Hey!
ALright so after seeing the picture of Sister Costa I remember. She´s from a ward in Aracati, she was a local missionary with one of the sisters here in my mission, because we have an odd number of sisters. I met her once at a zone conference. It really is a small ward! Crazy!
Connell is going to STATE!!! THat is so awesome, I´m so happy for them. I´m so proud of chandler and all the hard work that he does. It´s hard not being able to be there to support him, but it´s good to hear that they´re having success.
So how are my little bros doing....garrett and joey?!?! Haven´t heard from you guys in awhile, but I can´t complain because I´m not the best at emailing everybody back...sorry :(
So Brett is coming over tonight for FHE?! That´ll be fun to hear about the mission! Take pictures!! Mmm and orange chicken, i was actually craving that the other night! Be sure to have dessert too :)
Well, I haven´t gotten any packages yet, but my guess is they´ll be getting here in a couple weeks. And don´t worry about sending more sandals. If it gets to the time where I´m walking on rocks I´ll find something here that´ll work. Some of the sisters have gotten some sandals here so it´s all good.
Well, I´ll definately be praying for chandler and the team this week. Hope all is well and you have a great week! I love you all and am so glad to be a part of this family. It wasn´t until the mission that I realized how important family really is. You don´t realize what you have, until it´s gone....but this time is so short and incomparable to the time we have after. I love you so much and miss you bunches! The church is true!
Love,
sister salisbury
Monday, November 29, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
November 22, 2010 (with pics)
Hey everybody!
Thanks for all the emails that I´m getting! And guess what?! I´m able to send pictures now! I have a cd of pictures and I tried sending them last week, but it wouldn´t work, but now it is so hope you enjoy the pics!
Wow this week was tough....physically, emotionally, and mentally. But it´s over now I´m doing good. We had zone conference this week and it was amazing! I really needed that. And before I forget (because I forgot to write it last week) Happy (late) Anniversary mom and dad!!! Hope you two were able to find some time and go out to eat :)
BRETT IS HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can´t believe it!!!!!! It sounds like he did good on his talk and he´s thinned out a little ;) Oh I´m sure it was so good to see him. Too bad he missed the fotball game. But he´ll get to see the next few. You´ll have to tell me all about it when he comes over to the house. I´m anxious to hear from him since he´s been home.
Alright mom, so Sister Costa. Is she from our ward in Basin City? i don´t remember the last name Costa, what is her first name??
Alright, so we´ve been working with this family; Carlos and Regina and their 4 kids, Clara, Antonio Carlos, Jeovah and Lucas. We taugh them all the lessons and Regina and the kids were crazy to get baptized, but we went there one night to visit and the dad had totally changed. He has a drinking problem and he didn´t want anything to do with the church. So sunday comes around and he wouldn´t let them go to church. So we kept in contact with them throughout the week and we had the elders come saturday to have interviews with them for baptism. He talked with two of the kids, the others had forgotten about it and had already left. So afterwards we talked with the elder and he said that the kids really want to be baptized but the dad won´t let them. It´s really sad. So we went there later that night to talk with the dad. He went crazy on us and said that he´s catholic and he´ll die catholic and if his family has respect for him they won´t be baptized. He said he likes to drink, likes to have fun and he won´t be restrained from doing things....his reasons for not joining andletting his family join. We couldn´t do anything more, we taught them everything, we explained everything for them, bore testimony...both me and my comp were crying. I left the house crying it was so hard to leave like that. I gave Regina a big hug and just held on to her. I felt so bad because here is this mother and 4 kids who know the church is true, have desires to be baptized and they can´t. It was really hard, but the time isn´t right. I know that one day they´ll be members of the church. This experience made me once again realize how hard Satan is working against us, but how much stronger we can be.
Well, I need to wrap this up. HOpe all is well at home and you guys have a good week. Good luck boys in football and congrats joey for the award you got at school!!!! i love you all and can´t wait to talk to you guys at christmas! i love and miss you!!!!
Love,
Thanks for all the emails that I´m getting! And guess what?! I´m able to send pictures now! I have a cd of pictures and I tried sending them last week, but it wouldn´t work, but now it is so hope you enjoy the pics!
