Last week of the MTC!

Whoot Whoot!!!

I have really loved the CTM but am ready to get out of hear! I know that I could spend more time hear learning portuguese but I think I will learn more not being in the CTM. It will be a process but I will not be mad about leaving in a week from today.

Last week has gone by really really fast. The highlight was that Elder Nelson came and I got to shake his hand... and so did everyone else but that's ok, I still feel good about myself. He was really great, he talked about three things. One, that we need to come back speaking three languages better: English, Portuguese, and I think the spirit, but he never got to the third one. The next thing that he did was tell us we are noble and great and the best thing that we will aspire to is the great calling of being parents. Because that is the most important and powerful calling that you could ever have. Lastly, he talked about 3 Nephi 11--baptism, doctrine and not having contention. We concluded that we need to baptize but only after we teach the doctrine.

The other thing that has been going on is that it has been really cold; today it has been really rainy (chover: to rain) I think. Well, we have had a lot of that. It's going to be fun when I am out in the real world and have to deal with that any time it rains--man, doesn't that sounds fun!!?!?

Um. well thanks to anyone that sent me a little email saying they were thinking about me; I might add, this thanks is not to anyone that is related to me!!!!! Do I have to sick Alma 60:6 on you all!?!?!?! Maybe the problem is that I have not extended a commitment to any one. Will you email me a small email next week?

Well, have a great week and I love you all a lot even if you forget that I am in Brazil doing the Lords work and that you will get extra blessings for emailing me and you get even more blessings for writing real letters.

Well love you ,
your Sister Kate Felt

Muitissemo

Hello Famila,

Life is way good; last week was fun and fast. We got new roommates I really loved our last ones but the new ones are better for us. I think because one of the Sisters--I am not even going to try to spell her name--talks to us and makes us talk to her in Portuguese, she is so funny. Last night she was lamenting that she was missionary because she saw the most beautul American missionary that day, she said that he looked like one of the back steet boys. She really craks me up.

There is another Sister that came that is not my roommate but she is a Brazilian coming to Salvador with me the same day that I am going. That was not all that unexpected, I knew if a Sister was going to come with me, she had to enter the MTC last week. Also, Chrisy there are some Sister's that are going to Cabo Verde, which is cool that they just come to the Brazilian CTM because they don't need to learn a language.

We got a new president of the CTM President Woodwar, he is really cool. It will be weird not having President Carden or Sister Cardon around anymore; they are amazing people. They left toddy.

The reality of me leaving the CTM hit me this week, so I am sort of freeking out about that. I get to be a real missionary now, I'm playing for keeps now and I want to keep them all :)

Last Friday proselytizing was amazing, we had a goal to bankrupt the teacher's supply of pass along cards and BOM's. We did it with an hour to spare so then we just started to get referrals.
We were going up to people, teaching them a little bit, and getting there address. That was way scary and amazing all at the same time. My amazement of the Brazilian people still continues to grow, they are all so loving and amazing. There were times when we would be teaching one person and another person would be walking past and stop and listen to us and take a card and just look so interested--it was unbelievable! Then there were other times that people would listen to our message and be like, I am Catholic, my whole family is Catholic, but thank you so much for your message. It is unbelievable, they are so just kind.

So last night my companion and I were minding our own business doing work for Missionary Directed Study Time (MDST) and a teacher came in and asked us to teach the first lesson to her class in Portuguese. She was like, "They have only been here a week and they are sort of nervous. You will do great--just show them that they can do it." and so I was like OK, they wont know when we mess up because they have only been here one week right?.... Well, we get to the room and it's a class of Brazilians, what the heck! But really, it was so good for me to do this, and they were wonderful to help me with the language.

My favorite Brazilian Sister left today she was a small little ball of joy. She has only been a member for one year and she is on a mission and she is going to be so, so, good. I just wanted to tell some one that story it's good huh? I should tell it at parties. -- brincadara (joking)

Um, I know there was something else that I was also going to write... oh well. I do want to tell you all that Gale and my friend Christie (I know that is not you spell her name) sent me a letter through "missionary ties" and I don't know how or what they did but it felt like it got here really fast, so that might be a good idea for getting things to me in a timely manner. Anyway I need to go, have a great week to all!

