Bon Dia!
Just a heads up I have been pretty sick this
week (hence why the email is coming so late) so this email could go one of two
ways: 1) it could be super boring in which case you can just skip to the end
and then next time you see my mom I give all of you permission to still say,
"she sounds like she is doing well" and/or "I loved her last
email" or 2) it could be even better than normal due to the fact that I am
on cold/flu medication...we'll see
Despite being several thousand miles away from
home we had a great Thanksgiving and I hope you all did as well! I'm lucky to
live with great cooks and so for our dinner we had chicken, mashed potatoes and
gravy, stuffing, corn, rice (oh how I love Hermana Liu), pumpkin pie (I helped
make), pumpkin cookies that my mom sent. All in all it was a success. And it was
bring your own drinks, we were laughing about what our drinks say about us.
Feel free to guess which one is mine. And the picture of the leaves is another
idea my mom sent, I cut out leaves and then we all wrote things we were
grateful for on them. It was super cute.
Another highlight of this last week was the
ward activity Talent Night. Every organization had to do 2 numbers. As La Obra
Misional we did the opening act which was comedic sketch (yes, I know I'm not
funny but the Elders made up for my lack of "talent" in that aspect
and it turned out really good). The Relief Society did a Bollywood number to
Jai Ho. It definitely made me miss dance and the Smiths. They did a great job!
They have been practicing once a week for a long time and each of them was
decked out in Indian garb, it looked great. The young men, young single adult
(JAS) men, and the missionaries did a mission themed Hacka. One girl did a
little dance to Tik Tok by Keisha (so weird to hear that song again). Basically
the whole thing was just awesome. I love my ward!
Our relationship with the Lopes family is
growing leaps and bounds. We dropped their baptismal date but now they're
setting up visits with us and they really do want to learn more. They know we
are serious about baptism and they want to be baptized they just don't feel
ready. They are adamant about us coming over on Christmas, it's adorable. Oh
speaking of adorable, we went over there the other day and Maria Laura (12
years old) came out with a paper name tag on that looked just like ours but said
Hermana Lopes. It was so cute! She then told us that she wouldn't tell us her
first name until we get baptized (we tease her and say we'll tell her our first
names when she reads for two weeks straight, when she gets baptized, right
before we get transferred, etc. It kills her but we don't want the relationship
to become too casual). They could not be a cuter family. They even offered to
let us use their phone to call home on Christmas, we thanked them but told them
we are allowed to use skype and that way it's free. She said "okay well if
you ever need to call America for free let me know, I bought a card so that I
could call to Brazil and it turns out I can call everywhere in the world all
the way to the third degree of hell but I can't call Brazil." It was
HILARIOUS. I love Zuleide.
Concilio yesterday was great but it was hard.
I'm having to say goodbye to people who have been such strong influences on my
mission now and it's getting harder and harder. Ugh it scares me to think about
how it's only going to get worse.
Basically I just love what I'm doing. Being
sick is the worst because for the past couple of days I have had to spend a lot
of time inside and I just want to get out. I'm sorry this weeks email is so
late but next week will be right on time. Hope your having happy holidays and I
would just like to publicly say Happy Birthday to my two Grandmas: Tuttle
(the 2nd) and Hanson (the 3rd). How blessed I am to have such great role models
and even though I didn't get to know my Grandma Hanson very well, I know what a
great influence she was on my mom and for that I will forever love her and be
indebted to her.
Have a great week! Love you all!
Hermana Tuttle
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