Hey everyone!
Well, i have to tell you now, that this will very short. sorry:( i have a lot to do and i don´t have much time. But wow this is my final letter....i can´t beliieve it´s come to an end already. I went to visit one the wards i served in yesterday and i bore my testimony. It was so hard to say goodbye to the people there. They are like my family. Although some of them are going to go to the airport to see me off :) I know im going to cry....shoot, i cry at transfers, i can only imagine what its going to be like at teh airport. Wow, i don´t know how to explain what im feeling. The closer it gets the more it hits me. To tell you the truth IM really nervous to come home, i dont know why. Im goign to miss everyone so much though from this place. But i´ll definately be back for the temple dedication...its not a question for me, ill be back in a few years...i have to start saving up... :)
Well, i think i decided on where i want to eat when i get home....mexican food, that one restaurant in downtown kenniwick, or fiest on rd 68....i was in dúvida on what type of food i wanted to eat, but thats what it will be! And i was wondering, not sure how you feel about it, but if possible i would like to go to the temple before i get released, not sure how that will work, but think about it and if we can i would really like to do that.
ALright, well hope you guys have a good week at the coast....i can´t wait to see you guys, even though im a little nervous haha i love you all!
love, sister salisbury
Monday, August 8, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
August 1, 2011
Hey family!
Well, im glad you got the flight plans and everything. I called the office this week and got all the info to tell you guys, but dad got right on it...sounds like he´s a little excited for me to come home ;) haha Yeah, so as soon as you know my topic please let me know, im really nervous to give a talk in english, but hopefully it all goes well. That´s awesome that the youth are going on a trek. They never had one when i was in young womens, that would have been cool. And Hunter DAvidson is going to São Paulo??? That[s awesome! haha you´re right, portuguese will become the first language here pretty soon.
Well, today all us sisters are going to sister souza´s (pres. wife) house i Aldeota to have a little party or something, im not sure what we´re going to do. It´ll be fun though. We had a good week, we found a lot of people to work with and Raimundo is doing good. He can´t be baptized yet, but hopefully before i leave! He´s such a good kid!
Alright, well i know this isn´t very long but i have to go, we have to catch a taxi over at the other sisters house to head to Aldeota. I hope you all have a good week and i love you!!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Well, im glad you got the flight plans and everything. I called the office this week and got all the info to tell you guys, but dad got right on it...sounds like he´s a little excited for me to come home ;) haha Yeah, so as soon as you know my topic please let me know, im really nervous to give a talk in english, but hopefully it all goes well. That´s awesome that the youth are going on a trek. They never had one when i was in young womens, that would have been cool. And Hunter DAvidson is going to São Paulo??? That[s awesome! haha you´re right, portuguese will become the first language here pretty soon.
Well, today all us sisters are going to sister souza´s (pres. wife) house i Aldeota to have a little party or something, im not sure what we´re going to do. It´ll be fun though. We had a good week, we found a lot of people to work with and Raimundo is doing good. He can´t be baptized yet, but hopefully before i leave! He´s such a good kid!
Alright, well i know this isn´t very long but i have to go, we have to catch a taxi over at the other sisters house to head to Aldeota. I hope you all have a good week and i love you!!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Monday, July 25, 2011
July 25, 2011
Hey FAmily!!!!!
Good to hear from you! ;)
well, i finally got the date for the big day....i´ll be arriving in pasco on the 16th of august. I still haven´t got all the details on time and what not but that´s the day. It´s creeping up on me. And thank you so much mom for washing all my things and getting things in order...was garrett pretty upset about moving out of the room?? That was so nice of grandpa, i didn´t even see that one coming. I love them so much, how are they doing? Well, this week was pretty crazy once again. Trying to get everyone taught, find new people and get everyone to church. YEsterday was really tough because we´re teacing this family and theyre preparing for baptism and we went to get them for church yesterday and the mom had gone somewhere and the kids were at home by themselves and couldn´t leave. We´re going to have to remark their baptism day. BUt hopefully it all works out. The one thng that made me happy though was as we were getting people to go to church we stopped by one of our investigators house, Raimundo, and he was already to go. When we got to this area the elders had left a couple of white shirts in the house, so i washed them up and got them all nice looking and gave him one to use because he was worried about the clothes he had. He has come so far though. We had actually found him when we were teaching his nephew. The first thing we talked about was the book of mormon. He hadn´t heard anything about the joseph smith, but he took the book and read it. The next day we askd him if he had any questions or doubts and he said, "no, all the questions i´ve had so far have been answered as im reading the book of mormon".....i didn´t know what to say when he said that, i was so excited!!!! And then yesterday as church ended we asked him how he liked it and he said he really liked it with a big smile on his face. And this kid, he´s 17, and he´s the real serious type, it´s hard for him to open up when we´re teaching, but when we saw the smile on his face we knew that he really liked it and that he had felt the spirit there at teh church. THat really made my day. And it made me think that yeah, today wasn´t the greatest working day that i´ve had, the family we had planned on coming to church didn´t come, didn´t have very many lessons taught....but to see Raimundo in church clothes, come to church and leave with a smile on his face, that makes all the difference. It makes me think of that story, not exactly sure how it goes but the guy that was walking along the shore throwing the starfish(not exactly sure if it was starfish or not, but ya know) and someone came along and said "there´s a ton of them here on the shore, it won´t even make a difference if you keep doing that" and the man turned to him and said, "I made a difference for that one." We sometimes never know what will happen in one´s life after we´ve taught them about the gospel, after they went to church for the first time. BUt to know that i was a part in their life and gave them the chance to know of the truth is something i can´t even begin to describe. And when you see the change in that person´s life after they´ve been baptized....it´s a joy that i feel and i can´t explain it. It´s goign to be really hard to leave the people of brazil, yesterday in relief society we sang "GOd be with you til we meet again" And i got to thinking, wow i´m almost gone and i don´t knwo when i´ll see these people again" I just started to cry. These people are my family, they have taken care of me for over a year, they´ve fed me, taken me into their lives....i´ll be going home to my family, but at teh same time i´ll be leaving a big chunk of my family here. I didn´t think it´d be this hard, but apparently it is :(
Well, i better get going, hope you all have a good week and know that i love you all! Tchau!
com muito amor,
sister salisbury
Good to hear from you! ;)
well, i finally got the date for the big day....i´ll be arriving in pasco on the 16th of august. I still haven´t got all the details on time and what not but that´s the day. It´s creeping up on me. And thank you so much mom for washing all my things and getting things in order...was garrett pretty upset about moving out of the room?? That was so nice of grandpa, i didn´t even see that one coming. I love them so much, how are they doing? Well, this week was pretty crazy once again. Trying to get everyone taught, find new people and get everyone to church. YEsterday was really tough because we´re teacing this family and theyre preparing for baptism and we went to get them for church yesterday and the mom had gone somewhere and the kids were at home by themselves and couldn´t leave. We´re going to have to remark their baptism day. BUt hopefully it all works out. The one thng that made me happy though was as we were getting people to go to church we stopped by one of our investigators house, Raimundo, and he was already to go. When we got to this area the elders had left a couple of white shirts in the house, so i washed them up and got them all nice looking and gave him one to use because he was worried about the clothes he had. He has come so far though. We had actually found him when we were teaching his nephew. The first thing we talked about was the book of mormon. He hadn´t heard anything about the joseph smith, but he took the book and read it. The next day we askd him if he had any questions or doubts and he said, "no, all the questions i´ve had so far have been answered as im reading the book of mormon".....i didn´t know what to say when he said that, i was so excited!!!! And then yesterday as church ended we asked him how he liked it and he said he really liked it with a big smile on his face. And this kid, he´s 17, and he´s the real serious type, it´s hard for him to open up when we´re teaching, but when we saw the smile on his face we knew that he really liked it and that he had felt the spirit there at teh church. THat really made my day. And it made me think that yeah, today wasn´t the greatest working day that i´ve had, the family we had planned on coming to church didn´t come, didn´t have very many lessons taught....but to see Raimundo in church clothes, come to church and leave with a smile on his face, that makes all the difference. It makes me think of that story, not exactly sure how it goes but the guy that was walking along the shore throwing the starfish(not exactly sure if it was starfish or not, but ya know) and someone came along and said "there´s a ton of them here on the shore, it won´t even make a difference if you keep doing that" and the man turned to him and said, "I made a difference for that one." We sometimes never know what will happen in one´s life after we´ve taught them about the gospel, after they went to church for the first time. BUt to know that i was a part in their life and gave them the chance to know of the truth is something i can´t even begin to describe. And when you see the change in that person´s life after they´ve been baptized....it´s a joy that i feel and i can´t explain it. It´s goign to be really hard to leave the people of brazil, yesterday in relief society we sang "GOd be with you til we meet again" And i got to thinking, wow i´m almost gone and i don´t knwo when i´ll see these people again" I just started to cry. These people are my family, they have taken care of me for over a year, they´ve fed me, taken me into their lives....i´ll be going home to my family, but at teh same time i´ll be leaving a big chunk of my family here. I didn´t think it´d be this hard, but apparently it is :(
Well, i better get going, hope you all have a good week and know that i love you all! Tchau!
com muito amor,
sister salisbury
Monday, July 18, 2011
July 18, 2011
Wow, what a week!
We worked really hard this week, had to break my new companion in :) My new companion is Sister Vaniski, from Cascavel-Paraná. She´s way cool and really excited to be here working. She doesn´t speak any english, but that´s ok. The new president has some new rules and one of them is that the americans need to help their brazilian comps with english. THe new area is really good, im really liking it and the members are so excited to have sisters in the area. They said it´s been over 10 years that they haven´t had sisters here. We found lots of investigators this week and they´re awesome!!! Some will be ready for baptism next week..i hope. We´ll be working with them this week and if they go to church on sunday they´ll be ready. We found this family, its a mom and she lives with her 4 kids. SHe is so neat and she wants to find "the right path" for her and her kids. She accepted to be baptized and we´re working with her and her kids to be batized at the end of this month. I love them so much!
President talked to me about my release date and he said he´s going to call provo just to authorize it and he´ll let me know FOR SURE THIS WEEK. HE apologizes for it taking so long. With the change of presidents it´s been really crazy.
Hope all is well at home, sorry this letter isn´t very long. DIdn´t here from you guys this week, but hopefully next week! I love and miss you all!!
Love, sister salisbury
We worked really hard this week, had to break my new companion in :) My new companion is Sister Vaniski, from Cascavel-Paraná. She´s way cool and really excited to be here working. She doesn´t speak any english, but that´s ok. The new president has some new rules and one of them is that the americans need to help their brazilian comps with english. THe new area is really good, im really liking it and the members are so excited to have sisters in the area. They said it´s been over 10 years that they haven´t had sisters here. We found lots of investigators this week and they´re awesome!!! Some will be ready for baptism next week..i hope. We´ll be working with them this week and if they go to church on sunday they´ll be ready. We found this family, its a mom and she lives with her 4 kids. SHe is so neat and she wants to find "the right path" for her and her kids. She accepted to be baptized and we´re working with her and her kids to be batized at the end of this month. I love them so much!
President talked to me about my release date and he said he´s going to call provo just to authorize it and he´ll let me know FOR SURE THIS WEEK. HE apologizes for it taking so long. With the change of presidents it´s been really crazy.
Hope all is well at home, sorry this letter isn´t very long. DIdn´t here from you guys this week, but hopefully next week! I love and miss you all!!
Love, sister salisbury
Monday, July 11, 2011
July 11, 2011
Hey!!!!!
Well, we had transfers today.....I got transferred. I´m opening an area where there used to be elders. IT was quite the adventure. FIrst off we had to wait for the other sisters to get to our house so we could go to the new area. They get there around 12:00pm. We had arranged with the elders to leave their keys with the neighbnors so we could get in. We get there and no one has the keys we ask two different neighbors and neither one of them had the keys. So i was calling all the elders in the mission office to try and get a hold of this elder that was responsible and it took forver because he didn´t have his phone on him. Finally, 2 hours later they get a hold of him and he said he had left the keys with the neighbor. We go back and ask again and they felt bad because the girl we had asked the first time hadn´t known they had the keys. We finally get insaide the house and......A PIG STY!!!!!!! Im sorry, but i have to say elders are disgusting!!!!!!! The walls are black from all the cob webs that have been up for probably years, the fridge is disgusting with food that´s been in there for who knows how long, the microwave had somethign blew up in there, and the bathroom......im going to town on that thing!!! And the bad thing is we have to have it all clean before my companion gets here tomorrow, im going to be training her!!! :) She´s from Cascavel, Parana-Brazil. I´m super excited! Right now im with sister black and sister regina silva, we´ll all live together. And wanna know something funny, our entire district has 8 sisters and 2 elders (our district leader and his comp) it´ll be really interesting!
Our new president is really good, he´s not president batt of course, but i think he´ll be good. I think a lot of things are going to change and he´s gonna have a lot more rules, but it won´t really matter cuz i´ll be gone in a few weeks. I still don´t know about my release date, every time i call they say that they´ll let me know. President already knows he just hasn´t given me an answer yet, but we´re having interviews this week so i´ll talk to him then. And for sure you will know next week! I think i´ll leave august 15th and get home the 16th.