I love you all, muito, muito, muitissemo
I learned that slag this week does that work in Portugal portuguese?

Any, anyway love you tons,

Sister Kate Felt

brush your hair, brush your teeth, put on makeup

This week has really been so great, we are in the third trimester of the CTM, whomb!!!!

So, last Wednesday we went to the national police so that we could all be finger printed and get our visas extend so that I don't have to go home six months early. We had fun, it was fun to get the group of missionaries we came with back together again.

We got matching ties for our district and I thought it was cool, Sister Thompson and I just put ours in our hair to look like a head band. But one of the teachers got mad, well not mad, but we sort of got in trouble. Don't worry, they havn't told me to pack my bags just yet. The Elders have also started making-up, and doing stupid magic tricks; this is a sign that we've been in the CTM way too long.

Last week as a district, we decided to start praying for each other. We started praying that we would have an open atmosphere so we could talk about the things with which we are having problems. I am not going to lie, I think it's worked so well for us to do this because I feel like as a district, we are at the point where most districts are all getting sick of each other. It's been five weeks but instead of getting mad or frustrated with each other, I think we've grown in love for each other. It's amazing!

This Sunday we watched the Joseph Smith movie it was amazing. I love that! And I love JS and the amazing things he did for us with Heavenly Father. It was amazing!

Yesterday I got a letter from my mission president. This was epic for me. I have sort of been feeling bad that everyone had gotten a letter from there MP and I hadn't even heard from him. So when I got it I was way happy and so I opened it right away. And it's all in Portuguese!!! Gurrr, so I have to try really, really, hard to read it and even get some help. This is what is basicaly said:

Sister Felt,
We are so excited for you to come to our mission you will be coming on the 5 of Feb 2008. We will bring our camera to take pictures of you at the mission home. We will have a nice meal and dessert when you get here.

• brush your hair
• brush your teeth
• put on makeup

It's important to look nice.

Love, President and Sister Soza


OK, first I think it's funny because it's practically saying you are not going to get any good food hear so I'll feed you, your last good meal--ten to one says it's beans and rice. I will tell you once I have this meal. The other thing is that it was so short and they told me in bullet points to brush my teeth, and hair, and take care of myself. I don't know if you all think it's funny. but I think it's WAY funny!

Anyway this Friday we are proselytizing, so pray for me and my companheira.

Well have a great week, Thanks for your love,
I would love to hear from you all,
Love you,
Tchou!
Sister Katherine Felt

Boa Tarde

Oí famíla,

This week has been really great for me, on tuesday we had a talk by President Cardin. It was on being a maissionary of mighty faith; it was really AMAZING. I think i am getting a better idea of what it is to be a good missionary. You all did not warn me that it's a very difrent way of thinking. When you are a missionary you never really do anything for yourself and that's when the faith comes in. Everyday you obay all the rules not because you want to all the time but because you have the faith to know that this is not your time. Sort of weird when you are getting use to it.

I was having a hard time this week, knowing that I'm not doing as well with my language as the others in my district, I don't know why this should be surprising knowing how my mind works. But I was talking to my companion and she was a great help telling me that we have been promised that we will speak Portuguese, which I know is true. Since then I have felt much better I know that the Lord is not going to tell me to do something and then let me fail when I am doing his work. That is another area where faith comes in.

Last friday I got to go proselytizing out in São Pãlo it was amazing, I loved it is was amazing how loving the people were and how open they were to listening to the message. I was almost sure the first person I talked to was planted by my teacher but no, I think that's just the way the Brazilians are. Sure, we had plenty of people that were not willing to listen but an amazing number really were. I think that's just the disposition of the people, that's what makes the field so white and ripe for harvest. President Hinckly told the Brazilians a year or two ago that the number of baptisms need to double in Brazil, which is amazing considering the numbers of people getting baptized. Every missionary has two rules 1. Never go to any church meeting with out an investigator and 2. never miss a meeting. I don't think that's possible everywhere but missionaries all over Brazil are doing it. It's amazing!

