Entered MTC March 17, 2010

Serving in the Fortaleza Brazil Mission



Monday, October 25, 2010

October 25, 2010

Hey!

Sounds like you guys had a good primary program!!! And guess what?! IfI stay through this next change I´ll be playing for the primaryprogram in both of the two wards we´re over! I´ve been practicing withthem. and they´ll be singing I Know My Savior Loves Me, too! I lovethat song! Oh mom, I got the newsletter and all the weddingannouncements! THank you so much, and the picture of chandler and mattin the othello game! I love it! It´s hanging up on my wall :) And theguys beat ROYAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) How was it?! Did chandler dogood?? I want to hear how it went! And yes I saw the temple issue inthe ensign. It is so neat, i haven´t had time to read it, but i saw itat a members house. That´s crazy there was a typhoon where colton is,did they have to be evaacuated or what? THat´s scary!Well, the girl and boy that i had talked about weren´t baptized, butwe´re working with them. Another member of their family was baptizedthough. His mom came to the baptism and the spirit was so strong. SHewas crying and thanked us so much for being a part of their family, Ican see her joining the church sometime. I don´t think it will beright away, but seeing two of her sons now baptized I think it willreally make an impression on her. And she´s already seen a big changein her oldest son.Wow, this is my last week of this transfer! I can´t believe it. NExtmonday will be a new change. Im pretty sure I´ll be staying here andmy comp will go. SHe´s been here 6months and i think she´´s ready fora change. I don´t want her to go though, i want at least one morechange with her. We´ll see what ha´ppens...well i hope your doughnut class went well today mom! I sure could gofor some homemade doughnuts right now :) well good to hear thateverything is going well and the football team is having success! Hopeyou all have a GREAT week!!! I love and miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love,Sister Salisbury

Monday, October 18, 2010

October 18, 2010

Hey!

How´s everyone doing?! Sounds like you guys are still staying busy.That´s cool you guys are fixing up the brown house, i didn´t know youwere doing all that stuff. It´s going to look way different by thetime i get back. Football is doing good by what I hear. I´m nervousfor you guys this friday I hope you beat royal! Has chandler beenplaying linebacker at all? All i ever hear is him playing quarterback.BUt it sounds like he´´s having a good time. THat´s good that garrettis getting opportunities to play, too bad he wasn´t there in the lastgame.The members here are pretty good about feeding the missionaries well,although we had somewhat of a funny experience happen just the otherday. IT´s funny now but at the time we were dying. So we´re heading tothe members house for lunch, which is on the other side of town. Weget there and we sit down to eat and what´s different is that thefamily doesn´t eat with you. THey´re eaither in another room doingsomething or they leave. Even the mom left the kitchen, but anyways wehave Nothing to drink, the meat tasted like dog (not sure what dogtastes like, but i really think it was dog) and they don´t havedessert. I wasn´t disappointed about the dessert, we usually are luckyif we get dessert. BUt it was quite interesting, then after we werefinished everyone comes in and we´re all talking. It´s a bit differentand it´s not usually like this all the time. But I can´t complain,it´s better than nothing and they take the time to make the meals forus and i really am greatful. Lots of times the members ask us what welike and honestly I will eat anything. BUt they like to make something"different" for us rather than beans and rice. Honestly though, i lovethe beans and rice i don´t want them to "change it up" THe meals forthe most part though are really good. Well, we had a baptismsaturday(another neighbor) and it was really neat. REmember the girland boy that we were teaching last transfer that I told you about, andthe experience we had with them? Marilia and João Victor, well I thinkthey´re going to be baptized! Marilia was talking about it last nightand now that her brother and nephew are members I think she´ll realizewhat the right choice is. THey all live in the same house and hernephew goes to seminary every night and she´s really good friends withour other neighbors and some of the kids from the ward. We´ll see whathappens this week, we´re going to talk with them. Well, i have to getgoing. Hope all is well and hope you all have a great week! I love you!!!!!!!!!!

