but I am a little confused because I study with the Jehovah´s Witness as well and it as all very different. She just wants to do what is right. We then just told her, the only way you can know is if you pray. Sister Falcão and I just both really testified of prayer and we felt the Spirit strongly. My testimony of prayers has increased so much here on the mission. No prayer is too small, or too grand, Heavenly Father will always answer, and I know He will answer Sonia!! I am so happy that she wants to know these things!</div>
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While we were walking to an appointment a week ago, this guy was walking by me and we had been walking near each other for a while and I was just really feeling like I needed to talk to him. I didn´t want to be awkward so as I was thinking in my head of how I could approach him, when he asked me if I was part of some school. We got to talking to him and his name is Allysson! My best friend´s name! The week passed and we had marked to visit him Saturday. We went to his house and taught him and his mom. As we shared the Restoration with him, we all felt the Spirit SO strongly. It was one of those shiny moments again where everything just makes sense in missionary work and you just know that your investigators are feeling that same joy and peace that the gospel brings. Unfortunately he couldn´t come to church this week, but he accepted baptism on the spot. YEA ALLYSSON! We have also visited Silvia lots and she is still so firm. It feels so happy when people truly are converted. She is always reading her scriptures and loves church. I love Silvia!</div>
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Yesterday was Cesar´s baptism!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHH. What a joyful day. His mom bought him the cutest church outfit and he was so excited the whole day. Right after sacrament meeting he just looked at me and was like is it my baptism now?? Yes!! He is honestly so so sweet. He has the sweetest spirit. He is just so pure. It was such a sweet baptism. Afterwards we were talking and I was like so, how do ya feel and he just looked up and smiled and said good. And that is what missionary work is all about. Helping others come unto to Christ, and helping them to be converted unto Him. To follow His example, and always do our best to live with Him again someday. It was so amazing. His family are all wanting the same thing as well so they can have an eternal family. YES!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Tw Cen MT';">8 months with Elvira, Lais, Carol, and Leonor. I LOVE THEM.</span><br />
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So last week it hit 40 degrees...which means it was 104! São Paulo hasn´t been this hot since the sixities or something!! It is crazy. BUT São Paulo really is taking fire in the missionary aspect as well so I am okay with it. Also this week is Valentine´s Day. My mom is my valentine again.... she has been my valentine the last I don´t know..... 20 years of my life? So I mean it is fine.<br /></div>
We met so many awesome people this week! Since Sister Corbitt and O´Brien are here, we decided to work in an area we had hardly touched. Vila Alpina and Vila California. I always like to think that I am actually going to California, it is funny to me. Anyways, we are working with the area book to find people, lots and lots of contacts, and a few references. Cesar is the younger brother of two recent-converts and we have worked with him and visited him lots. He is such a sweet boy. That entire family is just sweet. They have the sincere desire to follow Christ and do what is right. Cesar even reads the scriptures on his own. Children have such tender spirits. They just are so much simpler than all of us. Things that are so difficult for us are just easy for them. He is such a special kid, him and his sisters already even talk abou serving missions. We had an FHE with them last night, and each person there wrote down things that would help the family. Cesar´s was to sa family prayers each night and Geovana´s was to help start family scripture study. They are just really really awesome.<br /></div>
While exploring these new areas we also found some solid new people. I felt like I should talk to this random lady on an empty street and before I could even voice my opinion, Sister Falcão was like let´s go talk to her! She seemed a little flaky and then we asked for water. In doing this, one of her neighbors all of a sudden just pullled us inside her house and she and her husband told us their entire life story. They have so much faith and we are really excited to go back. We also visted this reference that we got forever ago, but the husband kept having medical problems so we never got to go because they kept having to cancel. Sister Falcão and I wrapped up a Book of Mormon, Family Proclamtion, and ways to help families pamphlet just to drop off and let them know we are t hinking of them. Leandro (the husband) was already asleep because he was in pain, but we talked to his wife Adriana. ELECT FAMILY. Elect with a capital E. She just wants to raise her daughter in a good enviornment and help her to have good Christian principles. I felt really impressed to share with her something my mom wrote me about when she was being converted to the church and how she felt about me and my kid brother. I just know that this family has been prepared by the Lord so much! Keep them in your prayers!!!<br /></div>
