Monday, July 26, 2010
July 26, 2010
Hey mom! And for all those reading this, I got an email from a certainbrother-in-law that loves me dearly. He mentioned that i use "haha"and LOL" too much and i sound like a teenager. I probably do, so I´mgonna do my best to not use them. Mom, don´t worry about the package, you´re right it´s just "stuff" :) Well last night topped off my week!!! It was a good, hard-workingweek, with not too many results, but we´re still truckin along. Sostory for you all, yesterday we were making some visits to someinactive members with the branch president and relief societypresident and we were at our last house and the wife said she wantedus to try something. So we go back into the kitchen and she she opensup a pot of i don´t know what. She piles a lot of what looks to be theinsides of some kind of animal. Loads up the plate and says, "here yago"(but in portuguese of course) my companion knew what it was and shewouldn´t eat it. I asked what it was but she couldn´t think of thename in english. but I wasn´t about to turn down this opportunity totry something "different". So i grabbed a fork and went for it. It wasactually really good, tasted like roast beef(it was very moist). Mycompanion couldn´t believe it, she said if you knew what the animalwas you probably wouldn´t eat it...i told her, well as long as it´scooked i´ll eat it. When we got home i looked it up in the dictionary.In portuguese it´s called a tamanduá (i think) andenglish.......anteater!!!!! I couldn´t believe it, but it was good andi´m not sick...yet. Well i only have a couple minutes left so I gotta wrap this up. Sorryit´s not longer, but oh well. It´s getting closer to the end of thetransfer i can´t believe it. I´m already on week 5!!! I think I mightget transferred, but not completly sure. I love it here in Baturitébut i think I´m ready for a change. Well i love you all and hope youguys are all doing great! I love you!!! love ariana
Monday, July 19, 2010
July 19, 2010
Dear Family, Well, another week gone by. Can you believe I´m already half waythrough my second transfer!!! This week was really good, we worked really hard and found a lot ofnew investigators so that´s good. I think the hardest thing thoughabout missionary work is getting the investigators to come to church.No matter what we do hardly any of them come. They´re good at keepingall of other commitments, but when it comes to sunday and going tochurch we have problems. I think the biggest problem though with thisis that they work on sundays, so that´s kinda tough to work with. Me and sister gonzaga are doing good though. Just truckin along doingthe best that we can. The language is still coming, still kinda tough,but I´m doing my best. Jande sent me a picture of Coriann and her soonto be husband! I love it, they look so good!!! She´s super dark too!I´m so happy for her :) That´s awesome about Kirk´s homecoming, i betit was super good! Tell him i got a letter in the mail to him lastweek, so he´ll be getting it sometime soon. That´s so crazy aboutchad!!!!! I´m glad he´s ok, I haven´t read the whole story yet thatjande sent me, i don´t have time to read it right now so im gonnaprint it off and read later. Ahhh you guys are going to the coast!!!THat´ll be fun...but not as much fun if I were there :) haha where areyou guys staying, cape lookout? That´s my favorite place!!! Well, sorry this isn´t very long this week, i spent a little too muchtime writing to my mission president. BUt I love you guys and pray foryou everyday too!!! THank you so much for your prayers and love forme. I miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love, ariana
Monday, July 12, 2010
July 12, 2010
Dear Family,
well this week was better, in a way i guess. We worked hard and I´mseeing improvement in the language. So that´s good :) The work is going alright, it´s really tough right now cuz everyone is onvacation, so lots of parties, lots of people gone on trips...so it´s alittle hard with the work we´re trying to accomplish. But we continueon doing the best we can! We´re working with quite a few familiesright now, so this is really good. THere´s 2 real promising ones thatwe hope work out. The people we´re working with are really goodthough, i love it here in baturité. We were working with an elderlycouple, Eunice and Antonio (but we call him Tonico) :) THey are thetwo sweetest people, i love them so much. We went to visit them ontuesday though and we both had the feeling we were gonna have to cutthem. Eunice knows its true, but she´s catholic and doesn´t want tochange "tradition" but tonico, he´s been to church twice and when wetalked with him he said he didn´t like testimony meeting. THat wasreally tough for us, he said he didn´t want to stop or "give up" iswhat he said because he said he knows its true, he´s prayed about it,but it´s not for him right now. Me and sis. gonzaga both were cryingas we were saying goodbye and leaving. I´ve never felt that way beforeabout an investigator, it was really hard. It felt like my heart hadbeen broken. But we still see them every once in awhile as we passtheir house. :)I got my calendars thank you :) haha kirk is home!!!!! ahhhh that´s soexciting, im gonna write him today and get a letter in the mail to himthis week, i still feel so bad i never