May 12, 2010

Hey!Yeah we were all pretty bummed that we weren´t gonna be able to call on mother´s day and then sunday morning in relief society SIster Clark got up and said she would call all the sisters´ mothers for us. I guess she tried calling but you guys were in portland i think she said a brother in law answered or somethign so i figured it was brian or chad. BUt yeah the one you talked to was sister litster. She was in our district meeting on sunday adn got all of our phone numbers. And i talked to her adn she had a premature baby too and his lungs hadn´t fully developed and the doctors had told them that he wouldn´t be normal. BUt he´s 32 now and is doing great! SO that was pretty neat to hear her experience and i told her about joseph. Well, we went proselyting again this past week and we went down town Sao paulo. It was crazy there were soo many people. We didn´t know what to do at first, but once we talked to our first person we got going and i loved it! Well the work is going good adn im learning a lot. I had an interview with my branch president a couple weeks ago and we were talking and he pulled out a bookmark from his scriptures and gave it to me. It was so good, it was a quote from President Hinckley: "Many young women are serving missions. Many are preparing to serve. Not because they aren´t married or have nothing else to do; but because they have a desire to serve and therefore are being called to the work. The reason so many are going is because in the next generation, Heavenly Father will be sending His Priesthood Army to the earth and wants to send them to mothers who have been properly trained and taught in the gospel. What better training can a young woman have than that of serving a mission." I love that quote! Brett is doing really good, i got a letter from him last week and the work is going great he said. :) I don´t have much time, but i love you all and i can´t believe im already goign out into the field on tuesday. Im so excited adn can´t wait to get going. It´ll be hard to get used to at first i think to having a companion, but im thinking it´ll make teaching a little easier. haha That´s so neat that you guys were able to go to stacey´s baptism. Oh and hey, im having chandler get some pics adn if you get a chance can you or jennifer get them developed and send them to me in a little photo album or somethign cuz i didn´t bring enough pics. THank you. I love you guys!love, sister ariana salisbury p.s. 30 minutes is not enough time for email!!!!