Doubling Teaching Pool

Last week of the Transfer. This week was good. Yesterday Denise, our recent convert, told us she wants to serve a mission and that she already told her family, that she´s been praying about it, and that she wants to start saving money!!!!!! And Bruna, our other recent convert, gave a talk on standards!!!! I´m so proud of them and the changes they´ve made in their lives and their willingness to serve the Lord. It´s so awesome to see. HAPPY EASTER to everyone. Here in Brazil it isn't the biggest deal ever. They have these big chocolate eggs and they give their kids chocolate eggs and that's all, buttttttt Bishop Nilson is awesome and he bought me and my companion one and surprised us at church. He is seriously one of the best bishops in the world!!!! I´m grateful for the savior and his sacrifice and his Resurrection. One day all of us are going to be resurrected as well!!!! We  saw many little miracles happen this week and we doubled our teaching pool, I´m excited to work hard to show my gratitude to the savior!!!!!! I´m also REALLY excited for general conference this week. I´m hoping to really use it as a tool to help people know that we really have a PROPHET today that communicates with Heavenly Father to lead and guide us!!!!! One week till transfers. I don´t know if I´ll stay or if I´ll go.... I´m hoping to stay because I´m finally loving the ward and I´m finally getting a hang of everything, but then again I don´t want to get my hopes up because everytime this happens I end up leaving...... ANyways I love you all!!!! Hows it coming with sharing the gospel?!??!!?!?!?!

Sister Bruno

Joy in Bringing in New Member

Yesterday was the baptism of Denise!!! It was amazing!!!!!! I´m so lucky to be serving here in the Morumbi Ward because the members here are phenomenal. I´ve never in my whole entire life seen a ward so active and involved in EVERYTHING. We had a great turnout the relief society room was packed, there weren't even enough seats for everyone and Denise was just SOOO happy, I´ve never seen anyone as happy as she was yesterday. Feeling the spirit I felt yesterday makes all the days walking in the hot sun, all the days walking in the pouring rain, all the não entende´s (I don´t understand´s) I have to say, all the não obrigado´s (no thank you´s) I hear ,more than worth it. I´m so happy for my recent converts, because I know and I feel that they already have REALLY strong testimonies and I´m not scared to leave them because I know that the ward will take good care of them. On Sunday Bruna, who got baptized last month, got up and bore her testimony about how she knew that the church was true and how happy she was that the missionaries found her. I felt the spirit so STRONGLY I couldnt help but of course CRY. haha.  I know that the Lord still has a lot of work for me to do here  in São Paulo and even though sometimes its hard I know that what I´m doing is right. Sometimes I feel completely and utterly lost, but I know without doubt that Heavenly Father has put a lot of trust in me and I don´t want to let him down. I want to continue working hard until not only the end of my mission, but the end of my life!!!! I invite all of you to try and fazer um contato, try to make a contact??? Not sure how to say it in English but when you meet someone and give them a pamphlet or say something about the gospel to them and invite them to church or invite them to know more about the gospel. Everyone try and let me know how it goes next week. TA BOM???? Love you all!!!!!!

Sister Bruno

Missionary Split

Hey Everyone!!!

Hope this week is finding you well, and that you share your love with everyone this Valentines Day by sharing the gospel with others. This week was good. Splits were AWESOME!!!!!!! I was with Sister Santana in Caça Pava, and part of her area has Campos do Jordão, PRETTIEST place EVER!!!! Everyone look it up on Google and Google maps. I want to live there!!!!  We went with a member on Wednesday to visit some less active families and some investigators. Campos do Jordão is UP UP UP in the mountains, so the members and investigators usually only go to church once a month when they have a caravan go up and pick them up. I met some really really awesome people. One man, Derrly, we visited lives in a house that he built in the middle of the forest, WAY COOL and he accepted baptism for this Sunday coming up when the caravan comes! I felt the spirit really strong when Sister Santana was inviting him for baptism. It was a really awesome experience WOOHOO. I also met another women, Rachel Carvaljo, that was baptized in the year 1960, and she serves on the city council of her little town, and she's in a book which she showed me called Mormon Women. I seriously want to be like her when I grow up. She´s so awesome and you can see the love that she has for the gospel and for other people! I hope that I get the opportunity to serve in Caça Pava its an awesome area. 

Something really funny happened this week to me and my companion Sister Waite. Last monday after I emailed you we went into downtown Sao Jose dos Campos to have PDAY with Bruna and Adriana. After we finished there we got on the bus to go to our Zone meeting. The bus was really crowded already so I sat down in one of the only empty seats I saw, and while Sister Waite was paying people with Cameras entered the bus in one door and people with drums and big dresses entered the bus on another and started dancing and playing music. It was for a news program here called Janguarda Mix they were filming for Carnaval, because Carnaval started Friday. I didn´t really think much of it, just like WHOA I wonder if this is what Carnaval is, but yesterday at church everyone came up to us saying AH ARTISTAS, FAMOSAS. They saw us on TV!!! haha. Maybe its on Youtube look up Janguarda MIX 2/9/2013.... 

Anyways, everything is good here on this side of the world. Sad that they don´t celebrate Valentine´s Day, but I hope you all have a good one. I LOVE YOU ALL

Sister Bruno