Welllllllp, sorry about the Panthers.. we even threw a super bowl party in our house for them!! BUT I was transferred to JARDIM CELESTE! Vargem Grande sure was good, and waaaaay different. It was as far from the city you could get.. and now i'm as close to the city you can get without being in the actual city! So basically I'm being forced to accustom to city life! Our house here is 3 stories and it's just me and my new companion, Sister Oliveira! She has almost 10 months in the mission and is 21yrs old. But she's so nice and funny!
How was my last week in Vargem? Let's just say, Carnival here was a success. With the rule to return into house by 8 o'clock, it was great. Except for the fact that we could never follow the rule... I learned something really good Saturday. When the Spirit is trying to tell you something, do it. Don't wait and don't question it, just do it.
So Saturday we went to Jardim Japao after lunch. I don't remember if I said this before but it's not the safest area and the elders used to have to escort us there and back. Well we had permission to go alone without them! So we got there, one man in the rua was selling Venus fly traps and I invited him to church sunday. He thought it was the nicest thing in the world so he gave me and Sister Tesser a little baby Venus fly trap plant! FOFO DEMAIS!!!!! Anyways, so we asked around what time the last bus leaves so we'd know and be able to return on time. The last bus leaves at 7:15 and its 30 minutes from our house by bus so we'd return in house at 7:45. Perfect, right? So 6:30 we're in the middle of the lesson and it starts raining. Pouring as if Heavenly Father was about to flood the earth again. And I just could not sit still. I was really unpatient and remained with the feeling that we needed to end the lesson and leave. But the woman talked our heads off and everything we said she went off on a tangent! I stopped and kicked sister Tesser so she'd get the hint but instead the woman saw me and everyone stopped and asked what was wrong. Well here, you can't just say you need to leave or anything because that's extremely offensive. So finally we left her house after the lesson at 7:05 and ran to the bus in the rain. I was so annoyed and upset and I asked my companion why she wasn't trying to hurry along too. She said she had forgotten we needed to return home early and kept feeling like we needed to leave but she pushed it aside too. So here's what happened next. We arrived at the bus stop which is in the very center of the town, and its pouring down rain and we have Venus fly traps in our hands. We see the bus, but he just passes us.. so we chase it. Bad idea. Bus is gone. There wasn't another bus coming until 11:25pm and we have to arrive in house in 45 minutos. Its already pitch black dark, in Jardim Japao (where were not allowed to work after dark) and the festas of carnival have begun. Long story short, we found our way to the entrance of the town and waited for a member to come and get us.. and arrived in house at 9:45. Moral of the story.. listen to the spirit, it's our protection.
If you've never seen an elder freak out before, you don't want too. The elders were freaking out over the phone worried about us because they couldn't do anything to help and I'm pretty sure they were more scared than we were!!! It's actually crazy how worried they were about us, I felt weird that I wasn't more worried about myself. But it all ended good, we ended up safe, my plant is still alive and eating flies, and now I' drinking city water from the faucet!
OH!!!! I forgot, and we have a baptism Sunday for someone who I started teaching with Sister Modesto. After 3 months he's going to be baptized finally and I won't be there to see! I asked for permission to return but Vargem Grande is 2 hours from my area now so I won't get to.
That's all I have for now, hope you all have a fantastic week as well :)
com grande amor,
Sister Bido
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