There was one girl that we were talking to and she was so happy to listen and looked so interested that I also added my testimony to my companion and gave her the BOM it was soo cool I felt really great. I can't wait until I get to discover all of the stories of these people when I get to meet them, and teach them, and understand them. It's really amazing.

Today we went to the temple in Campinas, it's so beautiful I loved it. It's so clean. I think everything inside the temple is designed to reflect light and so the whole thing is just glistening I love it. Well time is up.

One addition is that my roommates are so amazing, I love them and they really crack me up every night, I am greatful for them and I am really greatful for my companion.

Have a great day I would love to get letters, hint, hint or if you are family emails.

Love, Sister Kate Felt

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Feliz ano nova! ok i really have no clue how to spell that?

So today is p-day and as you know, that means that last Tuesday was also my p-day. But, not only did I not get to email, but also you thought I was going to be able to call. Humm, that apparently was not the case. But if you think about it, it will be cooler for me to call on Mothers Day because then i will know more Portuguese whereas right now I really don’t know anything, like I do, but at the same time, not really.

New years was crazy last night it was (A.) so hot that it took a good hour to fall asleep and (B.) the fireworks were so, and i really mean, SO loud that I thought maybe there was some sort of war going on. It was sort of cool.

This last week sister T and I got roommates, they are from Brazil. Where you ask? We don’t know, they talk really, really fast and I don’t think it helps that we are not completely up to par on the geography of Brazil. They are really cute though; I am going to try to send you pictures. There are sort of funny things that happen when you cannot understand one another.

The Elders in my district still crack me up, they just came into the tie shop that we are in. We are getting matching district ties that are orange and sister T and I are going to where them on our heads.

One of the Elders is so funny, he never really says anything and than come up with the most hilarious things to say. Like one day we were eating dinner and a kid came up and was being really funny and sort of a brat. When he was walking away the Elder that never says anything said, “What a miserable little man" this may not be funny to you, but it was really funny coming from him.

Anyway, got to run. Love you so much, the gospel is true and it’s great in Brazil, and really hot.
I think that baptizing in Brazil is so high because people need to cool off in the font. Haha ha, just kidding. Well, I do really love you.

Have a Great Day
Sister Felt



P.S.

my MTC address is:
Sister Katherine Felt
Brazil Salvador Mission
Brazil Missionary Training Center
Rua Parre Antonio D'Angelo 121
Casa Verde
02516-040 San Paulo SP
BRAZIL

And the pouch mail is no longer in service so once I leave the MTC, you'll have to send stuff to the mission home:
Sister Katherine Felt
Brazil Salvador Mission
Av. Antônio C. Magalhães, 3247 sala 402
pituba
40275-000-Salvador- BA
BRAZIL

My first p-day

Oi! Friends and Family,

Hey, so it is my first p-day at the CTM (or MTC depends on who you are talking to). It is really so fun, I love it. We get to go out around Casa Verde on p-day, Pres. Carden told us that he wants us to spend most of p-day out of the MTC, not only so that we can get out of the monotony of the MTC but also so that we can get out and see Brazil and get used to living out here. It is sort of funny, we are only allowed to travel within a 5-block radius of the MTC so within that 5-blocks there are all these stores that sell CTM shirts and mission bags. This week we are at Mr. Chenys Cookies, we are allowed to use the internet for free and we get a free cookie because it is our first week. I think it’s way funny. As a district today we went out to eat and I had a burger that was the greasiest things that I have ever had. I think I might just die of heart disease. But, like the Elders told me, at least I will die happy.

It has sort of been a hard adjustment to life in the CTM. I am not sure how to put it into words but I think they are trying to cram my brain full of so many things that I am on overload all the time. But, I know that it’s all good and that it is going to all make sense someday. Like Pres. Carden said, he has seen thousands of missionaries come through and I will not be the first to not learn the language in the CTM, but I will learn the langue because all the other thousands have.

