I apologize that I am running behind on getting Kelsi's letters on here. I will get back on track!
From September 5th....
Hello everyone!
This week was kind of slow and boring, but at the same time a lot of things happened. So many things happen in one week on a mission its hard to put it all into one email, one day a week, but I´m trying.
So, I told you about Sister Nicásico and wanting to go home. Well, she stayed and the first couple of days was really hard, but she found her groove again and we´re back to doing the Lord´s work, His way on His Time. So that´s nice.
As I told you, we´re teaching a LOT of great people, but everyone´s baptisms fell except for the angel Carol. I have a stronger testimony now of weekly planning and planning with the Spirit because this last week we DID NOT plan with the Spirit and our week and our goals showed it. Yesterday was much better though, so our fruits will show it!
Carol, ah blessed Carol. She is a 14 year old girl we found ´batendo palmas´. (more or less knocking doors). She lives with her cousin right next to the chapel. She´s lived on her own since she was 12 and I think she´s been through a lot in her life. But she has accepted the gospel with open arms and can´t wait to get baptized. On Wednesday, we went to teach her about prayer or reading the scriptures and I felt like we should change it to the 3rd lesson about Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Gift of the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the End. I told Sister Powell and we changed it. As I taught about Baptism Carol´s face lit up and had the biggest smile I have ever seen her smile. Then, I explained about the Holy Ghost and she began to cry the happiest tears I think I´ve ever witness. I know she is a special spirit of our Heavenly Father and is going to be a great leader in the church...probably with young women. You never get used to daily miracles.
Other than that we´re teaching both of Phelipes brothers Marcelo and Pedro and Isabellas husband Geter. Geter is awesome. We haven´t even taught the Word of Wisdom and he´s already lessening his cigarettes and drinking. Also Pedro and Marcelo...and Phelipe. All the boys are going to be strong Priesthood leaders one day! I love this AREA!!!
Last night we had the priviledge to have a Fireside with our ward and the other Elders in our Districts ward with Presidente and Sister Araújo. It was really good. Us, the missionaries and the youth sang `Que Manhã Maravilhosa´(Joseph Smiths First Prayer) to the tune of Come Thou Fount. It was really good. Then Presidente and Sister Araújo spoke about their conversion stories...very cool. Me and Irmã Paulina sang the closing hymn as a duet ´É Tarde A Noite Logo Vem´(Abide With Me Tis Even Tide). Then Presidente and Sister Araújo took us home. Still as funny as ever. As we were walking to the car President stopped and turned to Sister Araújo and said, `Sister. Giff me da keyss.´ Then me and Sister Powell told him that she studied English in College and he needs us to teach him English, not the Elders and he said he´d like to have Sisters in his area....so that would be fun. We´ll see! President always remembers me because I email him in English and I taught him the word: amazing, because I use it a lot. So when I´m with him he uses it as much as he can. They´re both a crack up.
What else. I think thats pretty much it. Brazilian food is growing on me. I´m even experimenting with beans here and there. I ate some kind of casserole yesterday and I still can´t figure out what vegetable it was. The juice here is delicious! They literally just put fruit in a blender, add suger, strain the pulp and drink it....why didn´t we think of that?!
Also, my mosquito net broke two days ago, the first night was okay, but the night afterwards I had 10 mosquitos bites...on my face. I don´t know why they love my face. Whyy??? But we got it back up last night and somehow I woke up with two bites on my forehead. Mosquitoes are so weird. Its weird to think that while I´m sleeping I have these insects just buffeting on my face, lip, eye. So weird. But this is a mission! And I love it!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU!!!!
Sister Kelsi Kate Johnson
Fica firme família amado! Eu te amo muito!!!
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
But I pressed forward...
Hi Family!