That´s awesome that joseph rides a unicycle! I didn´t even know he was learning. I´m really torn about coming home. I´m super excited to get startd on new things again and what not, but i have so many people here that im going to miss so much! Last night i was talking with our neighbors and i just started to cry because i know i wno´t see them for a long time after i leave. They´re family to me! They´re going to see me off at the airport though so that will be neat :)
Well, hope all is well back at home...i can´t believe i´ll be home pretty soon! It´s gone by so fast. it´s incredible!!!! HAve a good week everybody, i love you all!!!
Love, sister ariana salisbury
Well, we had transfers today.....I got transferred. I´m opening an area where there used to be elders. IT was quite the adventure. FIrst off we had to wait for the other sisters to get to our house so we could go to the new area. They get there around 12:00pm. We had arranged with the elders to leave their keys with the neighbnors so we could get in. We get there and no one has the keys we ask two different neighbors and neither one of them had the keys. So i was calling all the elders in the mission office to try and get a hold of this elder that was responsible and it took forver because he didn´t have his phone on him. Finally, 2 hours later they get a hold of him and he said he had left the keys with the neighbor. We go back and ask again and they felt bad because the girl we had asked the first time hadn´t known they had the keys. We finally get insaide the house and......A PIG STY!!!!!!! Im sorry, but i have to say elders are disgusting!!!!!!! The walls are black from all the cob webs that have been up for probably years, the fridge is disgusting with food that´s been in there for who knows how long, the microwave had somethign blew up in there, and the bathroom......im going to town on that thing!!! And the bad thing is we have to have it all clean before my companion gets here tomorrow, im going to be training her!!! :) She´s from Cascavel, Parana-Brazil. I´m super excited! Right now im with sister black and sister regina silva, we´ll all live together. And wanna know something funny, our entire district has 8 sisters and 2 elders (our district leader and his comp) it´ll be really interesting!
Our new president is really good, he´s not president batt of course, but i think he´ll be good. I think a lot of things are going to change and he´s gonna have a lot more rules, but it won´t really matter cuz i´ll be gone in a few weeks. I still don´t know about my release date, every time i call they say that they´ll let me know. President already knows he just hasn´t given me an answer yet, but we´re having interviews this week so i´ll talk to him then. And for sure you will know next week! I think i´ll leave august 15th and get home the 16th.
That´s awesome that joseph rides a unicycle! I didn´t even know he was learning. I´m really torn about coming home. I´m super excited to get startd on new things again and what not, but i have so many people here that im going to miss so much! Last night i was talking with our neighbors and i just started to cry because i know i wno´t see them for a long time after i leave. They´re family to me! They´re going to see me off at the airport though so that will be neat :)
Well, hope all is well back at home...i can´t believe i´ll be home pretty soon! It´s gone by so fast. it´s incredible!!!! HAve a good week everybody, i love you all!!!
Love, sister ariana salisbury
Monday, July 4, 2011
July 4, 2011
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope you all are doing good! This isn´t going to be very long, but i hope you all have a good time at the parade and all!!!
Well, President Batt left last tuesday and our new president got here as well. HIs name is President Souza and he is from Curatiba. It´s funny because each week we have to email a letter to the president and now that our new pres is here we have to write in portuguese and my companion sister black is all worried about having to write in portuguese. She wrote it all out this past week and had us other sisters correct it. Then we get here to the lanhouse and she forgot her letter at home haha we all laughed. BUt anyways, this week was really busy. ANd it passed by so fast! We were running all over the place this week. We had a baptism for Bernardo. It was really good, although we had almost zero support from the members. I felt so embarrased, but we made it special for him. He has changed a lot. When I first met him he was very reserveded and didn´t talk much, but now he´s open he talks a lot more with us and he´s so happy. I can really see the change in him.
We actually had lunch at his and his wife´s house. IT was super good, it was way too good....it made me a little trunky. We get there (it´s an apartment complex) and they have a pool and a patio where you can eat and visit and all that. Anyways, they had family there, kids were swimming, it was sunny, breezy, a big lunch, fruits, ice cream....i think you can get the picture.....and i think you can understand why it made me trunky ;) Brought back lots of summer time memories! It was really great!
ALright, well not much else that happened this week, it was just super busy. HOpe you all are having a good time and i love you all!!!!! HAve a good week, and get lots of candy at the parade!!!! :) Tchau!!!!
Love, sister salisbury
Hope you all are doing good! This isn´t going to be very long, but i hope you all have a good time at the parade and all!!!
Well, President Batt left last tuesday and our new president got here as well. HIs name is President Souza and he is from Curatiba. It´s funny because each week we have to email a letter to the president and now that our new pres is here we have to write in portuguese and my companion sister black is all worried about having to write in portuguese. She wrote it all out this past week and had us other sisters correct it. Then we get here to the lanhouse and she forgot her letter at home haha we all laughed. BUt anyways, this week was really busy. ANd it passed by so fast! We were running all over the place this week. We had a baptism for Bernardo. It was really good, although we had almost zero support from the members. I felt so embarrased, but we made it special for him. He has changed a lot. When I first met him he was very reserveded and didn´t talk much, but now he´s open he talks a lot more with us and he´s so happy. I can really see the change in him.
We actually had lunch at his and his wife´s house. IT was super good, it was way too good....it made me a little trunky. We get there (it´s an apartment complex) and they have a pool and a patio where you can eat and visit and all that. Anyways, they had family there, kids were swimming, it was sunny, breezy, a big lunch, fruits, ice cream....i think you can get the picture.....and i think you can understand why it made me trunky ;) Brought back lots of summer time memories! It was really great!
ALright, well not much else that happened this week, it was just super busy. HOpe you all are having a good time and i love you all!!!!! HAve a good week, and get lots of candy at the parade!!!! :) Tchau!!!!
Love, sister salisbury
Monday, June 27, 2011
June 27, 2011
Hey!!!!
So this week is the family reunion huh?! Hope you guys have fun!!!!
Well, yesterday I had the opportunity to visit one my areas, Metrópole. I went to both the wards there and sat in on both of their sacrament meetings. It was so good to see everyone and the people I had taught. Haha and just like old times, I played the piano for them in the meeting. Towards the end of the meeting bishop sent me a note and asking me if I would share my testimony. So after the speakers he invited me up to bare my testimony. It was so hard, I really felt that I´m coming to the end of my mission and this is it. I won´t see any of them for awhile. I hope I´ll be able to visit my other areas. I´m pretty sure I´ll visit Baturité , but Monte Castelo, I don´t know. It was so neat though to see the members in Metrópole. It´s changed though, thats what´s hard, you leave and the people keep living their lives. On the way back I was talking to Sister Gonzaga and I said, "It´s going to be the same thing when we go back home, we left and things kept going on, people kept living their lives and everything will be different." That´s going to be the shock for me....but that´s life i guess.
Yesterday we also had a baptism for Francinildo. He´s an investigator we´ve been teaching for awhile now. We´re teaching his family, his wife is going to be baptized but she has to stop smoking first. They have 4 kids and they are the neatest family. I love them so much!!! President Batt came out once more the other day, it was the last time we saw him. He leaves tomorrow!!! He also gave me a blessing. It was so neat and it was just what I needed. Lots of things have been going on and dad I know you were inspired by the Spirit to ask President Batt to give me a blessing. Even though we´re miles away,in two different countries,you are still inspired by the spirit to know exactly what your daughter is needing. THank you so much!!! I love you!
Sister Gonzaga´s parents were in at the MTC this past week in Provo. They´re heading to their mission in Maceió (Brazil) tomorrow i think. And Sister Souza sends hugs and kisses for you guys! She is so sweet!!!! I love her so much! I´m going to miss these girls so much, they have made such an impact on my life! And Sister Souza is teaching me ballet :)
Alright, well not much else has happened this past week. I´m making my way through the Book of Mormon again and I´m loving every minute of it! I love it so much, because everytime you read it you find something that you didn´t catch before or you understand something a different way, ah I wish I had been more passionate about reading it growing up. I guess it kind of comes with your mind set though. Chandler, Garrett and Joseph.....READ THE BOOK OF MORMON!!!!!!!! Mark the things that interest you, that catch your attention and as you read it, think of it as a story book, it´s so interesting. It has so much information and different "characters"....it´s just AMAZING!!!!! And the thing is, ALL of it is TRUE!!! I can´t wait to come home and read it with the family!!!! :)
Well, I hope all is well and you guys have a fun week!!!! I love you all!!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
So this week is the family reunion huh?! Hope you guys have fun!!!!
Well, yesterday I had the opportunity to visit one my areas, Metrópole. I went to both the wards there and sat in on both of their sacrament meetings. It was so good to see everyone and the people I had taught. Haha and just like old times, I played the piano for them in the meeting. Towards the end of the meeting bishop sent me a note and asking me if I would share my testimony. So after the speakers he invited me up to bare my testimony. It was so hard, I really felt that I´m coming to the end of my mission and this is it. I won´t see any of them for awhile. I hope I´ll be able to visit my other areas. I´m pretty sure I´ll visit Baturité , but Monte Castelo, I don´t know. It was so neat though to see the members in Metrópole. It´s changed though, thats what´s hard, you leave and the people keep living their lives. On the way back I was talking to Sister Gonzaga and I said, "It´s going to be the same thing when we go back home, we left and things kept going on, people kept living their lives and everything will be different." That´s going to be the shock for me....but that´s life i guess.
Yesterday we also had a baptism for Francinildo. He´s an investigator we´ve been teaching for awhile now. We´re teaching his family, his wife is going to be baptized but she has to stop smoking first. They have 4 kids and they are the neatest family. I love them so much!!! President Batt came out once more the other day, it was the last time we saw him. He leaves tomorrow!!! He also gave me a blessing. It was so neat and it was just what I needed. Lots of things have been going on and dad I know you were inspired by the Spirit to ask President Batt to give me a blessing. Even though we´re miles away,in two different countries,you are still inspired by the spirit to know exactly what your daughter is needing. THank you so much!!! I love you!
Sister Gonzaga´s parents were in at the MTC this past week in Provo. They´re heading to their mission in Maceió (Brazil) tomorrow i think. And Sister Souza sends hugs and kisses for you guys! She is so sweet!!!! I love her so much! I´m going to miss these girls so much, they have made such an impact on my life! And Sister Souza is teaching me ballet :)
Alright, well not much else has happened this past week. I´m making my way through the Book of Mormon again and I´m loving every minute of it! I love it so much, because everytime you read it you find something that you didn´t catch before or you understand something a different way, ah I wish I had been more passionate about reading it growing up. I guess it kind of comes with your mind set though. Chandler, Garrett and Joseph.....READ THE BOOK OF MORMON!!!!!!!! Mark the things that interest you, that catch your attention and as you read it, think of it as a story book, it´s so interesting. It has so much information and different "characters"....it´s just AMAZING!!!!! And the thing is, ALL of it is TRUE!!! I can´t wait to come home and read it with the family!!!! :)
Well, I hope all is well and you guys have a fun week!!!! I love you all!!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Monday, June 20, 2011
June 20, 2011
Hey Everyone!!!
Happy Father´s Day to Dad, and all my brothers, chad, brian, uncles, grandpa cook and grandpa salisbury!!!!! Hope it was a good one! :) Dad you got my father´s day letter right?! I think you or mom may have mentioned it. Well, this is President Batt´s last week. He´ll leave next tuesday. I can´t believe. He´s made a couple visits to us this past week. We went out to pizza with him and sister batt and one of the families here that was recently baptized. And then last night President came out to our area again. He gave us a ride home from the church. We stayed outside talking with him forever. None of us wanted to go inside. It might have been the last time we see him, but we´re begging him to come out once more. While we were waiting for him to come outside out at the church we were just crying because we figured that would be the last time. He has been such a great president. All us missionaries wrote our last letter to president batt today. He´ll be going home and then before I know it that´ll be me! As soon as the new president gets here I´ll ask him about my release date and let you know as soon as possible. And I will talk to the secretary and tell him to fl me into Pasco
Oh and mom, can you start scheduling my doctor appointments. I thought I´d never ever say this in my entire life, but I WANT to go to the dentist. Be sure to get me scheduled :) Trying to think if anything else happened this week....we all went shopping today and I think im done buying gifts!!! Thank goodness!!!! Oh and you know the boy i told you we baptized last week, Diogo, his brother Victor I believe was taught and Baptized by elder mcgary and his companion. I don´t really know him, but he had glasses and reddish hair in the picture that I saw. Is that the same mcgary?? not sure.
Um...OH! We had Festa Junina this past week. It´s a traditional northeast festa that they celebrate. Our ward put it on and it was so much fun. All the kids have been practicing for weeks. They do square dancing and they all get dressed up in these festive dresses and outfits. It was so neat!
And I have to tell you about some the neatest members ever!!!! I feel like I never left home. Irmã Fatima and her husband Ronaldo are our neighbors. They have two girls that are so much fun, Nitchelly and Natasha. They´re like sisters to us. Nitchelly is married to Paulino and they have two little girls, Aisly and Aisha. Natasha is married to Lorival and they have 3 girls, Jade, Julie and Jude. Each one of these little girls loves us just as much as we love them. Every morning and night they stop by our house for us to give them hugs and kisses. They are adorable!!! And they know that they can´t come in our house so they wait by the door until we all come out. I want to bring them all home with me. THey´re like my nieces away from home. I will miss them all so so much!!!! And nitchelly and natasha are like my sisters. I have a feeling it´s going to be a lot harder to leave here than I thought it was going to be.
