Brazilian Family!!

Hey y'all!!
Well this week was wild haha, We found a Brazilian family to teach and I’m so excited about it, They are from Sao Paulo, I was sooo excited!!!!!! This week I start my last full transfer so that is crazy to think my mission is officially ending...... Our puzzle has had a lot of success, tons of people came up to us at church yesterday wanting to share their missionary experiences and put their puzzle piece on. We were so excited! Members are soooo important in missionary work! We also go the transfer calls this week! My companion will be leaving, and my new companion’s name is Sister Heap, I’m so excited to meet her. Sister Palmer and I will get to hangout at BYU so that will be fun too! Well our teaching pool really grew this week and we are excited! I love you all and I hope you all have a great week!!!
Love, Sister Peine

Become as a Little Child

Hey everyone I don't have much time but I promise that next weeks email will be more exciting! It rained everyday this week haha LOTS of rain and humidity, my hair looks super great haha!! We had a hard time finding new people but our friends Alex and Gwen from the Philippines came to church again so that as exciting! I just love them so much, no matter what is going on or the problems they have they are just so happy. I was also reading some talks this week from President Nelson and I noticed how much he says he loves kids, and I love how in the Book of Mormon it actually tell us to be more like children...meek submissive, humble, patient, and it goes on (Mosiah 3:19. ) I love that scripture because even if we are are adults or older in age we can still have a spirit like a child. Through the atonement of Christ!! It makes me so grateful for the atonement! So I hope you all notice those attributes of little kids around you and try to be more like them. I think we can actually learn a lot from them haha! We;; I love you all and I hope you have a great week!! Te amo!!
Love, Sister Peine

Visit from the Prophet

Hey everyone, So this week we saw the prophet so you could say it was a pretty great week! We also got to go to the Orlando temple which was so fun. I love temples so so much! A lot of our appointments fell through this week but we still worked really hard. We also spoke in church, I spoke on how through small and simple things are great things brought to pass.... Then related it to the gathering of Israel and how we are all small and simple pieces of a much bigger picture then explained a small activity we are wanting to do with the ward. We made a cool puzzle poster for our ward to help see how much work we are getting done, my idea was inspired by a cool quote I heard, "When performance is measured performance improves...When performance is measured and reported the rate of improvement accelerates." So I will send pictures but basically when they do something off the list we gave them they get to put a puzzle piece on the puzzle and get a small piece of chocolate then when the puzzle is finished we will have a ward BBQ. I hope that made sense, haha I will send some pictures, but we are excited and the ward seems really excited about it too so its gonna be great!! We are also doing a 40 day fast with the ward for missionary work each day a different person fasts for strengthening and growing the ward. We also saw the prophet at a HUGE stadium in Orlando, we were also pleasantly surprised when the members that gave us a ride picked us up in a Tesla, haha it was such a nice car (I'm not in Brasil anymore) I will send some pics!! There were a couple of missions there and thousands of members! It was amazing, President Nelson is truly called of God. I also love how much him and Elder Utchdorf (who was also there) love their wives. They are so cute!! They talked about the importance of inviting people to come and see! I hope y'all are inviting everyone to be a part of the gospel every chance you get! Three powerful words that can change lives "come and see" so invite!! Love y'all have a great week!!!
Love, Sister Peine

Eating Pigs Ears!

Hey y’all, well this week was an interesting one, ha ha we met a lot of unique people I guess you could say! One of my favorite things about serving a mission is the different people you meet. Especially here in Florida because they come from all over the world. We didn't find very many new people to teach this week but we did have some solid lessons with Gwen, Alex, and Errick!! I just love them all so much! Gwen and Alex are from the Philippines and they are the happiest people I have ever met, they also really love making us Filipino food so that's been a good time. Haha like last night we got to eat pig ear......... it was kinda like chewing on a balloon full of pretzels or something I dont know quite know how to describe it. Haha different for sure, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. We did a lot of finding this week and working hard!! Next week we get to go to the Orlando Temple for zone conference and then on Sunday we are going back to Orlando to a huge stadium that president Nelson will be speaking at!! Its going to be an exciting week!! We also got our 72 hour kits packed up because its hurricane season here, hopefully we don’t actually have to use them though, Haha! Well that's it for my week, I'm excited for next week! I hope you're all making your scripture study happen, each day I've noticed that sometimes I just read to read so this week I really made it a goal to read with a question or a purpose and genuinely study the stories and it was cool to see how much I could get out of it even if it was just for 20 minutes before I went to sleep! I hope y’all are reading with a purpose or a question and if you’re not I challenge you to do it and then write down what you learned after each study! He truly can speak to us through his words, the scriptures! I love them!!! And I love all you, have a great week!!
Love, Sister Peine
Quotes of the week:
"Yeah I speak 2 languages too!! Hillbilly and English"
" I was just curious if y’all have 6 wives, because I am a one woman man!! I can’t handle more than that!!"😂😂😂