Monday...different.

I´m still in Casa Grande with the same 

companion. Yay! I was hoping for this so 

I´m excited. But, all of my leaders are 

leaving. My two zone leaders and my 

district leader. Which means I´ll get alot 

of new people to learn alot of new stuff 

from. I´m excited.

I don´t know what to write and I don´t have 

alot of time. Sorry I´ll say it now, this 

is going to be short. I am working with 

families that I´m really excited about. 

This last transfer was alot of work and 

I think that this transfer is going to 

show the results. It´s going to be 

awesome!!! Different but good. Well, 

really really short. I love you guys all 

so much. I´ll send a longer one next week 

full of lots of fun stuff. Love ya!

Love,
Shelle

Oi loved ones!

First things first, I hope that everyone is well and having

lots of fun in the states. I´m sure the weather is still really

cold there. It seems to get alot colder in January and

February if I remember right. The Lord gave me a big

blessing by putting me in Casa Grande cause it doesn´t

seem to be too hot here. Everyone keeps asking me if

it´s miserably hot here for me and I really haven´t been

too bad. The say that January and February are the

nastier months for the heat but I havn´t complained

since I got in this area. Lol! It really isn´t too bad. Even

with the fact that I´m walking around all day. I´ve had

more rainy days than sunny days.

I love my area lots and lots. We have transfers next week

so that probably means that I´ll get yanked out and thrown

in the middle of misery again. Lol, Just kidding. I don´t think

I´ve hit misery yet. And if I got anywhere close to it, it was

only because of the nasty cold weather I expirienced when I

got to Brazil. But I think that I will stay in this area for a

while yet.

So, I have difficulties staying awake during church. I sleep

fine but I think because I don´t exercise in the morning I

just can´t stay awake. But I always nod off. This last Sunday

I thought I did pretty good with not nodding off. It only

happened a couple times. But after Sacrament meeting

the piano player came up to me and commented on the

fact that I was sleeping during church. And I´m pretty sure

that everyone noticed that was on the stand. Bishop gave

a talk and later when I shook his hand he had a huge grin

on his face that said, "Funny American that can´t stay awake."

Needless to say, I´m determined to stay awaked this Sunday.

I will bite down on hot peppers if I have to but I will stay awake.

One last thing before I go. My Pday is being moved. Monday

is the day. The Area President decided to move the day and

so that´s what is happening. So don´t forget me and send me

emails before Monday so I can continue feeling loved. Lol!

Love you all lots and lots and I´m grateful for your support and everthing.

Love,

Shelle

My umbrella is worthless...I need a knew one

Oi all! Hope everyone is great! Thanks for your love and

support!

I just want to tell you a little about my past Saturday.

It started with me waking up and doing everything

normal but 8:57 we left the house to get our hair cut.

(It was the only day we could do this) By 9:23 we were

back in the house and I was wondering what was

going through my head to make me want to get my

hair cut by a Brasilian. In all actuality I just wanted a

trim but I got a cut. It took her longer to wash my

hair than to cut it. Lol! Life goes on right?

After that I went to make copies for the English

class I would give later that day. I was in a rush

cause I was running late and I left without paying

the guy and he didn´t say anthing. I didn´t realize

it until I went to buy tape at another place and

didn´t have my money. So I went to my English

class and that was an expirience that can only get

better with time. But I went back after the class

and paid the guy so all is well.

We had two people that were planning to give

lessons with us and both of them fell through.

As did all of ourappointments. All is well, we

found one of our investigator families at home

and decided to visit them. We started our

lesson and we were going to talk about the

Plan of Salvation. Then the rain started. We

were shouting to be heard which wasn´t

really inviting the spirit and I wasn´t

sure what to do. Then the neighbor came

in and said that the corridor was flooding.

So we went out to look and sure enough, it

looked like their house was going to flood.

Huh, well...Let´s pray...It was amazing,

Sister Da Silva prayed and asked that their

house be safe and nothing happen to it. I

though she was crazy to ask for that as the

other house had already started flooding.

