It’s been a while! There are quite a few things that happened these past few weeks but I’ll just share the goods!!
Two weeks ago, Sister Horner and I welcomed Sister Perez to the mission. She was reassigned here from the Brazil Salvador Mission!! It is such a nice feeling to talk to someone in Portuguese, you guys. She lived with my people for 6 months, so she is teaching me the new slangs from the past 5 years since I left Brazil. So refreshing.
Also, get this, since there are so many missionaries reassigned from Portuguese-speaking missions around here, President Dunnigan decided to open two Portuguese areas in the mission!!! One for elders and one for the sisters and he asked us to open it in Moorestown!!! So for the past two weeks we have been working with Woodstown and figuring things out to share the gospel with the Brazilian community around here. Since this week are trasnfers again with new missionaries, on Friday we were informed Sister Horner is going back to Delaware and it will just be Sister Perez and I. I’ll miss the trio but just like President Dunnigan said, ” the Lord needs her elsewhere”.
Talking about Pres, we called him on Saturday to ask some questions about the guidelines we need to follow in our new portuguese facebook page, and he hits us with “sisters, how do you feel about moving apartments?”. WHAT?! He told us that part of transfers this week Sister Perez and I will be leaving Woodstown as well!!! We are kicking some eldest out of their apartment in Moorestown because they live in a brazilian community. Crazy huh?! Even during self isolation we will have more opportunities to talk to people around the area whenever we go to the supermarket or places like that. I am so excited!!!
Also, nothing much is happening around here. We were not able to teach many people here in the past 2 months but I am so glad I got to serve the members in this wonderful area. I didn’t get to meet most of them because we haven’t had church since I got here, but I love the ones I did. There are so many great people that I will miss.
Great memories as well! We had a frozen chicken in our freezer that we decided to make for the 4th of July. Lil video included down below 😁
Sad to say goodbye to good friends. Marvin is one of them. He is a convert who is a so devoted and has so much love and appreciation for the Atonement of Jesus Christ! Since he started meeting with the missionaries 2 years ago, he changed his life COMPLETELY from being part of a gang and so many other things, to doing his best to be worthy of having the priesthood and the spirit in his life. I will miss him dearly. He is so talented and for the time I was here, he made me and my companions beautiful drawings.
It’s been a good ride and I loved every peace of it! I am so grateful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ and for the love that he has shown me through his other faithful servants. I know my Savior lives and that I can become like him one day. Charity is a virtue that has to be nourished everyday. It is the pure love of Christ. His atonement was pure and paid in full.
“If a man be meek and lowly in heart, and confesses by the power of the Holy Ghost that Jesus is the Christ, he must needs have charity; for if he have not charity he is nothing;” – Moroni 7:44-45
To have charity means a lot of things, to love, to forgive, to be peaceful, trustworthy, faithful, strong, and it also means to be humble enough to ask for forgiveness. Change is possible.
“The Lord loves effort”
It’s true and I love you and I love my Savior.
Sister Santos
315 Lippincott Ave. 2nd floor
Riverside, NJ 08075
- P. Dunnigan got us with some fireworks this weekend. Respect for that man!!
- Marvin!!!
- That Guarana to make things even better ❤
- We went to the Bowman’s three times for sacrament and I absolutely love them! Such great people 💕
- Happy forth from the trio
- A chicken!!