MY BELOVED BROTHERS AND SISTERS. OI FROM SISTER MARSHALL!
It's been one crazy week! I don't even know where to start. So I met a bunch of missionaries heading home or to the MTC at the ATL airport. It was pretty cool. My week has been so crazy so far! everything about it has been so awesome, and so exhausting. I am always so tired because we wake up at 5:30 since we're not supposed to be here! But its good because by 9:30 I'm ready to be asleep. All of my classes are very hard, but I know it's for my good. Me and my companhera sister Anederson are teaching an "investigator" named Vasco. It's been so hard, because I don't really know what he's saying. But we as District 70B have learned so so so much about portugues, the gospel and our purpose as missionaries.My district is super tight. There's 12 of us visa waiters all going to Goiania. We are all really good friends now and it's really like having a family down here. It's good. Brother Olsen, our teacher, is pretty good too. He's taught us some slang words that we can't say until we're out of the MTC haha. Like.... OPA! which means something like... whaddup ... or ooos. He also taught us "Beliza" which is also slang that just means beautiful, but it's also a way of saying whats up. I met sister Jory Miller, the one who went to BYUH and it's awesome. She worked at Bracelets at the PCC, so we worked right next (like 20 feet away) to eachother for almost 2 years and didn't know that either of us existed.We watched on Sunday "Character of Christ" by Elder Bednar. It's so good. It's an hour long, but if you get the chance to watch it, it's amazing. I'm singing in the choir tonight at Devo. I've never been so culture shocked in my life... and i'm in utah. It has been crazy thus far, but a good kind of hectic crazy. I love it here so much, but definitely missing you guys hard core.Things that I need:I accidentally took two right shoes of those really cute gray oxfords. can you send me a left foot and i'll send back the right? it would be most appreciated. also tennis shoes maybe? other than that, maybe another p-day shirt would be nice. I'll go ahead and talk to travel offices today to see what the deal is. all of the people who got reassigned last week to missions were nova york e philly. cool right? but i have faith that the visas will come soon.Iwent to the temple this morning. I had many thoughts that kind of contrasted eachother this week, and so I was praying in the temple, and it all became very clear.I keep forgetting I'm a missionary. I see everyone with name tags, and i'm thinking, "look missionaries!!! oh wait!" it's cool though that I get to be one of those people wearing the badge. I love the evangelho, and the lord so much, and i can't wait to learn more.
Tchau!
Sister Marshall
It's been one crazy week! I don't even know where to start. So I met a bunch of missionaries heading home or to the MTC at the ATL airport. It was pretty cool. My week has been so crazy so far! everything about it has been so awesome, and so exhausting. I am always so tired because we wake up at 5:30 since we're not supposed to be here! But its good because by 9:30 I'm ready to be asleep. All of my classes are very hard, but I know it's for my good. Me and my companhera sister Anederson are teaching an "investigator" named Vasco. It's been so hard, because I don't really know what he's saying. But we as District 70B have learned so so so much about portugues, the gospel and our purpose as missionaries.My district is super tight. There's 12 of us visa waiters all going to Goiania. We are all really good friends now and it's really like having a family down here. It's good. Brother Olsen, our teacher, is pretty good too. He's taught us some slang words that we can't say until we're out of the MTC haha. Like.... OPA! which means something like... whaddup ... or ooos. He also taught us "Beliza" which is also slang that just means beautiful, but it's also a way of saying whats up. I met sister Jory Miller, the one who went to BYUH and it's awesome. She worked at Bracelets at the PCC, so we worked right next (like 20 feet away) to eachother for almost 2 years and didn't know that either of us existed.We watched on Sunday "Character of Christ" by Elder Bednar. It's so good. It's an hour long, but if you get the chance to watch it, it's amazing. I'm singing in the choir tonight at Devo. I've never been so culture shocked in my life... and i'm in utah. It has been crazy thus far, but a good kind of hectic crazy. I love it here so much, but definitely missing you guys hard core.Things that I need:I accidentally took two right shoes of those really cute gray oxfords. can you send me a left foot and i'll send back the right? it would be most appreciated. also tennis shoes maybe? other than that, maybe another p-day shirt would be nice. I'll go ahead and talk to travel offices today to see what the deal is. all of the people who got reassigned last week to missions were nova york e philly. cool right? but i have faith that the visas will come soon.Iwent to the temple this morning. I had many thoughts that kind of contrasted eachother this week, and so I was praying in the temple, and it all became very clear.I keep forgetting I'm a missionary. I see everyone with name tags, and i'm thinking, "look missionaries!!! oh wait!" it's cool though that I get to be one of those people wearing the badge. I love the evangelho, and the lord so much, and i can't wait to learn more.
Tchau!
Sister Marshall