love, sister salisbury

Monday, October 11, 2010

October 11, 2010

Dear Family,

Wow, this week was absolutely a miraculous week! We had a couple baptisms come up out of nowhere, I still can´t believe it. We had a really good week though and we´ve been working really hard. 2 of ours neighbors were baptized sunday along with a girl, Carol, that lives down the road from us. We had been working with her all of last transfer. We taught her every lesson, watched just about every video that we have about the church (the restoration, by small and simple things, The Joseph Smith Movie, a video about Thomas S. Monson), but she still wasn´t ready to be baptized. She said she had felt the spirit, she read and prayed about everything, but the problem was she had been talking to a friend from another church and Carol was getting really confused with everything. So we just kept telling her to come to church and get involved with seminary. And she´s been coming to seminary a lot, she really enjoys it. Then the day that the elders came to interview our two neighbors we pulled carol out of seminary just to talk with our LZ. After he talked to her he called us in and he told carol to tell us the news....she said, "I´m getting baptized!!!" She was so excited and me and my comp couldn´t believe it!

I absolutely love it here in Metrópole, I will have a really hard time when I get transferred. I´m pretty sure though I´ll be staying this next change. My comp will make 6 months here by the first of november, so she´ll most likely get transferred. She´s only been in two areas, 6 months in the first area and then she´ll have 6 months here...she´s ready to go though, but I´m not! I love the people here, it´s like home to me, the members, the investigators, our neighbors, everyone! It´s a really neat place. Well, i gotta finish this up i don´t got much time left. I hope all is well and i love you all! Hope you guys have a good week!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Love,

Sister Salisbury

Monday, October 4, 2010

October 4, 2010

Shay had a baby girl and trevor and karin are moving to SLC?!?!!?!?!? Wow, i can´t believe it!!! That is so exciting :) :) :) I´m so happy for everyone right now!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well this week was great, we literally witnessed miracles this week. So two of our neighbors are members now, they were baptized last transfer and this past week something happened that we never thought would happen. Two of our neighbors that live above us are really interested in the church. One is 9 yrs old and his cousin is 16. The 16 yr old, wesley, has been going to seminary. We went every day this week! And our other neighbor, who lives with the two that are members now, José, he´s really good friends with wesley and he went to seminary as well. We had tried teaching them last transfer and they were really ignorant about "mormons" but we´re teaching them now! The other night we were heading back to our place for the night and wesley and josé were sitting on the curb. We talked a little bit and then told them good night. Then wesley called my name and told me to come here for a second. He asked me, "can two people be baptized on the same day?" I told him of course! And i was thinking, ´no way´......and then he told me they both want to be baptized! And ever since then they have been awesome as we´re teaching them. And then saturday night we were heading back from general conference and they were sitting on the curb again and wesley was so excited to talk to us, he had bought a little notebook to take notes at conference!!!! It was so awesome! Conference was so neat! It was a little harder to understand this time, but i got what i could out of it. Saturday session, as the congregation was singing Lord, I would follow thee, I felt the spirit so strong. As we were singing i sang the first two verses in english and the last two in portuguese. And when i started singing in portuguese i started to cry. It literally had hit me that i was in another country, speaking a different language and many miles from home, but then i thought...but I´m still among my brothers and sisters. I have such a love for the people of brasil. Especially here in metrópole, i feel at home here...i really feel at home. I have a second mom that lives right down the street from us and my neighbors are so wonderful and i can´t even explain the members to you. I´ve made so many friends here, i think it´s going to be much much harder to leave this area.

Well, an unfortunate event happened last night. We were at a baptism and taking pictures and there was a member taking the picture for me and somehow she deleted ALL of my pictures on the card :( i wanted to start crying. I havebad luck with pictures getting deleted :( but luckfully i had developed a lot of the photos the week before. And get this, i was going to back up all my photos on cd´s today! But i need to be grateful that i have some pictures that i developed and i have another card full of pictures starting back at the CTM, baturité and part of the area here. 3 baptisms were on the card that got deleted, and my comp doesn´t have a camera so she doesn´t have pictures from them...but anyways i´m feeling a little better now, cuz i had developed 2 of the three baptisms that were on the card so im only missing one, but anyways...well we got 3 birthday´s this week, Happy Birthday to HUNTER, BRAYDEN and SHAUN!!!!!!!!!!!! And sorry about the one´s i missed last month. I´m going to try and remember to mention birthday´s in my email´s from now on, but please forgive me if i forget :) Well, hope all is well and you´re all having a good time!!!! Good luck boys in football this week. I pray for you boys every night that you will be watched over and protected and able to play your best :) I love you all!!!!! Have a good week!:)

love,

Sister Ariana Salisbury