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I don´t know sister, I am sorry. I just like massaging my feet and singing. I just feel like I am in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sometimes.<br /></div>
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Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357463633869729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890270589438968383.post-74653238541166466732014-03-16T20:32:00.001-07:002014-03-16T20:32:43.838-07:00Well Hello There People 2/3/2014<div>
This week was fantastic!! I have learned so much about repentance this week. How we can truly repent. We had interviews with President and at one of the trainings this week we learned about how we need to testify more about repentance. It was incredible how we had such awesome oppurtunities to tesitfy about repentance and knowing that each of us can repent.</div>
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Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357463633869729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890270589438968383.post-46829776943389587862014-01-29T12:23:00.001-08:002014-01-29T12:23:48.621-08:00Vila Prudente.....Transfer 3!! WOOOOOOO!!! 1/27/2014<div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another area opened in Vila Prudente!!! I AM SO HAPPY!!!! AND Sister Falcão and I got to stay together for a third transfer!! I love that girl so much! Sister Corbitt and SIster O´Brien from England live with us now as well and it is a party. I love them heaps!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So out of the miracles last week lots of really tender things happened. Silvia, Marilia´s friend is a golden investigator. A true gem. We went to teach her and she is such a sweet spirit. She is so humble, and so prepared to follow the gospel. All she could do was keep thanking us and it just kind of put things into perspective for me. This gospel is SO precious. We have the knowledge that our Savior lives. That He loves us. That through Him, we can repent, and someday live with our Father again. We truly have a treasure to share with everyone. It also made me realize that the Lord will send His prepared people our way, if we are faithful and are doing our part. Something incredible that happened with Silvia was that on our first lesson with her the WOrd of Wisdom got brought up breifly, but it was just very breif. As we taught her yesterday, we invited her to live the Word of Wisdom and she told us she had been living it since the day we had talked about it breifly. She has such a sincere desire to follow the Lord and do what is right. I am so happy for her and I love her so much!! So something kind of funny that happened this week was that as we walked this week I found a lucky penny. A penny in Brazil!!! It also kind of marked how the work started to fly. We have so many people to teach and love right now! It so exciting and so happy. All of my prayers have been answered and it feels so good to work so hard and have to run to places!! I love Vila Prudente and I love working here. We have a Father in Heaven and Savior, a living prophet, we can have eternal families, we have tools to guide us each day. What more do we need???</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In my studies this week something that really really stuck out to me was that the Lord will mold us into what He wants us to be. If we are instruments in the Lord´s hands, then He knows our talents. He knows our strengths and our weaknesses. He knows us better than we know ourselves, and He knows who we need to be. I know that He will help us get there!! Sometimes I honestly feel so overwhelmed and am like wow, you have such a long way to go. Dang it, you messed up. But I have learned that if we sincerely pray to be better, and acutally act, that true change is possible. I know that true change, is made possible through Christ. He knows how to succor us when we most need it! The Lord will always qualify who He calls, and I know that I am pretty rough, but that each and everyone of us is getting there. Here is to getting there!! My testimony of finding people and knowing that I was supposed to meet that person has increased. The work really is moving along beautifully and it is so happy. I have learned to work with the members more, and how to involve them more. We members really need to get our game on! There are those we love that need this special message!!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Love you all,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SIster Carvalho</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gems of the week:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sister Falcão have this freaky twin thing going on where we think of things at the exact same time.