First Week of 2016

I don´t know what is wrong with this computer....

But. I hope New Years was great for everyone! I just worked and worked and there was no one on the street but its going great.

We had a fun week trying to find our investigators (they were hiding from us) and trying to find other people to teach! Yay! But it was a good Sunday yesterday. We had a Lisiane there. She is super cool and she likes to make cake and it looks like she will make a cake for us on Wednesday when we go to teach her! Woowoo!

I am excited to make 2016 an awesome year. It will be great fo sho.

Well that´s about it because I am out of time!

Love you all!

Sister Helm

December 28, 2015

LESS THAN A YEAR UNTIL CHRISTMAS!

I sure love Christmas.

We had a fun time eating A LOT of food, listening to Christmas music, exchanging gifts, avoiding the drunks, singing carols to EVERYONE, reading the Nativity Story in Luke about 300 times, talking about Christ, talking with our families, and the other million things that happen at Christmastime on the mission.

Long story short: it was a good Christmas.

I am so grateful for these two Christmases I had here in Brazil. I won´t ever forget them. I had the wonderful opportunity to learn about the real meaning of Christmas. I had the chance to share with these wonderful Brazilians about the hope we have because of this birth. I loved getting to know my Savior better this Christmas season. I hope you all took a bit of time to do the same. I am incredibly blessed to have had this opportunity. 

After Christmas and New Year the excitement and craziness will end. But that we never let that light of Christ end. That it might stay with us until next Christmas.

I hope you all have an amazing New Year. Take advantage of this wonderful time of the year. 

Luvs to all!

Sister Helm

December 21, 2015

Woo well we are doing our best to spread the Christmas Spirit here in ESTANCIA. 

It was a bit of a crazy week trying to find all the investigators that the sisters before us had taught but it went well. We had a baptism too! The sisters taught a young man named Rodrigo that is super cool. He was sooo prepared and excited. He is super excited to serve a mission in a year from now. 

We are still getting to know our area and everything but as soon as we got in here in Estancia we left doing contacts with EVERYONE. We hardly don´t stop to breathe because we are always talking with someone. It´s going great!

Sister Walker is the bomb! Haha talk about good times on the street. We are planning a super TOP Christmas!

Talking of being on the street....Sister Walker and I get a whole lot of weird stares. We are both tall and white. Everyone asks if we are related. uuhhhhh nooooo.

Well I hope that everyone has an absolutely AMAZING CHRISTMAS!

Read about the nativity story in Luke 2!

Loves, Sister Helm

Exciting Week!

 Sister Barbosa and I in our room with our Christmas lights.

Hello from Brasil!

It sure was an interesting week. We hardly worked in our area!

We had divisions this week with the other sisters here in Socorro. It was great to be with them!

We got to work in our area on Wednesday and we ran around trying to follow up with everyone. It was a bit hard because there were a lot of people to visit! We got ready to leave early the next morning to Maceio for our leadership meeting. Turns out that Presidente changed his mind last minute with transfers and decided to call 4 new STLs and open a new area for them because we had a lot of sisters on the mish. So it was a bit crazy. At the meeting we learned a lot about contacts and we have a new challenge to do 20 contacts every day.

I also heard about the transfers and I got transfered. I will go to Estancia and open a new area and train a new STL. I think this will be my last area! 

Our Christmas conference the next day was AMAZING. It was so much fun to see old companions, old districts and sing our mission hymn with the whole mission. Sister Barbosa and I were running around the whole day and we were pretty tired by the end. We helped a lot with the food and such...I felt like I was at work again! haha but it was really good to see my friends and old companions and say goodbye to everyone.

We got to work in our area again on Saturday and we spent the day running around trying to follow up with everyone again. We had only a bit of success because everyone is traveling for the holidays.

Sunday was crazy. I already knew I was leaving and when I told the members they almost had a revolt! This ward really is amazing and I will be sad to leave.

And here we are. I spent the morning packing and trying to organize my things. I have accumulated a lot of STUFF here on the mish. Also.....we don´t have water. YAY. So doing things like washing clothes and stuff won´t happen. 