Wow this week was tough....physically, emotionally, and mentally. But it´s over now I´m doing good. We had zone conference this week and it was amazing! I really needed that. And before I forget (because I forgot to write it last week) Happy (late) Anniversary mom and dad!!! Hope you two were able to find some time and go out to eat :)
BRETT IS HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can´t believe it!!!!!! It sounds like he did good on his talk and he´s thinned out a little ;) Oh I´m sure it was so good to see him. Too bad he missed the fotball game. But he´ll get to see the next few. You´ll have to tell me all about it when he comes over to the house. I´m anxious to hear from him since he´s been home.
Alright mom, so Sister Costa. Is she from our ward in Basin City? i don´t remember the last name Costa, what is her first name??
Alright, so we´ve been working with this family; Carlos and Regina and their 4 kids, Clara, Antonio Carlos, Jeovah and Lucas. We taugh them all the lessons and Regina and the kids were crazy to get baptized, but we went there one night to visit and the dad had totally changed. He has a drinking problem and he didn´t want anything to do with the church. So sunday comes around and he wouldn´t let them go to church. So we kept in contact with them throughout the week and we had the elders come saturday to have interviews with them for baptism. He talked with two of the kids, the others had forgotten about it and had already left. So afterwards we talked with the elder and he said that the kids really want to be baptized but the dad won´t let them. It´s really sad. So we went there later that night to talk with the dad. He went crazy on us and said that he´s catholic and he´ll die catholic and if his family has respect for him they won´t be baptized. He said he likes to drink, likes to have fun and he won´t be restrained from doing things....his reasons for not joining andletting his family join. We couldn´t do anything more, we taught them everything, we explained everything for them, bore testimony...both me and my comp were crying. I left the house crying it was so hard to leave like that. I gave Regina a big hug and just held on to her. I felt so bad because here is this mother and 4 kids who know the church is true, have desires to be baptized and they can´t. It was really hard, but the time isn´t right. I know that one day they´ll be members of the church. This experience made me once again realize how hard Satan is working against us, but how much stronger we can be.
Well, I need to wrap this up. HOpe all is well at home and you guys have a good week. Good luck boys in football and congrats joey for the award you got at school!!!! i love you all and can´t wait to talk to you guys at christmas! i love and miss you!!!!
Love,
Sister Salisbury
Monday, November 15, 2010
November 15, 2010
Hey!
Mom just to let you know I tried sending some pics last week, but I´m guessing it didn´t go through. I´m thinking my memory card has a virus because it´s not opening up any pictures which is REALLY bad, because I have a lot of pictures! I have the worst luck with pictures! But anyways I´ll try again today, not sure I´ll be able to get them though, sorry :( BUt keep checking your email today and see if you get any.
Well this past week was good and tiring! Had a lot of investigators come up out of nowhere, which is good i guess, but we running all over the place. The primary program was yesterday and it was SOOOO GOOD! The kids were so cute! I played the piano for both wards. It went really well.
Wow, so Brett gets home this week! I can´t believe it, it feels as if he just left yesterday. Make sure you talk to him for me :) and I´m sure he´ll be at the game on saturday!
Well, sorry this is so short, but I´m going to try to get these pictures to send. If you don´t get them from this email I´ll try sending them from my hotmail account, I´m not supposed to use it but I´lll try both to try to get the pics to you.
I love you all and hope you have a good week!!!!!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Mom just to let you know I tried sending some pics last week, but I´m guessing it didn´t go through. I´m thinking my memory card has a virus because it´s not opening up any pictures which is REALLY bad, because I have a lot of pictures! I have the worst luck with pictures! But anyways I´ll try again today, not sure I´ll be able to get them though, sorry :( BUt keep checking your email today and see if you get any.
Well this past week was good and tiring! Had a lot of investigators come up out of nowhere, which is good i guess, but we running all over the place. The primary program was yesterday and it was SOOOO GOOD! The kids were so cute! I played the piano for both wards. It went really well.
Wow, so Brett gets home this week! I can´t believe it, it feels as if he just left yesterday. Make sure you talk to him for me :) and I´m sure he´ll be at the game on saturday!
Well, sorry this is so short, but I´m going to try to get these pictures to send. If you don´t get them from this email I´ll try sending them from my hotmail account, I´m not supposed to use it but I´lll try both to try to get the pics to you.
