Oi!
This week has been great. I love my new companion–Sister Arce from Argentina. She is kind and we are getting along really well. She has the most beautiful accent. We worked really hard this week and we are visiting a lot of people who haven’t been visited recently enough. The other day we walked up 240 steps and a huge number of hills! Sister Arce has disillusioned me—apparently not all the other areas in our mission have this many hills ;). Fun fact about her: she is “viciada” [addicted] to “Cremosinho” a creamsicle sort of yogurt frozen thing that comes in plastic bags. You bite off the corner and eat it. It’s very good.
Lots of miracles happened this week. I am extremely grateful that we did not get very lost and that I did not terribly mess anything up while showing Sister Arce the area [At home, Sister Faulconer has a reputation for having no sense of direction and getting lost very easily]. We went the wrong direction once or twice but not for very long. We haven’t been lost and we got to several hard-to-remember places without a hitch! My memory of places is mais-ou-menos [sometimes better sometimes worse] but nothing that bad has happened and it hasn’t been a big problem. Definitely a blessing to remember some of the confusing routes to different places.
Also, one of our investigators I thought wasn’t interested said she was going to challenge herself to only smoking tobacco once today. In the not far distant past she was smoking 28 cigars! She really wants to change.
I hope you all have an awesome week! Love from Brazil!
Headed to Recife 