Well, I hope all goes well at the family reunion this next week. Say hi to everyone and give them all hugs for me! I love and miss you all!!!! Tchau!!
Love, Sister Ariana Salisbury
Monday, June 13, 2011
June 13, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHANDLER!!!!!!!!!!
HOpe you had a good birthday!!! :)
Well, this week was quite interesting. Actually the past two weeks have been crazy, lots of things have been going on. 20 prisoners escaped!!! There were police officers and helicopters going all over the place....but no worries, we´re all good now. A few other things have happened, but I´ll wait to tell you the stories in person :)
So we got some really sad news saturday night. We got home and we had over 10 missed calls, from a number in São Paulo. We called president batt to see if he new something about it and come to find out it was Sister Souza´s Bishop trying to get a hold of her. Her dad passed away friday night. It was really hard for her. She´s still trying to get by. The hardest part for her I think is because she hasn´t had contact with him for about 3 years. Her parents are separated and she lives with her mom. Sister Souza is the only member from her family. She joined the church when she 9 years old!!! Her dad had problems with drinking, but apparently he died in his sleep. She´s going to stay here, she got permission from president to call her mom and talk to her. She´s getting by though, she´s got 4 other sisters here with her :)
So Jande is pregnant too!!!! I knew it! I even said somethign to her on mothers day about it, but she didn´t say anything haha but that´s way exciting, congrats!!!! So that will make number 32, right?? IT´s funny when I tell people that I have 30 nieces and nephews. THeir jaws drop to the ground.
For the release date, that´s all i know as of now. Once the new president gets here I can talk to him and get the time and all that worked out.
Brett wrote me, he´s actaully in utah right now helping his grandpa out with some things. He´s thinking about going to cbc as well. I can´t wait to see him, haha i hope im not weird....
Alright so yesterday we went to visit a family we had been teaching. They´ve been difficult. FIrst off, we got them married and got everythign ready for their baptism but then the mom went and smoked and the dad drank so that put their baptism out the window. We cut them and gave them some time. Then last week we went back just to see how things were going and they come out and say we´re coming to church on sunday and we want to be baptized last week. We tried not to get our hopes up because of what had happened in the past. Saturday we stopped by to remind them about church. Gleciane, the mom, said she would go but Gean, the dad, had to work because they had to pay some late bills. Long story short, no one came to church, we stopped by yesterday to see what happened and come to find out they took the whole family to the beach. That was our last visit to their house. It´s so frustrating, they were such a good family at the beginning, but the enemy works so hard and they just gave in. The enemy is working really hard with the families that we´re working with. It seems like he´s working the hardest now than he ever has with any of the investigators I´ve had. It´s hard, but we just have to work harder to overcome him.
We did have other investigators come to church though. We´re working with another family, Bernardo and Silvana. Silvana is actually a member already, but her husband isn´t. We are in the process of getting them married. We´ll be heading to the cartório (the place you marry people, i forgot the word in english) this week for the second step. After that just one more and then he can be ´baptized! We also had a baptism yesterday for Diogo. He is such a cutie! He´s ten years old and he always comes to church with his grandpa.
Well, that´s all I can think of right now. HOpe you all have a good week and i love you all!!!!
Love, sister salisbury
Monday, June 6, 2011
June 6, 2011
Hey everyone!
Well, this week we had zone conference. It was really emotional because it was our last one with President and Sister Batt. It was also my last one. I had to bare my testimony since I´ll be leaving in August. Everyone that will be going up until the transfer in august had to bare their testimony. I told my self I wasn´t going to cry, I got teary-eyed but i held it in! I can´t believe that it´s coming to an end. I try not to think about it too much, but now me, sister Gonzaga and sister corrêa are trying to plan to go buy things and what we´re going to get and it´s hard not to think that i´ll be home soon. It seriously passes by so fast! It feels like yesterday that Aunt Launa was dropping me off at the MTC. I am so grateful for all the companions that I´ve had though and all that I´ve learned from them, my leaders, President and Sister Batt...they are the most amazing people ever! I will truly miss them.
This past week I also went to the policia federal to renew my visa. I was the 1st estrangeiro!!!!! haha The first foreigner to go through for the day :) We saw lots of people from south africa, it was way cool. They were speaking english but they have a crazy accent.
Ok, so zone conference was really neat. All of the missionaries got to the chapel early and we were all up on the stand so when president and sister batt came into the chapel we started singing the cong, "Each life that touches ours for good" It was so neat. They just sat at the back on the bench and they were so touched, and president even cried!!! Then for a speical musical number, the four sisters that i live with sang and i played for them. Sister Gonzaga sang a solo, "Together Forever" and then at the end the other sisters came in and sang with her, "I know that my Redeemer lives" It was so amazing!!!! This conference was so special and you could feel the spirit so much! (Dad you would absolutely love Sister Gonazaga!!!) I want you guys to meet her so much!!!! But she´s thinking about going to BYU. When she goes home her parents won´t be there, they´re just about to leave to go to the MTC in PRovo, Her dad is going to be a mission president here in Brazil. But im almost positive that sister gonzaga will make her way to the states. She´s absolutely amazing and i have so much love and respect for her. She is an amazing woman!!!!
we had a baptism on saturday. It wasn´t really mine though. THe other two sisters from the other ward, finished teaching this man that sister gonzaga had started to teach but then she got transferred. Its a miracle though that he was baptized. He´s married to a member and he never believed in God or Christ. The change that happened in that man´s life was an absolute miracle! You can really see the light in his eyes. The baptism was so great and i was so happy to see his family all together!
Um, well not much else has happened. We started up an english class, we´re going to have an activity this friday that the members are planning and one of the members asked if i would teach a cheer dance or some type of dance for them, so that will be fun :)
Well, hope all is well with you guys and have a great summer!!!! I love you alll!!!!!
love, sister salisbury
Oh and i almost forgot! Yesterday we had lunch at the second counselor´s(of the bishopric) house here in José Walter and guess who baptized him!!!!! Sevryn Bergeson!!!! Let Sevryn know that Chiko Antonio and his family sends him hugs, love and all the best!!!!
Monday, May 30, 2011
May 30, 2011
WOW! What a week!
It went really good this week, lots of work, but I enjoyed it. I went out a couple days with a member. Her name is Lais and she´s 19 years old. She wants to serve a mission really bad, so she´s been helping me. So what usually happens is this, I stay with S. Gonzaga and S. Black until after lunch, then at about 1:30-2:00 I meet up with Lais and I go to work with her until about 6:00pm. Then I meet up with Gonzaga and Black again and we work the rest of the night. It´s really good so far and Im enjoying it. I really miss Sister Bowden, but we´re having zone conference this week, so I´ll be seeing her then :)
So we´re working with so many good people right now. THere´s this family that we´re working with that are great! The wife smokes and drinks coffee, but she´s stopping and yesterday we went over there to make Cevada(barley) with her. It´s a substitute for coffee, it´s really good! And she loved it. She said she´s done with coffee and the cevada doesn´t give her the desire to smoke. She said when she drinks coffee, it´s makes her want to smoke. We were all so happy. We were actually working with another family this past week, but we had to cut them. We had gone into fortaleza to get them married, we were planning their baptism for this past saturday, but we went there on friday and the wife had smoked again and the husband had drank. We were so distraught!!! But we´re working with lots of other good people. There´s this man, Bernardo, he´s going to be baptized in june. We just have to get him and his wife married first, we´re doing that this week. We´ll start the process and in a few weeks they´ll be married and he´ll be baptized! Im really liking the area so far and the sisters that im working with. Hopefully we have another good week.
Alright and now for the crazy experience we had this week. Friday morning, I woke up put my clothes in the washer and started a load. Then me and S. Black started working out (me and S. Bowden started working out in aracati and now s black is doing it with me). One of the sisters went to take a shower and about 1 minute later she comes out and says we have NO WATER. I go to the washer and it had stopped filling up. SO picture this, all my whites in the washer, me and s black sweating like you wouldn´t believe and 3 other sisters that are needing to shower....and we have NO WATER. Our neighbors didn´t even have water, we couldn´t even use the bathroom and 2 sisters were sick, with the flu. Perfect scene, huh? And we were without water for 2 STRAIGHT DAYS! We have a grocery store right down the road and we were having to use the bathroom there. And the deal about showers.....well, we had mineral drinking water. Each of us filled up a 1 1/2 liter waterbottle and used that to take a shower. But that´s all we had so we had to use it wisely. We used it to wash our dishes, drinking....and my clothes sat in the washer for 2 days. Luckily they didn´t have a bad smell by the time the water came back, but oh my heavens, it was a crazy 2 days. Haha we just laugh about it now. :)
Oh! Other crazy thing......guess who was in Sister Black´s room at the MTC, in Provo????? SISTER KATHERINE TAYLOR. Small world huh?! S Black said she absolutely loved her, they became really good friends.
Well, I have to say sorry mom, because I didn´t even wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY last week......HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) we were crossing the road last week and it hit me that i hadn´t said anything in my email last monday. Sorry :( But hope you had a good day! And Happy Birthday to Marissa and Whitney too!!!!
Hope you all have a good week and good luck joey at the talent show! Love you guys!!!
Love, Sister Ariana Salisbury
Monday, May 23, 2011
May 23, 2011
WOW WHAT A WEEK!!!!!!!!!
This week was probably one of the best and saddest weeks of the mission. I´m not sure if you all can understand the love these people have for us. So, like you know, we teach piano and english twice a week. Well, they knew transfers were coming up and they didn´t want me or Sister Bowden to leave. So we´re at the church saturday night at class teaching. One of the girls, Silvinha, who is the most amazing person ever, wasn´t there, which was really strange. Anyways, we´re getting things packed up and ready to leave and she shows up, but we were all leaving. We come out of the room and they tell us to come into another room. We walk in and we see a tv hooked up with a table of food and dessert. We couldn´t believe it. They did this all for us and this isn´t even the best part. They made a DVD of all the pictures of us at class and what not and Silvinha had recorded everyone saying something about us. It was the most amazing thing that anyone has ever done. These people in Aracati are so incredible and have so much love for us. Everyone was bawling....and I have to tell you, these aren´t like married adults or anything, these are kids from ages 6-19...well and silvinha is 27, but still. They did all of this for us!!!!! Then me and Sister Bowden got up after the slide show was over and said a little something. It was a really neat farewell party. Although, as of that moment, we still didn´t know who was getting transferred. But after the phone call from the elders later that night, I wouldn´t have asked for anything better than to end my time in Aracati with that farewell party.
I am now in José Walter with......4 COMPANIONS!!!! I will be working with two companionships. Sister Gonzaga(3rd time with her) and Sister Black (related to the blacks in Pasco) and Sister Corrêa (2nd time with her) and Sister Souza. I had interviews with President Batt today and he said the reason he´s doing it this way is because we can have divisions and he wants the newer sisters to get to know the area. So I´m not with just one companionship, we´ll be mixing it up a lot I think. It was cool though, in the interview President Batt told me something that made me feel good. He said that Sister Gonzaga, Me, and Sister Corrêa are three of the best sisters he´s ever had here on the mission. So that was neat. It was really, really, really, REALLY hard to say goodbye to Sister Bowden and to Aracati. I had to give a talk yesterday in church, it went well i think, but it was really hard to focus and to not think about having to say goodbye to all these people. Daniel, a really good member friend that comes to our classes, called me up during the break of the two wards that meet at the church building (his ward meets at a school a ways a away) and said that he already misses me and that he´s learned a lot from me and Sister Bowden. He was crying, I was crying.....everyone was crying!!!! But you know, change is always good. We don´t always know why things have to change, but I guess it will be good. And I´m excited to work with these sisters now :)
Oh and this past week we went to a museum in Aracati. Aracati is a really old city and it has a lot of historical stuff (you would like it dad) :) I got some great pictures, I can´t wait to show them all to you!!!
Yesterday we also had a couple of baptisms. João Vitor and Carlos. It was so neat and they were both so HAPPY!!!! Carlos had started coming to our classes awhile back and we had come to find out that he had been baptized, but never confirmed! We talked to hime and he had become inactive so we taught him and prepared him for baptism and this sunday he´ll finally be confrmed o membro da igreja. João Vitor too, was so happy to finally be baptized! He´s been going to seminary every night and he´s actually the one who had gotten up in sacrament meeting last fast and testimony meeting and bore his testimony. So cool!!!
Well, I hope everything is going good and you all have a good week. Oh and this transfer is actually going to be 7 weeks and my last one will be 5 weeks!!!! Crazy huh?! It´s coming up FAST!!!!! Have a good day and I love you all!!!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
P.S. I just fell asleep at the computer haha. I am exhausted!!! I didn´t sleep at all last night :( and now im going to take a little nap!!!
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
April 18, 2011
Hey Family how´s it going?!
Well, everything is going good here in Aracati still. I feel like i´ve been here forever, but I really do love it! Oh! ok so I think i told you about the girl we baptized, Sandrinha. Well, she has a friend that she introduced us to and we´ve started teaching her. We gave her the BOok of Mormon to read and she LOVES it!!!! She loves it so much she started sharing it with another friend. She said when she reads it, she feels light, like a weight had been lifted from her (not sure if that really makes sense in english, it does in portuguese) she just felt really good though and can´t stop reading it! We were so excited to hear that!