I love you all and hope you have a good week!!!!!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Monday, November 8, 2010
November 8, 2010
Hey!
So this week was CRAZY! First week of a new change, well it wasn´tquite a change, me and my companion stayed together for anothertransfer in the same area...which I was really excited about, but atthe same time I felt kind of bad for her because she really wants achange of scenery. She´s been here for 6 months already! This is thelongest I´ve been with the same comp. Most likely I´ll stay one moretransfer after this one and then head out to a new area. We have zoneconference in a couple weeks so I´m really excited about that!
That´s exciting about Addi! Are they pretty serious? Is it anyonethat I might know? Well the last letter that I got from Brett he saidhe had mixed feelings about going home. He said he absolutely lovesthe people and he´ll for sure miss them. He also said that he wasn´tthat excited to go home either because I wasn´t going to bethere...and yes of course I have been writing him :) And I thinkthat´s a good idea for you to do that mom when he gets home, pleaseplease please tell him hi for me, and I´ve waited for that to day tosee him come home (now it´s here, but I´m in another country) and thatI´m thinking of him (you can tell him that I love him too, but only ifyou want :)
My leg is fine, it´s bothered me only a couple times when I staystanding for too long it starts to get sore, but it´s only happened acouple times. ANd it still has a bruise, nothing super big, but itreally hasnt gone down at all, at least in my opinion anyways. It´ssmaller though than when it first started. BUt I´m fine, no need toworry over it.
So i have to tell you, I started the Book of Mormon again and I´m inMosiah. I was reading chapter two, and I absolutely love it! It´s whenall the people were gathering at the temple to hear King Benjaminspeak. THey built a tower so that more people could here. And as I wasreading I was thinking as if it was a general conference. He wasspeaking to the people, but there were still so many that couldn´thear that he sent people to write what he was saying and then sendingit out to the people that couldn´t hear him. ANd then I thought abouthow we receive the ensign with the conference talks. It was so intriguing (sp) I just wanted to keep reading. But anyways he wastalking about how the Lord promises us that we will be blessed if wekeep the commandments of God. He mentions this many times in hisspeach and that God has given us everything and that we should thankhim for all that he´s given. I absolutely love it, you should read it,it´s so good! I´m going to finish reading it tonight!
Well fam, my time is up...I want you to know how much I love you andappreciate all the love and support that you give me! I am so blessedto be a part of this family! I couldn´t have asked for anythingbetter. I also want you to know that I know this is the only truechurch upon the whole face of the earth. And because one young boy,who had enough faith to pray to his Father in Heaven, we are blessedto be members of the Church of Jesus Christ. I am so glad I have theopportunity to serve my Father in Heaven and to be serving here inBrasil. I love you all and hope you have a GREAT week!
I love you!
Love,Sister Salisbury
So this week was CRAZY! First week of a new change, well it wasn´tquite a change, me and my companion stayed together for anothertransfer in the same area...which I was really excited about, but atthe same time I felt kind of bad for her because she really wants achange of scenery. She´s been here for 6 months already! This is thelongest I´ve been with the same comp. Most likely I´ll stay one moretransfer after this one and then head out to a new area. We have zoneconference in a couple weeks so I´m really excited about that!
That´s exciting about Addi! Are they pretty serious? Is it anyonethat I might know? Well the last letter that I got from Brett he saidhe had mixed feelings about going home. He said he absolutely lovesthe people and he´ll for sure miss them. He also said that he wasn´tthat excited to go home either because I wasn´t going to bethere...and yes of course I have been writing him :) And I thinkthat´s a good idea for you to do that mom when he gets home, pleaseplease please tell him hi for me, and I´ve waited for that to day tosee him come home (now it´s here, but I´m in another country) and thatI´m thinking of him (you can tell him that I love him too, but only ifyou want :)
My leg is fine, it´s bothered me only a couple times when I staystanding for too long it starts to get sore, but it´s only happened acouple times. ANd it still has a bruise, nothing super big, but itreally hasnt gone down at all, at least in my opinion anyways. It´ssmaller though than when it first started. BUt I´m fine, no need toworry over it.