My companions name is Sister Thompson she is great and I love her. She is half black and so everyone thinks that she is Brazilian and that she can speak Portuguese, but she can’t, it puts her in funny situations all the time.

Today we went to the Campinas Temple it was beautiful!!! And I was grateful for the time to write some letters and to just sit and talk with my companion about anything but language stuff; she is really cool and very talented. The men that are in my district are great I am grateful for there fun loving attitude and the fun that we are able to have. Some times it can get sort of out of hand but it is no problem because during Mission Directed Study Time (aka MDST) SisT and I can go into a different room or go work on TALL (a language learning program).

I know that I am not so good with languages and that it is really just a blessing to get such smart and advanced people in my district, but it’s hard for me to see them to be doing so well and feel like I am behind. But it is good Tudo Bem !!!! I love it and know that I am doing what I am suppose to be doing.

I love you all way more that I could ever possibly tell you in just a letter or with words,
Love Kate Felt

p.s. best news ever !!!!! I don’t have to were nylons!!!!! Mutio Bem!

Mission Again

Ok so I know that this is like all that I post about but it is what I am faced with all the time so if you are sick of it just don’t read my blog I am ok with that.

I changed my background so that it is more mission appropriate.
I will try to post my letters to you all this way, so that you can just read the blog and know what is going on and if you want to comment that is fine I don’t really know what the rules are but I will try to keep you all informed of what is going on.

In a few hours I will be 9 days away from leaving on my mission, that is rock’en. I have been thronged with ever emotion that could possible be associated with this type of transition. Most of the time I find myself over come with joy, the time has finally come for me to go. Other time I find my self, terrified and dreading the task at hand.

Any way I just wanted to tell y’all that I love you and thank you for your love and support. I would like to thank all my friends that drove to Richfield to see me talk. And well for that mater my family but really they don’t really read this so I guess that someday I will just tell them if they are not getting a thank you note in the mail already. I am also extremely grateful to my brothers that were all there and their significant others and also the biggest thanks of all to my mom and dad.

My mom worked all week long, at great personal scarifies, to make the little shin dig/ Peay family Thanksgiving dinner possible. But her love does not stop in just her works but flows freely like always in her words. And my Dad is as always the most supportive man I know. He normally makes me figure things out on my own but he is always there to listen. I think that he just might be my number one fan. He came to hear me talk and was with the family for most of the day even though he was feeling extremely ill. And later than night he was able to give me so wonderful counsel. I love him, and I hope that someday I can find a man to be as good of a head of the household as my dad is.

Well it is late and I am done with the other stuff that I was doing so I think it is time for me to be going but I do want to say thanks to any one that read this, have a great day and smile.

"Witnesses Of His Birth"

will be performed by Ogden Institute's Chorale, Choralaires, and Folk Dancers.

Show times are December 7th and 8th at 7:30pm with a matinee on the 8th at 2:30pm.

Suggest donations for tickets are:
Adult: $5.00
Senior: $4.00, $3.00 for matinee
Children (ages 6-17): $3.00
Family (one household): $15.00, $10.00 for matinee

come and have fun with me

FUN FUN FUN

Talk in Church before leaving on a Mission

Dear Friends and Family,

I am pleased to invite you all to come see me speak in church before I leave on my mission.

Any of you that are a little behind on my life I am, I have been called to labor in the Brazil Salvador Mission. I will be leaving December 11, and going straight to the MTC in San Paulo, Brazil.

I will speak in Sacrament Meeting November 25th @ 9:30 AM, in the Richfield 3rd. Ward 985 S. 400 W.

If you Drive for any distance at all, or are one of my moocher friends from Richfield, than I expect you to come to the Youth Center (91 S. 200W.) after sacrament meeting to join my family for a Thanks Giving Feast.

P.S. if you are truly dying to see me speak and you can not make it to Richfield than I am also talking on November 18 @ 1:00 PM In the OUU 15th ward on the East end of the chapel on 46th street, next to the UV and Dee Events Center.

