Week Seventy Four.

Hello there everyone,

I hope that every one's week was amazing. This week here sure was. I can really see that all my hard wok here in the mission is paying off in this area. I can not express how grateful i am to be here in this place. I love the area, love the people, love my companion and everything else. I really love working here. This week some exciting new things happened. I will give the highlights on what happened. 

A miracle really happened this week. We were finally able to talk to an eternal investigator this week. She has been going to church for about a year but never was able to talk to the missionaries  because something always came up. We met with her Monday and asked her how she felt about Church, she then bore a beautiful testimony of the church and started crying, the spirit was super strong. We then at the end of the lesson invited her to be baptized for that same Saturday. She was shocked thought about it then said with tears in her eyes, alight, i accept. It was one of the best lessons i have ever had. We then met with her doing the week and got he ready for baptism. Her baptism had a bunch of people and she was feeling the spirit super strong. I was blessed to have the privilege to help her in this journey in her life. 

Yesterday evening there was a Regional Fireside about missionary work. President Lanius (our mission president) was giving the fireside with an area seventy, and invited Sister Harris and me to bare our testimonies about missionary wok]k. I was excited and super nervous at the same time. But we bore our testimonies and everything was great. A lot of people came to talk to me afterwards and ask me questions. President also asked us to sing the mission hymn that we have, but reverently for everyone. Wow that was interesting. Usually we scream and yell stuff for fun. So we got all messed up and half way through we forgot pat of the hymn, hahha, it was funny. But we carried on. But i loved hearing all the things that wee said and the animation of the youth that were prepping for missions that were there. It made me have a lot more animation for the work too. I am really excited and privileged to be a missionary now. And i want to try and give my all these weeks as I work.

I am continually working hard and trying to give my all to the wok of the Lord. Every day I come home more tired, more exhausted, more burnt and everything, but yet every day i am more proud of the wok that i am doing here and know that the Lord is pleased with me and the wok that i am doing here to help bring his children unto him. I am very grateful to be here serving the lord in this great force. 

I hope that everyone has a great week and that you can feel the Lord´s love with you.

Love you all,
Sister Rebecca Nelson

SHE'S COMING HOME.

  MISSIONARY TRAVEL

  BRAZIL RECIFE MISSION

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AMERICAN AIRLINES     02APR RECIFE PE      MIAMI FL       945A    510P

AA 220              TUESDAY GUARARAPES INT MIAMI INTL

V ECONOMY

           NON SMOKING      LUNCH/SNACK                   NON STOP

                            RESERVATION CONFIRMED         8:25 DURATION

               

                           

AMERICAN AIRLINES     02APR MIAMI FL       SEATTLE WA     855P    1240A

AA 563              TUESDAY MIAMI INTL     SEATTLE TACOMA         03APR    

V ECONOMY

           NON SMOKING      FOOD FOR PURCHASE             NON STOP

                            RESERVATION CONFIRMED         6:45 DURATION

Please feel free to come meet her at the airport! 
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Week Seventy Three.

Hello there everyone,

I am just dropping by a quick Hello. I have been trying to orginize things for school when i get back for registration and everything, so i ran out of time. But  thought that i would atlest drop by a quick hello.

This week was great! We had a miracle baptism. On Friday he informed us that he wanted to be baptized, and the baptism happened the next day! Everything went super smoothly too. We went to a retairment home this week with a member who works there. I really liked going there. There was this old lady that was a bit crazy and thought i was her granddaughter, and started crying when i left. We had a suprize birthday party for and investigator this week and made tacos!! 

We got alot of sun, sweat, and work done this week. We are continuing working hard every week and trying our best to serve the Lord. But that is a super fast recap of what happened this week. I hope all if well with everone.

But I will wirite more next week. I hope that everyone is well. Hugs for everyone!!!

Love,

Sister Rebecca Nelson

Week Seventy Two.

Hello there everyboday!!!

This week has been amazing. It has been a great new start for the end. But let me explain abit about where i am at right now. I am in the area Candeias, in the City Jadoatâo (which is right on the other side of recifie) Our area is right on the beach and you can see the beach from our house and smell the ocean air, I love it. There are a lot of building in our area, and one might think that this might be a challenge and hard. But this area truely is blassed. The ward is huge, there are a ton of members, and they are all super will to help. I would love to stay working here for a long time. And i am almost sad that i am only going to stay here for about a month. Sister Sampayo and I are kind of opening an area. There were sister and elders in this ward, but now there are 4 sisters, which is alot differnt for me, but its super great. But we are taking over what the Elders were doing here, their investigators and everything So this week we were a bit lost, but it was all good, wo still worked really hard. We dont live with the sisters in our area, but we eat lunch with them and everything. We live with 3 other Sisters in the zone, and live in their area, but its right on the side of our area. You can walk from one chaple to the other in about 20 mins. It truely is amazing!!! I love it all. I am just over filled with joy and excitment about the work here.

This week we have been working hard. We even had a nice day at the temple too that was nice and relaxing!!! But this week we have just been trying to invite everyone to be baptized. I love working with Sister Sampyo, we lived together and loved it, but working with her is amazing too. But we are now happyly preparing a lot of people to be baptized here in a little bit. It was amazing people who seemed to be eternal investigators we invited to be baptized and they all accepted. There were a ton of people and church that were visiting, I am just so happy with the work that is happening here.