So i have to tell you, I started the Book of Mormon again and I´m inMosiah. I was reading chapter two, and I absolutely love it! It´s whenall the people were gathering at the temple to hear King Benjaminspeak. THey built a tower so that more people could here. And as I wasreading I was thinking as if it was a general conference. He wasspeaking to the people, but there were still so many that couldn´thear that he sent people to write what he was saying and then sendingit out to the people that couldn´t hear him. ANd then I thought abouthow we receive the ensign with the conference talks. It was so intriguing (sp) I just wanted to keep reading. But anyways he wastalking about how the Lord promises us that we will be blessed if wekeep the commandments of God. He mentions this many times in hisspeach and that God has given us everything and that we should thankhim for all that he´s given. I absolutely love it, you should read it,it´s so good! I´m going to finish reading it tonight!
Well fam, my time is up...I want you to know how much I love you andappreciate all the love and support that you give me! I am so blessedto be a part of this family! I couldn´t have asked for anythingbetter. I also want you to know that I know this is the only truechurch upon the whole face of the earth. And because one young boy,who had enough faith to pray to his Father in Heaven, we are blessedto be members of the Church of Jesus Christ. I am so glad I have theopportunity to serve my Father in Heaven and to be serving here inBrasil. I love you all and hope you have a GREAT week!
I love you!
Love,Sister Salisbury
Monday, November 1, 2010
Christmas Missionary Newsletter
Oí!
How are all you missionaries doing? For those of you who don´t know I´m here serving in the Brasil Fortaleza Mission. As of right now (November), I´ve been out eight months. I don´t know about you, but for me the time has flown by! It´s been a great experience so far and I´ve grown so much. A mission is such a blessing, for the missionary and those you are serving.
So a little bit about my mission. Brasil Fortaleza is a huge city next to the beach with a population of 2.5 million people, located Northeast of Brasil. My first area, Baturité, is about a 3 hour bus ride from Fortaleza and is located up in the mountains. It was a great experience, they have a small branch of about 100 members with 40-45 attending regularly. It was a lot of work to serve there, but I absolutely loved it. I made some wonderful friends and met some of the most kindest, loving people I´ll ever meet. I´m now in Metrópole and I´ve been here three transfers now with the same companion. I love her and my area! Me and my companion are over two wards and they´re great! It´s like being back at home. We´ve had really good success here, but had some hard times as well. I think one of the hardest things as being a missionary is getting people to come to church. You work, work, work all week with investigators and then comes Sunday and the people don´t want to go. Being a missionary takes a LOT of faith! But we truly receive blessings as we show our faith to our Heavenly Father. Like it says in Ether 12:6- "for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith." We have to be willing and faithful to work before we get what we want. Henry B. Eyring once said, "Faith is not hope. Faith is not simply to know God could do something. Faith is to know that He will." This is TRUE faith.
Something I´ve realized here on the mission is that the Lord works in His own time. I had an experience my first transfer here in this area. We were teaching these three family members and a friend of theirs about the Restoration. After the lesson we asked them if they would read the pamphlet and pray about it. They all said yes except for one of the family members. He´s 16 years old and his name is Wesley. He straight up said no and didn´t want to continue with the lessons. His aunt told us that he´s very arrogant with the "mormons". But we saw him and his family quite often because they live right above us. Time went by and we would always say hi and ask how they were doing and we became really good friends with all the family. More time went by and I´m into my next transfer. We´re heading back to our house for the night and our other neighbor, who is a member, tells us that Wesley went to seminary! We couldn´t believe it, it was a miracle! So the next day we´re teaching a different family member (you would think they would decide to learn about the church all at once, but no they like to do it one by one :) and Wesley sits in on the lesson. At the end, we invite Wesley to be baptized and he said yes! We were so excited and the next day he tells us he bought a little notebook to take notes at general conference. He had changed so much, I couldn´t believe it. He also told us that he couldn´t make it to the Saturday session because he had to work, but would be there Sunday for sure. And the next Sunday he was baptized. I know without a doubt that when we are keepíng the commandments, following the mission rules and striving to be the missionary we were called to be, we will see the blessings and miracles that come from our hard work. I found a quote the other day that I love which says, "Pray as is everything depended on God and then work as if everything depended on you." -Francis Cardinal Spellman....I know that I´ve found myself at times ask for help in some things and maybe not done my part as I should´´ve, but when I work hard and do my part I can see the blessings and help from the Lord.