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sister O´Brien: How do you say bridesmaid in Portuguese??</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Me: Dama</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sister O´Brien: Dama... well that doesn´t sound too positive now does it?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sister Corbitt gave Sister Falcão and I a couple name: Sister Calvão</span></div></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div>Miguel Bernardo´s baptism! 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Elder Astin always wears these sunglasses indoors and<br>I think it is dumb... so when he took them off and left them lying around<br>SIster Falcão and I took pictures while stealing frosting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcZ2z83dzim8rkTELmEiOAMx7GXl5is237hQ5qvWd3jDwP-5y-mDeNzCo2qaKnjyLQOyBSl5WFTfryBOjz4nPwCl7Wr3PMF5nOGmJtpsxyrV2uPcjsR5Z-OajbEwId1LqmlgWN8msloAsf/s640/blogger-image--1981437302.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcZ2z83dzim8rkTELmEiOAMx7GXl5is237hQ5qvWd3jDwP-5y-mDeNzCo2qaKnjyLQOyBSl5WFTfryBOjz4nPwCl7Wr3PMF5nOGmJtpsxyrV2uPcjsR5Z-OajbEwId1LqmlgWN8msloAsf/s640/blogger-image--1981437302.jpg"></a></div><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF4pBfufT1tWVSqM5_Sd85asETujFA6Gx7fX7v5PzepSwZp0iAqTpRLR8dhYuybPFCoRhthgrAp-jl7AA1nG5uQVbXNlwhZbWVVphfju-tZzkWLEdHCQJkblI-Zo22iMIOuxUTnqG5dHYx/s640/blogger-image-1403981532.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF4pBfufT1tWVSqM5_Sd85asETujFA6Gx7fX7v5PzepSwZp0iAqTpRLR8dhYuybPFCoRhthgrAp-jl7AA1nG5uQVbXNlwhZbWVVphfju-tZzkWLEdHCQJkblI-Zo22iMIOuxUTnqG5dHYx/s640/blogger-image-1403981532.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My name is SIster Carvalho and I like to photobomb.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKRpu0Fw_D8fXtaCQtiSPDP41PtWzRYobDs1nZ9AJpc0seDv7h0wtJxsV0ReCobw2efh1LKZ987jD9tzQ6ryjieI1HRxC3FpqDnwd93VjxcYGso3OtqPGJH0zVV_CzddJrCMPow3rdND4h/s640/blogger-image-872683436.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKRpu0Fw_D8fXtaCQtiSPDP41PtWzRYobDs1nZ9AJpc0seDv7h0wtJxsV0ReCobw2efh1LKZ987jD9tzQ6ryjieI1HRxC3FpqDnwd93VjxcYGso3OtqPGJH0zVV_CzddJrCMPow3rdND4h/s640/blogger-image-872683436.jpg"></a></div><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Transfers...TOTGETHER FOR A THIR TRANSFER! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAaa!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixI4l4ZJUtGMz27ehAYZ5LqQ8RODpHrSLWf0tyzXCFQSssPyhFH9kX29szbADxLFeN6IAgyv-r9my36vpNkgIeBLPdBx7lu0XrXcFUGjjA2KOQdnckWN7771I58HxyrRx_ZEZwa0UpwF_p/s640/blogger-image--1862914351.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixI4l4ZJUtGMz27ehAYZ5LqQ8RODpHrSLWf0tyzXCFQSssPyhFH9kX29szbADxLFeN6IAgyv-r9my36vpNkgIeBLPdBx7lu0XrXcFUGjjA2KOQdnckWN7771I58HxyrRx_ZEZwa0UpwF_p/s640/blogger-image--1862914351.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFihFEap-lyOp_SQivvlMCc_z9eW468ivsSbLeg3mAcKb4uc_X8tzw0e2xM8DXTQ52S8GQJ_2PnCM01iu7b26NO9SUwLwHgQsmGJzozLZY6TrQHmC6Vd_mOmonMohSuHenRj5QPu00tXww/s640/blogger-image-776103673.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFihFEap-lyOp_SQivvlMCc_z9eW468ivsSbLeg3mAcKb4uc_X8tzw0e2xM8DXTQ52S8GQJ_2PnCM01iu7b26NO9SUwLwHgQsmGJzozLZY6TrQHmC6Vd_mOmonMohSuHenRj5QPu00tXww/s640/blogger-image-776103673.jpg"></a></div>Sister Corbitt has named us companion-in-laws. I am fond of it. Living in<br>four is the best. This is us in order from shortest to tallest. Sister<br>Falcão, Me, Sister O´Brien and Sister Corbitt!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQtZ0HmTeHuIs2VKH00g_Zdm0xN8P-mHk1moE-9xQCSI8guBfquT6ybLZ61-v1zIFT-OoYS4bG1ptM0RTKraaVjRWwOqCs4mR8bmWhuVm0LKEopBTxSxtiV-Oi04CCxdHpRP20dPALRrFr/s640/blogger-image--578119901.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQtZ0HmTeHuIs2VKH00g_Zdm0xN8P-mHk1moE-9xQCSI8guBfquT6ybLZ61-v1zIFT-OoYS4bG1ptM0RTKraaVjRWwOqCs4mR8bmWhuVm0LKEopBTxSxtiV-Oi04CCxdHpRP20dPALRrFr/s640/blogger-image--578119901.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></span></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357463633869729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890270589438968383.post-82695898325346648392014-01-29T12:14:00.001-08:002014-01-29T12:14:21.892-08:00Simplicity, Miracles & lots of other gems 1/20/2014<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This past week we worked really hard to strengthen our current investigators and to find lots more. The week before we had gotten 7 new addresses in one day with set appointments to go back and visit. This week we went and visited all those people. Not all of them were too interested, but on Saturday we visited one and to be honest, I had little faith after how all the other appointments had gone. We had talked to Sonia a week before and marked but it was far and I just thought, she probably forgot. When we got there, she just said I thought you guys weren´t coming. It was probably one of the