I´m not sure about mother´s day yet. We have to find two cell phones that we can use and then I´ll let you know the times I´ll be calling. It will be in the afternoon for sure though. DON´T forget to put minutes on the calling card if there isn´t any left!!!! And no I haven´t got the easter package yet, if you sent it the 4th, it will probably be here in a couple weeks. GOod to hear the wedding went well! I got their announcement! I don´t even think I knew he was dating anyone, but that´s awesome!!!!!
Oh and Im not sure that I told you, but remember the branch president from Baturité?? Pres. França?? Well, I guess he got a job in São Paulo and is living there now with his family. So it will be sad, I won´t be able to see him when we visit baturité.
Sad to hear that the surgery isn´t the greatest in the mouth, Im probably gooing to have to get that done sometime in my lifetime as well. The dentist said mine are receeding a little as well. Guess its another genetic thing that i was gratefully blessed with haha :) just kidding.....
alright, well not much else to say, we did have quite an interesting talk with the relief society presidency yesterday at lunch. Not the most appropriate thing for ALL ears, but me and sister bowden were trying so hard not to crack up. THey reminded me though of the "cackling sisters" ;) I´ll have to tell you about it later :)
Ok, well I hope you all have a great week and that everybody is doing good! I love you all so much and are always in my prayers! I Love you guys!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Monday, May 16, 2011
May 16, 2011
Hey how is everyone?!?!
Well this week was great! I forgot to tell you about an activity we did at the church 2 saturdays ago. It was so much fun! Me and Sister Bowden filled up 150 water balloons and made snickerdoodles and played water games at the church. I also gave a short message at the beginning on mothers, since it was mothers day the next day. It was mostly youth that came, but we all had a blast!!! We also had a baptism yesterday. We´ve been teaching this family, but only one of the kids was ready to be baptized. He´s 10 years old and his name is Marcelo. He is so cute! He calls us "Tia" which means aunt, but many kids use it as a sign of respect here. It´s better than being called "Senhora" which means ma'am, ms, etc....but he is so cute! And when he came up out of the water he had the BIGGEST smile on his face. He was so happy! I wish i had a picture of it, but i will always remember that look he had when he came up out of the water. So neat!!!
This is our last week of this transfer can you believe it?!?!? Me and B have been together for 3 transfers already! It goes by so fast. We would like one more together, but I called President Batt to talk to him and he said that we´re starting to get more sisters and he may have to split us up. I have a feeling that I may be leaving and B will stay here and become a senior. I´m not sure where i would be going, but we´re losing 2 sisters and they´re both in Baturité. I think President might send me back out there, but Im not completely sure, its just what im kind of feeling. And then yesterday after the baptism, the branch president came up and asked if i would give a talk this next sunday. And as soon as he said that i felt that im going to be leaving and this will kind of be my farewell talk from this area :( if i do leave im going to be really sad. I have made so many good friends here, the people are so loving and caring and do so much for us! I will truly miss them!
That´s too bad about baseball. Hopefully everything goes good for them next year with the coaches and all. Good luck today Joey in your game!!!! Hope you win and eat some sunflower seeds for me!! :) And that´s awesome about TD, everyone is getting called to Brazil! Crazy! As far as the release date, I talked to president and he said i would be able to go home the week of august 17th. There is a transfer august 15th or 16th so i think i would be going home then. We´re going to talk more in interviews which will be in a couple weeks and he said that i will need to talk with the new president too, but he said it will be fine. They will work everything out. If for any reason i need to be home a little sooner they can work it out.
I got the easter package and the pictures and whatnot!!!! I absolutely loved it!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!! I was a little sad about the cadbury egg, it got destroyed, but everything else was great!!!!!
Well i hope you guys have a good week!!!! Love you!
Love, Sister salisbury
ps. can you send me shirt sizes of everyone??? I need to start buying stuff and we found a really COOL store!!!!
Monday, April 25, 2011
April 25, 2011
Boa tarde todo mundo!
Wow!!!! What a week! Me and Sister Bowden had an amazing week! It was a real testimony building week. So over the past several months President Batt has been stressing over working more with the members and getting references. And this week was incredible! So there´s this deacon in the Aracati Branch that had told us he had some references for us, but everytime we went to his house he was never home. Well, last week my district all fasted that we´d have good success for this transfer and I prayed that we would be able to receive more references from the members because they had been struggling to give us any. Well, on friday one of our appointments fell through so i mentioned that we should probably go and see if Cacio was at home(the deacon). So we head over and he´s home and he has family visiting (non members :) so we got their address so we could send the missionaries to their house in another area (that was 2 different families) :) so then Cacio takes us to his friends house that he had been telling us about and we get there and there´s 3 ladies and Cacio´s friend sitting out on the porch just visiting. We ask if we could talk with them a bit about the church and share a message. It was great! We were sitting there just visiting for a little bit, getting to know each other and some of cacio´s family came to join us...2 more people. So then we start the lesson. We were teaching the first lesson, The Restoration. And just as we were getting started their neighbors come up and start listening....3 more people. And just a few minutes after that, one of the ladies sons comes home with a friend. CRAZY!!!! THat was the coolest thing that´s ever happened! IT was like we were teaching a class. It was cool cuz here´s these two white girls in the middle of all these Brazilians teaching a lesson...so cool. ANd after the lesson we were just visiting a bit and one of the ladies said, "if only someone had a camera right now.." and lucky enough me and sister bowden both had ours. So we took a picture with the whole group. A couple people had already left to go home but i was glad to have a picture of everyone! But because of one boy, one reference, and within one hour we had 11 new investigators who are great! And then yesterday we went to talk to cacio and he had brought another friend to church, and we went to teach him and his family yesterday afternoon. What a missionary!!!!!! And he´s only 12!!!!!
Well, that was our highlight of the week.... :) looking forward to another great one!!!!
I´m so excited for all the boys getting their mission calls!!! ANd that´s crazy that we got another one coming to Fortaleza from the ward!!!! SO cool!!! Well, sounds like you guys are staying really busy on the farm! Too bad I´m not there to help! I think not being home to work on the farm is haunting me, because I keep seeing tac weeds all over the place. I´m going to take a picture of me pulling one, one of these days. Sister Bowden thinks Im crazy, but i told her she doesn´t understand, because i spend a lot of the summer pulling those dang weeds!!! haha
Well, hope you all have a good week and good luck with work, baseball, and school everybody! Hope you all had a Happy Easter!!!
Love you all!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Monday, April 11, 2011
April 11, 2011
Hey everybody!
Well, me and Sister Bowden got transferred.........PSYCH!!!!! We´re together again! Can you believe it?! We were so excited, we had the phone on speaker phone when the elder was talking to us and when he said we were staying together we freaked out!!! It was probably a little over the top, but we were super excited! So yesterday on the way to church we met up with our recent convert, Sandrinha and our friend Silvinha. We played it up a bit and told them that we were both leaving. It looked like they were going to cry so when we got to the church we told them we were just kidding. Sandrinha was so cute, she said she was about to cry and was thinking that she didn´t pray enough last night and that she needed to have more faith! It blew me awaay. We talked to a lot of the kids at church and I guess there were a lot of prayers said saturday night in our behalf. The members here really love us. And me and Sis. Bowden were talking when we got home sunday night that if it wasn´t for any other reason that we stayed, it was because of the prayers and faith of the kids that prayed for us. I felt really loved after yesterday. It was an amazing day at church too! It was fast and testimony meeting and Sandrinha and our other convert Davi were sitting with us and we were trying to get them to go bare their testimonies. So we decided all of us would go up at once......what a blessing to see the fruits of our labors! It was so neat to hear their testimonies, both of them were just wonderful!!!!!! I can´t even describe the feeling that i had. It was amazing!
Oh so I´ve been meaning to tell you guys for awhile now, but I always forget....me and sis. Bowden argue quite often. We´re getting better though, we´re goign on 3 transfers together now and we´re just barely starting to figure things out. We fight over doing the dishes!!! Haha She always thinks I do them more than she does, but we´ve decided to make a dishes chart to keep track of who´s turn it is. It´s a little out of control, and that´s usually not what comps fight over, but in our case....it´s quite a BIG deal.
Wow so you guys would not believe this!!! We were at the church saturday night to teach piano and english and a lady was throwing a birthday party for her one year old......it was off the top!!!! This is a party I´d never seen before for a 1 yr old. It was "The Little Mermaid" theme because the baby´s name is Arielly and holy cow!!!! I can´t even explain to you what it looked like the entire place was covered with decorations, had a cotton candy machine, food, cake, pop, candy, the works. And Arielly was dressed up as the little mermaid. She was really cute, but wow!!!! I´ll send pics :)
How was Alaska?! I bet it was super fun! But yeah, I think Brett is doing good, I guess he´s really busy working right now, he´s done with school for now and he´ll be going to Utah. I was hoping to be able to talk to him on mother´s day, but it sounds like he´ll be in utah. Maybe he´ll come home that weekend though, not sure, i´ll have to ask him. Is mother´s day may 8th?? And you guys should probably put more minutes on that card that I have. I don´t know how many its got left. Have you guys heard anything else on coming down here, plans, flight tickets, visas and what not??? And does my pres need to talk to the church or somehting about me coming home iin august or have you guys called the church or anything. Maybe you already did, im not sure. And mom can you find out when i need to have papers in to cbc for fall 2011??? I need to make sure i can get signed in for fall.
Well, i gotta go but i hope all goes well this week for everyone!!!!! I love you all and i miss you tons!!!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Monday, April 4, 2011
April 4, 2011
Hey Everyone!!!
Did you guys LOVE conference?!?!? Well for those who "paid attention" haha i love the pics that chandler took! I absolutely loved conference and I got to watch it in english which was way nice! Last time I had to watch it in portuguese and I feel like you lose some of the stuff and the voices are different....but it was so good. We got to watch all 4 sessions! I don´t know which was my favorite, I liked so many of them. One of them that I really enjoyed was Elder Richard G. Scott, it was so neat!!! Loved it! And mom, those donuts looked so delicious! Sunday we had a baptism in between the sessions, it was so neat! It was a little stressful trying to get everything to go right and what not, but it all worked out good. The girl that was baptized is Alexsandra (Sandrinha), she´s 17 yrs old and she is the sweetest thing! She´s actually thinking about moving to the US with a friend. Oh something else, there´s a member here who is marrying an american in the spokane, wa temple in june i believe. I think the guy is from Coeur d´Alene, Idaho. Crazy huh?!
That´s awesome Kyal is going on a mission! And be sure to tell me when jacob and bryson get their calls!!! And brandon is already coming home?!??! HOly cow! I bet his family is REALLY excited!
THe language is great! And yeah I can pretty much say anything i want. Granted there are those times when I´ll get stuck on word, but for the most part it´s all good :) What a MIRACLE!!!!!! About a year ago I was praying that I would be able to speak the language. It´s amazing to be a part of this work and see so many blessings come from it! I love the church!!!! I was thinking during conference how anyone could just look at this church and not believe it´s the church of Christ. Just the organization of it alone is just INCREDIBLE!!!! All the general authorities, the choir, the members, the Spirit.....EVERYTHING!!!!! What a blessing it is to live in the world at such a time as this. It´s so amazing!
So really quick! I had a crazy dream last night that I want to tell you...
I was at the CTM with my current companion, Sister Bowden. The CTM was the connell high school. We were outside talking and I look out by the road and there was a line of telephone booths. I had just missed mothers day and i hadn´t been able to call home, but i see mom, dad, chandler, garrett and joseph each at a phone. You guys start to leave and i wanted to talk to you so bad but everyone was telling me i couldn´t. I was freaking out and i yell, "JOEY!!!!!!!!!!!" You guys don´t hear me so i yell again and joey turns around and tells that it´s me. He starts runnign at me but then dad grabs him and tells him he can´t see me. Then mom trys to come over to me with blaire wells but mom doesn´t talk to me, she leaves and blaire asks me if i want to get a ride home with her i tell her YES! and then i woke up...
it was really strange, and it just made me want to see you guys that much more, but it´s ok. I just want you all to know how much i love and appreciate every one of you! I have the BEST FAMILY anyone could ever ask for!!! I hope you all have an amazing week!!!! I love you!!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Ps i wore my white summer dress yesterday to the baptism and it was super cute...i´ll send pics next week!!! :)
oh and transfers are this next week too...not sure what will happen....
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
March 29, 2011
OH MY HEAVENS!!!!!! KELSEY IS ENGAGED AND SHE`S GETTING MARRIED JUNE 11?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!??!?!??! I can´t believe it! I´m super duper excited for her, but I´m so sad I´m not going to be there for it :( BUt congrats Kelsey!!! I can´t wait to meet your husband when I get home!!!! :)
And Bishop Edmonds is moving to Cali?! Wow, everything will be so different when I get home! And that´s so exciting, Tyler is getting baptized soon!!! Give them all a big hug for me!
But yeah, I´m pretty sure my comp passed out because of the heat. Oh mom!! You would be so proud of me! So the other night for dinner guess what i ate?!?!?! A tomatoe sandwich! It was delicious! THen On sunday our lunch fell through so we made spaghetti and breadsticks, and had a salad. And I cut up cucumbers and put them in vinegar! They were wonderful!!!! Something else, there´s this lady here in the area who sews and we had stopped by to see her and we were looking through some of her magazines and asked us if we would like her to make us something. We said yes and we picked a dress that we liked, got the fabric and she made it! I love mine, it´s simple, but it´s a cute white summer dress! I´m super excited to use it for a baptism :)
HAha something that happened the other night, we were walking down the street and there were these two guys and as we pass them one of them says, "good night" and then i said "boa noite" then the other guy yells at him and says, "é 'good evening´ macho" then the other guy yells back at us..."sorry!" haha it was hilarious, me and sister bowden were busting up!