Boy do I have some stories to tell! This week was much more different than the others. Tuesday night I could tell I was starting to get sick. I had a sore throat and the head cold kind of thing and was getting more and more weak and really bad body aches. But I pressed forward. My contacts were really horrible because with all this going on my brain was not working in Portugues very fast. We went home, did quick planning and I went to bed. I was up every hour with a fever and body aches so bad I couldn´t sleep. The next morning when Sister Powell and Sister Nicáscio woke up and could tell that I was even sicker than before. They called Sister Araújo and she said to take me to the Hospital because it could be dengue. I was really weak, achey and tired but we got a bus to the Vila Velha hospital only to find out they didn´t take our insurance. Too weak to do another bus we all pitched in for a taxi to a hospital that did take my card. Long story short, the doctor saw me, checked my breathing, asked if I had asthma (I said no) and looked at my throat. It was a replay of the time I had really bad strep and the doctor went to swab my throat to do a test, but just looked in it and was like, ´Yeah its strep.´ Only in Portugues. So I had to get a FAT shot in my arm, I didn´t look but my companions said they were praying for me when she took the needle out of the toolbox (yes, literally a tool box for tools). But I survived. We returned home and got my medicine from the Pharmacy and Sister and President Araújo came to our apartment. Then the coolest thing ever happened. Since we were in a trio President said he would take me to their house and I could stay there until Friday and they would bring me back in the morning. And thus the adventure began. It made sense too that instead of three missionaries staying in a house, they take me and my companions could teach our investigators. So, I packed my stuff and moved into the suite in Jardim a Pena with the President and his wife. It was AMAZING! I got to rest and study and have homeade pineapple juice every hour. It was just like living at Grandma and Papa Bowens again. President Araújo reminds me a tiny bit of Papa Bowen. He´ll tell a story and make himself seem much more suave than he actually was and give the Papa Bowen look with the raised eyebrows like, `You know´. I will never forget my time at the Mission Home. The first evening we sat and talked in the living room, Presidente Araújo practiced his English with me and me and Sister Araújo would just laugh and laugh at his stories and his English. His accent is hilarious. The second night they had a real English class with Elder Swanson and Elder. It was hilarious. President is so funny when it comes to English. But the stories will have to wait for a letter or Christmas or something.
I returned home, rejuvenated on Friday and worked hard all weekend. We taught Phelipe who is having a hard time coming to church and with some aspects of the church but the Spirit was very strong and I know if he prays he will know that all aspects of the church are led by the Savior and he will be happy when he keeps the commandments. I got a little glimpse of how Nephi and Ammon and them felt when they saw the wickedness of the people or the people that wouldn´t keep the commandments. But I´m praying hard for him because I know he will be a powerful leader in the Church. So, that was the crazy week I had.
Oh, yes, it rains. I think like once every two weeks. It rained yesterday but it worked out because the old man, Volmar, we are teaching won´t go to church unless he can take us in a taxi because he doesn´t like feeling dependant on other people..... so, basically, we have an investigator that takes us to church!
I love you guys and love to hear about your lives! Even if don´t respond specifically to each, I love reading about everything thats happening. I´m glad you are serving your fellow man because that is what the Lord will ask us in the last days! These are the last days! I read today in Jesus The Christ that the last days are so close, that in the time of Joseph Smith (200 or something years ago) The Savior was calling the last days ´today´. Kind of crazy. But I´m excited for the Savior to come!!!!!!! Is that a weird way to put it?
Anyways, LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU!!!!!
Sister Kelsi Kate Johnson
P.S. Tell Dallin to go to Mission Prep or I´ll never talk to him again!!!
LOVE YOU!
Boy do I have some stories to tell! This week was much more different than the others. Tuesday night I could tell I was starting to get sick. I had a sore throat and the head cold kind of thing and was getting more and more weak and really bad body aches. But I pressed forward. My contacts were really horrible because with all this going on my brain was not working in Portugues very fast. We went home, did quick planning and I went to bed. I was up every hour with a fever and body aches so bad I couldn´t sleep. The next morning when Sister Powell and Sister Nicáscio woke up and could tell that I was even sicker than before. They called Sister Araújo and she said to take me to the Hospital because it could be dengue. I was really weak, achey and tired but we got a bus to the Vila Velha hospital only to find out they didn´t take our insurance. Too weak to do another bus we all pitched in for a taxi to a hospital that did take my card. Long story short, the doctor saw me, checked my breathing, asked if I had asthma (I said no) and looked at my throat. It was a replay of the time I had really bad strep and the doctor went to swab my throat to do a test, but just looked in it and was like, ´Yeah its strep.´ Only in Portugues. So I had to get a FAT shot in my arm, I didn´t look but my companions said they were praying for me when she took the needle out of the toolbox (yes, literally a tool box for tools). But I survived. We returned home and got my medicine from the Pharmacy and Sister and President Araújo came to our apartment. Then the coolest thing ever happened. Since we were in a trio President said he would take me to their house and I could stay there until Friday and they would bring me back in the morning. And thus the adventure began. It made sense too that instead of three missionaries staying in a house, they take me and my companions could teach our investigators. So, I packed my stuff and moved into the suite in Jardim a Pena with the President and his wife. It was AMAZING! I got to rest and study and have homeade pineapple juice every hour. It was just like living at Grandma and Papa Bowens again. President Araújo reminds me a tiny bit of Papa Bowen. He´ll tell a story and make himself seem much more suave than he actually was and give the Papa Bowen look with the raised eyebrows like, `You know´. I will never forget my time at the Mission Home. The first evening we sat and talked in the living room, Presidente Araújo practiced his English with me and me and Sister Araújo would just laugh and laugh at his stories and his English. His accent is hilarious. The second night they had a real English class with Elder Swanson and Elder. It was hilarious. President is so funny when it comes to English. But the stories will have to wait for a letter or Christmas or something.
