April 26, 2010

Hi!  I am good, doing great.  Still feeling lost in my new area....BUT I´m starting to find a new familiar places and getting to know some roads.  Progress is good...

So, Sisters don´t usually get to go on exchanges like the Elders always do, because we are usually so far apart, and because all our leaders are.....well, Elders.  We can´t exactly do exchanges with them.....BUT because we have 2 duplas of Sisters living in the same house with areas right next to each other, President lets us go on exchanges with each other!  Yay!  How fun!  It´s strange to switch companions once in a while.  Every P-Day, we have to start working at 6, and we do an exchange.  It´s been really good actually.  Sometimes the other Sister is exactly what the investigators needed on that day. 

We had Multizona last Thursday....President talked about Diligence.  It was so good :)

I found another new favorite scripture.  D&C 123:17.

So...I´ve heard rumors from other missionaries that no one will send you letters your last 6 months on the mission.  You guys would NEVER do that to me... right?  Oh good....thought so.  Hey hey write me!

Ahhh!  Times up!  Gotta run!  Tchau!

Sister Hulse

April 19, 2010

Woooh.......where to start.  I got to stay the night Monday night at the Mission Home.  That was super fun.  Sister Jackson got to be my companion til Tuesday morning when we went to the chapel for transfers.  I am now in Campo de Fora in the Santo Amaro Stake.  It is almost right next to my first area!  I am living in a house with another dupla.  Which is super fun too actually.  After being with an american companion for 4 months...the Lord has given me 3 Brazilian roommates!  haha.........SUPER different.  But it´s a lot of fun.  Sister Vieira is in the other dupla in our house.  We were super excited we get to be so close again.

My companion is Sister Sales.  She is Brazilian and this is her 2nd transfer on the mission.  She doesn't know the area super well yet, and is still learning how to be a missionary.  But she is a sweetheart with such a solid testimony and is ready to learn.  I know we will be able to accomplish a lot this transfer.  I know I will learn so much with her.

Surprise!  President didn´t want to COMPLETELY whitewash Jd. Mirna....so guess who re-opened it?  Sister Macedo and Sister Rowland!  Crazy I know!  Two sisters that were my companions there and are now going back!  I feel a lot better knowing that sisters who already know the area will be there, and I know Sister Rowland will make sure that everyone will be taken care of.  It was so hard for me to leave.  I felt so close to all the members there and my investigators.  I´m hoping to finish all my P Day things speed demon fast today so I can have time to write a bunch of letters to everyone there.

Being in a new area is rough.  I think I was born without a sense of direction.  I´ve been making myself a nice color coded map to help me out.  The area is bigger than I´m used to.  We have to take the bus a lot more often.  Apparently, this area is known as "the Salt Lake City of the 7th day Adventist Church"  because their Brazilian headquarters are here.  But it´s a really good area.  Our Ward Mission Leader is awesome!  Yay!  The work is going to fly!

Love you all tons!  The Church is true!  Gotta run

Sister Hulse

April 5, 2010

Hello!

SO!!!  Conference was wonderful.  Everything seemed to be exactly what I wanted to hear.  I loved the emphasis on the family that was put.  I felt so grateful for my own family and excited to some day be able to have my own.  My favorite talk was probably Elder Uchdorf´s.  (I am so sad that every conference his accent becomes smaller and smaller! :(  I loved his accent!)  About how we can be the "hands of the Lord" in the lives of others.  I loved the Sunday morning (afternoon to me) session.  And the focus on the Savior on Easter morning.  It was such a good conference.  Elder Nelson´s talk even made me excited to look into Family History when I get back (.....haha....he did the impossible!)

The TV in the English room died at the end.  So I got to watch Elder Anderson´s talk and the Prophet´s last words in Portuguese.  Elder Anderson speaks Portuguese too!  He gave his own talk. 

Cida, Alfredo´s wife will be BAPTIZED!  This Saturday!  Can you believe it!  She had a hard time for a while with accepting that not a single one of her 4 baptisms in other churches were not valid.  But the more she´s been coming to church the more see´s starting to realize how much she really needs it.

Sister Horn hasn´t gotten better yet, but I am completely humbled to see that once again, while I felt like we have been accomplishing so little, one of our investigators has reached the point where she is ready for baptism.  I know that the Lord is working here with us.  Without him, it would not have been possible.  I know he loves the people here.  He has blessed us and them so much.  It is such a comfort to know that the Lord is able to and takes care of these people in all the ways that we are unable to. 

I love being a missionary.  Love you all so much!  Tchau!

Sister Hulse