First Week

Hello everyone!! The CTM is going good!! It has been one of the longest weeks of my entire life but I have grown so much closer to Christ and I know that I am supposed to be here!! The flight was really long but I made a new friend and had a lot of time to think. I don´t know where to start and I am almost out of time, so some exciting things that happened; an elder in my zone ate 23 rolls at lunch to win a bet that he could not make it to 25. He threw up at 23 so that was interesting. Today we went to the temple, we drove in a little van and I was terrified for my life the whole way. I prayed most of the way, it was like being a bee and navigating our way through a beehive but none the less it was worth it and the temple was amazing. A CRAZY thing happened, I saw someone I knew from high school! He is in the Sao Paulo west mission which is also where the temple is. I happened to be standing at the front gate when he walked past in a rush to get to a lesson. His name is elder Smith aka Tobin Smith. We were friends in high school so that was super crazy!! No on here speaks English not even the teachers so learning the language is very hard and also sometimes lonely so I would love letters!! I'm sorry if you wrote me personally and I didn´t write you back. They give us no time here and I´m about to get kicked off! this week has been very hard but I know it will get better and I feel comfort everyday. The Lord is so amazing and so is his plan!! I love you all and hope you're doing great. Have a great week and I will talk to you next Friday. Keep the emails coming, I love them!
Love, sister Peine

I'm Alive!!!

Well the 10 hour flight was interesting..... I´ve never been on a plane that long before but it wasn´t that bad I got to sleep pretty good, I sat next to a really nice Brazilian guy on the plane and he spoke really good english which was really lucky because not many people on that plane spoke english, He had never heard of the LDS chuch before and he wanted to know why I was coming here for a year and a half so I explained it to him a little bit and then he watched a movie and did different things. I had a book of mormon in my backpack When he fell asleep I wrote my testimony in it because he said he loved reading in english and after the 10 hour flight as we were getting off I worked up the courage to give it to him and tell him that book was one of the reasons I flew half was across the world and that I wanted to give it to him if he wanted it and he was SO happy to get it he thanked me like 4 times so I hope he actually reads it but I was glad he acepted it and that I got to give one to someone on the plane because that was my goal!! The MTC is a lot smaller than I thought it was going to be and I have only been here like 10 minutes. My pday will be on Fridays but not this Friday because of today so don´t worry but I made it safe and Brazil is Beautiful and so far the people are so kind and loving. I´ll talk to you next friday and I love you so so much.

Love, Sister Peine