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
Monday, February 28, 2011
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
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