Same Area, New Companion - December 12
hola friends and family! I hope you`re all enjoying your holiday season, because I definitely am!
Hermana
Rosas had transfers this week, leaving me to take over the area!! I was
SO nervous and anxious to have control but everything is going SO well!
My new companion is Hermana Wright! She`s from Riverton, Utah and I
love her to pieces! My Spanish is going to suffer this transfer, but now
my prayers will just be that much more meaningful! Hahah but I
seriously am SO excited to work with her and just learn more from her!!
My
week was good! I was mostly just showing Hna. Wright the new area and
everything! She`s such a great missionary!!! But omg, so we were walking
in Caxaque this week, and this high, drunk guy was watching the soccer
game, and he turned around and he took his arm out of his jacket and he
was holding a PIGEON. And he just raised it to the sky and I gave him a
thumbs up and he gave me a thumbs up back WITH THE PIGEON IN HIS HAND. I
don`t know why, but it was thee funniest thing I`ve ever seen. Like he
had a cigar in his right hand, and his pigeon in his left hand. Hahah oh
gosh, I love Guatemala.
Random
people continue to yell `Gringas!!!!` at us and we just yell back
`Chapina!!!` so really it`s only fair right?? Haha but I seriously love
Guatemala.This entire country is just an amazing experience in general!
If anyone wants to come visit with me, you are ALL welcome to come with
me ;)
We`re already seeing miracles in this
area and I`m so grateful for my Father in Heaven. I know that prayer is
so real and that God has a special plan for each and every one of us!
Never forget to thank God for all of the thousands of blessings in your
life! This month is such a great opportunity to serve the people around
you because it`s exactly what Jesus Christ did during his life on earth!
Give back and the blessings with fall upon you!
I`m so thankful for my family and for the support from each of you!
Love you and pray to Our Heavenly Father,
Xoxo,
Hermana Pereira
Christmas is Cominggggg!!! - November 28
Hi
everyone! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and an even better Black
Friday! ;) Both holidays are nothing here BUTTT great news, we celebrated
Thanksgiving with President Goodman and his wife! And even better, every single
one of us got SUPER sick from the turkey because they stuffed the turkey with
semi-cooked pork and my absolute fav, hot dogs! Hahah, it was an interesting
day, that´s for sure!
Sadly, we
didn´t have the baptism for Erick and Oraida, BUT Presidente came with us and
he straightened a couple things out so we´re hoping and praying for the best
and a great miracle this weekend! BUT I made tamales this week and pachas!
Pachas are super super delicious and they´re basically just tamales but potato
and AHHH it was so fun! I love cooking with the members and investigators, it´s
such a fun experience!!
We had
Stake Conference this weekend and WOW it was SO powerful! We had a member of
the 70 come and speak to us and it was just such a great experience! It´s even better
that I could understand most of it! I´m SUPER happy with my progress and the
amount of things that I´ve learned in just 3 and half months!
OH!
Everyone PLEASE go onto Mormon.org and watch the new Christmas video for the
Church! It is seriously the BEST thing I´ve ever seen! There´s a 25 days
challenge that every missionary is doing (and every member and non-member)
should do this Christmas season! It´s such a great opportunity to do service
and come unto Christ this holiday!!
I love this
work and I love growing and meeting new people everyday and I´m SO thankful for
this opportunity to be a missionary in Guatemala! Love you all and love this
gospel beyond words!
Xoxo,
Hermana Pereira
Happy 3 Months - November 21
Celebrated 3 months in the mission this week! It so crazy how fast time flies when you´re busy doing the Lord´s work everyday! I´m seriously SO happy here, it´s actually so wonderful being so distracted by so many amazing things! I´m learning more and more everday and I couldn´t be happier with my progression and everything in between!
This
week went by super quick! We moved houses at the beginning of the week
and WOW our house is so nice! :´) We have the sweetest neighbors and the
church is actually our backyard! And that´s such a blessing when you
have early morning church!
My companion and I
continue to be best friends which actually makes the work 300% better!
We just work SO well together and we´re always thinking the exact same
things!
We had my first multi-zona this week
and WOW it was SO powerful! The leaders in my mission are so in tune
with the Spirit and just gave such great advice for each and every one
of us! It was super super hot, which was good and bad because 1, I miss
the heat, but 2, I was sweating so much because I´ve been in Soche for
too long! I seriously love the cold now!
We had
a baptism this week! But the only thing is that it didn´t count for us
because her dad is a member, but he´s less active! But Hermana Rosas and
I are just counting her as ours in our hearts! ;) It´s so cute seeing
little kids come unto Christ! I love seeing their change in literally an
hour! The Holy Ghost touches our lives in such great ways!
Well,
I love my life here in chilly Guatemala more and more every single day!
I love sharing the gospel with the cute people here and I love meeting
more and more people who are ready to have the light of Christ in their
lives!
I´m so grateful for you guys, your
support and smiles are felt from miles and miles away! Just know that
each of you have a gringa friend in Guatemala cheering you on through
all of your trials!
xoxo,
Hermana Pereira
Lame Week, But I Attempted to Milk a Cow - November 21
The highlight of my week was trying to attempt to milk that cow... it didn´t have milk... or I just really don´t know what I was doing... Honestly, it was probably because I didn´t know what I was doing but like I´m a missionary and I try new things everyday!!
Really
nothing too cool this week! Our investigators are super sweet and
continue to show interest in the gospel! The kids are FINALLY getting
baptized on Wednesday! Which is an absolute miracle because a coupl
weeks ago they said they had to wait a super long time because of their
aunt! So wish us luckk this week as we try to sucessfully go throughout
this week!
Our cute little jovenes (youth) are
doing SO great! I love working with them so much because I feel like I
can just relate to literally all of their questions and trials and
everything in between! We´re really trying to focus on the kids and what
they need in their life!!
I´m super lame at
emails when nothing awesome happens during the week!! BUT just know that
I LOVE my life here SO much. I really don´t think that I´ve ever been
this happy in my entire life! Everything about Guatemala is so eye
opening and I just love my life SO much! I love hearing from all of you
and your families! Your little weekly updates make me smile and I hope
you know that you´re always in my heart! I´m super super happy with
happiness that this gospel brings to everyone in their lives!
I love you all and que Dios les bendiga :)) (everyone here is catholic or evangelico so everything is about God and I love all of the little frases here hahah)
xoxo,
hermana pereira