I returned home, rejuvenated on Friday and worked hard all weekend. We taught Phelipe who is having a hard time coming to church and with some aspects of the church but the Spirit was very strong and I know if he prays he will know that all aspects of the church are led by the Savior and he will be happy when he keeps the commandments. I got a little glimpse of how Nephi and Ammon and them felt when they saw the wickedness of the people or the people that wouldn´t keep the commandments. But I´m praying hard for him because I know he will be a powerful leader in the Church. So, that was the crazy week I had.
Oh, yes, it rains. I think like once every two weeks. It rained yesterday but it worked out because the old man, Volmar, we are teaching won´t go to church unless he can take us in a taxi because he doesn´t like feeling dependant on other people..... so, basically, we have an investigator that takes us to church!
I love you guys and love to hear about your lives! Even if don´t respond specifically to each, I love reading about everything thats happening. I´m glad you are serving your fellow man because that is what the Lord will ask us in the last days! These are the last days! I read today in Jesus The Christ that the last days are so close, that in the time of Joseph Smith (200 or something years ago) The Savior was calling the last days ´today´. Kind of crazy. But I´m excited for the Savior to come!!!!!!! Is that a weird way to put it?
Anyways, LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU!!!!!
Sister Kelsi Kate Johnson
P.S. Tell Dallin to go to Mission Prep or I´ll never talk to him again!!!
LOVE YOU!
2nd Letter a minute later:
I don´t know what I was thinking...I still have 20 minutes!
So. Adventure at Presidents house. When I got there I felt kind of awkward because I didn´t know what I could or couldn´t do, but it got better with time. We ate lunch and I slept. After I woke up it was about dinner time and Sister Araújo made some kind of something like roast and onions and carrots and stuff, but she put it in the blender for me to eat as soup for my throat. It was actually pretty good. After that me and Sister Araújo played piano and sat and talked in the living room about temples, about traveling and about English and Portuguese. Right as she was telling me that she has fears to speak English because her pronunciation is bad but President doesn´t care he just talks and talks the best he can....President walked in and sat down saying, We spekin ingles? and then he began to say all kinds of things to me in English. He told me the story of how he met Sister Araújo and when they got lost in Salt Lake. At one point Sister Araújo turned to me and asked if I was understanding and before I could answer Presdient was like, in Portugues, She understands! She understands! (like, just let me tell this story) Me and Sister Araújo laughed so hard. He was also telling me how he traveled back and forth from Fortaleza to São Paulo a lot and he came to a word he didn´t know so he did his hand like and airplane and went ´Sssssss!´ I turned to Sister and was like What word is Sssss!? Now we have this inside joke where when we don´t know what to say we go Ssssss! We laughed hard after that too!
The next night, English class was even funnier because Elder Swanson and Elder Athans would give President and Sister a scenario that a missionary might call and they need to respond in English. Elder Athans put his had up to his ear like a telephone and said, in English, VERY SLOWLY `President. My toilet is broken.` President got all serious. Leaned back and then forward, put his hand up to his ear like a telephone and said, ´ Okee, vhary wew. Sory.´ We all started laughing so hard, but Elder Athans persisted with the telephone to his ear. ´President. What should I do?´ President, with his hand up to his ear like a telephone, in broken English, ´Okee, I go sershing fora salution. I vill call joo in a cupple days.´ We all laughed again. We did this with various other situations like headaches and missionaries that wanted to stay home. It was so funny, I wish you could have been there. I could not control my laughter and it was laughter I needed because although Sister Powell and Nicáscio are awesome, they aren´t very funny and I need funny! But, I got it!
