Olááááááááááááááááááá!! This week was an especially good one, and an especially interesting one.
So Terça-feira, Sister Oliveira received special permission to go and enter the temple! While we were there waiting to enter (because we arrived 2 hours early), we saw the missionaries from the Sao Paulo south mission exiting! So we got to meet the mission president and his wife and talk with the missionaries. they even took a giant group mission foto with all the missionaries, so Sister Oliveira and I snuck in it! We’re right smack dap in the front! So mom you might see a picture of me on your moms page from a different mission.. hope you enjoy it! :) But after the temple, we ate subway and headed back home because the session ended late. But it was a marvelous experience.
Wednesday the president came to our house, and saw that we had an old refrigerator in the garage. He told us we needed to clean it up or throw it out. IT WAS COVERED IN MOLD. So I asked if we cleaned it out if he would fill it with food.. and he said YES. So we did, but we only had 30 minutes to do it.. so we dumped bleach everywhere, scrubbed and scrubbed and I hung the inside parts on the clothes line to dry! It worked!
Later that night when we returned to the house, Presidente called us and was outside with his wife with 13 bags of groceries. Ice cream, tapioca, oranges, cereal, 5 cartons of milk, peanut butter, cookies, I don’t even remember what else but it was a lot. A lot for a house of 2 missionaries to have in the house at one time! So it was a milagre com certeza!! We literally jumped up and down screaming and crying tears of joy!!!
Sexta-feira was when it got interesting. It rained a monsoon and the city FLOODED! Sao Paulo is dirty, everyone knows that. So when there is water flooding the streets, it picks up all the poop and trash and diseases and the nastiest things you can imagine with it! Well as we were caught in the monsoon, we saw one road that wasn’t completed flooding that we were going to walk on to get back to our house. As we were walking a huge garbage truck is coming, its tires splashing through the water and it basically looks like a tsunami of a blackish muddy river coming at us. So what do we do? We look at each other and scream and start running away as fast as my chacos would let me. The sight of a title wave of Sao Paulo water coming at me was enough to make me pee my skirt in fear. But I didn’t. Instead, the truck was obviously faster than us and yes were hit by the diseased watery flood. Then walk home in water above my knees to our house and showered.
Sunday was better! In church we had 3 return missionaries talk and it was so cool! Then we had lunch with the stake president and his family and it was sooooo good. And of course has a buffet of ice cream afterwards! On our way to the house last night it rained a monsoon again.. so Sister Oliveira looked at me and I looked at her and we both knew. We put away our umbrellas that weren’t helping us at all and just let the rain soak the 3 inches of dry clothing we had left! The saying of let it be took affect as we just let it be.
Now, No I’m not using bug spray but I really do need to start. we spray this rely strong bug repellent on the doors and windows in the house every day. But there’s so much talk about diseases from the favela because of the dirtiness there that’s spread by the mosquitos. And since we’re working in the favela that’s something I need to do! But this was my week for yáll!
com amor,
Sister Bido
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