The World Cup

Hello Everyone,

Sorry my email was pretty lame last week. It was transfer day and my companion got transferred so I spent almost my whole day at the train station waiting with all the elders to receive our new companions and then didn't have very much time to write so this week I'm gonna step my email game up. This week was SO good! I was actually really nervous to show my area because Brasil is kinda like a GIANT maze but this week went a lot better than I thought it would. My new companion's name is sister Peres. She is from Mahaws (the amazon.) When I first met her she seemed super shy and told me how she was a ballerina but within a day I saw her true self haha, she's crazy, but a good crazy....she's hilarious! She told me she's going to help me become a true Brazilian so every night she teaches me the music of Brasil and Brazilian cha-chas that go along with them! She's so funny and we are pretty much already best friends and have already made plans for her to come to Utah to meet my dog and go to Lake Powell (her life goal is to go to Lake Powell because all her American companions told her about it) her name is Kamylla Peres and I'm super excited for this transfer. We have lots of work to do! She has 13 months in the mission so she's way close to going home! I miss sister Enout a lot because we were super good friends too. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard than when I was with her. She is now companions with my CTM companion, sister Adams! Anyways, this week with sister Peres and my last week with sister Enout were full of miracles! The Lord really is always helping us so much! This week we taught a lot of people and worked really hard! We are still teaching Penha and trying to help her mom Zilda get her answer for baptism. She is all ready but she's just a little nervous to leave her other church so we are going to work with her a lot this week. I love visiting them though. They are so funny. We taught them yesterday and I invited them to share their testimony and a little about the church with a friend and Penha jumped up and ran to get her Book of Mormon because she wanted to share her testimony with us first! She told us how the night before her baptism she was super nervous about her decision so she took the Book of Mormon, said a prayer that God could confirm her answer then opened to a random page and the first scripture she saw was Mosiah 26:14-15 that says, "And it came to pass that after he had poured out his whole soul to God, the voice of the Lord came to him saying; (and this is how she read it) blessed art thou, Penha and blessed are they who were baptized in the waters of mormon. Thou art blessed because of thy exceeding faith in the worlds alone of my servants sister Peine and sister Enout" And then went on to tell us that's when she knew she needed to be baptized in the waters of mormon and the rest of her testimony and let me tell ya I have never been so happy to be a servant of the Lord! The Lord is so amazing and is helping us so much. We also made some cool new investigators this week who came to church! Jose who is 19 came to a baptism with us (our elders had a baptism) and he really liked it and told us he was going to need to stop smoking because he wants to be baptized and we hadn't even taught the word of wisdom yet! And then Manuel, he's in his 60's, we met him on the street making contacts and we gave him a pass along card and invited him to church like we do with everyone but he didn't seem to be interested so we weren't expecting to see him at church! But he showed up Sunday morning all by himself so that was a miracle and we are really excited to work with him! He called us this morning to see how we were doing and to let us know he considers us as children now so if we need anything to give him a call lol! Well those are some of the highlights this week! Oh yeah the world cup started this week and everyone is pretty excited down here! The streets are all decorated and painted. The people of Brasil have got some serious team spirit! Yesterday Brasil had their first game so sister Peres, Elder Villqcreses, Elder Juarez and I all wore our Brasil jerseys under our button up shirts to church lol. I'll attach the picture! We saw a lot of the game at a members house at lunch, they tied so that was anticlimactic! We still work during the world cup but that will change depending on how crazy the people get haha! Everyone is always watching the games so we get to watch a lot just by being on the streets! Well that's all for this week. Oh yeah, I hit 4 months in the mission on the 13th so that was nice! My companion surprised me with a piece of cake. She cut up a bunch of papers to make confetti and then right as I woke up she threw them at me (it actually scared me really bad, haha) and serenaded me with all 6 verses of some anniversary song that she knew and performed a birthday dance hahaha. It was a nice way to wake up at 6:30 a.m. Ha! Well that's about all that I can think of for this week! A mission is the best thing ever and I'm just a happy camper to be here in Brasil and be a small part of the Lord's work. I hope you are all reading the Book of Mormon with a question in mind every single day. I love you all and I hope you have a fabulous week! Ate proxima semana.