It was an awesome couple of days that I was able to rest and recover and get to know my Mission mãe and pai. They really are like my parents now and I can turn to them whenever I need to...it didn ´t feel like that before, but now it does. It was cool too after dinner on Thursday me and Sister Araújo sat at the table and she read the Friend in English and I read the Liahona (Ensign) in Portugues and we´d ask each other what the words we didn´t know meant. It wasn´t fair though because when she asked a word, I´d explain in Portugues and when I asked a word she´d explain in Portugues. But it was fun and helped a lot. I learned how much the President does for his missionaries and how he loves every single one. I got to see behind the scenes the work of a mission president and its truly inspired and vital work. Elder Costa of the Seventy is coming tomorrow and we get to hear from him in our Zone first. Pretty exciting!
Its amazing how each moment that happens on my mission has a purpose and has a lesson that I need to learn. Every hour, every minute is important. It makes sense why people grow so much in a year and a half, two years. I can´t wait to see how much I still have to grow!
LOVE YOU GUYS! Send my love to my nieces too!
Love, Sister Kelsi Kate Johnson
Hope at least some of this makse sense.
So. Adventure at Presidents house. When I got there I felt kind of awkward because I didn´t know what I could or couldn´t do, but it got better with time. We ate lunch and I slept. After I woke up it was about dinner time and Sister Araújo made some kind of something like roast and onions and carrots and stuff, but she put it in the blender for me to eat as soup for my throat. It was actually pretty good. After that me and Sister Araújo played piano and sat and talked in the living room about temples, about traveling and about English and Portuguese. Right as she was telling me that she has fears to speak English because her pronunciation is bad but President doesn´t care he just talks and talks the best he can....President walked in and sat down saying, We spekin ingles? and then he began to say all kinds of things to me in English. He told me the story of how he met Sister Araújo and when they got lost in Salt Lake. At one point Sister Araújo turned to me and asked if I was understanding and before I could answer Presdient was like, in Portugues, She understands! She understands! (like, just let me tell this story) Me and Sister Araújo laughed so hard. He was also telling me how he traveled back and forth from Fortaleza to São Paulo a lot and he came to a word he didn´t know so he did his hand like and airplane and went ´Sssssss!´ I turned to Sister and was like What word is Sssss!? Now we have this inside joke where when we don´t know what to say we go Ssssss! We laughed hard after that too!
The next night, English class was even funnier because Elder Swanson and Elder Athans would give President and Sister a scenario that a missionary might call and they need to respond in English. Elder Athans put his had up to his ear like a telephone and said, in English, VERY SLOWLY `President. My toilet is broken.` President got all serious. Leaned back and then forward, put his hand up to his ear like a telephone and said, ´ Okee, vhary wew. Sory.´ We all started laughing so hard, but Elder Athans persisted with the telephone to his ear. ´President. What should I do?´ President, with his hand up to his ear like a telephone, in broken English, ´Okee, I go sershing fora salution. I vill call joo in a cupple days.´ We all laughed again. We did this with various other situations like headaches and missionaries that wanted to stay home. It was so funny, I wish you could have been there. I could not control my laughter and it was laughter I needed because although Sister Powell and Nicáscio are awesome, they aren´t very funny and I need funny! But, I got it!
It was an awesome couple of days that I was able to rest and recover and get to know my Mission mãe and pai. They really are like my parents now and I can turn to them whenever I need to...it didn ´t feel like that before, but now it does. It was cool too after dinner on Thursday me and Sister Araújo sat at the table and she read the Friend in English and I read the Liahona (Ensign) in Portugues and we´d ask each other what the words we didn´t know meant. It wasn´t fair though because when she asked a word, I´d explain in Portugues and when I asked a word she´d explain in Portugues. But it was fun and helped a lot. I learned how much the President does for his missionaries and how he loves every single one. I got to see behind the scenes the work of a mission president and its truly inspired and vital work. Elder Costa of the Seventy is coming tomorrow and we get to hear from him in our Zone first. Pretty exciting!