THat´s awesome to hear that the boys are doing good in baseball! Sounds like they´re tearing it up! ANd joey is running the farm it sounds like! Way to go bud! :)
ANd mom that would be great if you could send some cream of tarter for my branch pres! He would love it!
Wish Grandma Salisbury a Happy Birthday for me! Hope she´s doing good! I hope grandpa starts feeling better. Are they liking the newplace?
Well, general conference is this week!!!! i´m so excited! ANd we´ll be able to watch it in english! I´m so happy! I´d be able to understand it in portuguese, but it makes it easier in english :)
ALright, well not much else has happened. We´re doing good here in Aracati. I have a feeling I´ll be here the rest of my mission, but I wouldn´t mind, I really love it here! HOpe everything is going good at home and i hope you´re doing better dad! I love you all so much! I wouldn´t be the missionary am if it wasn´t for you all! I miss and love you guys!!!
Have a good week!
Love, sister salisbury
Monday, March 21, 2011
March 21, 2011
Hey!!
So you won´t believe it! I got sunburned today!!! I didn´t even think that was possible now, but apparently it is...I´m on FIRE!!!! We went to Canao Quebrada today, it´s a beach, just to take some pictures and walk around the little shops they have there and holy cow! Me and my comp both are fried. And while we were there we had a little scare. We were walking up some stairs and it was after we had walked awhile and taken pictures and all...it was super duper hot too. We stop for a second to take another picture and my comp tells me and the member that was with us, Silvinha, that she was going to pass out. Me and Silvinha thought that she was just messin around and then she said, "no im serious" and i turn around and she´s swaying back and forth and looked completely out of it. So i run over to her as she´s going down and i catch her and lay her on the ground, trying to talk to her and then she comes out of it and starts saying, that was so weird! that was so weird! That´s the first time ive ever passed out! It was like i was dreaming." I was freaking scared, she stayed sitting down while silvinha ran to buy us some water. Whew! She was fine after that, but that really scared me!
Well, yesterday guess who was finally baptized?! Davi!!! He was so excited and it went so well. The young women sang a musical numer, his young mens leader gave a talk and it was so good! I am so happy for him. And we talked with his parents yesterday too and for awhile the dad was giving us a hard time about him and his wife getting married, but we´re going tomorrow to take all their documents and what not in to city hall! :)
That´s so cool about garrett! Im so excited for him! I can´t wait to see them play when i get home. I bet that makes garrett feel pretty good too with the coaches talking about him and all :) Way to go bro!!!
Haha alright so kind of funny experience. We were at our investigators house for the first time, we walk in and she wants to introduce us to her mom. We walk through the front room and guess who was there giving a lesson as well?? Jeovah Witnesses....yeah we taught them about the restoration......actually not really, but we should´ve. It was just sort of funny because we were in one room teaching a lesson, while the JW´s were in the room next to us teaching her dad. :)
Yes, I have heard about the earthquake and tsunami that happened in japan. Everyone has been talking about it here. That is so sad about everything that has happened.
I´m trying to think if anything else happened this week, I felt like there was something else. It´s not coming to me though. Oh YEAH!!!! I hit a YEAR this week on St. Patty´s Day!!!!! It was so cool. We made GREEN eggs, GREEN pancakes, and drank GREEN milk for breakfast. THen that night for dinner we made GREEN-crust pizza and drank GREEN juice!!!! It was so tight! We took lots of pics so I´ll be showing some to you :) And we of course wore GREEN that day! By the way mom, sister bowden has an AMAZING recipe for pizza crust!!!! Oh and we also made some snickerdoodles for the branch president and his family and they LOVED them!!!! They want the recipe so bad, the only thing is they don´t have cream of tarter here. I could give him some of mine, cuz i only use it for that recipe. Is there a substitute for it though??
Well, i better get going. I hope you all have a good week! And good to hear that everything is going well. How did mom´s appointment go by the way? Alright, good luck with everything! Love you all!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Ps Happy Birthday to Lindsay and Lauren this past week! ANd chad this week!!! :)
So you won´t believe it! I got sunburned today!!! I didn´t even think that was possible now, but apparently it is...I´m on FIRE!!!! We went to Canao Quebrada today, it´s a beach, just to take some pictures and walk around the little shops they have there and holy cow! Me and my comp both are fried. And while we were there we had a little scare. We were walking up some stairs and it was after we had walked awhile and taken pictures and all...it was super duper hot too. We stop for a second to take another picture and my comp tells me and the member that was with us, Silvinha, that she was going to pass out. Me and Silvinha thought that she was just messin around and then she said, "no im serious" and i turn around and she´s swaying back and forth and looked completely out of it. So i run over to her as she´s going down and i catch her and lay her on the ground, trying to talk to her and then she comes out of it and starts saying, that was so weird! that was so weird! That´s the first time ive ever passed out! It was like i was dreaming." I was freaking scared, she stayed sitting down while silvinha ran to buy us some water. Whew! She was fine after that, but that really scared me!
Well, yesterday guess who was finally baptized?! Davi!!! He was so excited and it went so well. The young women sang a musical numer, his young mens leader gave a talk and it was so good! I am so happy for him. And we talked with his parents yesterday too and for awhile the dad was giving us a hard time about him and his wife getting married, but we´re going tomorrow to take all their documents and what not in to city hall! :)
That´s so cool about garrett! Im so excited for him! I can´t wait to see them play when i get home. I bet that makes garrett feel pretty good too with the coaches talking about him and all :) Way to go bro!!!
Haha alright so kind of funny experience. We were at our investigators house for the first time, we walk in and she wants to introduce us to her mom. We walk through the front room and guess who was there giving a lesson as well?? Jeovah Witnesses....yeah we taught them about the restoration......actually not really, but we should´ve. It was just sort of funny because we were in one room teaching a lesson, while the JW´s were in the room next to us teaching her dad. :)
Yes, I have heard about the earthquake and tsunami that happened in japan. Everyone has been talking about it here. That is so sad about everything that has happened.
I´m trying to think if anything else happened this week, I felt like there was something else. It´s not coming to me though. Oh YEAH!!!! I hit a YEAR this week on St. Patty´s Day!!!!! It was so cool. We made GREEN eggs, GREEN pancakes, and drank GREEN milk for breakfast. THen that night for dinner we made GREEN-crust pizza and drank GREEN juice!!!! It was so tight! We took lots of pics so I´ll be showing some to you :) And we of course wore GREEN that day! By the way mom, sister bowden has an AMAZING recipe for pizza crust!!!! Oh and we also made some snickerdoodles for the branch president and his family and they LOVED them!!!! They want the recipe so bad, the only thing is they don´t have cream of tarter here. I could give him some of mine, cuz i only use it for that recipe. Is there a substitute for it though??
Well, i better get going. I hope you all have a good week! And good to hear that everything is going well. How did mom´s appointment go by the way? Alright, good luck with everything! Love you all!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Ps Happy Birthday to Lindsay and Lauren this past week! ANd chad this week!!! :)
Monday, March 14, 2011
March 14, 2011
E aí Beleza?!
I´m so super excited for this week! Can you believe I hit a year?! I can´t, but we are working with some great people and I can´t wait to get teaching them again! We went back to see Davi and his family yesterday. It seemed like it had been forever because of Carnival and all. They are still amazing as ever! I don´t remember if I had told you or not that they´ve started from the beginning of the book of mormon and they´re still going. We told them they can mark the verses that they like and when we asked them if they´d marked anything so far Davi said that he had and he showed us the one that was his favorite...1 Nephi 3:7!!!! I thought that was so cool how its a scripture mastery and that he chose it. So cool! We´re still trying to get the parents married. Sonya for sure wants to get baptized, her husband is still a little disanimated though. WE´re also working with another mom and her two teenage kids. They are so cool! We just found them this past week and they seem way excited about the church.
Well, I gave another talk in church yesterday. We speak every second sunday of the month in one of the wards and i think it was friday that we had actually remembered about it. But it went good, I spoke on the atonement and told a story about an elder in the houston, texas mission. Its a way cool story. One of my district leaders from one of my earlier areas gave me a copy.
As far as Virgel. the american at the hospital, he got transfered to a diferent one. But I think he´s going to head to fortaleza though. We went yesterday to check up on him, but we caught the doctor in the way in and he told us that he´s in Beberibe. It´s actually where Virgel is from. the doctor thinks that they´ll be moving him to fortaleza, I asked if he had made any progress, but he said he wasn´t and it didn´t look too promising. I hope everything happens for the best though.
Dad is the new stake assistant clerk?! THat is so cool!!! THat´ll be fun. So does he have to be at teh stake center all the time now??
Luke got baptized! THat is so cool!!! Wow I can´t believe he´s already 8. I remember going down to california for kennedy´s baptism! That´s awesome to hear that Travis is doing well. It´s pretty hard not like him. He really is an amazing example to me. It´s good to have so many older siblings that I can look up to. And talking about older siblings I was actually talking to my comp, sister bowden, last night about something that I´ll always remember doing growing up. So this is back when dad only worked on the farm so we were all at the house in the mornings and i remember I would come into yours and dads room and climb up on teh bed and either you or dad would have your legs up (so it looked like a little mountain)and i would climb up over them. And then lots of times all of us kids would come and lay on the bed with you guys and we´d just talk for a little bit. :) Fun times!
Well, I hope you all have a good week and that baseball is going good! I love and miss you all! And you´re all in my prayers!
Love, Sister Salisbury
I´m so super excited for this week! Can you believe I hit a year?! I can´t, but we are working with some great people and I can´t wait to get teaching them again! We went back to see Davi and his family yesterday. It seemed like it had been forever because of Carnival and all. They are still amazing as ever! I don´t remember if I had told you or not that they´ve started from the beginning of the book of mormon and they´re still going. We told them they can mark the verses that they like and when we asked them if they´d marked anything so far Davi said that he had and he showed us the one that was his favorite...1 Nephi 3:7!!!! I thought that was so cool how its a scripture mastery and that he chose it. So cool! We´re still trying to get the parents married. Sonya for sure wants to get baptized, her husband is still a little disanimated though. WE´re also working with another mom and her two teenage kids. They are so cool! We just found them this past week and they seem way excited about the church.
Well, I gave another talk in church yesterday. We speak every second sunday of the month in one of the wards and i think it was friday that we had actually remembered about it. But it went good, I spoke on the atonement and told a story about an elder in the houston, texas mission. Its a way cool story. One of my district leaders from one of my earlier areas gave me a copy.
As far as Virgel. the american at the hospital, he got transfered to a diferent one. But I think he´s going to head to fortaleza though. We went yesterday to check up on him, but we caught the doctor in the way in and he told us that he´s in Beberibe. It´s actually where Virgel is from. the doctor thinks that they´ll be moving him to fortaleza, I asked if he had made any progress, but he said he wasn´t and it didn´t look too promising. I hope everything happens for the best though.
Dad is the new stake assistant clerk?! THat is so cool!!! THat´ll be fun. So does he have to be at teh stake center all the time now??
Luke got baptized! THat is so cool!!! Wow I can´t believe he´s already 8. I remember going down to california for kennedy´s baptism! That´s awesome to hear that Travis is doing well. It´s pretty hard not like him. He really is an amazing example to me. It´s good to have so many older siblings that I can look up to. And talking about older siblings I was actually talking to my comp, sister bowden, last night about something that I´ll always remember doing growing up. So this is back when dad only worked on the farm so we were all at the house in the mornings and i remember I would come into yours and dads room and climb up on teh bed and either you or dad would have your legs up (so it looked like a little mountain)and i would climb up over them. And then lots of times all of us kids would come and lay on the bed with you guys and we´d just talk for a little bit. :) Fun times!
Well, I hope you all have a good week and that baseball is going good! I love and miss you all! And you´re all in my prayers!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
March 8, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry I wasn´t able to email yesterday. I was in Monte Castelo during carnaval and all the places were closed so none of us were able to email home. I hope you had a good birthday! Sounds like you guys had a pretty good time. THat´s fun that aunt Jane is coming up. That will be fun to be able to celebrate your birthday with her there.
That´s crazy about Bevin getting called to Fortaleza! I´m so excited for him! He´s going to love it!!! I´ll have to fill him in on the new Mission President we´re getting in july. I haven´t heard anything yet about him, but I´ll have one transfer with him. It´s too bad that he won´t get here before I go home, but it´s still way cool!
Heard that the girls got 6th again this year. Isn ´t that what they got last year too? And how is baseball going? When do the boys start having games? Do you think the high school will have a good team this year? You´ll have to keep me updated.
Hey I have a question, did Lavon McGary pass away along with Don? I heard she passed away too, but I´m not sure if I understood it correctly. I got a letter from a member and by the way she said it, it sounded like they both passed away. Just wondering.
Well, this past weekend was carnaval. I guess it gets pretty crazy here in our area so we got a call on saturday saying that we had to pack up and head to monte castelo with the sisters there. We ended up staying at the apartment the whole time with one of the sisters (they´re in a trio) because she can´t walk, she had fallen and hurt her knee pretty bad. And she´s brand new on the mission, i felt really bad for her. So not much really happened this week, and we´ll see how this week goes :)
I´ve been thinkin a lot about grandma cook. I can´t believe it´s been a year already. I wish I could be there to share the time with you all, but I know that Grandma is watching over me and I definitely feel of my family´s love. You all are so so special to me. Thank you so much for all that you´ve done.