Love, Sister Peine
p.s. I hope you are all rooting for Brasil VAI BRASIL...kkk, eu amor todos votes

New companion

Kayla didn't have time to write a group email this week so I'm just posting the one she wrote me (her mom)

Today sister Enout was transferred and I have a new companion, I only met her 30 minutes ago and I'm super nervous what will happen without sister Enout because now I have to show my new companion the area! today I traveled on the train all by my self and it was the weirdest feeling ever and I cried because I was so scared. hahaha but my leader of the district came to wait with me at the train station for my new companion!! He is my "dad" in the mission and he is very kind! I'm really nervous to not have sister Enout but I think everything will be okay and I know the area good enough to show my companion! this week was really good and we have a lot of people to teach! Sorry I didn't write a group email I didn't have very much time, we stayed up really late packing sister Enout's things because a lot of things changed last minute and she ended up being transferred, we didn't think she would be, she will be companions with sister Adams, sister Adams was my companion in the CTM so thats cool!! I promise my email next week will be better, I will have more time to write!! I love you sooooo much momma!
I will send pictures in a little!! Love you momma!!!! Have the best week ever!!
love, Bay

Marriage Proposal, Baptism's and Miracles

Hello Everyone!!!

I hope you all had an AMAZING week! My week was WILD, I do not even know where to begin.... I will start with the weird and end with the good! So our investigator Rogerio asked me to marry him using an app on his phone that turns Portuguese into English and speaks with an electronic robot voice...I always pictured the first time someone would ask me to marry them would be in the mountains or at a temple or some place real nice....but I mean the voice of some strange version of siri from a cell phone sitting in the young womens room with my companion was a close 2nd!!!Ha ha ha! He assured us that it was just a joke but that if I said yes he was down! So that was weird and long story short he is no longer our investigator and his neighborhood is no longer included in our area. But the good news is this next week is the last week of my training and the GREAT news is... We had 2 baptisms this week!!!! Penha was one of the baptisms so a little back story on her and how we found her...It was my first or second week in the field when sister Enout and I were walking to an appointment from lunch. We took a little dirt road as a short cut and as we were walking a car started to pass us and just as it got in front of us it died so jokingly I turned to sister Enout saying how God killed the car for us so we could make another contact. We walked to the car to ask if he needed help. He told us no because he needed men to push his car to a house or somewhere where he could get gas, (little does he know we do push-ups now) so we told him we were going to try anyway and ended up pushing his car a good 8 blocks while he steered! Then when we were about to leave I gave him a pass along card and with the help of sister Enout we got his information and scheduled a day we could teach him a lesson and when we went to teach him his entire family was waiting and that is how we met Penha! For almost the past month and a half we have been teaching Penha and Zilda (Penha's mom) and the rest of the family. The rest said they will go to church someday when they feel they are ready but they still sometimes join in and listen to our messages so maybe one day! Two weeks ago we found out that Zilda's brother is a member of the church, he served a mission and everything so we kept telling them they should call him and tell him how they were taking the missionary lessons but they told us how they hadn't talked to him in over 2 years so they weren't going to. Then on Friday night (the day before Penha's baptism out of nowhere Penha's uncle (the member) sent her a message asking if they could stop by and say hello (after 2 years without communication) they ended up talking with him for 2 hours and inviting him to the baptism!! It was truly such a miracle! Me and sister Enout were both shocked when they told us the story. The baptism was AMAZING and Penha's aunt bore her testimony about baptism and how the gospel brings families together. The spirit was soooo strong. It was a bit of an eye opener for sister Enout and I of how much God is helping us in His amazing work! Then on Sunday we had Laura's baptism which was another miracle because she could have been baptized a month ago but she needed the permission of her mom and for almost 4 months her mom has said no, but her mom came to church for the first time last Sunday and after church the I asked her thoughts on Laura being baptized and she FINALLY said yes! Saturday night when we went to prepare the font with our zone leaders we found that the water was no longer draining because the pump that sucks the water out was broken! But the water was all dirty because when the pump broke it pushed a bunch of dirt into the system so we all stayed there very late that night emptying the font by buckets, cleaning the fount and then filling it for Laura's baptism at 8 a.m. the next morning! That was a little stressful but a member that lives right next to the church, Irma Gilmara saw us and told us to come to her house to eat food while we waited for the font to fill because it takes almost 3 hours but we all had a pretty good time and the baptism made it all worth it! data-original-height="640" /> We still haven't figured out the font problem so I think we will be emptying the font by bucket again tonight and then hopefully fixing it! This week was the best week in the mission yet! Next week we will have transfers again on Monday and we are almost positive sister Enout will be transferred considering she has almost 7 months in this area (her first area) so I will keep you posted on what happens! I love you all and I hope you are taking time to purposefully read the Book of Mormon every single day! Have an amazing week and ate proxima semana.