Its amazing how each moment that happens on my mission has a purpose and has a lesson that I need to learn. Every hour, every minute is important. It makes sense why people grow so much in a year and a half, two years. I can´t wait to see how much I still have to grow!
LOVE YOU GUYS! Send my love to my nieces too!
Love, Sister Kelsi Kate Johnson
Hope at least some of this makse sense.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Silently Cracking Up
So, first of all I have to tell dad. The Stake Patriarch is in our ward and is so cool! He loves Pink Floyd and even invited us over for PDAY to watch David Gilmour Live at Albert Hall...seriously. But we had to turn him down, obviously. :( But he´s awesome. His name is Wilson. He was a hippie, left his home and lived on the streets for two years and everything! Awesome. Now he´s a Patriarch. This gospel is so cool.
Our Baptism for this Saturday fell. Merisvaldo, the Baiano, we´re still working with. He has to quit smoking and we we´ll probably have to review all the lessons again. But he´s awesome and hilarious. We had asked him if he was reading the Book of Mormon and he said yes, but it didn´t sound very truthful so Sister Morales asked him if he read the part about the white horse and he was like, Yeah, it was a pony né? We were laughing SO HARD, it was really funny. I guess you had to be there. Then he was making dinner and kept offering us stuff and all of a sudden he said I´m gonna go buyt you something to drink...and super fast he jumped on his bike and said to watch his food and he took off! SO we were left sitting alone in a Baiano´s house. Me and Sister Morales were cracking up...like the silent cracking up like...is this real? So funny! But he´s awesome, we just need to keep working with him!
Sunday was amazing. It was testimony meeting and Isabella bore s powerful and simple testimony and Presidente Araújo was there. Perfect. The spirit was so strong in the chapel. So many people after Isabella bore their testimonies and mentioned her and the Sisters. It was so amazing. Indescribable!
So, I didn´t get transferred! I get to stay here! But I don´t know who my companion is yet, hopefully she´s ready to work hard because we have a lot of work to do!!! I´m so excited. I love this ward and this area!!
Jenna - if you could get me Nathan Halls, Danielle Whipple and Alexa Betleys addresses that would be awesome. Facebook would probably work the best. And eanyone else that would like me to try to write them.
Other than that I´m working hard. Mission are really really really really hard but I keep on keeping on doing what I can...thats the key. Just keep going! I love you guys.
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU!
Sister Kelsi Kate Johnson
Our Baptism for this Saturday fell. Merisvaldo, the Baiano, we´re still working with. He has to quit smoking and we we´ll probably have to review all the lessons again. But he´s awesome and hilarious. We had asked him if he was reading the Book of Mormon and he said yes, but it didn´t sound very truthful so Sister Morales asked him if he read the part about the white horse and he was like, Yeah, it was a pony né? We were laughing SO HARD, it was really funny. I guess you had to be there. Then he was making dinner and kept offering us stuff and all of a sudden he said I´m gonna go buyt you something to drink...and super fast he jumped on his bike and said to watch his food and he took off! SO we were left sitting alone in a Baiano´s house. Me and Sister Morales were cracking up...like the silent cracking up like...is this real? So funny! But he´s awesome, we just need to keep working with him!
Sunday was amazing. It was testimony meeting and Isabella bore s powerful and simple testimony and Presidente Araújo was there. Perfect. The spirit was so strong in the chapel. So many people after Isabella bore their testimonies and mentioned her and the Sisters. It was so amazing. Indescribable!
So, I didn´t get transferred! I get to stay here! But I don´t know who my companion is yet, hopefully she´s ready to work hard because we have a lot of work to do!!! I´m so excited. I love this ward and this area!!
Jenna - if you could get me Nathan Halls, Danielle Whipple and Alexa Betleys addresses that would be awesome. Facebook would probably work the best. And eanyone else that would like me to try to write them.
Other than that I´m working hard. Mission are really really really really hard but I keep on keeping on doing what I can...thats the key. Just keep going! I love you guys.
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU!
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Johnsons Baby
All I hear about here is HP7. An Irmão fixed our shower this morning and said he was going to see it with his kids. The 2 cutest Brazilian girls you´ll ever meet. I think they´re on the same level as Lynlee & Ellee....just Brazilian. I can´t wait to watch it when I get back. Me and Sister Morales were joking we should call Presidente Araújo and ask him to go see Harry Potter because of all the gospel related metaphors in the movie. Voldemort = Satan. Harry goes to the Spirit World and comes back. The Liahona (Harrys snitch) Tell Melissa, she´ll get it!
