It's been a GREAT week! We went to São Vincente for training and BOY WAS IT AMAZING!
Before the mission, I felt like it was so easy to hear what the spirit had to say to me. I get here and I'm struggling. I felt like my companion and I were listening to two different radio stations... Terrible. Anyways, So we go to São Vincente and what is the training on?... TEACHING BY THE SPIRIT!!! (Among other things the President wants us to incorporate into our teaching) Am I a lucky girl or what? The very thing that I was praying for help in! I'm telling you... Heavenly Father is AWESOME! Anyways, it helped alot. After our first lesson the day we came back to Sal to teach, I wanted to scream from the rooftops or facebook it or just tell SOMEBODY besides my companion, just how awesome that lesson was. (I called our Elders) But Seriously! We applied EVERYTHING from our training!! We taught by the spirit and it opened up ways for us to use ALL of the tools that our Mission President talked about!! It was honestly amazing. The whole rest of the day I was able to feel where the spirit wanted us to work. There was a completely different feeling to the work. I REALLY felt like we were where the Lord wanted us to be. ...My companion and I were still on different radio stations, but I know that the people we met and the things we did were blessings of the spirit. The work felt different and at the end of the day my companion admitted we hadn't had a day of such successful work in a while. I thought we were doing good work before but BOY ARE WE NOW! Good gravy!
When I was at the training, I asked our Mission President how we need to go about doing splits with ward members because we have more work than we do time... At the end of having a whole converstion with my mission president in Portuguese, he High-5ed and fist bumped me, then turned to my companion and shook her hand.... YES! I GOT FIST BUMPED BY MY MISSION PRESIDENT! :) :)
At the end of this week's email he told me:
I am very hapy for having you in our mission and your portuguese is really good.
Love,
Pres. Oliveira
YEAHHHHHH!!! :) :)
In other news, Lenin is supposed to get baptized this week! We'll see though. Still have to get his ficha signed by his dad. This 14yr old has been SO PREPARED by the Lord. He really has such a pure heart. When were talking to him about starting to teach his dad, he said, "Yeah, So he can have this happiness too." :)
One of the things I loved most about our Training this week is about how the focus of our mission is going to be on families. It really just makes so much sense. Would you want to go to the place where you can have everlasting happiness for eternity WITHOUT your family? NO! It's awesome to be teaching these people about the gospel and how they can find eternal true happiness through Christ's teachings, but if they don't have their families, WHAT A RIP-OFF! I'm super stoked to be teaching families. We have 3 that we are currently teaching and we have 2 more in mind that we want to teach. :)
As for other things.. My companion and I went to Santa Maria today. I've never hated be white so much in my life! If you are white, they think you are a tourist. DUMB. I hate tourists.
Also, Yesterday we had a branchish activity at a member's house. It was super fun. We missionaries were playing the celebrity name game among mingling with the members. On the way home we ended up talking about Richard Simmons because of it. It may or may not have been so funny that we had trouble walking on the way home... and we may or may not have peed our skirts... Basically, I have a lot of good times with Sister Holland.
For those of you who wrote me Dear Elders and wanted to know if I got them,... I received them! I'm not sure if I've gotten ALL the letter-letters sent to me but I got one that was sent at the end of April! :)
Anyways, I hope you all have a great week!
Sister Buhler
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