I love you!!! And hope you all have a good week!
Love,
Sister Salisbury
Sorry I wasn´t able to email yesterday. I was in Monte Castelo during carnaval and all the places were closed so none of us were able to email home. I hope you had a good birthday! Sounds like you guys had a pretty good time. THat´s fun that aunt Jane is coming up. That will be fun to be able to celebrate your birthday with her there.
That´s crazy about Bevin getting called to Fortaleza! I´m so excited for him! He´s going to love it!!! I´ll have to fill him in on the new Mission President we´re getting in july. I haven´t heard anything yet about him, but I´ll have one transfer with him. It´s too bad that he won´t get here before I go home, but it´s still way cool!
Heard that the girls got 6th again this year. Isn ´t that what they got last year too? And how is baseball going? When do the boys start having games? Do you think the high school will have a good team this year? You´ll have to keep me updated.
Hey I have a question, did Lavon McGary pass away along with Don? I heard she passed away too, but I´m not sure if I understood it correctly. I got a letter from a member and by the way she said it, it sounded like they both passed away. Just wondering.
Well, this past weekend was carnaval. I guess it gets pretty crazy here in our area so we got a call on saturday saying that we had to pack up and head to monte castelo with the sisters there. We ended up staying at the apartment the whole time with one of the sisters (they´re in a trio) because she can´t walk, she had fallen and hurt her knee pretty bad. And she´s brand new on the mission, i felt really bad for her. So not much really happened this week, and we´ll see how this week goes :)
I´ve been thinkin a lot about grandma cook. I can´t believe it´s been a year already. I wish I could be there to share the time with you all, but I know that Grandma is watching over me and I definitely feel of my family´s love. You all are so so special to me. Thank you so much for all that you´ve done.
I love you!!! And hope you all have a good week!
Love,
Sister Salisbury
Thursday, March 3, 2011
March 3, 2011 with Pictures
day we got caught in the rain (sunday)...had to give a talk in sacrament meeting as well :)
On our way to district meeting...raining again...and in the background is a massive mermaid
Me and my comp sister bowden!
Me and a member in monte castelo(the night we stayed the night with the sisters in monte castelo) had zone conference. And that little girl is wearing the same sandals that i was wearing :)
All the sisters at one conf. with president batt.
Flipping tortillas! we made them from scratch and they were amazing...we had tacos :)
In front of a Macavi truck(name of a store) and it has quite a few of the mission areas on there :) if you zoom in on it it has Baturité(first area), Caucaia(close to metrópole where i served) and Aracatí, where Im at now :)
Monday, February 28, 2011
Feb. 28, 2011
Hey everyone!
So transfers were today, I don´t remember if I told you it was only a
5-weeker, but anyways...I´m staying here in Aracatí with Sister Bowden
again. I´m so excited! She´s way cool and we work really good
together!
ALright, so I completely forgot to tell you about something that
happened last week. So we´re at the church , it´s a saturday night,
and we´re in the middle of teaching an english class. One of the
members come in and calls me out to the hall. There was a nurse there
and she asked if we could come over to the hospital( it´s right in
front of the church). There was an american man there neading
treatment and no one could understand him. So we end class early and
head over there. We get there (it´s so ghetto) and we try talking to
the guy. He´s a 75 year old man, Virgel, and supposedly he had fallen
in his house and no one kmew about it for like 10 days. He was without
food and water. I don´t know how much of this story is true, but
anyways. He has bed sores on his back and on his foot because he had
been in the same position forever! It had gotten infected and the
doctors were needing to give him medication and do surgery, but he
wasn´t accepting anything. He wasn´t even eating or drinking. We kept
talking to him and got him to drink some herbal tea. And we explained
to him that he needed to have surgery and take the medicine in order
for him to get better. He had also said that he use to play football
and had to have 5 operations done because he got spinal meningitas
(spelling). Anyways, he wanted us to come back and we got him to
accept the medicine and surgery and told him we´d be back. A couple
days later he looked way better, but he had no strength. He wasn´t
eating anything again. He couldn´t even talk to us he had no strength
and was really tired. WE´re not really sure what will happen, the
doctors are saying he probably won´t last much longer, but we´re
praying for him. The only thing is he has no family here. He has one
friend that has come and gone, but really has no one to help him out.
So this week is carnival! I guess it gets out of control here in my
area. President usually has to take the missionaries out of the area
for it. I´m not sure what will happen, we´ll find out soon though.
We´ll probably stay in Fortaleza though. It starts this friday.
Hey and can you tell Aunt Krista I got the christmas package from her!
I´m going to the post office this week so I´ll be sending her letter
out. I loved it! ANd so did my comps!
And speaking of packages I got the valentine´s package! Thank you so
much!!! I loved it! ANd I hadn´t had conversation hearts in a long
time!
Well, I have to go but I hope you all have a good week. HOpe baseball
goes well for the boys. I love you guys!
Love, Sister Salisbury
So transfers were today, I don´t remember if I told you it was only a
5-weeker, but anyways...I´m staying here in Aracatí with Sister Bowden
again. I´m so excited! She´s way cool and we work really good
together!
ALright, so I completely forgot to tell you about something that
happened last week. So we´re at the church , it´s a saturday night,
and we´re in the middle of teaching an english class. One of the
members come in and calls me out to the hall. There was a nurse there
and she asked if we could come over to the hospital( it´s right in
front of the church). There was an american man there neading
treatment and no one could understand him. So we end class early and
head over there. We get there (it´s so ghetto) and we try talking to
the guy. He´s a 75 year old man, Virgel, and supposedly he had fallen
in his house and no one kmew about it for like 10 days. He was without
food and water. I don´t know how much of this story is true, but
anyways. He has bed sores on his back and on his foot because he had
been in the same position forever! It had gotten infected and the
doctors were needing to give him medication and do surgery, but he
wasn´t accepting anything. He wasn´t even eating or drinking. We kept
talking to him and got him to drink some herbal tea. And we explained
to him that he needed to have surgery and take the medicine in order
for him to get better. He had also said that he use to play football
and had to have 5 operations done because he got spinal meningitas
(spelling). Anyways, he wanted us to come back and we got him to
accept the medicine and surgery and told him we´d be back. A couple
days later he looked way better, but he had no strength. He wasn´t
eating anything again. He couldn´t even talk to us he had no strength
and was really tired. WE´re not really sure what will happen, the
doctors are saying he probably won´t last much longer, but we´re
praying for him. The only thing is he has no family here. He has one
friend that has come and gone, but really has no one to help him out.
So this week is carnival! I guess it gets out of control here in my
area. President usually has to take the missionaries out of the area
for it. I´m not sure what will happen, we´ll find out soon though.
We´ll probably stay in Fortaleza though. It starts this friday.
Hey and can you tell Aunt Krista I got the christmas package from her!
I´m going to the post office this week so I´ll be sending her letter
out. I loved it! ANd so did my comps!
And speaking of packages I got the valentine´s package! Thank you so
much!!! I loved it! ANd I hadn´t had conversation hearts in a long
time!
Well, I have to go but I hope you all have a good week. HOpe baseball
goes well for the boys. I love you guys!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Monday, February 21, 2011
Feb. 21, 2011
Hey!
Wow this week was so amazing!!! So I don´t remember if I mentioned this last week, but we got a new rule in the mission saying that if we are teaching kids under 15, they have to go to church 4 times before they can be baptized. So we had been teaching this boy, Davi, and he´s 14 years old and the first time he went to church he wanted to be baptized right then. He is seriously golden! He does everything and understands everything so well! He´s always on the edge of his seat when we teach him. Anyways, so I called our mission pres. to see if we could get permission to baptize him the next week. Pres said to wait because we could probably work more with the family as well and they could get baptized together. So that´s what we did this past week. We´ve been teaching them and they are all so golden!!!!!! last monday night we went there and we had the whole family there: Mauro, Sonya, Rafaela, Davi, Dalice, and Diana. At the end we made a prayer chart with all their names on it and then one that said ´family´ and had 3 points at the bottom for what they should pray about. We also gave them stickers for each day when they said their prayers. We went back the next day and everyone had done it! Minus the dad, he´s a little harder to work with because he feels like he´s not worthy enough to pray or to go to church. He´s a really good guy though! The only thing is is that they aren´t married. We went there yesterday though and only sonya was home. We visited with her and talked to her to see if they have talked about getting married and what not. THey have and they would really like to. They´ve been together for 16 years! So we´re going to help them with that and go to city hall and get that all lined up. This will be my 3rd wedding :) They won´t be able to be baptized til next transfer though, because they need to get married first.Oh man and then yesterday was crazy! We had our baptism all lined up yesterday for Rafaela, a girl that we have been teaching. We get to church and we´re in sacrament meeting and we realized no one had filled the font up and we were having the baptism right after church. So afterwards we go to turn the water on and brown water starts coming out and had baby frogs in there as well. Come to find out the water boxes to the church had dried up and the building didn´t have water. So we were trying to figure out what we could do. No one knew anyone with a pool, there is a river right next to the city, but one of the members said it´s too dangerous to go because it´s been raining a lot here and the current is really fast. Then we thought about doing it in the OCEAN!!!!! We loved that idea :) It would have been my first baptism at the ocean :) the only thing is no one had a car. We could have gotten a bus and gone there, but the branch president said to wait and do it later in the afternoon and hopefully they would get something figured out. So then we go back at 4:00 and it still didn´t have water. Then one of the members gets there and does something outside behind the church and the water was working. So it all turned out good and we had our baptism. Afterwards I asked Rafaela how she liked the baptism and how she was feeling and she said, "I feel like I gave my heart to God" It was so precious!!! I love that girl! And she loves to pray! Everytime we went there to teach her she always wanted to pray. She would say the opening and the closing! Then one day we were at her aunts house teaching and rafaela came in at the end and she wanted to pray again (and this is just after leaving rafaela´s house). She is such a little cutie!
Well, that´s crazy to hear that the stakes are already split. And Kelsey could be getting married soon?!?!? And I won´t even be there for it :( Have you guys figured out anything else about you guys coming down, have you found tickets and how we would get around when you got here or what? Just wondering. Hey has baseball started yet? Are chandler and garrett playing this year?? speaking of baseball i just got the craving to eat sunflower seeds....anyways chandler and garrett you have to play, end of story.
Alright, I have to get going, but I hope you all have a good week. I love you guys and hope all is well :)
Love, Sister Salisbury
Wow this week was so amazing!!! So I don´t remember if I mentioned this last week, but we got a new rule in the mission saying that if we are teaching kids under 15, they have to go to church 4 times before they can be baptized. So we had been teaching this boy, Davi, and he´s 14 years old and the first time he went to church he wanted to be baptized right then. He is seriously golden! He does everything and understands everything so well! He´s always on the edge of his seat when we teach him. Anyways, so I called our mission pres. to see if we could get permission to baptize him the next week. Pres said to wait because we could probably work more with the family as well and they could get baptized together. So that´s what we did this past week. We´ve been teaching them and they are all so golden!!!!!! last monday night we went there and we had the whole family there: Mauro, Sonya, Rafaela, Davi, Dalice, and Diana. At the end we made a prayer chart with all their names on it and then one that said ´family´ and had 3 points at the bottom for what they should pray about. We also gave them stickers for each day when they said their prayers. We went back the next day and everyone had done it! Minus the dad, he´s a little harder to work with because he feels like he´s not worthy enough to pray or to go to church. He´s a really good guy though! The only thing is is that they aren´t married. We went there yesterday though and only sonya was home. We visited with her and talked to her to see if they have talked about getting married and what not. THey have and they would really like to. They´ve been together for 16 years! So we´re going to help them with that and go to city hall and get that all lined up. This will be my 3rd wedding :) They won´t be able to be baptized til next transfer though, because they need to get married first.Oh man and then yesterday was crazy! We had our baptism all lined up yesterday for Rafaela, a girl that we have been teaching. We get to church and we´re in sacrament meeting and we realized no one had filled the font up and we were having the baptism right after church. So afterwards we go to turn the water on and brown water starts coming out and had baby frogs in there as well. Come to find out the water boxes to the church had dried up and the building didn´t have water. So we were trying to figure out what we could do. No one knew anyone with a pool, there is a river right next to the city, but one of the members said it´s too dangerous to go because it´s been raining a lot here and the current is really fast. Then we thought about doing it in the OCEAN!!!!! We loved that idea :) It would have been my first baptism at the ocean :) the only thing is no one had a car. We could have gotten a bus and gone there, but the branch president said to wait and do it later in the afternoon and hopefully they would get something figured out. So then we go back at 4:00 and it still didn´t have water. Then one of the members gets there and does something outside behind the church and the water was working. So it all turned out good and we had our baptism. Afterwards I asked Rafaela how she liked the baptism and how she was feeling and she said, "I feel like I gave my heart to God" It was so precious!!! I love that girl! And she loves to pray! Everytime we went there to teach her she always wanted to pray. She would say the opening and the closing! Then one day we were at her aunts house teaching and rafaela came in at the end and she wanted to pray again (and this is just after leaving rafaela´s house). She is such a little cutie!