But the work is going great! I emailed mom and grandma Bowen about our investigators. Its so amazing to see the work move along. Its booming here in Brazil. We´re not running to appointments like mom heard, but we could really use splits to double our work! One thing, I´m gonna do when I get home is spoil the Missionaries! Rides, food, anything they want because I know what its like.
We can listen to uplifting music. Our new Presidente changed the rules because it used to be only MoTab except on PDay anything uplifting. It´ll probably change back to MoTab during the week though beacuse of how Elders interpret things....like seriously one Elder listened to Guns N Roses and told President Picket that is was uplifting to him...good ole Elders.
I can´t believe how many leaps and bounds Missions make you take. I can´t wait to see who I am when I am done with my Mission! Whenever you forget yourself to serve others you end up the more blessed one it seems like.
You´ll have to look up a Brazilian Hairdresser named Berto. I guess he´s really popular. He cut my hair today for free, because he´s a member and I´m a missionary. The perks huh? Also, I guess you need to put me on a Brazilian type Facebook called Orkut. So my ward members here and investigators can stay in contact with me. Whenever you have time. I know moms are crazy busy. By the way, are you pregnant? Just checking.
I can´t think of anything else specific I need. I have some shirts in my closet if they didn´t get sold I´d like. Those Target ones. They´re the same...white with grey polka dots and a plum colored one. You have the same kind I think. Other than that surprise me!
Thanks for writing. Don´t forget to tell my nieces how much I love them!!!! I love you guys too! Thanks for being great examples to me! LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU!!!!!!
Com amor,
Sister Kelsi Kate Johnson or Johnsons Baby as they call me here....like the shampoo.
But the work is going great! I emailed mom and grandma Bowen about our investigators. Its so amazing to see the work move along. Its booming here in Brazil. We´re not running to appointments like mom heard, but we could really use splits to double our work! One thing, I´m gonna do when I get home is spoil the Missionaries! Rides, food, anything they want because I know what its like.
We can listen to uplifting music. Our new Presidente changed the rules because it used to be only MoTab except on PDay anything uplifting. It´ll probably change back to MoTab during the week though beacuse of how Elders interpret things....like seriously one Elder listened to Guns N Roses and told President Picket that is was uplifting to him...good ole Elders.
I can´t believe how many leaps and bounds Missions make you take. I can´t wait to see who I am when I am done with my Mission! Whenever you forget yourself to serve others you end up the more blessed one it seems like.
You´ll have to look up a Brazilian Hairdresser named Berto. I guess he´s really popular. He cut my hair today for free, because he´s a member and I´m a missionary. The perks huh? Also, I guess you need to put me on a Brazilian type Facebook called Orkut. So my ward members here and investigators can stay in contact with me. Whenever you have time. I know moms are crazy busy. By the way, are you pregnant? Just checking.
I can´t think of anything else specific I need. I have some shirts in my closet if they didn´t get sold I´d like. Those Target ones. They´re the same...white with grey polka dots and a plum colored one. You have the same kind I think. Other than that surprise me!
Thanks for writing. Don´t forget to tell my nieces how much I love them!!!! I love you guys too! Thanks for being great examples to me! LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU!!!!!!
Com amor,
Sister Kelsi Kate Johnson or Johnsons Baby as they call me here....like the shampoo.
Friday, June 24, 2011
FYI
We recieved an email from Sister Johnsons mission president informing us that she arrived safely in Brazil and is going to be a great missionary! The address to send letters to is on the right side of the blog. ---->>
It is the address for her mission home. The mission president let us know P-Days are Mondays so we should hear from Sister Johnson this Monday. Thanks!
It is the address for her mission home. The mission president let us know P-Days are Mondays so we should hear from Sister Johnson this Monday. Thanks!
Monday, June 20, 2011
I'm In Brazil!