Thank you to all of you I don’t expect you to come but it is good to be informed.
Have a wonderful day and my you have Heavenly Fathers Blessing upon your head. Love you and Good Day, Katherine Felt

Hawaii

So basically Hawaii was Amazing!!!!

and I really only reserve that word for special things.

We had tunz of fun playing with sticks

We played on the river and we husked a coconut

We also got to go to Pearl Harbor
It was a sad and beautiful sight.

This picture is taken on the USS Arizona’s memorial, the first ship to go down on Dec 5
And the ship that is in the picture is I think the USS Missouri where the final treaty was signed ending the war between the US and Japan.
So this picture sort of show and the beginning and the end of Americas involvement in such a dark point in histor.

We Spent Sunday Afternoon at Turtle Beach and got so close to real Sea Turtles

And then we watched the sunset

Look how cute my sister is and her husband

This trip was brought to me by my beautiful sister and her husband Will :)
I have a few more pictures but no more commentary just look which I bet most of you do anyway
Love ya all

Hawaii

On Friday I am going to Hawaii!!!!
The land of beautiful things.
As in I think that I will come back from Hawaii a more beautiful person than before.
Ok that might not be true, but you never know.
Well that is really all that I have to say, but I am so excited and I am at work and it is just one of those nights that really I don’t think that the girls even need a staff.
But I am not sad, I will just go read now.
Have a great day to all and I love you all and I will think of you in Hawaii.That is almost as good at getting a gift from me!!!!!!

:)

Mission

So I just wanted to talk about my mission really fast. I am getting really impatient to just go! I know that it will come fast but sort of not like this past month has not really gone by that fast any way but it will I think I just need to work on staying in the present and working on all the things that I need to before my mission so that I can be practically perfect by the time I go. Ok that is a lie I sort of feel like the more that I am learning the more that I know how truly imperfect I am. But all is well and I know that this is a great opportunity for me to do many many things. Any way I guess that is really all that I wanted to say Have a great day, love you all tunz

Brace Your Face No More!!!!!!

It is truly impossible to describe the tram that one feels by having braces in collage. It is a humiliating experience to have to go from looking older than you are, to all of a sudden being asked if you are still in high school because of your face. Ever picture, every look in the mirror is a horrifying reminder that your face is currently being occupied by a glinting metal contraption. I am shore that this was blown up in my mind but that does not make it any less scaring, your mind is a powerful tool you know.
I can speak so freely now of the experience now that I am proud to say that my face is metal mouth free now.

The point is look at me I’m pretty
I am warning you the following picture are frightening and sort of scaring.

Before

After

I love my face

I love my life

Ok so I love that school is back and I have a job that I love and that I get to hang out with some of the coolest people on the face of the planet. Last weekend on Friday night I got to see Jason Hulet (I don’t know how he spells his last name) he is the man that came to our high school when I was like a sophomore or something but he did the raptor and we would make fun of that all the time, and he had the biggest mouth of all time, I think he fit both this fits in his moth. Any way I have a picture of him cause it is funny.

They after that we (as in my friends and I) went to my friend Dave’s house so that we could sing and other people could play the piano. It was fun but some of the best things that happened that night were the stupid pictures we were taking and so I say that we get to show a few of those.
Whoot Whoot!!!

Jason Campbell, David Nelson.

The next day I worked a double, which was fun 16 hr. with the girls baby!!!!
In the morning we went to the 29th street waterfall it is beautiful. But really the best part was the girls were willing to run down the mountain with me. Well really we were skipping down the mountain it was so cool I can not even tell you

Then even for the rest of the day all the girls for the most part decided that they were going to all be relatively nice to each other and that the dram in the house was not going to be there it really made for the best day ever!!! I left work that night really know why I do what I do, they are truly such amazing girls and it is sad some of the choices that they have made, but they will make it, and be great.

And this weekend I went to the fall leadership conference at the institute it was truly so wonderful. You would think that I would not be so floored after all these years at to how much the Lord loves me and how much He really know exactly what I need to hear in my life. It is so so so so so so so wonderful.

The Real Story

Ok so that last post was a lie but think that the real one is just as good.