best lessons we have tught. She accepted baptism and was really anxious to learn. It was so cool!! She didn´t attend church, but I feel like she is reallya wanting to know more. There was also a day when all our appointments fell through. All of them. We were walking and I jjust kept praying for us to find someone. All of sudden, we start talking to a lady and we got to teach her that day!! The whole week was just full of finding elect people. Another one was a contact we did with these 2 17 years olds. When we went back to teach them, it turns out that one was baptized last week but only went to church twice so she could be baptized but then didn´t return because she dind´t understand anything. But now, she wants to come back and her cousin accepted baptism too! WAHOO!!!!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week though was also full of good studies. I love studying. It is such a precious time because we learn so so so much. More often than not we also study exactly what the Lord would have us learn. I love the conference talks, they are the best. It is the best knowing we have real alive prophets who are divinely inspired by Heavenly Father to lead and guide us. I think every single talk I read this week spoke of enduring to the end and small and simple things. Simplicity is wonderful. If we pray and study our scriptures earnestly, Heavenly Father WILL answer. He will hear, and He will help us in exactly the way we need. The best was reading Alma 58. The Nephites were having kind of a rough time during the war, and it seemed like it wasn´t ending. They didn´t quite know why, but in the end they poured out their whole souls to the Lord. They didn´t know how exactly that they would overcome their difficulties but they decided to go forth with all their might because the Lord would bless them. I really want to apply this to my life and even though I don´t quite see the whole picture, just go forth with all my might and do the Lord´s work. I love this work, and I know that the Lord is blessing His work, because it is HIS work and not mine. <br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yesterday was the crowing jewel of the whole week. This Sunday was by far one of the most miraculous spiritual Sundays I have had on the mission. All of the lessons at church focused on Christ and the Spirit was so strong and so sweet the entire meeting. We had 9 people go to church on Sunday. 9!!!! It was so crazy. Although none of the people we taught went, we had a family of 4 show up. Four!!! One of Marilia´s friends also showed up and is super interested. A recent convert´s son came and is wanting to be baptized so we are teaching him this week!!!! MIRACLES LIKE WHOA. After , We had Miguel Bernardo´s baptism. Marilia is a recent convert and his mom and she is really wanting an eternal family. We are teaching her husband, and since her son just turned 8 it was his baptism!! When she bore her testimony to her son at thebaptism....holy cow. Everyone who was there was in tears. I think it will really make the difference for her husband. She gave by far one of the most powerful testimonies ever. Holy cow. After we had lunch at a member´s home and she put on the Book of Morom Testaments film. I just cried and cried at the end. I know my Savior lives!!!! Just thinking of His love, and His sacrifice makes my heart full. I love our Savior. I am so glad I get to serve Him for 18 months, and learn to be a little more like Him. And now for the last miracle of SUnday. Sundays in VP are usually super dead. There is no one on the streets. We were walking and saw these three people sitting by a payphone. I was like hey sister, let´s go do a contact with em. They spoke NO Portuguese. Only Spanish. So I totally got to use my Spanish and teach them a little. It was such a cool feeling. To top it all off though, I happened to have a Restoartion pamphlet in SPANISH by chance in my bag. It wasn´t by chance though, becuase Heavenly Father knew I would find those Bolivians!!!! It was so so so cool. We are going back to visit them this Saturday. I think the mission is really my favorite thing ever.<br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Love love love,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SIster Carvalho</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Great Gems From this week:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sister Falcão may have picked up some of my habits... like saying oh my gosh. Now whenever something awkward or amazing happens she just starts chanting ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh or awkwardawkwardawkward. It is so funny. Also, we always always always say nao agentou. which kind of means I can´t handle it.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357463633869729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890270589438968383.post-25367635123480968382014-01-29T12:12:00.001-08:002014-01-29T12:12:39.203-08:001/13/14<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGfQ8g0KctNk34YPwrnjfagyz3IfLmcgp1eazjRkkF2XoAKR69nTO4q_HLCuiMrPbm1Oyy8NFubnAuP5jkFiZOkVvQafDLyLrxl_ufMj9lkinMAYx7QIVh0Rh6sps6egI6ZhI-IyscC7Xk/s640/blogger-image--373553767.