Dear Mom, Dad, Family, and Friends,
Well,
to start off, Dad, I wanted to wish you a very happy birthday today!
And Happy Birthday Kimball! (on Wensday) :) I hope you two have a great
birthday!
Taylor: Yah, the World Cup is really affecting
missionary work the world over. My friend who´s serving in Russia said
that everyone is staying up late to watch the game and so waking up
around 4 in the afternoon, haha!
Wow, I hope everything goes well with the move in to
the new place! You´ll have to send me some pictures once you get all
moved in!
Enjoy your last fews days in Spain!
Dad: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!
Glad
to hear that Stake Conference is well. That´s a bummer that the router
burned out and that you didn´t have much time but I´m sure you did a
wonderful job!
Wow, I can´t believe June has already ended as well. It flew by really fast!
Give Grandma and Grandpa a huge hug when you see them from me. Tell them how much I love and miss them.
haha, yah, it was definitely a blessing that Brasil
won. Pretty crazy game but ended great. Funniest part about the game: So
we watched the game at a member´s home with their whole family and the
neighbor´s tv is about 2 seconds ahead, so during the penalty kicks we
knew if the player had made a goal before we even saw it on the tv
because the neighbors either yelled or kept quiet. haha, it was pretty
funny :) And let´s just say Brazilians know how to yell during soccer :)
Mom: Wow, that´s interesting that Emily can´t leave
home during the game. It´s probably because her mission is close to São
Paulo and there are games being played there. But here in João Pessoa,
there aren´t any World Cup games. But we won´t be allowed to watch the
finals game on Sunday (if Brasil makes it to the finals) because well,
it´s Sunday
I got the pink sweater in a different box than the
shoes. I still haven´t gotten the talk but we have Zone Conference on
Wednesday so I should get it then. I´m sure I`ll get the package with
the Old Navy shirts soon. Heather Kern emailed me and said that she had
sent a package in February and I still haven´t gotten it. I´m sure I`ll
get it soon. :) Thanks again for sending the package!
Aah, I´m glad stake conference went well. haha, I
can picture you crying during the chorus. (I didn´t even know that that
hymn was so new, well not that new...) :)
haha,
that´s so funny that you wrote about the electric fence collar during
FHE because I was talking about that just yesterday with Sister Maciel.
So, we have this electric racket looking thing to cool the mosquitos in
our house and it obviously shocks you. haha, Sister Maciel was joking
around yesterday and pretending to almost shock me. And that´s when I
told her the story, haha, she laughed when I told her :)
You should definitely go downtown to see the
fireworks. 4th of July here is the Brasil soccer game. I´m going to make
brownies to bring to the member´s home and somehow I´m going to
decorate the brownies with an American flag, I´m still planning it out
but it should be good :)
Bryan: Congrats on the new bedroom! Looks great and I loved the pictures!
haha, oh the Steve Jobs quote...
Well,
this week went pretty well. Cida didn´t stop smoking but at least she
went to Church again this week. Please pray that she´ll be able to stop
smoking and drinking coffee this week :) And also that we´ll be able to
find new investigators this week. Our goal for this month is 4-2-1 (4
baptisms, 2 of them being men, and 1 family) If you could pray that we
would be able to reach our goal that would be great.
So funny story of the week, last night as we were
tracting one of our old investigators, Glaudênia saw us and came up to
talk to us. Let´s just say that she was a little drunk...and she told us
"Come to my house and pray for me, please!" haha, we went to her house
and said that it had to be quick but that we would pray for her. Well,
she asked for the two of us to pray at the same time and I told her it
had to be just one. Well, I ended up praying and during the middle of
the prayer she just starts talking and she´s like "Oh wow, you´re so
sweaty!" Then she began to wipe the sweat off my face with hands
(remember I was praying during all this) haha, it was so gross and I was
like, "What? You can´t just rub off the sweat from other people´s
faces!" haha, I didn´t really say that to her but let´s just say it was a
pretty funny experience in the end. Oh, what people do when they´re
drunk.
Another cool story from the week: So Saturday night,
Wellen, one of the sisters from the ward went out to teach with us. As
we were walking her home she stopped at the bakery to buy bread and I
was talking to her about how much I love the bread here in Brasil. Well,
I guess I talked about the bread so much that when we got to her house
her husband (who´s a bread deliverer) gave me two packages of bread! I
was so excited! Then, we went to visit a less active sister, Rosa, (she
is soooo great and has such a strong spirit). As we walked in, I felt a
prompting that I should give the bread to her. I knew that she didn´t
have very much to eat and that she was barely making ends meet. So, I
gave her the bread that I had and she was sooo happy and so grateful. I
was reminded of that hymn, "Because I Have Been Given Much." It was
such a strong spiritual experience and reminded me of how much we truly
are blessed.
Well, I love you all so much and hope that you all have a great week!
I love you the MOSTIEST!
Love,
Sister Hicks
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