wrote him on hismission....That´s awesome that joey got the hustle award! Good jobjoe!!!! as for the time when i get on the computer. Today we´re alittle early cuz we have a lot to do. But usually we get on in theafternoon around 3, which is like 11-12ish your time i think. And yeahit´s probably a good thing i didnb´t get the package of candy cuzthen i´d have to work it all off haha although i have to admit, i missamerican candy. They have good stuff here too though. The weather hereis always the same.......HOT. Nothing more nothing less, just HOT!!!!But i´m used to it so its all good :)We just heard that we´re not having zone conference this transfer,which was really disappointing. But we heard that they´re gonna dothem every 3 months, and i think it´s worldwide for all themissions....but im not positive. THat´s just what we heard from anelder.well, i love you guys and appreciate all the love and support you giveme and all the prayers said in my behalf. I´m defintely seeing theblessings! Thank you so much! oh! So guess what?! Yesterday we show up to church and presidentFrança asks me if i´ll give a talk in sacrament meeting?!?!?!? haha icouldn´t say no either, so...i gave a talk lol it was good i think, ihope at least. Not sure if they understood me, but i did it. Andsaturday night, Ancylia, the relief society pres, asked me if i couldgive the lesson in RS. Haha i just laughed when she asked me, but shewas serious! Lol i of course was freaking out, i told my comp that iwouldn´t be able to do this even if they asked me to do it in english.I had one hour to prepare a lesson. Yep, i was defintely freaking out.But my comp helped me and it went well, of course i was praying likecrazy though! But the Lord does answers prayer.I hope you all have a great week!!!! I love you!!! love,
sister ariana salisbury
well this week was better, in a way i guess. We worked hard and I´mseeing improvement in the language. So that´s good :) The work is going alright, it´s really tough right now cuz everyone is onvacation, so lots of parties, lots of people gone on trips...so it´s alittle hard with the work we´re trying to accomplish. But we continueon doing the best we can! We´re working with quite a few familiesright now, so this is really good. THere´s 2 real promising ones thatwe hope work out. The people we´re working with are really goodthough, i love it here in baturité. We were working with an elderlycouple, Eunice and Antonio (but we call him Tonico) :) THey are thetwo sweetest people, i love them so much. We went to visit them ontuesday though and we both had the feeling we were gonna have to cutthem. Eunice knows its true, but she´s catholic and doesn´t want tochange "tradition" but tonico, he´s been to church twice and when wetalked with him he said he didn´t like testimony meeting. THat wasreally tough for us, he said he didn´t want to stop or "give up" iswhat he said because he said he knows its true, he´s prayed about it,but it´s not for him right now. Me and sis. gonzaga both were cryingas we were saying goodbye and leaving. I´ve never felt that way beforeabout an investigator, it was really hard. It felt like my heart hadbeen broken. But we still see them every once in awhile as we passtheir house. :)I got my calendars thank you :) haha kirk is home!!!!! ahhhh that´s soexciting, im gonna write him today and get a letter in the mail to himthis week, i still feel so bad i never wrote him on hismission....That´s awesome that joey got the hustle award! Good jobjoe!!!! as for the time when i get on the computer. Today we´re alittle early cuz we have a lot to do. But usually we get on in theafternoon around 3, which is like 11-12ish your time i think. And yeahit´s probably a good thing i didnb´t get the package of candy cuzthen i´d have to work it all off haha although i have to admit, i missamerican candy. They have good stuff here too though. The weather hereis always the same.......HOT. Nothing more nothing less, just HOT!!!!But i´m used to it so its all good :)We just heard that we´re not having zone conference this transfer,which was really disappointing. But we heard that they´re gonna dothem every 3 months, and i think it´s worldwide for all themissions....but im not positive. THat´s just what we heard from anelder.well, i love you guys and appreciate all the love and support you giveme and all the prayers said in my behalf. I´m defintely seeing theblessings! Thank you so much! oh! So guess what?! Yesterday we show up to church and presidentFrança asks me if i´ll give a talk in sacrament meeting?!?!?!? haha icouldn´t say no either, so...i gave a talk lol it was good i think, ihope at least. Not sure if they understood me, but i did it. Andsaturday night, Ancylia, the relief society pres, asked me if i couldgive the lesson in RS. Haha i just laughed when she asked me, but shewas serious! Lol i of course was freaking out, i told my comp that iwouldn´t be able to do this even if they asked me to do it in english.I had one hour to prepare a lesson. Yep, i was defintely freaking out.But my comp helped me and it went well, of course i was praying likecrazy though! But the Lord does answers prayer.I hope you all have a great week!!!! I love you!!! love,
sister ariana salisbury
Monday, July 5, 2010
July 5, 2010
Hey!
