Camera Down my Throat!

Hello everyone,
I hope you are all doing fantastic!!! This week was a good one, we found a huge group of children that we started teaching! They listen to our lessons and then afterward we play hide and seek in the street with them, haha its a good time! Little kids make me so happy and they are actually really good listeners and understand more than a lot of the people who are higher in age that we are teaching! I also had to go to the doctor, and a ENT specialist this week because my throat keeps swelling. The ENT specialist shoved a camera up my nose and pushed it down my throat becaused my throat is swelling up so that wasn't a good time but my companion got to see the inside of my nose and throat and said it was super cool so at least someone enjoyed it! The dr. also numbed my nose and I couldnt feel my nose at all for a hot minute, I felt like Valdamore off of Harry Potter for a couple days so that was an interesting experience.... they think I have an allergy to something and gave me some medicine so I'm sure I'll be good as new in no time. It also rained a lot this week so much that it rainded inside our house! I think someone is coming to fix that tonight! We also found a lot of new people to teach this week that we are super excited about and a lot of people who are progressing very well, I love watching people change as they come to know our Savior, Jesus Christ. Well thats all I can remember for now but I love you all and hope you have a great week!!!

Picts....
we live with this Irmao and the top of his house has an incredible view, he had a birthday this week so we made him a cookie cake,the kids we are teaching and some other nice pics

Crazy Bus ride!

Well this week was a great week! We have been visiting a lot of less actives and finding tons of new people to meet through visiting the less actives. We are still teaching a lot of families right now and we are really excited about them and they are all progressing very well and have dates to be baptized! This week me and my companion took the wrong bus and got a little lost...... so we ended up taking lots of different buses, well the last bus we took was interesting...... the bus driver told us he was going to take a different route to save time, well he didn't know this route and we ended up going over a giant speed bump at around 60mph, my head skimmed the top of the bus......I'm pretty sure the entire bus caught air and me and my companion have got some nice bruises but it could have been worse and No pain no gain...... then he got lost and we ended up having to go in reverse down the entire street with me backing him out so he didn't run into other cars...... but we ended up making it back to our areas so all is well! Well I'm doing great and still loving it here in Brasil! I love being able to have the Salvadors name with me everywhere I go and tell everyone how amazing he is! I love our Salvador and I know that he lives and there is now other place I would rather be than here in Brasil serving our savior! I love you all and I hope you have a great week.
Love, Sister Peine
p.s. Today for p-day we went to see the monkeys with our district again, it was a lot of fun!!!

Getting Members Involved in Missionary Work

Hello everyone!

This week was a really good week! We had a lot of answers to prayers. We finally had lots of investigators in church Sunday and it made my heart so happy to see them there so if you prayed for them thank you because it worked and they are all marked for baptism which is super exciting! We worked really hard and have been trying to work more with the members and help them be more excited about missionary work! I love our ward a lot, they are so cute! We are now trying to work better with the ward because I think they want to help they just don't know how so we started a game... we write their names on a piece of paper and then below it says "Another way you can show the Lord you love him," and then on the inside it has a list of things they can do to help us and help our investigators feel welcome and like family at church so I hope that will help them. We are going to start giving them to each member of each family when we have lunch with them.....a lot of the members are kinda scared to just be friends and talk about the gospel with strangers, but some of them help.....they are slowly helping more and more, our bishop is super good and always says tons of things he will do to help, for example.....Sunday he said he would give us a car ride to pick up an investigator because he has diabetes and can't walk very far but then the bishop forgot so we ended up walking but that's okay, I think we just have to train them on how they can help!
This week I started the Book of Mormon again and have been marking where it says one of the names of Jesus Christ or Heavenly Father as part of President Nelson's challenge that he made! I never realized how many times the Book of Mormon says their names! It has really helped me understand how big of a part the Lord plays in literally everything! Being able to see how he plans everything and understand just a tiny tiny bit of how he plans is amazing! I also hit 8 months in the mission this week which blows my mind...it has passed by sooooooooo fast! It has for sure been hard but I wouldnt change it for anything! I'm doing great and I love training, my companion is amazing and I feel like Im learning more than I'm teaching! We had transfers today and I will be staying with my companion to finish her training and I'm so excited. I love you all and hope you all have an amazing week!
Love, Sister Peine

Monkeys!

This week was amazing, and today I SAW MONKEYS!!! This week we did a lot of work with the area book and a lot of finding. We aslo taught Matheus, Vanesaa, João, Leila, and Alechandre. They are all progressing very well and I love them a lot! It's crazy how much you can love someone you barley know when you pray for them so much! We also had a meeting with our bishop and we had a lot of ideas to strengthen the ward that we are excited about! The feild is truly white and ready to harvest here in Vila Virginia! I also loved conference with all of my heart, the saturday session I watched all in Portuguese and understood everything but they don't always say the same thing in the translation as they do in real life so sometimes a couple of things didn't make sense but none the less it was super good and then on Sunday we were watching and one of the girls in our ward came up to me and gave me headphones attached to her phone playing general conference live in English so I got to watch the Sunday session in English and it was good to hear their voices. All of general conference was so good! I'm also super stoked there will be another temple so close to Leeds. This week I have been studying Dilegencia for the Christ like attributes...and I have really learned the if we are diligent in what we are doing we are going to be blessed with the satisfaction of knowing we did our very best! Diligence is a heavenly virtue so I challenge you all to be more diligent in everything you do but especially with studying the Book of Mormon! Every single time that I read, without fail, I find an answer.....from a book that was written thousands of years ago. I know with all of my heart that it is true and is the most perfect book on the face of the earth and that God gave it to us because he loves us! We can show him that we love him by using it, studying it, pondering on what we learned.......I always tell our investigators that we talk with our Heavenly Father through prayer and that one of the many ways he can talk to us is through the Book of Mormon! I love the Book of Mormon a lot and I'm so glad I can be hear in Brasil to give it to as many people as I can!
Today we went to a nature park and we saw a bunch of cool animals, I will try and send some pics but I'm doing amazing and loving it here in Brasil....I love you all and I hope you are doing amazing! Have a great week!
(I have lots of funny stories but I always forget them so I will write them down and sent them next week)
Love, Sister Peine