spiritual light and sunlight

Queridos,

This week was goooooooooood. Full of sunshine and hard work. 

I don't have time to write a lot again. Oops. But we had the baptism of Felipe this week which was really special experience. Sister Muria is one of those people that I just know I knew in a previous life and we're really loving being here in super hot Pombal together. It's already been really great to have such special moments feeling and testifying of the Spirit with her and the people here.

God cares about you. He will listen, and He will answer your personal questions. The answers to your prayers will come in His own way and in His own time, and therefore, you need to learn to listen to His voice. God wants you to find your way back to Him, and the Savior is the way. God wants you to learn of His Son, Jesus Christ, and experience the profound peace and joy that come from following the path of divine discipleship.

-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

read your scriptures:)

-sister pace

the sister show

I was transfererred this week!!

I'm here in Pombal, Paraíba!! I'm not even in Rio Grande do Norte anymore! My new comp is Sister Muria from Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul and we're wayyyyyyyy pumped. I only have a couple days here in Pombal, but you know that feeling when you know you've arrived at home and everyone in the street stops to say hi? That's almost the feeling here. Don't get me wrong, I love Natal, but there's just something about being in the interior, the smell of cows and goats, and people that love you and the gospel. 

Pombal is a little city in the middle of nowhere that makes me feel like I'm living in the Truman Show. The Sister Pace Show? But really we've already been able to talk to a family and they are marked for baptism this month. Also, I've been able to get to know a bunch of recent converts and members that are super friendly. It's a branch here, not a ward.....yet. And I'm way excited to work with Sister Muria to help strengthen the members here:)

Another great thing that happened is that Sister Cunha is my sister training leader!!! yayayaya this is her last transfer so i'll get to see her before she "dies". Querida da mamãe!!

Soooooooooooooooooo much love, happiness, cuscuz, and sunshine for all of you too!!

-sister pace

Vital, Sister G Silva and I

Bishop's family in Gramoré

I'll send more pics of Pombal next week.

here comes the sun

So this week everyone was a little under the weather. And when i say everyone I mean the entire zone got sick this week...

"I got better!"

Other than that everything's all good here. One of our investigators, Reneide, will be getting married soon and her only dream is to be married and baptized on the same day! She left the hospital a couple weeks ago after 2 heart attacks and yesterday insisted on walking to church. Haha I love her!

This week we have transfers and so I'll let you know next week if I've moved areas. I hope not though, because I love Gramoré. I won't lie, this area has been a little difficult, but I feel like I've learned a lot in trusting Heavenly Father. So with that, everything will always turn out okay:)

Love you all a whole lot.

-Sister Pace

Galatians 6:11 sorry my emails are short.

1 Thessalonians 5:25 por favor.

p.s. the thumb thing in some of my photos means BATISMO. :D

photos: me and me cute companion;) and the festa junina that our neighbors threw until 5am. Whoo. Hoo.

são joão e salvação

Ahhhhhh this week was craaazy!

1) Sister Cieslak came from Potengi and was on a division with us and so we were in trio this week. Which was really fun. I like being in trio. 2) As we were looking through the area book we found Karol who is 14 years old who was already marked for baptism,but she moved and the sisters that were teaching her before were transferred. The crazy part is that as we were looking for an address of another person we ran into Karol. It was more like she found us. We taught her and said that she wanted to be baptized! And after a bunch of running around this week everything fell into place and we had the baptism of Karol yesterday:)

3) It was the stake Festa Junina esta semana! We ate churrasco, listened to a forro in the street, and ate more macaxeira:) It was really fun:)

This week was seriously insane, but in the midst of everything looking like its going wrong, it was obvious that Heavenly Father had His plan. Just have hope, do what's right, and look for the blessings because they're always there.

so much love,

sister pace

um email rapidão

I'll just give a quick update.

This week started well, got really rough, and then ended well. We had a mini division and so Sister Cieslak stayed with me in Gramoré for 2 days and it was super great. We were able to mark 4 baptisms and so now it's just running around doing whatever we can to help these people stay on track. Sister G Silva and I are doing really well too. She helps me in the areas where I'm lacking and I help her too. 

I love you a whole lot.

Só batiza.

-sister pace

photo: because my family is great and they send my things

just keep swimming...

bom diaaa!

So these past two weeks have been a whirlwind. Seriously. We had transfers again and Sister J Silva was transferred and Sister G Silva arrived! She has about 2 months in the mission and so yep I'm senior companion and finishing her training. I feel like I barely finished my 12 weeks of training and here I am! AHHH. But it's all good. My companion is great:) She's from Rio de Janeiro and proud of it haha and we're way excited to see some major success here in Gramoré! We already are, now that we are working more with families of some recent converts and less actives in our ward.

But, sometimes in life you're cruisin' thinking all is good and Heavenly Father knows that you're needing a wake up call so everything turns upside down all at once, but what I'm learning is that at the same time he turns everything upside down, He always provides the way to make things right again.

Cool things that happened this week:

-I (kind of) learned how to play a berimbau. The instrument that people play in capoeira. Muito legal;)

-We had a zone conference with Elder Mazzagardi from the quorum of the seventy. It was super powerful!!

-It was stake conference this weekend too! Our stake president spoke directly to the youth in our stake about using cellphones during sacrament meeting. LOL #burn

love you all!

-sister pace

photo: eu e sister G Silva na conferência

eita gloria;)

Hi everyone!

This week was really good. and last week was too haha, but now I'm finally writing...

Mother's Day was wonderful! I loved talking to my family because man oh man I love my family! This week was really good too because Sister J Silva and I have been working really hard on being super diligent!! I feels so good to really work with a purpose. Also, it was Sis J Silva's birthday this week so maybe we ate a loooot of açai and had a party!! Some super amazing members from the ala Boa Esperança made a cake and dinner for everyone in our zone;) It was super great.

Also this week we went on splits with some young women from a different ward. We left to go visit Kenya, a neighbor of Carlos, one of our eternal investigators, and when we got there everyone came inside to listen (Score!) We taught a powerful lesson on the Restoration. Kenya, who had a thousand doubts about the church, started to cry as we taught about Joseph's first vision and it was one of those moments that I could feel that it wasn't really my words. This transfer has been a little rough without any baptisms, or really people that are keeping their promises to come to church, pray, etc., especially when we're trying to be so diligent, but I feel really grateful for the moments that I am just so sure of the truth we are teaching.

Much love and açai,

Sister Pace

minha querida companheira

a part of my zone and our birthday party for sister J Silva