I realized that now that i am heading onto the end of my mission I am truely able to apply EVERYTHING that i have learned here on the mission into reality. I feel now finally that i am becoming the missionary that i wanted to be and the one that the Lord has wanted me to become, it has just taken me a year and a half to do that. haha. But I am Truely greatful that i have this oportunity to serve our Lord. I am so excited about all the people who are now choosing to serve the Lord and the missions that are open. i just LOVE THE MISSION! And Excited to do this work!! I hope all is well with everyone!

Love,
Sister Rebecca Nelson

Week Seventy One.

Hello there everyone,

So guess what, today was transfer day, and guess who was transfered. I was. After serving 8 months in Várzea i left to go to my last area in my mission for my last transfer. When i found out the news i was pretty sad, because i wanted to finish my misison in the area i passed the most time, and where i knew the people. I was able to say good bye to a few people. Alot of the people in the ward were sad to see me go. But i know that the Lord really puts us where we need to go. I loved my time In Várzea and my time with Sister Menezes. We were able to learn alot of things together, and she because like my sister. Everything there will stay in my heart. My companions, the ward, the people, the experiences, the adventures, everything.

When i got to the transfer this morning i found out that i was going to be with Sister Sampyo, who i have already lived with her in my first area for 5 months, so i was pretty excited, we had a great time together. She´s from Argintina and is a blast. I am also living with 3 other Sisters, one of them is SIster Harris, my companion from the MTC. So we have quite an adventure in store for us this transfer. We are in a city right by the center of Recife, its on the beach. I dont know that much about the area right now, so i will let you guys know more next week.

The mission sure is like a the tides on the sand. THings come and go, but they all happen for a reason. There are the ups and downs, the friendships, and the conversions, and everything else that the mission has instore. But It all passes by super fast. I really can not believe that i am going into my last transfer, my last 6 weeks of my mission are starting now, and i still have so much to learn and do, but i have also learned more in this last year and few months then ever before. I truely love the mission for everything that it has instore for us. I am so eternaly greatful for our Heavenly Father that i have this oportunity to serve him, and be part of this great work. I know that he always blesses us in our lives and we can recieve the blessings from it, some times we cant see them but they are there.

Thank you for all of the support you guys give me and the missionary work. I hope everyone has a great week!

LOVE,
Sister Rebecca Nelson

Week Seventy.

Hello there everyone,

So this week has been a bit crazy. This week started the festivities of Carnaval, the biggest drinking, partying, ect. holiday in Brazil. So we have been having to come home early this wek to advoid anything and to avoid all the parties in the streets. (here they like to have their parties in the streets and everyone is drunk). And we are about half way through it, but tomorrow will be the worse day. But we will see what happens. really its been pretty tranquil, because most of the action happens down town, so everyone leaves our area to go there. But in the midst of all that we had a miracle happen a baptism. And everything this week seemed like it wa working against us to have this baptism. Everyone wanted to dismark it, move the date and gave every excuse in the book. All of it really did make sence, it was during the holiday, everyone was traveling, all the youth (the baptism was a Young Woman) were at EFY and everything seemed to go wrong. But Sister Menezes and I knew in our hearts that we wanted and needed to make this baptism work this week. We said a prayer one day and went out to solve all the problems and we could really see the Lords hand in our work, everything feel acording to plan. We got to the baptism and had some members who were a big help and helped us alot with the baptism, it was great.

In all this confussion Sister Menezes and I knew that it would be hard to work at the end of the week, so we set out strong at the begining of the week to try and accomplish our goals, and we were able to do it. WE were able to get our goals compleate at the beging of the week, because sure enough at the end of the week everything fell through and was hard to work like we wanted to. But all in all it was a great week. This week is the last week of this transfer. Trasfers are next Monday, so we will see for my last transfer if i will stay here or go to another area, we will see. But thank you everyone for your support and your love. Untill next week.

Sister Rebecca Nelson

Week Sixty Nine.

Hello there everyone,

So another week has passed by and we are now in February, and we all know hos fast February passes, it just flies right by. But this week was a great week. Sister Menezes and I were working really hard this week. This transfer gave us a new spark in our work and we have just been trying to blow things over here and working really hard. We have been really into setting goals and these types of things. So this week we had an interesting experiences, somethings earlier in the week kept falling through and we were not were we wanted to be, so we were praying alot and trying to excersie our faith. Then on Friday after lunch we decided to make contacts. In an hour we knocked 6 doors, for of them net us in and we were able to teach 4 lessons and find 7 new people to teach. We were truely greatful for the Lord and his helping hand in this work. Its funny to think sometimes that we are trying to sacrifice evrything that we have to do his will and his work, but yet even after all that, we need his help still, to get us through the day. But I am truely greatful the mercy and grace that he has for us.

This week we were then able to find alot of new people to teach. We are always trying to find new people and do our best in this work. We are really trying to live this missionary motto: help other come unto Christ. Sister Menezes work amazingly together because we are very similar, but sometimes thats a bad thing, because when one isn磘 bold the other one isn磘 either, when one doesn磘 want to take a leap, the other stayes behind too, haha. So we have been working on that to be bold and brave these weeks.We found a quote the other week from Emma Smith that we are using ``Do Something Extraordinary!创 That is our goal and that is what we are trying to do each and every day.

Thank you everyone for your support and your love. This missionary work is something that is growing and will continue to grow and i am greatful to be a part of it. I love the mission and I love my Savior and i know that he loves each and everyone of us. I hope that everyone has a great week.

Love,
Sister Rebecca Nelson