1st Letter from Brazil... On Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Hello everyone. just to start off my grammer and punctuation will be terrible because this keyboard is in portugues. anyways. how goes it? hope you are all doing good. grandma bowen emailed me about the cabin and the fire and such. sounds fun....but....i~m in brazil! yup. truth. or verdade, as we say here. so the São paulo ctm is completely different than provo. its really laid back and easy going and kind of annoying if youre planning on learning. the teachers are fun and awesome but they play around and easily get off task but its great. its a great change from provo.....did i mention i leave for the field on TUESDAY???? yes. because we~re getting a new mission pres they~re sending us a week early so it doesn~t get too crazy. so......thats crazy to hear the night that you arrive in brazil but i~m really really excited. i~m just ready to get out and start working for real! i haven~t met any north american sisters going to vitória yet so i bet ill have all brazilians comps until maybe im here long enought to train someone. so cool. my new district is amazing. its almost creepy how well i fit in here. elder spencer is dl and hilarious and amazing at the same time. elder pettitt, the one that hurt his ankle is here today but they still might not send him into the field for awhile. bummer. other than that life is life. we got to watch a dvd from provo of when dallin h oaks spoke at the mtc (the one i missed by a day). it was really good. i love hearing from the special witnesses of the Savior. OH. coolest part. duh. we went to the São paulo temple today. it was so gorgeous. we did an english session but part at the end was in portugues, except i did it in english. it was really neat to see that the gospel is the same every where! we have the truth. by the way, mom, have you talked to marilyn? how is she doing? in 4 minutes i will be walking the streets of são paulo. were eating with mauricio our teacher. i love him he talks like christopher walken and is a cute little chubby brazilian. hilarious. i~m excited. friday we~re going to a really busy part of são paulo to contact people. really awesome. so...next pday i~ll be in the field. crazy!!! heres my address: sister kelsi kate johnson/brazil vitoria mission/rua joão baptista parra, 633/salas 1501/1502 / edf. enseada office, enseada do suá/ 29052-1213 vitoria-es brazil .... the / are the next line, i cant figure out enter. love you guys so much, sister kelsi johnson!!!! ps the food here is hit and miss sometimes great sometimes not so great. its an adventure!!! as is life. love you guys!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
My Visa is READY!
My visa is ready but I don't know when I will actually be leaving for Brazil. I'll keep you posted and I've heard I can call you from the airport- we'll see.
We have been going to the temple on our P-day- Wednesday's. We eat breakfast there, it is so good. We have also been playing volleyball alot. Me and elder Pettit (who is about as tall as me) make a pretty good team. He has "mad hops" as Bowen would say. The Elders have finally figured out that I am a pretty good setter, so now they pass it to me to set them up for a spike. It has been fun.
Thank you to Cindy, Eryn and my cousins Bridon and Danner for writing to me. By the way, Bridon and Danner you guys have great handwriting. Thanks also to Jenna for keeping up my blog.
Russell M. Nielson came and spoke to us about obedience. Elder Anderson and Elder Nielson have both told us that we have the ability to call down the powers of heaven because of our callings as missionaries.
Apparently the week before I got here Elder Scott came and blessed everyone here with the gift of tongues, so I guess I "missed the boat" on that one. Please pray for me to received it.
I can't believe I have been here a month. I get scared when I think about going to Brazil, but I can't wait for the real work to begin. I can't wait to actually be teaching Real Brazilian people this wonderful gospel! So Amazing!
Love you all, Kelsi
We have been going to the temple on our P-day- Wednesday's. We eat breakfast there, it is so good. We have also been playing volleyball alot. Me and elder Pettit (who is about as tall as me) make a pretty good team. He has "mad hops" as Bowen would say. The Elders have finally figured out that I am a pretty good setter, so now they pass it to me to set them up for a spike. It has been fun.
Thank you to Cindy, Eryn and my cousins Bridon and Danner for writing to me. By the way, Bridon and Danner you guys have great handwriting. Thanks also to Jenna for keeping up my blog.
Russell M. Nielson came and spoke to us about obedience. Elder Anderson and Elder Nielson have both told us that we have the ability to call down the powers of heaven because of our callings as missionaries.
Apparently the week before I got here Elder Scott came and blessed everyone here with the gift of tongues, so I guess I "missed the boat" on that one. Please pray for me to received it.
I can't believe I have been here a month. I get scared when I think about going to Brazil, but I can't wait for the real work to begin. I can't wait to actually be teaching Real Brazilian people this wonderful gospel! So Amazing!
Love you all, Kelsi
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