Con amor, Sister Peine

Upcoming baptisms

This week was amazing! We started out the week with divisions in Mogi Centro which is the interior of Sao Paulo. It is SO beautiful there and I was super pumped to see mountains! I was companions with sister Ohgutuama for the day. She is from Cape Verde Africa so it was fun to hear about whee she lives. She's way cool and told me I have to come visit her in a couple of years and she'll give me a tour of her island. She's hilarious and we are pretty much best friends now! Their apartment complex has a tennis court (which is the first tennis court I've found here) so one of these p-days they want me to teach them tennis and I'm stoked! Some other things that happened this week, we taught SO many lessons! We are still teaching Penha and Zilda, they came to church for the 4th time this week. Their baptismal date is this Saturday so keep them in your prayers! I'll let you know what happens next week! We have also been teaching a 9 year old named Laura since I got here. She has been going to church the past 4 months and has wanted to be baptized since her first Sunday but her mom doesn't want her to be baptized! So we have been trying to teach her mom and get her to come to church and after 4 months of missionaries inviting her she finally came yesterday! She and I are buddies now so we are hoping she will say yes and Laura can be baptized Saturday as well! We had 6 investigators at church yesterday so that was amazing and a couple less active families that showed up as well! We are visiting a lot of less actives and helping reactivate them! This week we made a bunch of new investigators but one of them is a lot more interested than the others, her name is Maria! We gave her the Book of Mormon lesson yesterday and it went really well, she's super excited for her next lesson AND she has 2 stinking cute dogs that sat on my lap the whole lesson and slept! I'm excited to teach her again and play with her dogs LOL! Another thing that happened is the trucks that transport gasoline here in Brazil decided they aren't going to transport gasoline until the prices go down, this has been going on for almost a week now so the buses have stopped running and now everyone is walking but its starting to affect mail systems because the people who deliver it all don't have gas and even some airports.... I hope they figure it out before I need to come home in 15 months or I might just have to stay here and eat churros forever! It's also starting to get pretty cold sometimes so today for P-day we went shopping with our Sister training leaders to buy some warmer clothes so that as a ton of fun! This week we were also told that we were invited to a devotional with Quentin L. Cook for all the missionaries in the Sao Paulo East Mission on Wednesday but then today we got a call saying it was cancelled, so that was super anti-climatic. We think it has something to do with the gas problem. Well that's all I can think of that happened this week! It was a really good week and we worked really hard, the language is coming along, still far from perfect but I'm starting to be able to talk a lot more! I love this gospel and I love watching people's lives change because of it! Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are truly perfect and I'm honored to represent them and be a part of this amazing work. I love you all and I hope you are taking time to read the Book of Mormon every single day! Hope you all have an amazing week. I'll see you all in about 14 months, haha. Ate Proxima semana, Beijo!

Love, sister Peine

Now I'm a Wedding Caterer!

Hello Everyone!