So one Wednesday morning I thought to my self, “self I know that the mission call is not coming today but lets go check any way”
So I went out to the mailbox and there it was a big white envelope from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint and I was so scared to see if my name was on it. Shore enough it was right there, I could have rip it open that moment but instead I ran in side showed it to my sister in law and was like “well see ya latter”, and ran out the door.
I drove to the Bountiful Temple and climbed up on the hill over looking it. There was a wedding going on and I was thinking to my self “self you are not going to be getting married for the next bit cause you have chosen a different way” then my self replied “whoot whoot”
Then I prayed and opened the call.
Then I called my mom, who was waiting for me to call because my sister-in-law had already told her. That is not my favorite part though, when I told my mom, she was like “hold on just a sec.. . . . . PRESIDENT SHE IS GOING TO BRAZIL.” She was yelling across the hall at her work to my stake president. That is a small town for ya! I basically think it is so funny btu I don’t know that any one will share in the joy that I get from that.
Ok well that is really all my story is, some of my favorite parts being that I was all by my self and that there was a wedding going on at the temple and that was the conversation that I had with my self. Well I hope you enjoyed it.

The Most Beautiful Place on Earth

I just want to share with all of you what my mission call said.
Well it started out with the normal suff

Dear Sister Felt,

You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the most beautiful place in the world. (What the?)

I had to search the web to find out where that was. Man who knew that the brethren stated making the mission calls all riddle like.

Brazil

Brazil
I got my mission call to the Brazil Salvador Mission.
I leave December 4th and report the 5th to the MTC in San Paulo.

I will be talking in church in Richfield on November 25th at like 10 or something. I don’t know the day is more important for you to know so that you will stay in Richfield after Thanksgiving so that you all can be my friends that can say good job no matter how my talk is, and ps I am singing too so same thing goes you have to tell me that I did well even if I have not.

Dear Friends,

Dear Friends,

Ok I am lame and I don’t ever post things. Now that we are all in accord I would like to take a little time to post a little something something I like to call, summer time fun. So basically this is a blog to jet you all caught up on what I did for this summer.
This summer started out with the hit sensation “I Hope They Call Me On A Mission, Around The World In 80 Minutes”. I went on tour to western Idaho, Whahoow we are crazy LDS institute students. We got to go and sing in seminaries all over Idaho. That was cool and we sang so much I could hardly speak after, which was a relief for my family.

The next cool thing that I did was I was an EFY counselor for 4 weeks at BYU, Yes I really am that Mormon to do something like that, and love it!!! Whoot Whoot!
I can not really disclose to many picture in fear of losing my job, ha ha I am not working for EFY any more I can do what ever I want they cant tell me what to do, ha!

PS one of the weeks I had 6 girls from Richfield and it was so weird and cool to have girls that hit so close to home, I was them like 4 year ago.

The other really cool things that I have done consisted of things like: getting promoted at my job, working full time, handing in my mission papers, surfing, going one family get aways up in Yellowstone, and this week end I am going to go to Lava Hot Springs with the other side of the family. (I am so glad that I don’t have to care about punctuation cause I know that no one is going to criticize me because you are all so happy that I am writing any thing at all, RIGHT)

That is it for this post but I really do want you all to know that I really do love all of you so much and am so happy that you are my friends!! Love you all and have wonderful days every time you read this :)

My life

hey all i love you and i feel bad that i don’t look at this but any time i am on the computer i am doing this thing called home work, i know boring right? No I actually am loving school.
well any way right now i am working at Pathway it is a home for troubled teens and i think it is great. and i just found out that i got a job working at the JSMB on temple square for the holidays.
i will be applying to be a EFY councilor soon and
my choir will be having a Christmases show on December 8th and 9th at lie 7:30 w/ a matinee at like 3 ish
if you want tickets than you should call me or email me mailto:kate0330@gmail.con
Janell will testify that it is good and worth going to.
Also Joni hey I am so happy that you came to my blogg that makes me happy and yes we do need to have a squishy something but I can not come with you to the other squishy party. Email me and we need to have dinner some time.
K love you all and I think that you are all some of the best people that I know have a wonderful day