It's the end of the month and we're broke. broke. broke.

How has everyone's week been? Mine's been great. Thanks for asking.

Pictures:
-Our weekly planning session this week.
-Nela's baptism from a bit ago.
-Me eating a mollusk! (I think.)

Anyways. Things have been going quite good for Buhler and Serdar lately. When I say quite good, I really mean we had 13 investigators in church Sunday. And if you are about to pee your pants with excitement about that, Well, You just don't know the half of it!

We are really, really, really, really, really, really, blessed by the Lord. we have awesome families that we are teaching and we are just having so much fun! It just feels so good to be teaching these people and watch the gospel change their lives!

I really wish I could go into detail about all of them, but my hour limit doesn't permit!

One day this week, we had planned the night before to ask Rute(my recent convert) to teach with us. Well, I was a fubeka and never called her. The Lord was SO merciful to us that be made the 3pm & 4pm appointments occupied & told us to "come back in a few minutes" so that we could walk over to Rute's house where she was convieniently DOING NOTHING. :) And then she bore SUPER SUPER good testimony that really helped our investigators. I'm glad that Lord gives us 2nd chances.
Another interesting thing about Rute is that she has moved from Branch1 where she was baptized to Branch 2. RIGHT in the middle of a circle of our investigators that she can help! She is like, the perfect person for them! I'm telling you... Heavenly Father is a mysterious fella.

Other than that... Well.. I think it was Thursday or Friday. I was thinking to myself during personal study, "It's been a while since we've hade Zone conference.. It's a good thing I've never had to give a training. I don't want to... EVER." Later on that day We were knocking on an investigator's door and we got a text that informed us about zone conference this Tuesday. 5 minutes later we recieved a call,.. they want us to give a training. ...What poop.

It's supposed to be on making inspired goals.. and acheiving them through key indicators... I was like, you people have to be kidding me... Then they said it's because we have the best goal acheivement in the zone. I'm not sure if its true, but I guess it must be.

It's been a good week. Nothing in specifics.. but it really was probably one of the bests week I've had in my mission. Oh. And I hit a year. My housemates made me a cake. :)

That's all I got.
Til later!
-Sister Buhler

Well...No pictures

Well. It has been a long week. Nela and Claudino are married! Nela is also baptized! And Now they are working on getting Claudino worthy to go to the temple!!!! :D It was really cool because we went to their house last night and the spirit in their house is so different! It is so peaceful... and loving... and not hectic. Even though there were their 5 kids and 2 neighbor kids!

We have really great families we are working with. We are trying to work on completing part member families so that more families can be united in church and support one another... and go to the temple. :) [Who doesn't want to go to the temple?!] We're working alot with Manuel's family. His mom is amazing. She wants to do what is right. I don't think she understands portuguese alot though. Hahah. But we are workign with his 2 sisters Ju & Oriana.

Oriana is 20yrs old. We had an AMAZING LESSON with her on Saturday. Man. The room was just so full of the spirit! We knew she had been taught a long time ago so we were reteaching the 1st lesson. Do you know what? She had prayed about Joseph Smith 10 years prior and had a baptism date marked on March 14, 2003. SHE REMEMBERS HER BAPTISM DATE FROM 10 YEARS AGO. She told us, "When I first prayed about Joseph Smith, I felt completely different. And because of that I wanted to be baptized. The Sisters told me I could be baptized on March 14, 2003.. But then they left and never came back to finish teaching me." ..... WHAT!? Aren't you continually amazed at the Lord's hand? I know I am.

There are alot of less-actives that we pass when our lessons fall. And its really helping I think. This week, we had about under 80 folks at church.

Our Family from Ponta Verde wants to wait and be baptized when their dad and brother come back from portugal so they can all be baptized together. Soooo... That will be postponed. But they all have such strong testimonies. It's amazing. This week we gained another investigator from them. The woman of Domingos. They shipped her from Praia and now we're teaching her because they want to get her baptized and they wanna get married!!!! The best part is, that ever since she has been here, she has been sleeping in the house with the women and Domingos sleeps in his house alone. Because they want to keep the commandments. Is your heart melting? They have probably already been living together their whole lives and are going to be married soon, but holy cow. I hope all of you are impressed. I know I was. :)

Other than that, I have really been seeking to become a better servant of the Savior. I feel like I don't have enough hours in the day to be the servant that I want to be. I'm 4 days be hind in my Journal and probably a few transfers worth behind in my BOM reading. But what needs to be done is getting done I guess. :)

Anyways,.. That's it!
TCHAU! -Sister Buhler

Xintchiroti is spending half her mission in Sao Filipe!

So for my family that was wondering how my birthday went, it was good. I had a cake at home. Then we went out and Sister Serdar's recent convert Tony and our investigator made me a cake and threw me a little surprise party. And another investigator insisted that we eat her cake too. Basically, it was a rough day for my tummy. Hahaha.

Um. Well, so last week everyone had interviews with President Oliveira.. including the Branch presidents. Pres O told President Gomes in his interview, Yeah that's great that sister Buhler has been helping you with the Choir, but I'm moving her off the island next transfer. Well, needless to say I was a bit sad. I started packing, and telling everyone goodbye...

You know what they say, "The more pictures you take, the more people you tell that you are going, the more likely it is that you will stay." Well. Wouldn't you know it. I'M STAYING! Which is AWESOME! Because we're going to have our first wedding tomorrow morning at 11am! :D And I get to see my other recent convert get married! And I get to continue teaching the investigators I love! And I get to baptize our miracle family from Ponta Verde! And I get to stay with Sister Serdar! AND.. This means I will have spent a half of my mission on the same island in the same city. 9 months! Whoop whoop! I'm officially the oldest missionary on the island. I'm super happy about it!

As for the past week, I'm not too what has been new? I don't know! It's just been a couple of good weeks! OH! Manuel got baptized last week! He's such a cute thing. Sister Serdar gave him tie and I gave him a CTR ring. :) He's an awesome kid.

This week we had 9 investigators in church. Our 5 women from Ponta Verde, Nela (gettin married tomorrow!), Sandra (a mom we've been working with alot), Doelinda (Mom of Manuel), and Rito. Rito has been a bit tough. Trying to get him to open up about his problems... About why he won't pray and stuff. But I pulled the "I'm leaving" card. SO HE CAME! So now he's progressing! Heavenly Father is awesomeee! So yeah. It's been a good week. And it'll be an even awesomer transfer. :)

If you were wondering about last week's one photo.. My housemates all made me breakfast in bed for my birthday. :) Aren't they the best?! So this week I'm including the cake we made at home.. Manuel's baptism.. and a random picture of me with some people I love (because I thought I was leaving! Hahaha. They are from Branch 1)