This week was one of the best and worst weeks here but over all it was a good week because this is the work of JOY, the Lord's work! This week we had Rogerio on date for baptism on the 19th(Sat) so we worked with him every single day this week and when we left him Friday night he had just passed his interview with our district leader and was all sorts of excited to be baptized the next day! The next day we got everything ready for the baptism and even made 2 cakes. We tried calling him but he kept ending the call and then turned off his phone so we thought he was working and continued working on preparing everything. We even went to his house to make sure everything was o.k. but no one was there. We waited at the church at 7 p.m. with everything ready. After 3 members going to his house and MANY phone calls we gave up and to cheer up we ate both of the cakes and played foosball with our district leader, his companion and 2 members. It was a lot of fun and we couldn't leave the church anyway because right when we went to leave it started POURING so hard that the streets were dangerous to be on so we made the most of our time with a foosball tournament haha!data-original-height="480" /> Then later this week we had interviews with the president. It was our last interview with him because the new president from Canada will arrive in June! His wife told me she wants me to marry her son and I couldn't tell if she was joking or not so that made me want to run for the mountains, instead I nervously laughed and changed the topic to landscaping. Turns out she's a professional landscape architect and has her own business, who would have guessed! I will miss them a lot, they are truly amazing people and I've grown to love them so much! After the interviews got over me and sister Enout got to go to one of the members in our wards wedding! When we got there early there was a few people decorating and the groom was standing next to a kitchen FULL of food looking a little nervous so we asked if he needed help. He told us no and that everything was okay but the closer the wedding got the more nervous he looked. He finally came to us asking if we could help with the food. "Just set some of the tables for before and then after the actual meal" he said. So we said of course because we are missionaries and we live to serve! Well it turns out 290 people came to the wedding and the groom ordered all the food for dinner for all of them and appetizers for before the wedding but had no one to serve the food or be in charge of the kitchen.....Rookie mistake leaving the groom in charge of the food! But we were more than happy to help! After about 20 min of just me and sister Enout trying to wash dishes (they were all dusty and some even had spiders on them) and serve food for almost 300 people we called the elders in that area to help us and they were on divisions so all 4 of them came to help and then a couple of members saw we needed some help so they came and helped in the kitchen! We ended up not really even getting to see the ceremony because we were so busy but it was actually a lot of fun to be a waitress for a little while and the elders had a great time walking around with the trays in one hand above their heads ha ha! It was also a really good way to meet non-members because 2 of the elders that were there were also American so a lot of people had questions as to why 3 Americans were serving them food, so we got to talk a lot about the mission and why we are here! Then a member told us he and his wife could give us a ride home because riding the buses here past 9 p.m. is apparently really dangerous but then they stayed at the church until 11:30 p.m. so we were a little late for the mission curfew but we called President Silcox and he said he would forgive us as long as we were serving ha ha. It was a lot of fun but wow we were tired when we got back after 5 1/2 hours of catering a wedding. That's about all that happened this week. We are still teaching Penha and Zilda and a couple of investigators that we are excited to be working with! I will keep you updated on Rogerio because we still haven't heard from him but we get the feeling he may have changed his mind. He has been taught by the missionaries for a while now and this was the first time he showed interest in being baptized so maybe one day when he's ready! This week I was studying the Book of Mormon in Mosiah and I read Mosiah 2:41 that talks about the "blessed and happy state" we can achieve when we are keeping the commandments and then how if we "hold out faithful to the end" we can "Dwell with God in a state of never ending happiness" which just shows how important the little things are like reading the scriptures, going to church, saying your prayers and loving thy neighbor as thy self! All of the commandments are soon important and the end goal will be better than any of us can imagine! I love the Book of Mormon and I hope you are all reading it everyday. I love our Savior with all my heart and I love all of you, keep on keeping on and have a fabulous week! Ate proxima semana, Eu amor todos voces!

Love, sister Peine

Hello everyone!

This week was AMAZING! We had zone conference this week which is always amazing but this one was a little extra amazing because I understood all of it, so I learned a lot! Last time I didn't know a ton of Portuguese but this time I was ready, it's also a lot easier for me to understand Americans speaking Portuguese than Brazilians and all of the speakers who trained were American. They also made us gel vaccines so that was a bummer because I think it might be a monthly thing now and I'm not a huge fan of being stabbed with needles, but it's all good it will make me more tough I guess. I really love Sister and President Silcox! We learned so much from them! Later this week we had lunch with a recent convert named Ineida, She requested that I send a picture with her to my American people. She is about 4 feet tall and we are best friends. She is the only member in her family and she really wants us to teach her family so we are hoping to start working with them soon. We also taught Andre and Adriane again this week. After the lesson we invited them to the young mens activity and while they were getting ready we waited in the street and I ended up playing soccer with a bunch of 14 year olds. They taught me a bunch of tricks that I wasn't very good at but they told me not to worry because they are going to teach me! We invited them to Young mens with us, so once we got everyone we invited together we walked to the Young Men's president's house only to find that he forgot and only one other member showed up so me and sister Enout hurried and put a game and lesson together and ordered some pizza and it actually turned out really good. They had a good laugh at me and sister Enout's video game skills! We also went to one of our investigators kids birthday parties this week, that was a lot of fun. It was Penha and Zilda's sister's baby. None of them came to church so they can't be baptized this week and we still have some work to do with the word of wisdom but they are progressing quickly and we are excited for them! We also taught a lot of people on the streets this week and made a couple contacts who are really interested so we are excited to work with them this week! We have Rogeno on date to be baptized this Saturday and we are really excited so I hope it all works out! There is a lot of work for us to do and reactivating in our area so we are excited to make a lot of visits this week! I like it more and more here everyday and my companion has become one of my best friends and wants to come to the USA to meet all of you someday. Today for Pday we are going to the Church to play soccer with some other sisters in our district so that should be fun. I'm super excited! Well that was my week! Shout out to momma Peine, the best MOM in the world, happy mother's day! I love this gospel and I love our Savior! I'm so grateful for him and his sacrifice that makes it possible for us to have eternal families. I hope you all have a great week and I love you all!

