Transfer and New Calling

                                                                                                    June 6, 2016

Hello family!!! 

 

So, last night was one stressful night because it was the night of the transfer calls, and so every missionary waits anxiously to find out what will happen with them. You literally have to teach someone in order to not focus on the cell phone in your bag. Everyone was telling me how I would be transferred for Ferreira to be a Sister Training Leader, and I really doubted it. Normally, when Presidente Del Guerso is calling a Sister to be a Sister Training Leader, he calls early in the day (about 4:30 or 5 oclock in the afternoon).

 

However, he hadn´t called, so I relaxed, and said to myself, phew, I won´t have a hard calling this transfer. It´s all good. However, the President´s Assistant later called us, and asked me if the President had already talked to me. I then said no, hung up the phone, and began to be nervous. It was almost 7 oclock at night, and the assistant called again, telling us that the President had called us earlier in the day several times, but we weren´t attending his calls. We then told the assistant that we hadn´t received any phone calls from the President. 

 

Later, the President called from the mission office, calling me to be Sister Training Leader, and to tell me that he was in an area that didn´t have any service when he tried to call me. What a crazy night. 

So, I was transferred to Ferreira, which is closer to the São Paulo Temple, and my new companion is Sister Oldroyd, from Utah. My companion, and practically everyone else in the mission, guessed right. I was the only one who tried to deny this reality. 

 

Apparently, from what I´ve heard, almost everyone in Ferreira speaks English. It also has a Mr. Cheney´s cookie shop! WAHOO! #BLESSED. I hope I don´t have a hard time continuing to learn Portuguese in that area. 

Also, my companion, Sister de Oliveira, will continue working in Casa Verde with an American Sister, Sister Lockheart, who is wonderful, SUPER sweet, and I´m sure they will continue the work seeing and many miracles in this area. 

 

Yesterday, Isabella told us she was excited for her baptism June 19th, and so I´m sure she will be baptized on this day.

She is a young woman who only wants to do the Lord´s will, and she told us yesterday that she posted on her facebook the quote, ``Com fé no Pai, o inimigo Cae´´ --with faith in the Father, the enemy falls. 

She holds true to her standards, and she has a super strong testimony of having courage and trusting in the Lord.