Wherever you missionaries might be, whether it be in a hick town, the big city, foreign country, the good ol´ MTC or packing your bags; we "are servants of the Most High God, with a testimony to bear, truth to teach, and souls to save." -President Thomas S. Monson...Never forget that!
Be faithful and diligent in doing the work of the Lord. I am happy to say that I am a servant of the Most High God-what a blessing! Not just for me, but for those I am helping to come unto Christ and receive eternal life.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas!!! May we all remember the importance of this special day, the birth of our loving brother, Savior, and Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
I wish you all the best!
With love,
Sister Salisbury
How are all you missionaries doing? For those of you who don´t know I´m here serving in the Brasil Fortaleza Mission. As of right now (November), I´ve been out eight months. I don´t know about you, but for me the time has flown by! It´s been a great experience so far and I´ve grown so much. A mission is such a blessing, for the missionary and those you are serving.
So a little bit about my mission. Brasil Fortaleza is a huge city next to the beach with a population of 2.5 million people, located Northeast of Brasil. My first area, Baturité, is about a 3 hour bus ride from Fortaleza and is located up in the mountains. It was a great experience, they have a small branch of about 100 members with 40-45 attending regularly. It was a lot of work to serve there, but I absolutely loved it. I made some wonderful friends and met some of the most kindest, loving people I´ll ever meet. I´m now in Metrópole and I´ve been here three transfers now with the same companion. I love her and my area! Me and my companion are over two wards and they´re great! It´s like being back at home. We´ve had really good success here, but had some hard times as well. I think one of the hardest things as being a missionary is getting people to come to church. You work, work, work all week with investigators and then comes Sunday and the people don´t want to go. Being a missionary takes a LOT of faith! But we truly receive blessings as we show our faith to our Heavenly Father. Like it says in Ether 12:6- "for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith." We have to be willing and faithful to work before we get what we want. Henry B. Eyring once said, "Faith is not hope. Faith is not simply to know God could do something. Faith is to know that He will." This is TRUE faith.
Something I´ve realized here on the mission is that the Lord works in His own time. I had an experience my first transfer here in this area. We were teaching these three family members and a friend of theirs about the Restoration. After the lesson we asked them if they would read the pamphlet and pray about it. They all said yes except for one of the family members. He´s 16 years old and his name is Wesley. He straight up said no and didn´t want to continue with the lessons. His aunt told us that he´s very arrogant with the "mormons". But we saw him and his family quite often because they live right above us. Time went by and we would always say hi and ask how they were doing and we became really good friends with all the family. More time went by and I´m into my next transfer. We´re heading back to our house for the night and our other neighbor, who is a member, tells us that Wesley went to seminary! We couldn´t believe it, it was a miracle! So the next day we´re teaching a different family member (you would think they would decide to learn about the church all at once, but no they like to do it one by one :) and Wesley sits in on the lesson. At the end, we invite Wesley to be baptized and he said yes! We were so excited and the next day he tells us he bought a little notebook to take notes at general conference. He had changed so much, I couldn´t believe it. He also told us that he couldn´t make it to the Saturday session because he had to work, but would be there Sunday for sure. And the next Sunday he was baptized. I know without a doubt that when we are keepíng the commandments, following the mission rules and striving to be the missionary we were called to be, we will see the blessings and miracles that come from our hard work. I found a quote the other day that I love which says, "Pray as is everything depended on God and then work as if everything depended on you." -Francis Cardinal Spellman....I know that I´ve found myself at times ask for help in some things and maybe not done my part as I should´´ve, but when I work hard and do my part I can see the blessings and help from the Lord.
Wherever you missionaries might be, whether it be in a hick town, the big city, foreign country, the good ol´ MTC or packing your bags; we "are servants of the Most High God, with a testimony to bear, truth to teach, and souls to save." -President Thomas S. Monson...Never forget that!
Be faithful and diligent in doing the work of the Lord. I am happy to say that I am a servant of the Most High God-what a blessing! Not just for me, but for those I am helping to come unto Christ and receive eternal life.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas!!! May we all remember the importance of this special day, the birth of our loving brother, Savior, and Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
I wish you all the best!
With love,
Sister Salisbury
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