Their entire family came to church!

Ola my dear wonderful family so something that is wonderful is that my companion is saying that my portuguese improved dramatically while I was serving with her and so thats really wonderful. 

This past week for the first time in my 6 months here in brazil I used contacts and everyoooone was complimenting me haha so that was nice, but I think I will only use them for church on sunday and meetings because less people realize that Im american while walking on the streets when i use glasses (In reality they usually think that im german haha) 

but anyways this week and really this transfer has been incredible and so full of wonderful miracles at every turn. And Ive gotten SO much joy at seeing the miracles happening in the family of Aline (robert and Luan)

FIRSTLY being that their mom Edeulsa visited church for the first time with them this past sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow I was so excited about that, and I continue to be very excited and I hope she had a good experience (we werent able to visit that night to follow up because we had a fireside)

Also Aline is beyond incredible as well as Luan with sharing the gospel with teir friends and inviting them to church, I think that is definitely the greatest reward and blessing I can possibly receive serving as a missionary is to be able to teach a lesson to the friend of our recent converts and to hear them sharing testimonies.

So something Im super happy about is that we have been very diligent in keeping good records of the lessons taught to Luan and Aline AND they have almost been taught ALL the recent convert lessons which Im immensely pleased about because with the part of our new area we received about 30 baptismal records of people from the past 2 years and their record of lessons  taught to them and NOT A SINGLE one of them was taught recent convert lessons and had lots of information missing and so I just went to town doing papers and maps and things to be able to plan out how we can make it a priority to teach all these recent converts and

THEN our mission received the revelation that we need to use 50% of our time strengthening recent converts and helping their families join the gospel (along with many papers in order to efectively do this0

and I was SOOOOOOOO happy!!! I just KNEW that this was so important and I already started doing a bunch of stuff and already had a burning testimony of the need for this and now its a NEW program that will Start in our mission and if it is successful will travel throughout the missions of Brazil. So I definitely will do everything possible to show that this is important and will help in every aspect of missionary work

ALSO I have an INCREDIBLE bishop who is really just doing everything to bless our ward and it Shows! Same with honestly ALL the leaders just going above and beyond.

For example- president of the relief society- visiting with the counselors every single less active member

leaders of nursery- wow how I LOVE and appreciate them- doing temple trips with the kids to walk in the garden (which meant Aline got to visit with her son Miguel) 

and honestly I find myself watching them and im so grateful the way them make all our friends feel superrr welcome and how they are loving and taking care of them, wow so wonderful

and soooooo many other ways

Oh anddd I was transfered

and sister Maia will train now, but I just know she will be the best trainer in ALL of Brazil so Im very excited for her

and I will see tomorrow my new companion,ward and area,

it will be great and I will work my very hardest:)

I love this work, this Gospel and my Savior

ANDDDDDD I LOVE YOU ALL

Love sister Kimball