Recap:
Last p-day after the temple we walked outside the CTM for a couple hours! (we have a few streets we can go on!)We went to Mr. Cheney's, which is a cookie place that gives first week missionaries a buy 1 get 1 free cookie and sends a pic/message to the fam (hope you got it mom!) So that was a fun thing and we are probably going to hit up a yummy acai bowl place today! Every p-day we also have choir (Sister Whitaker is so cute and says that everyone does choir in the CTM haha) before a devotional.
We started classes last Thursday and they are pretty good! One of my teachers does not speak English whatsoever, so its tricky to communicate sometimes, but we learn a lot because of it! We teach practice lessons with investigators, and it helps a lot with the language. My Portuguese is coming along slowly, but i can see a lot of progress from just one week already! I am able to understand a lot more than I can speak, but it is such a beautiful language! We try and sit by the natives at our meals so they can help us with pronuciation and learning new words.
Our actividades fiscica time is so fun and a big stress reliever! The track is seriously the tiniest track you will ever see...it takes 30 seconds to run around lol. Sister Shepherd and I run for half, then workout/ play lightning the second half with our district. I never thought I would get better at bball here haha. Oh yeah and since I forgot my running shoes and found out i couldn't run in my chacos hehe, i went out with some natives to buy a cheap pair of shoes until I get mine from Luke Shepherd (who got here yesterday). And almost positive that they are mens shoes because they didn't have my size haha.
The food is pretty much....rice and beans yep you guessed it. Most of it isn't bad which is nice. The dessert is always this weird super sweet jello stuff that isn't the best, but they do have good bread and cake stuff.
Sundays are awesome here! We have an awesome branch and we had a great devotional listening to President Nelson's general conference talks on personal revelation and ministering. I encourage you all to listen to them again...they are so awesome!!
We went to the Sao Paulo temple today and it was one of the most beautiful temples I have ever been to! It has beautiful stained glass artworks. The temple is probably my favorite part of the week.
AND GUESS WHAT!! We met two sisters who are serving in my mission right now!! One of them was Brazilian and the other was from Utah. It was so fun to talk to them and got me so excited!!! The girl from Utah has been out 4 months and is pretty much fluent. She was having a hard time talking in English to us and already has a accent! So it made me feel a lot better about learning Portuguese. The gift of tongues is real!!
Btw, I can't send pics until I get into the mission field because our internet is too slow for that.
The mission is hard, but also so, so amazing and worth every second!! I love being here and learning how to best love and serve the sweet people of Brazil!!
Com Amor,
Sister Jeppson
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