Love, Sister Peine XoXo

I am now a plumber!!

Hello Everyone!!!

I hope you all had a great week. Another great week down here in Brazil. It was a week of miracles. We started off the week teaching our investigators Andre and Adriano, they are 17 year old twins. I started off the lesson by asking if they read the Book of Mormon and they said,"uhhh yeah...a little." So Sister Enout and I thought they forgot (most people do.) So I asked them to tell me a little about what they read and to our surprise they started telling us about when Joseph saw an Angel and about the urim and thumin! Not only did they read the small part in Moroni that we asked them to but they started reading from the very beginning in the testimony of Joseph Smith! Most of the 17 year olds here have tattoos and are usually smoking and give us a fake address just to make us walk extra far or mess with us so me and sister Enout were amazed to find out that they read! They are amazing! They are WAY good at soccer, they are both very intelligent and they are just miracles! I'm super excited to teach them again! On Wednesday our sink broke so we called the missionaries in charge of the houses and they told us we were too far away so we needed to ask a brother in our ward to help us or fix it ourselves! So we called around and no one would answer their phones! I could tell which part was broken and the water that was leaking out of it smelt HORRIBLE so we decided to go for it and fix it! My Portuguese is still far from perfect but I am doing a lot better...but my vocabulary of plumbing parts is non existent! So I drew pictures for Sister Enout and she asked about the part we would need in Portuguese! We started out asking 8 guys where the nearest store was that would have what we needed. Turns out it was on the other side of our area so we walked all they way there and figured out which part we needed and walked all the way back! When I started taking apart the sink I found 3 more broken pieces!! The piping was very old! So then we walked backed to the shop to buy more parts but he was all out of the parts we needed so we had to walk to our Elders area where the other store was and thank heavens he had all the parts! When we got back I took all the broken parts off only to find a giant ball of Goo clogging it! Cleaning it out for sure makes the list of top 10 grossest things I've ever done! We spent almost the whole day finding parts for and fixing it but we did it which was another miracle! But it was definitely a day that made me miss my dad haha! Then on Saturday we took the train to go to our lunch appointment and they weren't there so a little sad and hungry, we decided to start making contacts in that part of our area! After making a bunch of contacts we started walking back to the train to head to the area of our next appointment when we ran into an elderly couple who acted like they knew the missionaries so we said hello to them and they asked if we had already had lunch and insisted that we eat with them! Turns out the Irma was baptized over 10 years ago but was inactive and her husband was never baptized, they are also the parents of the 1st counselor in our bishopric! So not only did we find lunch but we found a new investigator and a less active! When we told them how grateful we were that God put them in our path so we could have lunch they both started to cry because they were so happy to help! People here have the biggest hearts! They all live in the smallest houses and have barely anything, yet they want more than anything to give us food and help us as much as they can! They asked to be put on our lunch list so we are going to try and start teaching them! We are super excited! We also taught Rogerio a lot this week! We are having a hard time getting him to come to church but he already knows all the lessons and is ready to be baptized we just need to get him to commit to come to church every Sunday! Penha and Zilda are on date to be baptized this Saturday, well Penha this Saturday and Zilda next but it all depends on if she drinks coffee this week or not but she came to church again on Sunday and as far as we know everything is ready in order for her to be baptized so I really hope it will all work out because she is amazing! Our other investigator, Laura is all ready to be baptized as well we just have to get permission from her mom but her mom doesn't really support it so we still have some work to do there! We are hoping to have a lot of baptisms this transfer! The language is still a challenge every day but I'm starting to understand a lot! I'm also starting to understand a little bit of Spanish so shout out to Weston, Sadie, Luke and my dad, I'll be able to understand your "code" when I come back, hehehe! Well this week was better!! I have truly learned to lean on the Lord and the power of the Book of Mormon! The Book of Mormon was made to answer ALL questions and I have a strong testimony that it does! I hope you are all reading the Book of Mormon every day with a question in your heart! When we do this a special joy will be brought into our lives that we can't find anywhere else! The words in the Book of Mormon have power, the power to literally change our lives! I love the Book of Mormon with all of my heart and I hope you are all finding time to read it every single day! I love you all and I hope you all have an amazing week! Ate proxima semana e eu amor todos voces!

Atenciosamente, Sister Peine

p.s. Feel free to write me a letter!

Sister Kayla Peine
Rua Caa-Acu, #229
Belezinho
03171-020 Sao Paulo-SP
Brasil