Well, that´s crazy to hear that the stakes are already split. And Kelsey could be getting married soon?!?!? And I won´t even be there for it :( Have you guys figured out anything else about you guys coming down, have you found tickets and how we would get around when you got here or what? Just wondering. Hey has baseball started yet? Are chandler and garrett playing this year?? speaking of baseball i just got the craving to eat sunflower seeds....anyways chandler and garrett you have to play, end of story.
Alright, I have to get going, but I hope you all have a good week. I love you guys and hope all is well :)
Love, Sister Salisbury
Monday, February 14, 2011
Feb. 14, 2011
Happy Valentine´s Day!!!!
Hope everyone had a good day :)
Well, i had quite the experience yesterday! So we were walking to pick up our investigators to go to church. We had just got our last one and heading to church and it starts pouring rain. Luckily my comp had a little umbrella in her bag...mine was back at the house, i had forgotten to grab it. But we gave the umbrella to our investigators to use, and we start taking off towards the church. We were soaking wet, from head to toe!!! And the even better part of this story is we had to give talks in sacrament meeting which was just about to start! Yeah I get up to the pulpit 30 minutes later, looking like I just took a shower....oh the experiences from the mish :) It was fun though! And my talk went well. Oh and something else happened in sacrament meeting. Not sure what you guys think about this, but I´m pretty sure this is NOT right: having a confirmation during the meeting, after the sacrament has been passed and after 2 talks have already been given.....AND......passing the sacrament ANOTHER time for those who had come in late and for the person who had been confirmed (the confirmation wasn´t ours, it was one of the members´kids) yeah, first and only time I´d ever seen that, and I told my comp we need to talk to the bishopric about that. I´m sorry, I don´t have the priesthood or anything, but to me that isn´t right. But anyways...
this week has been really good! We got a couple references last sunday and we have been teaching them this week and they´re amazing! They´re two teenagers that live on the same street and they loved church! Their names are Rafaela and Davi. Yesterday at church he had said he wanted to get baptized that day, but said we still had to teach him a little more, so he said "ok then next sunday" It was so cool! But our mission pres came out with a new rule that if they´re under 15 they have to go to church 4 sundays before they can be baptized. He wants them to be more integrated into the church. So we´re going to be teaching his whole family to try and have them get baptized all together. We´re actually going there tonight to teach them about the plan of salvation. I also brought the Liahona to show them, the special one on temples. We´ll talk about eternal marriage and families as well. I´m really excited to see how it will go.
Well, I got a lot of pictures over email! The brown house has COMPLETELY changed!!!! It´s not brown anymore...what are we going to call now??? It looks way good though, I really like it!!! Oh and I haven´t gotten the valentine´s package yet, but we´re actually going to a district meeting tomorrow, so I hope it´s gotten here! Wow, so kelsey is getting pretty serious?! I haven´t even heard about them! Oh if she gets married I hope it´s august when I get home!!! And Lindsey is dating too?! Wow, everyone is going to be married when I get home! But I´m happy for everyone, that´s awesome!
Hey, well I gotta go. Hope everyone is doing great and congrats chandler on getting nominated for an escort, garrett for passing the driver´s test and joey for becoming a deacon! THat is so cool!!! I love you all so much and mom and dad, hope you two have a good week as well! I love you guys!!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Hope everyone had a good day :)
Well, i had quite the experience yesterday! So we were walking to pick up our investigators to go to church. We had just got our last one and heading to church and it starts pouring rain. Luckily my comp had a little umbrella in her bag...mine was back at the house, i had forgotten to grab it. But we gave the umbrella to our investigators to use, and we start taking off towards the church. We were soaking wet, from head to toe!!! And the even better part of this story is we had to give talks in sacrament meeting which was just about to start! Yeah I get up to the pulpit 30 minutes later, looking like I just took a shower....oh the experiences from the mish :) It was fun though! And my talk went well. Oh and something else happened in sacrament meeting. Not sure what you guys think about this, but I´m pretty sure this is NOT right: having a confirmation during the meeting, after the sacrament has been passed and after 2 talks have already been given.....AND......passing the sacrament ANOTHER time for those who had come in late and for the person who had been confirmed (the confirmation wasn´t ours, it was one of the members´kids) yeah, first and only time I´d ever seen that, and I told my comp we need to talk to the bishopric about that. I´m sorry, I don´t have the priesthood or anything, but to me that isn´t right. But anyways...
this week has been really good! We got a couple references last sunday and we have been teaching them this week and they´re amazing! They´re two teenagers that live on the same street and they loved church! Their names are Rafaela and Davi. Yesterday at church he had said he wanted to get baptized that day, but said we still had to teach him a little more, so he said "ok then next sunday" It was so cool! But our mission pres came out with a new rule that if they´re under 15 they have to go to church 4 sundays before they can be baptized. He wants them to be more integrated into the church. So we´re going to be teaching his whole family to try and have them get baptized all together. We´re actually going there tonight to teach them about the plan of salvation. I also brought the Liahona to show them, the special one on temples. We´ll talk about eternal marriage and families as well. I´m really excited to see how it will go.
Well, I got a lot of pictures over email! The brown house has COMPLETELY changed!!!! It´s not brown anymore...what are we going to call now??? It looks way good though, I really like it!!! Oh and I haven´t gotten the valentine´s package yet, but we´re actually going to a district meeting tomorrow, so I hope it´s gotten here! Wow, so kelsey is getting pretty serious?! I haven´t even heard about them! Oh if she gets married I hope it´s august when I get home!!! And Lindsey is dating too?! Wow, everyone is going to be married when I get home! But I´m happy for everyone, that´s awesome!
Hey, well I gotta go. Hope everyone is doing great and congrats chandler on getting nominated for an escort, garrett for passing the driver´s test and joey for becoming a deacon! THat is so cool!!! I love you all so much and mom and dad, hope you two have a good week as well! I love you guys!!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Monday, February 7, 2011
Feb. 7,2011
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Rochelle, Happy Birthday to you!!!!
I wanted to be a part of singing to her as well :) I sure didn´t forget about her!
Well, Rua Dragão do Mar is a street I walk on about every single day! And the big old river that you saw is the Jaguaribe River. We take a little bus to go there to teach people. It´s the more poor part of our area, but the people are so cool! I love it out there. Right now they´re actually doing construction over the bridge so it takes a little bit longer to get over there. I´m pretty sure I´ve been to that church that you mentioned dad :)
Alright, Jen sent me some pictures from over the past few months and wow! Everyone has changed!!! I couldn´t believe it. The boys are growing up so fast and so are jen and brian´s kids! WOW!
So about the piano and english classes. We do it for service and to get references :) The Bishop got real upbeat about it and went out and got a massive sign to put outside the church about the classes. We´re starting to get so many people and today we were walking down the street and some guy stopped his car and asked us about it and said he wanted to come. Then yesterday we had 3 people come to sacrament meeting who were wanting to join the class. We´re actually going there tonight to teach them! :)
That´s sad to hear about the ones who have passed away recently. I´m sure grandma cook and Lavon are having a ball though together and tearing it up teaching people! I remember when Don and Lavon were my sunday school teachers. It was the year on all the prophets, I still have the binder that we made and all the activities we did in that class. They were both great teachers!
I will try to send some pictures from the area here. I just don´t want to get another virus on my memory card. I almost lost all my pictures when a member tried saving them on cds for me. But don´t worry I´ll find a safe way to do it.
As far as going home goes, I would really like to fly into pasco. But if that doesn´t work out I guess that´s fine. And about the dates for you guys coming, I think you can come earlier. We had a sister here and her family came the week before the transfer ended, I didn´t know you could do that. So if you guys came on the thursday or friday before then we could spend the weekend visiting my areas and then have my interview with president that monday and then that´s it! I´m not sure if you were still wanting to go to the temple in São Paulo or not. That would be cool, but if it doesn´t work out with the plans that´s ok.
Well, I better get going. I hope you all have a good week! I love and miss you guys and pray for you always!
Love, Sister Salisbury
I wanted to be a part of singing to her as well :) I sure didn´t forget about her!
Well, Rua Dragão do Mar is a street I walk on about every single day! And the big old river that you saw is the Jaguaribe River. We take a little bus to go there to teach people. It´s the more poor part of our area, but the people are so cool! I love it out there. Right now they´re actually doing construction over the bridge so it takes a little bit longer to get over there. I´m pretty sure I´ve been to that church that you mentioned dad :)
Alright, Jen sent me some pictures from over the past few months and wow! Everyone has changed!!! I couldn´t believe it. The boys are growing up so fast and so are jen and brian´s kids! WOW!
So about the piano and english classes. We do it for service and to get references :) The Bishop got real upbeat about it and went out and got a massive sign to put outside the church about the classes. We´re starting to get so many people and today we were walking down the street and some guy stopped his car and asked us about it and said he wanted to come. Then yesterday we had 3 people come to sacrament meeting who were wanting to join the class. We´re actually going there tonight to teach them! :)
That´s sad to hear about the ones who have passed away recently. I´m sure grandma cook and Lavon are having a ball though together and tearing it up teaching people! I remember when Don and Lavon were my sunday school teachers. It was the year on all the prophets, I still have the binder that we made and all the activities we did in that class. They were both great teachers!
I will try to send some pictures from the area here. I just don´t want to get another virus on my memory card. I almost lost all my pictures when a member tried saving them on cds for me. But don´t worry I´ll find a safe way to do it.
As far as going home goes, I would really like to fly into pasco. But if that doesn´t work out I guess that´s fine. And about the dates for you guys coming, I think you can come earlier. We had a sister here and her family came the week before the transfer ended, I didn´t know you could do that. So if you guys came on the thursday or friday before then we could spend the weekend visiting my areas and then have my interview with president that monday and then that´s it! I´m not sure if you were still wanting to go to the temple in São Paulo or not. That would be cool, but if it doesn´t work out with the plans that´s ok.
Well, I better get going. I hope you all have a good week! I love and miss you guys and pray for you always!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Monday, January 31, 2011
Jan. 31, 2011
Hey!
First thing I have to say is....Can you guys please send me pictures?!?! I haven´t gotten any recent pictures from you guys and I want to see you! Just throwing that out there cuz I always forget to ask.
Well, this week was good! And it´s so nice having an american companion. It was good to have brasilian comps, but it´s nice to be able to talk english once in awhile. Our area is way interior. The ground is pretty much all sand which makes it SO nice to walk in, especially when it rains ;) And it´s been raining quite a bit. Aracati is so much different from my last area. Here, EVERYBODY lets you in their house, which makes working so much easier! Um, my apt is good, I don´t have a pic with me now, but I will send one soon. We live above a church. Have an open room where we study, have another room where we keep all our clothes and what not, 2 bathrooms! a bedroom and a kitchen. And we have a washing machine, I think all the mission homes have a washing machine. We teach english and piano lessons and it is SO much fun!!!!!! We teach piano twice a week and english once a week. Church was good, I´m playing in sacrament meeting here as well. We have one ward and one branch that we´re over.
That´s awesome about chad! Conrats chad on the award!!! How´s basketball going?? Is it over yet?
Well, not much to say this week. I´m still getting to know the area and the people here, so next week I´ll be able to tell you a little more about the people and our investigators.
Hope all is well back at home and you all are having a good time. I love you all so much and am so grateful for your examples. Keep doing all that the prophet says and stay strong in the gospel! I wish you could all feel the way I do here on the mission. Some of you have already experienced it, but you younger boys, mom, jen and jande...it is the most amazing thing! I don´t think anything can compare to the experiences here on the mission and the change and growth that occurs. Chandler, Garrett, and Joseph...this might sound like something you´ve heard before in primary, young men´s but it is so true and so important. Start now to prepare for a mission! The prophet is really stressing missionary work. The Lord needs you more than ever now, and he needs worthy, young men to find His children and to teach of the gospel. DO all that you can to prepare, read the scriptures, say your prayers, listen to mom and dad and follow the counsels of the prophet. He will never lead you astray!
I love and miss you all so much! Have a good week!
Love, Sister Salisbury
First thing I have to say is....Can you guys please send me pictures?!?! I haven´t gotten any recent pictures from you guys and I want to see you! Just throwing that out there cuz I always forget to ask.
Well, this week was good! And it´s so nice having an american companion. It was good to have brasilian comps, but it´s nice to be able to talk english once in awhile. Our area is way interior. The ground is pretty much all sand which makes it SO nice to walk in, especially when it rains ;) And it´s been raining quite a bit. Aracati is so much different from my last area. Here, EVERYBODY lets you in their house, which makes working so much easier! Um, my apt is good, I don´t have a pic with me now, but I will send one soon. We live above a church. Have an open room where we study, have another room where we keep all our clothes and what not, 2 bathrooms! a bedroom and a kitchen. And we have a washing machine, I think all the mission homes have a washing machine. We teach english and piano lessons and it is SO much fun!!!!!! We teach piano twice a week and english once a week. Church was good, I´m playing in sacrament meeting here as well. We have one ward and one branch that we´re over.
That´s awesome about chad! Conrats chad on the award!!! How´s basketball going?? Is it over yet?
Well, not much to say this week. I´m still getting to know the area and the people here, so next week I´ll be able to tell you a little more about the people and our investigators.
