felizidade!!!!

This week has been great. We met all the requirements for a Missionary of Excellence!!! 27 lessons. I know we can do more but for now that is the best we have done. Today I got 12 cartas and 2 packages. It was wonderful!!!

I love you all so much and to any one that has written me in the last little bit, I love them! From Jon I received his letter from Feb. 5th. It is about a 20 day laps. Receiving letters will depend on when we have zone conference or when our leaders from our zone go to Salvador.
This time it was because of zone conference.

I love zone conference. We have sisters that get to come and sleep over at our house and stuff. It is very fun and I love, love, love the President’s wife, Sister Souza. She came to look at our house and then she let us call her friends. It was very fun. I talked to Susie from Morgan, Muito Engraçado!

Last week I had a great email all done and I went to send it and got kicked out of the system and my time was up. I was really mad. More mad than a missionary should be. It did make for a very funny journal entry which you can all read when I come home if you want.

Yesterday I ate a typical Bahian food called Acadaja. It was horrible and today all the elders were trying to tell me that it was great and that they barley go a day without one. I don’t think so! Last week I had fish... that was a very bad idea. I will only eat fish at the member’s house if the member is clean. Anyway, I think I will just stick to bonbons. Which by the name you know it is good. It means good goods and they are really good.

I went through my letters. Most of them talked about the death of the Prophet. It is funny to me that the only time I even sort of started to tear up from these letters was when Jon was writing to me about Gordon B. Hinckley and how he is the prophet of our generation. Basically, no one here has ever known another prophet. It was very toughing.

This week we taught a few people that just can not get out of the saved by grace mentality. I mean we have taught them about the resurrection and the spirit has been so strong. They say that they pray and that it is good. Then they are like, “we don’t need to go to church, the Lord will provide the way for us”. I am like wait just one second, were you here when we just said that the restored gospel is here. How on earth could you not feel the spirit. If you go to church you will feel it even more.

It is very hard to let these people go when they do not want to come because in Brazil, if they do not come to church we just move them to past investigators because they are not progressing and they are not showing desire. It is very hard but very good.
I think I am speaking better and better all the time.

Today the President told me that I can not speak English with my companhara but I think that it will be good. Honestly, I know that I can speak more than I do. Yesterday we had a lesson with this boy, his mother and a member family. The ward missionary and Sister Rezende said that it had to be good because if they trust us they will help us more. It was a great lesson and I did not ask my companion how to say anything.
Anyway, life is great ! I love you all !

Ta Ta
Sister Kate Felt

"Mais brilhante do que o sol"

I'm downloading my pictures from the CTM this first week so I am typing this from my google account. I got permission from the AP--who by the way--is my friend from Vermont. I did not even know he was hear; my branch president from Vermont had emailed me and said that Kevin Berkholder was hear but I thought it had to be a different mission. When I was was coming out of the airport last week I saw Sister Soza and then Kevin,... and I was like aaaaaah!!! I think what I said was, "shut the front door!!!!!"

I am in a city called Camaçari, it is fun we live on the poor side of town but that means we get more baptisms because the people are humble.
I love the beans and rice, I hated them in the CTM and rarely ate them but here they are good. I knew Brazilians had to have better taste buds then the type of taste bud that liked the food in the CTM.

My comp. is great, she is from Santa Catherine--in the southern part of Brazil. She is wonderful; with her, I will be loved into Portuguese. The language is going better than expected and I know that it's because the Lord has blessed me a tone!

So I may, or may not have a small skin disease I like to call leprosy! But it is fine, I will just go find a river and wash seven times or something.
So it's really, really hot here and we are required to take a shower every morning and evening, I am not mad about this at all, and would not be too mad if we got to take one in the middle of the day too. I am the only American Sister right now but I am sure that we'll get one in the next few transfers or something.

Last week we got to see the WW leadership broadcast and it was way good, it was in Portuguese so I had a lot of time to think about the subject at hand since I understood... mais o menos. It was fine, it was about raising up a faithful generation. So, like the responsibility of continues conversation that Chrisy and I have: like how are we're going to raise children in this world. And how everything that I was raised with, I am also going to try to use with all of my investigators. Elder Holland calls investigators babes in the gospel and so we must raise them up like children.

Ok my time is up. I love you all a lot and I am going to sent some pictures if can figure out how to upload them on to pacaso with half of the instructions in Portuguese.. and well... it is sort of frustrating. I love you all more that all the world and if i did not send you an email back i am sorry i am working on am letter, I am sure.

Love you all have a wonderful day.
Love Sister Kate Felt