By the time the prayer ended our way to

leave was flooded with water close to knee

high. We decided to stay and get buckets

to help get rid of the water. Close to 15

minutes later the water started to lower

and so we could think again. Amazingly

enough, our investigators house was fine.

Just enough water entered to mop the floor

a bit. Her neighbors house flooded close to

8 inches. Man I felt like a war victim walking

out of there. There were tons of people that

had come to watch and me and my comp

were walking out of there looking like

drowned rats I´m sure. Lol! But it was all good

and I think the family is a little more excited

about hearing our message after we helped

them. (The dad couldn´t do much cause he

had shoulder surgery recently.)

Anyways, It was a fun day. Broke up the

monotony and that was the closest I´ve

come to swimming in the last 5 months

so it was good. Lol!

Other than that I´m healthy and happy and the

language is still coming along. My companion

wants to make a dictionary of all the words that

I make up trying to sound like I know Portuguese.

It´s a little pathetic. Lol!

I hope everyone is liking school and work

again after the Holidays and I hope you all

aren´t freezing to death. I´m sweating off all

the weight that I gained this winter. Either

that or I´ve got a worm. Only time will tell. Lol!

Love you all lots and lots! Peace out.

Love,
Shelle

Happy New Years!

I´m sure that everyone had a great and excited New Year´s

Celebration! MJ and HE even beat mine with there quiet

movie night. I was in bed asleep by a little after 10:30 only

to be woken up at midnight by fireworks going off right

outside my window. I found out that night that I can keep

my calm in the middle of a bombing raid and fall back

asleep within 5 minutes. My companions weren´t so lucky.

I guess the fireworks were pretty bad for about 30 minutes

or so. I´ve been blessed to be able to sleep through anything...

especially since my companion snores. Lol

The partying for the New Year was the next day. Our

Pday was moved to Friday so we had a bbq and played soccer

which was lots of fun. Maybe when I come home I´ll have

learned some sweet foot work skills. I´m begining to

realize how fat and out of shape I´m getting. Yoga just

doesn´t do the same thing as running does. Lol! But my

companion said that she will run with me in the mornings

if we starts slow. Starting tomorrow we´re going to try to

loose our round shapes and get healthier shapes.

We got to go to the temple today. It was great. We weren´t

suppose to get to go until next transfer but because Sister

Pradera can go once a month but she can´t go by herself

we got to go along with her. But the thing is she and Sister

Vieira got transfered yesterday. So we sent our pleas to

President and he said we could go too. So we went and

had a marvelous time. We had to wake up at 5 am to get

there on time but all is well and we made it there and back

safe and without getting lost once.

Up until now I have gone through 6 companions and I´m

on my 7th in only 5 months. That sounds a little bad but

I´ve had one trio and one quartet. Ever heard of a quartet

before? Usually they would split them up into 2

companionships but we were a quartet. Kinda fun. But

now I´m just with the one sister. Sister Da Silva from

Rariama. I don´t think I spelled it right. She reminds me

of Becky cause she´s always cold. She used to live just a

little bit above the equator so she´s used to 40+ celcius...

whatever that is...

Our shower head has been in the process of breaking

for the past 2 weeks. You can adjust the temperature

by moving a little nob on the side. Sometimes the hot

water would stop so I would move the little nob and it

would work again. My companions weren´t so smart

as me. I didn´t realize it until it was too late. In the

mornings I always heard someone hammering and I

figured that someone was working on a house nearby.

Then one morning I realized the hammering only started

when one of my comps was taking a shower. Turns out

they were hitting the shower head with a brush everytime

the heat went out. Lol! But that didn´t work so they always

just took a cold shower. Then it broke. I asked why they

didn´t just wiggle the nob like a normal person and then

we measured how high they could reach and I´ve got a

good hand-span on all of them. Lol! But we gave the elders

a service project so it all turned out good with us having a

warm shower until this morning when I was taking a

shower and the power went out so I had to finish with

the icy water again.

I hope that everyone has started off the New Year well

and everyone enjoyed their break from working. Take

care and have fun. I miss you all and love you all lots and lots!

Love,
Shelle