Eu Falo Portuguese :)

Ola! It's Sister Reynders here! So I have a new companion and I love her to death! You would all love her too,  I legitimately love her;) Her name is Sis. Sa Gari from Sao Paulo, Brazil! She is 21 and has been in the MTC for 2 months - poor thing! She is just learning English so our main focus is learning the language. We are learning English via memorizing the facts/history of temple square.  The 12 week program is working well so far. We will take things a little slower because of the language barrier.

Our first time teaching on the square together we did a "God's Plan" tour. It was a group of Christians that are starting a church in this area. I asked Sister Sa Gari  if she would bare her testimony  after the presentation and she said yes. In the middle she leaned over to me and said, "I think we need to ask them why family is important to them". I said ok! So afterwards I asked that and it prompted them to ponder and think. She then bore her testimony in her broken English about how she knew she could be together with her family forever and that even though her dad died 2 years ago she would see him again. The spirit was so strong and because of her testimony it caused a man to think of his own mother who had recently died, and he asked if he would see her again even though he is not a member of our church. It was a great experience and the spirit was strong. 

I am impressed by Sis. Sa Gari's desire  to help others come unto Christ. She continues to work hard to learn English. Even though she doesn't know the English language she DEFINITIVELY knows the language of the Spirit. It is a constant effort to communicate with each other but I by no means feel impatient. I am happy to be her trainer and I know there is a lot I can learn from her. If I was learning Portuguese.....phewy....I'd be dying! So that is why I have no problem taking care of her and teaching her English!

The process of how they give us our new companions is really fun. All the new Sisters stand on one side of the room and we are on the other. One by one come the new Sisters come down and tell the whole group what they want to learn from their trainer:) She said, "to learn English." Then they describe their trainer until everyone can guess who it is. It's fun.

That first day I drove some of them to Wal Mart to get food and then took her home and let her unpack and I went on exchanges and went back to the Square. Poor thing was left alone (kind of, she had to have her apt door open..there were other Sisters home across the hall)

I had made her bed and everything and bought her a treat...haha good ol' granola:) All the other Sisters were making fun of me because I was giving my trainee granola...haha. I remember my first day I had a bunch of candy on my bed.....but hey...I want to start her off healthy!

Yesterday was our "explore" day and so that means I showed her everyplace possible on Temple Square. It was fun because it was a Thursday which is the day Mo Tab practices in the Conference Center.  We got to go to that and it was so awesome because they were practicing for their special "Pioneer Day" performance with some fancy guest lady from Wales! Anyways...it was great!

So we are having a lot of fun together and I will send you some pictures:)  I am going to take her to some of the summer concerts in the park they have because our pdays are Fridays.

Ok well I am going to go now, bye.

Hurrah for Israel!

Sister Reynders