Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Feliz quatro de Julho! 9 July 2012

Wahoo! Happy fourth of July everyone!

This week was SO hard in the aspect of finding people to teach and having them actually listen. But it´s okay. There will always be weeks like that. But, in all other aspects this week was really great.

I just love fourth of July. Tuesday night we stopped by the supermarket and I bought stuff to make a cake (yes, ME, making a cake. true story.) I wanted to make an American flag cake. I figured strawberry could be the red stripes and I melted white chocolate to be the white stripes. Finding something BLUE was the hardest thing ever! They dont even have food coloring! So I bought some blue mentos which turned out to not be so blue. Only a blue tint. haha but the cake turned out pretty awesome. See for yourself.

For comp. study we sang the national anthem. Well, the brazilians tried to sing with me but mostly I just sang it alone. It was awesome! haha and pretty funny. And the cake was actually pretty good. Not the mentos part but the part with the strawberries. Duh. haha

Oh yeah, Tuesday was transfers!!! Our beloved district leader left! So sad! The other photo is from Monday. We all went and had one last lunch together. Way fun. The two Elders in the picture have the coolest story ever. THey are from the same town and were friends before and came to know the church around the same time. The Elder who just went home trained the other Elder. Many more details to the story but it is way cool how they both ended up on a mission. Lets just say there was a lot of crying when they were separated. Yep, boys cry too.

Sidenotes: Mom, I saw a dead cobra in the road the other day. Thought you would wanna know.

Tuesday was a full moon! Man, I love the moon. Martha. were you looking? THE SAME MOON! Dad, I got the package! The backpack is awesome and the other stuff is amazing as well. Thanks a million!
We had Churrasco again this week!!! So good! I shared the message and when I opened my scriptures the picture I have in there of rach katie martha and I at alex's wedding popped out and then EVERYONE started passing it around. It was really funny. haha Martha, they think your name is very difficult to pronounce.

Saturday we had a Zone meeting in the coolest chapel ever in Itapuan. Right by the beach. It was really cool and we set some goals as a zone that are gonna help us work even harder. It was pretty fun too.


We had a lesson the other day and one of the members was telling us how ugly our sandals are. He was like YOU arent ugly, but those shoes! I was wearing the chacos. SO FUNNY! We were like, we already know. Its something only missionaries understand. Maybe only sister missionaries. haha we had a good laugh.

Sometimes portuguese is SO frustrating but I can tell I am getting the hang of it more and more. The struggle is part of it but it is a pretty annoying part.

We have a new district leader, Elder Bodily from boise Idaho. He goes home at the end of this transfer! Lots of changes coming! Yikes!

Dad, thanks for the fast. I´m not just saying this but I really could feel the effects of it this week. Thanks. A lot.

Sunday we walked. and walked. and walked. My legs almost fell off at the end of the day.

This week I read something so interesting in the BOM. In Alma chapter 5. I think versers 14-16 but im not exactly sure. It talks about receiving His image in your countenance. I have been thinking a lot about this lately. As a missionary sometimes it seems like such a huge responsibility to be a representative of Jesus Christ but really as a member of the church I already promised to take His name upon me and every day strive to be more like Him. Just read the scriptures, it explains it a lot better than I can. haha
Mom, when is the fam reunion? You are gonna send me a t-shirt right? right?
 Love you all! Until next week! Tchau!

Sister Zeller

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