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGfQ8g0KctNk34YPwrnjfagyz3IfLmcgp1eazjRkkF2XoAKR69nTO4q_HLCuiMrPbm1Oyy8NFubnAuP5jkFiZOkVvQafDLyLrxl_ufMj9lkinMAYx7QIVh0Rh6sps6egI6ZhI-IyscC7Xk/s640/blogger-image--373553767.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDY8tuaYr12wK-1k3AuAgnrkgB264g_TsS6xmRDa9kBHq3sTCzziP64WK2cLfwtDwmTHtXVc4mzpNb3V4H7ztpKMbCOrob0dFvpBd2ldmi8tFTgmOAWt3cM3Bf-lJ3uhfSyvAArlDvZPVL/s640/blogger-image-699459641.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Forgot to say that last email. I come home this year and that literally freaks me out so much. Wow this week was really cool. We were so blessed. The 31st and 1st here were DEAD. There was not one person on the streets. We even went to the busiest street in our area to try and do contacts and there was like 4 people there. However, we met the neatest people in these two dead days. Most everyone we met even agreed to have us return and teach them. The whole week went on this pattern and we met so many new people! It is a prayer that I have long prayed for and it was answered. I am so excited to meet with all of these people, they were truly placed there for us to meet by Heavenly Father. One of the sweetest people we met was Esmeralda. She has had so so so many hard trials in her life. Oh I forget to say, I have found out the trick to getting people to stop in contacts. You both have to be moving, and then you have to stop and then the other person will stop. It is great. So we did that with Esmeralda and she told us she had just moved into her house that very day. We didn´t even teach her anything we were just like can we go help you? We can clean, unpack boxes, whatever you´d like! She was just like really, you would do that? Yes, of course! She then said any sort of help would be welcome. We went there yesterday and chatted with her and helped clean her cupboards. It was interesting to see how each and every single human being has our own indivudal sturggles and trials. Even more amazing is how Heavenly Father helps each and every single one of us throughout these trials. Something I have gained a huge testimony of here on the mission is the scripture that hangs on my mission plaque back home. Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths. I have realized that the more and more I lean on the Lord, the more blessed, happy, succesful, peaceful, anything that is good I am. He knows us better, and He knows what is best for us. I am so grateful for our Savior. As we trusted in the Lord this week, we were guided to all these new people. I had a small miracle happen with me. I think I am the queen of small miracles, because they happen often and they are all each so tender and precious to me. On Wednesday we were studying and I realized I dind´t know where my temple reccommend was.( We are going to the temple tomorrow!!!!!!!!! I AM SO EXCITED!) I always carry it with me, so I thought it was in one of my bags. As I looked through each bag, it was no where to be found. I started to panic a little so I said a prayer to find it. The thought that immeadiately came to my head was it´s in your bag. I was like hey, maybe I overlooked it so I went back and looked. Nothing. I looked through ALL of my suitcases and every letter I have. Nothing. I prayed again and felt it was in my bag. Still nothing, so I prayed again and was just like please, I preach that no problem is too big or too small, please help me to find it. This time I felt nothing. I sat glumly at my desk and just told Sister Falcão, :estou triste. I am sad. I don´t know why, but it was such a big deal to me. I wanted my temple reccommend! Sister Falcão just said is there a special place you put things? I said no, and suddenly the thought came, your scripture bag. I springed up and looked in my scripture bag pocket, and lo and behold, there was my temple reccommend. I just started crying because He had answered me the whole time. I have been learning to really really trust in the Lord. As we planned for Tereza this week I felt we should watch the video with the apostles testimonies of Christ and Sister Falcão felt we should watch President Monson´s. It spoke directly of the scriptures and PLan of Salvation which is what Tereza needs. As we planned for M, we felt it was important to address that other churches all have light and Christ in them too, and sure enough it came up in the lesson. It was such a spiritual lesson. MISSIONS ARE JUST SO COOL. I LOVEEEEEEEEEEE mine. It is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I love my Savior, I love being guided by the Spirit. I love these Brazilians. I want to work with more fervor and mor diligence and serve with my whole heart. I want to try and become the best missionary I can be. I know as we strive to further the Lord´s work, we will be blessed with His joy. </span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Love love love,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sister