Tchau Querida Quissamã!‏

First off. It´s November. Thought I would point out how crazy that is. And yes, it´s that time again. Transfer time. And yours truly is getting transfered. We got the call thursday night. CRAZY! I totally thought I was going to stay and Sister Peterson was going to leave because she has been here for 6 months and I have been here less than 3. But we are both leaving. Tomorrow morning WAY early. Tomorrow we will have to leave Rio and head back to Espirito Santo and from there we will head to our new areas with our new greenie companions!!!! New EVERYTHING! My stomach has butterflies but it will be a good ``learning experience`` right. Isn´t that what you say when things get hard? haha It is pretty true though. None of us can stay in  our comfort zone or their would be no progress. We have to always keep going. This Gospel is always about progress and God knows WAY better than us how we are gonna learn and what experiences He will let us pass through. Moving on...........

RACHAEL IS COMING TO BRASIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT!!! Too bad it´s not the best mission here in Brasil (Vitória is, duh) but I think Fortaleza is second best or something like that. I am SO excited!!! Ahhhh! Portuguese is the BEST! (Italian second best). Spanish is way down there (jimmy). How funny is that? The brunettes in Italy and the blondes in Brazil! Martha is going to..........???????????? They will have a temple there! LUCKY! So she leaves in march? What a great birthday present to me!!! Get that visa paper work in girl!! haha NOW! haha I am giddy! Did anyone else guess right besides me???

So back to me. haha. Last p-day we had our halloween party in our apartment with the other sisters. We carved pumpkins (and taught the other sisters how to carve pumpkins haha) and ate cake and other goodies and took pictures with  our fake vampire and hillbilly teeth. We played skip boo. I may or may  not have lost. Don´t wanna talk about it. There was even a full moon. It was a lot of fun! 

Today we are having our Christmas P-day because we won´t all be together on Christmas. More on how that went next week. But yeah, I am leaving here and have been saying goodbye to everyone and everything. All the missionaries say they will come back and visit and never do but I WILL! Now I have someone to come back with, RACHAEL!!!!! I am going to have to learn to walk again because I have been on a bike all day every day for the past 12 weeks. WEIRD! I am gonna be tripping all over the place! Sister Peterson and I went and had dinner at a Pizzaria (Pizza place if you couldn´t figure that one out) the other day and it was delicious! They don´t even have pepperoni here though! We were talking about how nice it is to go into restaurants because the people have no choice but to be nice to you and talk to you! haha So good every once and a while! haha Friday things cooled way down and some rain clouds rolled into town. So it has been raining the past couple of days. I have been trying to enjoy my time on the bike and we made our last ride out to the little town we have been working in. I have been taking a bagillion pictures of everything and am going to miss this tiny town so much!!!!

Sunday was really great. There were a ton of people that came to church and it was so good to see the frequency go up because it has been weak the past couple weeks. Our investigator Ana Maria bore her testimony on faith. It was so good. She said how faith is when everything gets in your way of following God but you just keep going. She talked about how sometimes it is hard to sit in church with your kids running around and other things people use as excuses not to go and how really your testimony and faith will help you overcome anything. It was SO good. We are pretty sad we are going to miss their wedding and baptism but she said she will send us pictures. We had an FHE last night at the church that the members did for us to say goodbye. They had a TON of food and we took a TON of pictures and their was a TON of crying. Sister Peterson and I thanked everyone and bore our testimonies and Ana Maria started crying and then I started crying. Oh man. It is so hard to leave people and it just makes me so grateful to know that we can all see each other again someday.

I am so grateful for the time I have had here. I have learned so much in these two short transferes that I have had. There are some members here that are just so amazing. They sacrifice anything for the Gospel and help the missionaries so much and always talk about the Gospel with everyone without awkwardness, embarrassment or hesistation. I have learned a lot with them and I am going to miss all of the wonderful families we have been teaching! But the work goes on! I am sad to leave the other sisters too. Sister Vieira is going home in December and I wanted to live with her so bad her last transfer! Tudo bem!

Mas, uma boa semana para todos vocês! Te amo!

Sister Zeller