Hope all is well back at home and you all are having a good time. I love you all so much and am so grateful for your examples. Keep doing all that the prophet says and stay strong in the gospel! I wish you could all feel the way I do here on the mission. Some of you have already experienced it, but you younger boys, mom, jen and jande...it is the most amazing thing! I don´t think anything can compare to the experiences here on the mission and the change and growth that occurs. Chandler, Garrett, and Joseph...this might sound like something you´ve heard before in primary, young men´s but it is so true and so important. Start now to prepare for a mission! The prophet is really stressing missionary work. The Lord needs you more than ever now, and he needs worthy, young men to find His children and to teach of the gospel. DO all that you can to prepare, read the scriptures, say your prayers, listen to mom and dad and follow the counsels of the prophet. He will never lead you astray!
I love and miss you all so much! Have a good week!
Love, Sister Salisbury
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Jan. 25, 2011
Hey!
Sorry I didn´t write you yesterday. It was transfers and I got transferred to the interior and it´s like a 3 1/2 hour bus ride. I´m now companions with Sister Bowden. SHe´s from Texas and she´s my FIRST american!!!!! We were in the CTM together, she was also a solo sister, but I had left before her. My new area though is called Aracati. From what I´ve seen so far, I think it´s going to be way cool. It´s in the rainy season though so the roads are a mess! It´s the roads made out of cobblestone.
I´m doing good though, nothing else really new. THis transfer will only be five weeks and we have a zone conference. Oh something else about this area. We only go to district meeting once during a transfer because it´s so far away, which means we don´t get our mail. The only way we get it is if we have baptisms. THen the assistants, who do the baptismal interviews for us, they bring our mail for us. Oh, and let brett know that I got his package, and thank glenda and the family also! :)
Well, don´t have much time and there´s not much more to say. There will be more next week, sorry it´s not much. KNow that I love you all and I´m praying for you!
Love,
Sister Salisbury
Sorry I didn´t write you yesterday. It was transfers and I got transferred to the interior and it´s like a 3 1/2 hour bus ride. I´m now companions with Sister Bowden. SHe´s from Texas and she´s my FIRST american!!!!! We were in the CTM together, she was also a solo sister, but I had left before her. My new area though is called Aracati. From what I´ve seen so far, I think it´s going to be way cool. It´s in the rainy season though so the roads are a mess! It´s the roads made out of cobblestone.
I´m doing good though, nothing else really new. THis transfer will only be five weeks and we have a zone conference. Oh something else about this area. We only go to district meeting once during a transfer because it´s so far away, which means we don´t get our mail. The only way we get it is if we have baptisms. THen the assistants, who do the baptismal interviews for us, they bring our mail for us. Oh, and let brett know that I got his package, and thank glenda and the family also! :)
Well, don´t have much time and there´s not much more to say. There will be more next week, sorry it´s not much. KNow that I love you all and I´m praying for you!
Love,
Sister Salisbury
Monday, January 17, 2011
Jan. 17, 2011
Hey!
You guys have nothing to worry about! It´s been raining a lot here, but there´s no flooding. I think it just like to pour on p-days....During this past week it was fine and then we wake up this morning to rain! It´s our last pday of the transfer and we always have one with the zone. Are plans were to go to the temple grounds and take pictures but that plan didn´t quite work. So we all met at the stake center, bought pizza, played ping pong and just hung out and talked. There were others that were watching movies....but they weren´t "livre".....or in other words g-rated. So the rest of us just hung out and talked. Hey and guess what?!?!?!
I hit 10 months today!!!!! Me,E. Bills, E. Perez, and E. Johnson all took pictures together. They´re some of the elders that were in my group when i came into the field...just a side note :)
I´m all better, i was sick there for a day but it all passed. Everyone here is getting sick. All of us four sisters in the house got it. I think it´s all going around the mission. THere´s so many elders that have been sick. It must just be because of the climate change.
As far as you guys coming to get me it would be nice to be able to pass through one of my areas on a sunday. So maybe you guys can plan a few days after the 15-16 of august.I could stay with a companionship for a couple days and continue working with them and then around the 19th you guys could plan on being down here and spend a few days. You had mentioned maybe going to são paulo or rio. That would be cool, but if you think it´d be spending too much money then it´s ok. We´ll probably be flying to são paulo from here anyways,so maybe we could spend a day there or something. I don´t know, just throwing some things out. I´m fine with just going to places here in my mission though so don´t think we need to go anywhere else unless you would like to.
Well, hope all is going good there back at home. I´ve sent a million emails to chandler but he must be too busy to answer me. Hope garrett and joey are doing good. I can´t believe garrett will be getting his license and joey will be going into junior high when i get home! And chandler will be a senior! Everything is going to be completely different,but I guess that´s a good thing cuz I´ve changed also since I´vebeen out here. I don´t even know how to explain the way I feel about the gospel now. The mission is a complete life changing experience. There was so many things that I took for granted before the mission. One of those things being my family. You never know how much you love someone until they´re gone.....not that you guys are gone forever, but being away from you guys has been hard. I didn´t think it would be as hard as it´s been. I focus on the work of course, but you know you have those times. I want you guys to know how much I love and appreciate all that you have done for me.I miss and love you all so much!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Sister Salisbury
You guys have nothing to worry about! It´s been raining a lot here, but there´s no flooding. I think it just like to pour on p-days....During this past week it was fine and then we wake up this morning to rain! It´s our last pday of the transfer and we always have one with the zone. Are plans were to go to the temple grounds and take pictures but that plan didn´t quite work. So we all met at the stake center, bought pizza, played ping pong and just hung out and talked. There were others that were watching movies....but they weren´t "livre".....or in other words g-rated. So the rest of us just hung out and talked. Hey and guess what?!?!?!
I hit 10 months today!!!!! Me,E. Bills, E. Perez, and E. Johnson all took pictures together. They´re some of the elders that were in my group when i came into the field...just a side note :)
I´m all better, i was sick there for a day but it all passed. Everyone here is getting sick. All of us four sisters in the house got it. I think it´s all going around the mission. THere´s so many elders that have been sick. It must just be because of the climate change.
As far as you guys coming to get me it would be nice to be able to pass through one of my areas on a sunday. So maybe you guys can plan a few days after the 15-16 of august.I could stay with a companionship for a couple days and continue working with them and then around the 19th you guys could plan on being down here and spend a few days. You had mentioned maybe going to são paulo or rio. That would be cool, but if you think it´d be spending too much money then it´s ok. We´ll probably be flying to são paulo from here anyways,so maybe we could spend a day there or something. I don´t know, just throwing some things out. I´m fine with just going to places here in my mission though so don´t think we need to go anywhere else unless you would like to.
Well, hope all is going good there back at home. I´ve sent a million emails to chandler but he must be too busy to answer me. Hope garrett and joey are doing good. I can´t believe garrett will be getting his license and joey will be going into junior high when i get home! And chandler will be a senior! Everything is going to be completely different,but I guess that´s a good thing cuz I´ve changed also since I´vebeen out here. I don´t even know how to explain the way I feel about the gospel now. The mission is a complete life changing experience. There was so many things that I took for granted before the mission. One of those things being my family. You never know how much you love someone until they´re gone.....not that you guys are gone forever, but being away from you guys has been hard. I didn´t think it would be as hard as it´s been. I focus on the work of course, but you know you have those times. I want you guys to know how much I love and appreciate all that you have done for me.I miss and love you all so much!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Sister Salisbury
Monday, January 10, 2011
Jan. 10, 2011
"The rains came down and the floods came up"
How´s it going?! Well, it rained all night last night, and it´s still raining! We´re here at the grocery store using the internet and we had to take a taxi. Everything is flooded. We pull into the parking lot underneath the store and people are walking through a lake. It´s ridiculous! Other than that everything is good. Although I was actually sick on saturday, everyone is getting sick. Sis. Gonzaga and Pujol were sick the day before and stayed home. THen me and Sis. Pujol stayed home on saturday. I was sick to the stomach and my whole body was weak. There´s a lot of people getting sick. I think it´s because of the climate change. It was super hot and all of a sudden the weather changed. But I went to church yesterday feeling mais ou menos and gave a talk in sacrament meeting with my companion. It went really good, it was on missionary work and my comp talked about serving others. Yesterday afternoon our baptism almost fell through. His name is Igor and he has 15 years. He felt that he wasn´t prepared and felt like he needed to know more.We talked to him and explained some things and told him that we weren´t there to convince him and he had to make his own decision. He was baptized and it was so neat! He was so happy and thanked us so much!
Well, my time is running out. Hope all is well, sounds like you all are keeping busy with work, school and sports. That´s awesome chandler got his patriarchal blessing, i was wondering when he was going to get it. And Garrett started Drivers ED??? He´ll be getting his license when i get home! Crazy! Alright well I have to go, have a good week!!!
I love you guys!!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
ps. I got both the memory cards, thank you!
How´s it going?! Well, it rained all night last night, and it´s still raining! We´re here at the grocery store using the internet and we had to take a taxi. Everything is flooded. We pull into the parking lot underneath the store and people are walking through a lake. It´s ridiculous! Other than that everything is good. Although I was actually sick on saturday, everyone is getting sick. Sis. Gonzaga and Pujol were sick the day before and stayed home. THen me and Sis. Pujol stayed home on saturday. I was sick to the stomach and my whole body was weak. There´s a lot of people getting sick. I think it´s because of the climate change. It was super hot and all of a sudden the weather changed. But I went to church yesterday feeling mais ou menos and gave a talk in sacrament meeting with my companion. It went really good, it was on missionary work and my comp talked about serving others. Yesterday afternoon our baptism almost fell through. His name is Igor and he has 15 years. He felt that he wasn´t prepared and felt like he needed to know more.We talked to him and explained some things and told him that we weren´t there to convince him and he had to make his own decision. He was baptized and it was so neat! He was so happy and thanked us so much!
Well, my time is running out. Hope all is well, sounds like you all are keeping busy with work, school and sports. That´s awesome chandler got his patriarchal blessing, i was wondering when he was going to get it. And Garrett started Drivers ED??? He´ll be getting his license when i get home! Crazy! Alright well I have to go, have a good week!!!
I love you guys!!!
Love, Sister Salisbury
ps. I got both the memory cards, thank you!
Monday, January 3, 2011
Jan. 3, 2011
Hey!
Well, first off I guess I´ll forgive you guys for not getting an email to me sooner. I was on quite early. We ended up coming earlier to use the internet because we wanted to get everything done in the morning. I enjoyed reading all your emails though. Sounds like New Years was fun! We had a little party here too. Friday we had a new addition to our apartment, sister Pujol. One of the sisters went home so her comp came and is now working with Sister Gonzaga. So it´s just me and sister Corrêa working together now, for the time being. Next week we´ll be back to a trio because Sister Pujol is going home as well. Which makes things more interesting, but I´ll tell you later on. So New Years...we had to be back to our house by 6pm because the streets were full of people drinking in bars and not safe for missionaries to be out. So we got back to the house and had a special dinner, we had drawn names and got little gifts for our "secret friend" I made a batch of brownies that you had sent me and had ice cream, then at midnight we watched the fireworks from our front window. There was a big show at the beach and we were able to watch it from our apartment.
Oh GOOD NEWS!!! I got all my packages from you guys!!!! I loved them! Thank you so much! I think I have candy to last me the rest of my mission :) So much for new year resolutions! ;)
I sent some pictures in another email, hope they got through. They´re of me and my comp, sister gonzaga and sister pujol, and a few from the baptism of Vivi. She is such a doll...literally! When I first saw her I thought she was 3 or 4 and then my comp told me that we´re going to start teaching her and when she turns 8 she´ll be baptized. i couldn´t believe it!
Well, I better get going my time is up. Hope you guys have a good week, and have fun in school, work, sports and all that good stuff! I love you guys!!!!
Love, sister salisbury
Well, first off I guess I´ll forgive you guys for not getting an email to me sooner. I was on quite early. We ended up coming earlier to use the internet because we wanted to get everything done in the morning. I enjoyed reading all your emails though. Sounds like New Years was fun! We had a little party here too. Friday we had a new addition to our apartment, sister Pujol. One of the sisters went home so her comp came and is now working with Sister Gonzaga. So it´s just me and sister Corrêa working together now, for the time being. Next week we´ll be back to a trio because Sister Pujol is going home as well. Which makes things more interesting, but I´ll tell you later on. So New Years...we had to be back to our house by 6pm because the streets were full of people drinking in bars and not safe for missionaries to be out. So we got back to the house and had a special dinner, we had drawn names and got little gifts for our "secret friend" I made a batch of brownies that you had sent me and had ice cream, then at midnight we watched the fireworks from our front window. There was a big show at the beach and we were able to watch it from our apartment.
Oh GOOD NEWS!!! I got all my packages from you guys!!!! I loved them! Thank you so much! I think I have candy to last me the rest of my mission :) So much for new year resolutions! ;)
I sent some pictures in another email, hope they got through. They´re of me and my comp, sister gonzaga and sister pujol, and a few from the baptism of Vivi. She is such a doll...literally! When I first saw her I thought she was 3 or 4 and then my comp told me that we´re going to start teaching her and when she turns 8 she´ll be baptized. i couldn´t believe it!
Well, I better get going my time is up. Hope you guys have a good week, and have fun in school, work, sports and all that good stuff! I love you guys!!!!
Love, sister salisbury
Jan. 3, 2011
me and my companion Sister Corrêa
pictures from our most recent convert, Vivi....she´s eight years old with the mind of a teennager. But she is the cutest little thing!
pictures from our most recent convert, Vivi....she´s eight years old with the mind of a teennager. But she is the cutest little thing!
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