Week 43 Email: The One With A Mission Tour Pt. 2

From: Kaitlyn.garcia@missionary.org
Date: Monday, November 8, 2021
Subject: The One With A Mission Tour Pt. 2

Olá pessoal! 
Como vai? I hope you all had a great week and are enjoying November! How is it already November?? This year is absolutely flying by:) I think I'm finally starting to understand what my parents always said about time going by quickly;) This week we had a Mission Tour! I've been super lucky to have had one in the states and now one here:) I could go on forever about this, but instead I'm just gonna get into the highlights! 

- I tried to make some chocolate chip cookies and boy did I try haha! Definitely have some room to improve but they were made with love and Elder Reis liked them haha! ;) 
- Sister Da Mata hit her 9 month mark woot woot!! We celebrated by having lunch at a super chique doceria that's Paris themed. Imagine that, Paris in Carpina, Brasil haha! 
- We got to stay in a hotel for a night because we had a huge mission tour this week! :) 
- Speaking of the mission tour, it was AMAZING!! It was such a spiritual and amazing experience with Elder Juan A. Uceda from the 70! I seriously don't even have words for how amazing it was:) This truly is the Lord's church and He is at the helm 
- One night this week while walking back to our apartment we got stopped by this drunk guy that was trying to tell us riddles haha! When we asked his name all he said was it started with an L. Don't drink kids haha!
- Fast and testimony meeting was so good this week too:) We also had all the kids with us again, shocker I know ;) 
- We had also made cuzcuz! Woot woot! I won't lie, it was pretty good but I have some saudades for Maria Faitmas sweet cuzcuz back in Rhode Island ;) 

Spiritual Thought 
This week was full of so many thoughts because of the mission tour haha! It was amazing to hear from Elder Uceda and I honestly got some answers that I had been looking for. He talked a lot about prayer and how we need to get rid of our routine prayers. Prayers often start the same way because we get into a routine, but we need to change that!! One thing he said that really stuck out to me was, "Prayer is a moment in Heaven!" It truly is! When we pray we're literally opening a window to Heaven to get to talk to our Heavenly Father. When we change the way we pray and really pray with our heart, answers come. Revelation comes. Peace and hope come. I definitely needed to hear that and I can truly say that as I've prayed with my heart this week I've been able to see a difference:) So you already know there's an invite;) This week I hope all of you can pray with a little bit more intent and really take that moment in Heaven seriously with a little more meaning:) 

Thank you all for your love and support and for all your emails! I love hearing from you guys and knowing what's going on :) Feel free to shoot me and email and I'll try my best to get back to you! Vocês são incríveis! Have the best week! Let me know if there's anything I can do for you :) 

Amo vocês! 

Beijos, 
Sister Garcia:) 

Fotos!
All the sisters in the Zone
We love drinking water haha!
Crianças:)
Mission Tour Day
Hotel stay, que chique;)
Sister Da Mata 9 Months!


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