I don´t have a whole lot of time and the computer Im on is not very good, the keyboard stinks,the space bar don´t work very good but i´ll do my best.
Anyways, Kirk is HOME!!!!!!!! Oh my heavens i can´t bellieve it! I feel so guilty i didn´t write him a single letter! Tell im sorry and i will send one next week for sure!!!!!! THat is so awesome. And dad said the parade was really neat. Well, this week wasn´t too exciting and not a whole lot of success....what a way to start the new transfer. A lot of people fell through on commitments and not very many of them came to church. We ended up having to cut quite a few people. So we´re trying to find new ones. We got a lot of new ones this past week, we´ll see how it goes. Sunday was awesome!!! Testimony meeting was so neat.THere was an Elder Johansen that just finished his mission and he came to church with his parents and grandparents. When he walked in he just started to cry. He loved this area so much you could see it. He bore his testimony and his parents did also and the elder translated for them. It was really neat. It made me miss you and dad. I was talking to his parents and they were so neat. THey offered to call our parents so you should be getting a call from them sometime. I wanna say they would call today, but im not sure. :) That was really nice of them. Well,everything is goign good for the most part. Still working on the language. It´s really tough for me, i don´t know why. But oh well, im still studying and trying to get it. I love you all and hope everythign is going well. I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love,
ariana
ps. if you send a package put pictures of christ on it or something so it doesn´t get opened up. Mycomp said that one of her packages was opened up and they just retaped it.
p.s.s This doesn´t have to be right away, but if you can...i would like a couple of the wonder-tees from THe Boutique. Not white though you can get whatever colors you want. Just not white or cream cuz they will ware out faster. Size medium. Only like 2 or 3 is fine. And none with lace, it´s just the cap sleeve kind. THank you :) i love you!!!!!
I don´t have a whole lot of time and the computer Im on is not very good, the keyboard stinks,the space bar don´t work very good but i´ll do my best.
Anyways, Kirk is HOME!!!!!!!! Oh my heavens i can´t bellieve it! I feel so guilty i didn´t write him a single letter! Tell im sorry and i will send one next week for sure!!!!!! THat is so awesome. And dad said the parade was really neat. Well, this week wasn´t too exciting and not a whole lot of success....what a way to start the new transfer. A lot of people fell through on commitments and not very many of them came to church. We ended up having to cut quite a few people. So we´re trying to find new ones. We got a lot of new ones this past week, we´ll see how it goes. Sunday was awesome!!! Testimony meeting was so neat.THere was an Elder Johansen that just finished his mission and he came to church with his parents and grandparents. When he walked in he just started to cry. He loved this area so much you could see it. He bore his testimony and his parents did also and the elder translated for them. It was really neat. It made me miss you and dad. I was talking to his parents and they were so neat. THey offered to call our parents so you should be getting a call from them sometime. I wanna say they would call today, but im not sure. :) That was really nice of them. Well,everything is goign good for the most part. Still working on the language. It´s really tough for me, i don´t know why. But oh well, im still studying and trying to get it. I love you all and hope everythign is going well. I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love,
ariana
ps. if you send a package put pictures of christ on it or something so it doesn´t get opened up. Mycomp said that one of her packages was opened up and they just retaped it.
p.s.s This doesn´t have to be right away, but if you can...i would like a couple of the wonder-tees from THe Boutique. Not white though you can get whatever colors you want. Just not white or cream cuz they will ware out faster. Size medium. Only like 2 or 3 is fine. And none with lace, it´s just the cap sleeve kind. THank you :) i love you!!!!!
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