Week 2!

Hi everyone! I have less then ten minutes. Dang it. OKay well the CTM is great. My companion is the greatest. Her name is Sister Rodrigues and I think she looks like Jessi Armfield/Princess Peach. I have learned so much in the past week! I really have felt the Spirit influence me and guide me in all that I do. EVerytime I Have felt even a little sad, I feel lifted up through the Spirit. Time is super limited it's crazy. If you send me a dear elder I can read it the same day you send it though. The girls from district were freaking out because they found a girl that they think looks like my twin. AND GUESS WHAT. She is from Chile Vina Del Mar. So then we were all freaking out. Also someone told me that I look like a darker version of Rose from the Titanic. Which is funny because someone has told me that before. I don't really see it. Serving a mission has been one of the best decisons ever.Seriously though. If I haven't been email to email back I am super sorry! But I have read them all and they mean sooooooooooooooooooo much to me. I got real teary eyed when I saw all the emails you guys had sent. My district is great! I have learned so much from all of them. Serious. They told me I am the saint of the group. Hahaha Dad would laugh and laugh at that. I truly can testify that the Lord loves us and is always looking out for us. I know that the gospel is true, and I am so excited to share the happiness it brings me with others. I have a lot more to say, but very little time. Oy vey. Know that I love all of you lots!!!

Sister Carvalho over and out

First Email!

Hiiiiiiiiii. Guess what I am alive! So I went to ATlanta and met up with some missionaries there who were flying straight to Fortaleza. They had been temporarily reassigned to Indiana for six weeks and got their visas. They were super nice, one elder let me six dollars that some man gave him to use on my Panda Express. I would´ve gotten my last fiddy nuggs but McDonalds was full. Panda Express had all old food but it was still all good! Elder Young took forever talking and I almost thought we were going to miss boarding but we made it in time! SOlid!!! I seriously felt like Buddy the Elf on the plane and wanted to tell people I made through the candy cane forest but I went to Arizona then to Atlanta. So I got to Brazil and it was seriously so easy being a Brazilian. I just zipped on through. I did get here a day early though so my companion doesn´t get here until tomorrow and I got put with and all spanish district. My roomates are Peruvian and I met a girl from Argentina! I told her that Jimena was going there today! She is from Buenos Aires too. I think they are going to move me to a portuguese district just for today since I have been with the Spanish one which rocks because I feel like my Spanish stinks. I did get to help translate for them though which is cool. We also got to walk around the neighborhood we totally can go around the block on pdays. Emily, Jimena, and Sheridan you guys are the literal best for writing me already. I only have ten minutes though, so I was able to read them but not write back. Dear elder would be awesome for the time being in the m tc but if not I can read the emails. Love you all lots!!!

Texas Adventures (a picture overload)

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I'm at the Denver airport again, this time, I have a four hour layover:( Don't worry though, I visited the same bathroom and I have Pride and Prejudice.

1 through 4 is baby Camilla! Isn't she the cutest sweetest baby girl? I miss her already.

5) #starfruitselfie I haven't had starfruit since I went to Brazil! We went to this sweet store called Central Market, it's like a glorified Trader Joe's. I was in heaven. They were having like a Brazil week, and they had a whole bunch of food from Brazil. So good.

6) Oh you know, there was just fields of flowers on the freeways.

7) The state capital building is so pretty!

8) My deer friends, (see what I did there?) just hanging out in the front yard.

9) We drove around in the prettiest neighborhood. I am in love with it and want to live there. That's where I saw the deer! It's kind of on a mountain, more like a giant hill? Anyways, there is a slope/hill to climb and you can see the whole city! Well kind of, because most of it is covered by trees. The river looks like the one in the beginning of Disney movies with the castle at the end. So I feel like Sleeping Beauty castle belongs at the top left corner of this picture.

10) Austin skyline.

I want to go back already! I love love love Texas, and I'm missing my family already!

Charmed Life

I live a charmed life. I think Saturday was one of the best days. So many good things happened all within 5 hours. First I woke up at 6:30 to take my statistics final. I was freaking out. I did not study near enough and statistics is hard. Well it's hard for me at least. If we don't score a 36/50 or above our teacher lets us retake it, but in order to retake it you have to do this super detailed long powerpoint study guide. I've had to do it before, and luckily I didn't have to do that because I GOT A 40/50!!! I was seriously freaking out and so happy. As soon as I got done I put on running clothes because Zach was waiting for me so we could go to the zombie mud run. It was my first time running a 5K so that was cool. I was scared that the zombies would pop up out of no where and freak you out but they weren't even scary. Shoot one zombie even helped us. Then I went home, showered, took a nap, and when I woke up my Taylor Swift tickets sold! I had bought tickets that were like fan club exclusive or something and were right in front of the stage. I sold it on stubhub for a large amount of money and now I'm set for my mission! I was freaking out. Then later that night my BFF Meagan came home from her internship in DC. I'm sure glad she is home. Charmed life.