Carvalho</span></div>Tiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573357463633869729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890270589438968383.post-21763574588126441562014-01-27T12:22:00.001-08:002014-01-27T12:22:48.124-08:00The Charmed Life of Sister Tiff Carvalho 12/30/2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So this week was Christmas. It was perfect. I actually really enjoyed my first and only mission Christmas. Seeing my family was the greatest thing ever. The day after we had a treinamento at 8 in the morning at the mission office with President. I think there should probably be a stamp that says: Sister Tiffany Carvalho, disaster of the Brazil São Paulo East mission. From losing the cell phone on the first week, to leaving the house keys at the office and having to go all the way back, and being almost an hour late to the treinamento I don´t even know what to expect anymore. We had set up our alarm for <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">5:30</a> and it didn´t go off. I have timing issues. Sheridan would always get upset at me. I have been trying to work on it for a while now. At the training we focused on making goals, and changing ourselves for the better. I know that if I do my part, the Lord will bless me in trying to change myself. I am excited to change and try and become better. After being late, Sister Falcão and I were more than determined to do everything on time perfectly. I think you could say we learned our lesson real good. We have woken up on time and strived to be obdient with exactness in everything this week, and the blessings of obedience came pouring in.I read Elder David M. McConkie´s talk about teaching with God´s Power and Authority. It was perfect and correlated perfectly with the treinamento because it talks about how we first need to be totally obdient to have the Spirit with us. Then we search the scriptures and pray, and that is how we can be the most effective teachers. The day after the treinamento we were visiting a recent convert when Tereza called to see if we could come that that day. She had marked for us to go over on Tuesday of this week so that was really neat. We finished up our visit and headed over to her house. We chatted with her for a while, and then her grandson and granddaughter-in-law got home. They are both baptized, but inactive. They always treat us super well though and receive us well. They eventually sat down and talked with us and HOLY COW. MIRACLES. All of their needs and questions came tumbling out. Tereza´s especially and we were able to be truly guided by the Spirit! It was so cool. It felt so great that they all trusted us and that we have made a special relationship with them that we were able to talk so openly. In fact, they all agreed to go to church this week and we want to focus on each and every one of them. Lots of what they said made me want to be a better member when I get home. As members, everyone looks to you and if we aren´t always trying to be the most Christ like, we can hurt others. That made me sad. This week I studied Alma 44 and it talks about how Moroni gave inspiring words to the Nephites to help them. These inspiring words then helped them to turn unto the Lord for help. If we can help lift others up, and lend a helping hand, how effective could we truly be? The Savior lifted everyone up around Him and continues to lift all of us up each day. It is our duty and privlege to love and help everyone. The world is just a better happier place when we love everyone. This week we also met two new investigators. We are super excited to teach them, we have been praying for a family and they have a big one!! Heavenly Father always always always answers our prayers. We also got to go back and teach Natalia, she had lots of work so we stopped because she got home way late. We went there yesterday and it was so cool! Her and her mom aren´t totally sure, but it was incredible because lots of what believe in, they already believe in too. We just need to follow the Spirit and I am sure that miracles will happen with them too. Thanks for all the Merry Christmases they were great. Love you all!!<br></span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lovelovelove,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sister Carvalho </span></div><div><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0wjhD2UIkMrt1p3eqOoka8Mrch9M5gElAMlkD-DEj-jJdR2faNCPzSO3V1Ngvtkperroyj04yt7WopS6KeVGpSPbTeKLkfnSpyuPcyX99ZAkng6dxPiZOFA83izLcinlv5Gr8k0K760b/s640/blogger-image-1112359076.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0wjhD2UIkMrt1p3eqOoka8Mrch9M5gElAMlkD-DEj-jJdR2faNCPzSO3V1Ngvtkperroyj04yt7WopS6KeVGpSPbTeKLkfnSpyuPcyX99ZAkng6dxPiZOFA83izLcinlv5Gr8k0K760b/s640/blogger-image-1112359076.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOyoBFO58YXAtslhAKus6mtZm7f_xd4rs76ff0ZeOItroe-pXh7FinSfWW2KjaKswVjANEo7I33ob0_7Xt9vW1KvojhEiuz5bP7-Y30XSt2sG570cbTiNccpoBToRrJl5JW5laH3ZHpIdL/s640/blogger-image-2142625348.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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