This picture is teeny and I don't even know why. Everyone thought we were dating or something because of this picture. I didn't know going on a run meant you were in love. 

Currently, I am writing this from the Denver airport. Let me tell you, this airport is GREAT. I got off my flight to use the bathroom and I found this family bathroom. It was huge and smelled like my Bath and Body Works Christmas candle. I am not even kidding. It smelled just like a Christmas tree. I was so so so so happy about it. Things that smell like Christmas are my favorite. On top of that, it was huge and had power outlets so I decided to curl my hair and put makeup on. It was a nice treat after having to wake up at 4:45 to catch my 6:30 flight. Woof. I have a two hour layover here until I go to Austin to see baby Camilla! I am sooooooo excited. She is precious. Now I'm going to watch Peter Pan until it's time to go. Over and out.

The best public restroom I have ever been in.

So Much To Do, So Little Time

This weekend I got my Brazilian citizenship and passport! So now I am a dual citizen. The Brazilian Consulate had like a traveling consulate so I had to hurry and do it all this weekend, and it was crazy. I got there ten minutes before it opened and I still had to wait for two hours. I'm glad it's over with though, because now I am a legit Brazilian. Once I did that I called my stake president to tell him it was resolved and he told me I could now leave two weeks earlier or a month later. I chose to go two weeks early! I also am only staying at the MTC for 10-12 days. Missionaries are now reporting Wednesdays and Thursdays since there are so many of us and I get to be one of the weirdie Thursday ones. Exciting times people, exciting times. So I wanted to compile a list of fun things I want to do.

• Go to Disneyland one more time. I don't even care that I've been 4 times within the past year.
• Go camping.
• Have a legit tea party.
• Go tubing at the lake. 
• Go to the beach
• Watch all my favorite movies.
• Go to concerts. So far I am going to T Swift.

That's all I can think of for now. There are important things I should do too. Like get my typhoid fever & yellow fever shot, get shoes, luggage, read Preach My Gospel twenty more times, etc. I am confident I'll get it done though.

Now for some great things people have said:

-I talked to an old friend that I hadn't talked to for a while and he pretty much worships Lady Gaga. I know, she is the literal worst, but to each their own. He said the following in our conversation:
"You're my Mormon Lady Gaga haha." I was equally flattered and amused.

-Alexis Wilkins on the dad from Good Luck Charlie: "I like bald. He looks hot.".... what!?!? No. Just stop Alexis.

The institute posse on the last day of class. I love them.

-When we took this picture Brother Wold asked to look at it. He says " I look good. Like really good!" He then turns to me and says "You look okay."

- "Jonathan, remember that one time I slept in your bed? Well I didn't sleep on it, I laid there. It was more like I just crawled on it"- Alison

Some Funny Things People Around Me Have Said

Laura proudly walks in: "Tiff, I have a crush on Harry Styles."
Me: "Oh cool, me too!"
Laura: "No Tiff, I have a crush on Harry."
Me: "Uhm, okay. Well can I like him too?"
Laura: "No."
Me: "Oh. Okay."

A kid we met that just got back from his mission talking about sisters gaining weight: "Some sisters would get to the mission and be cute, and by the end , it was just like, what happened? All I'm saying is, don't let go of yourselves."

Will as we were driving and listening to "The A Team" by Ed Sheeran: "YES!!! This is my favorite song about cocaine and prostitutes!"

Will: "When you leave on your mission, I am telling everyone you got deported to Brazil."

Levi: " I don't eat when Brenda isn't around."
Me: "So you are like anorexic?"
Levi: " No, it is my Brenda diet"

#brevi

This a blog titled after my favorite couple (Brenda+Levi=celebrity couple name=brevi). Did you know I started #brevi and it is now an actual thing? Like people will actually refer to them as Brevi which kind of brings me joy. As aforementioned in the previous blog post they were option A) thisclosetobeingengaged. They got engaged on Monday night! Which further proves my point of all my friends being married,because I'm a psychic genius, duh. They are getting married a little after I leave, but don't worry folks because they are going to have a cardboard cut out of me. Rachie is in charge of lugging me around. Which is cool. I hope people will hangout with cardboard cut out me because they miss me or something. That would also be cool. Anyways I am SO SO happy for them.

 Levi's idea was for Brenda to fake flip me off. Brenda never would though because she is clearly a saint.

What the, Brenda is getting married.

Levi just taking a selfie instead of taking pictures of us.

 Brenda attacking Jason because he was taking bad pictures

Our institute teacher Brother Wold getting his retirement cake. Him and his wife are serving a mission in Uganda which is way cool! This picture makes me LOL.

#lunch (Jason is not pictured because we hate him. Just kidding we don't)

Also let's talk about how Jason told me if I were an animal I would be a macaw. To which I responded that macaws are ugly. To which Levi started to say no I would be a mediocre macaw but changed it when he realized that was a bad statement. To which Zach said in his weirdest voice, "Show us your beak". I prefer to think that my spirit animal would be something cool. Like a unicorn. Or a narwhal.