Some funny moments this week:

1. We were eating lunch last Sunday with a member family and I taught them to make paper snowflakes! They got soooooo excited and thought it was the coolest thing ever. They were like `how did you learn to do this??!!` 

2. We were coming home late and we were trying to get home in time and so we started to run. So there we were...running like all heck had broken loose...and a member sees us. Now he says that we are the sisters that like to run. 

WELL that was my week. 

I love you all demais demais and I hope that you all read your scriptures every day this week.

wooo woo BRASIL

S. Helm

This Week

It sure was an interesting week. We hardly worked in our area!

We had divisions this week with the other sisters here in Socorro. It was great to be with them!

We got to work in our area on Wednesday and we ran around trying to follow up with everyone. It was a bit hard because there were a lot of people to visit! We got ready to leave early the next morning to Maceio for our leadership meeting. Turns out that Presidente changed his mind last minute with transfers and decided to call 4 new STLs and open a new area for them because we had a lot of sisters on the mish. So it was a bit crazy. At the meeting we learned a lot about contacts and we have a new challenge to do 20 contacts every day.

I also heard about the transfers and I got transfered. I will go to Estancia and open a new area and train a new STL. I think this will be my last area! 

Our Christmas conference the next day was AMAZING. It was so much fun to see old companions old districts and sing our mission hymn with the whole mission. Sister Barbosa and I were running around the whole day and we were pretty tired by the end. 

We got to work in our area again on Saturday and we spent the day running around trying to follow up with everyone again. We had only a bit of success because everyone is traveling for the holidays.

Sunday was crazy. I already knew I was leaving and when I told the members they almost had a revolt! This ward really is amazing and I will be sad to leave.

And here we are. I spent the morning packing and trying to organize my things. I have accumlated a lot of STUFF here on the mish. Also.....we don´t have water. YAY. So doing things like washing clothes and stuff won´t happen. 

Some funny moments this week:

1. We were eating lunch last Sunday with a member family and I taught them to make paper snowflakes! They got soooooo excited and thought it was the coolest thing ever. They were like `how did you learn to do this??!!` 

2. We were coming home late and we were trying to get home in time and so we started to run. So there we were...running like all heck had broken loose...and a member sees us. Now he says that we are the sisters that like to run. 

WELL that was my week. 

I love you all demais demais and I hope that you all read your scriptures every day this week.

wooo woo BRASIL

S. Helm

December 2015

I hope the Christmas festivities are in full swing....it´s a bit slow on my end.

We are doing our best singing Christmas songs and decorating our house! We have Christmas lights in our room so it´s pretty cool.

I would go for some snow right now.

I hope the ward party is awesome! We have Christmas conference with the whole mission that day and so I will be ´partying´ too! :) it should be pretty great and I am excited. 

 

Love 

S. Helm

Another CrAzY wEEK (yay thanksgiving and Estancia)

Well it´s another scorching hot day here in Our Lady of the Help, Sergipe.

We had a crazy week going to Estancia to do divisions and thanksgiving and
trying to actually teach people.

We left to Estancia Monday night. We were going along great, my companion
was sleeping, I was trying to sleep....and then I saw the church building
in Estancia zoom past me. I didn´t think much about it and I thought that
we would be arriving soon. But then 10 minutes passed and we still hadn´t
stopped. I woke up my companion and said....I think we passed Estancia! She
shot up and we talked with the conductor and he said that yes, we had
passed Estancia and we were now going to Umbauba and THEY COULDN´T TURN
BACK. WHAT. Then we started to freak out a bit thinking that Umbauba was in
Bahia and we were leaving the mission. The conductor said that we could get
a taxi back to Estancia but we DIDN´T HAVE ANY MONEY WITH US. So great. We
were praying and praying (remember that it´s like 10 pm). The sisters from
Estancia called us wanting to know where we were. Blessing of all blessings
there was another bus going from Salvador to Aracaju and so the nice
conductor stopped that bus and we got on and got to Estancia and it was
just too much excitement for one day.

The divisions were great! I went with Sister Ruiz from Dallas Texas and it
was great! She is super excited and ready to serve. I got to be with Sister
Saturnino again and it was all kinds of awesomeness.

We finally got back in Soccoro Thursday morning. (Thanksgiving!!!) We had
lunch with the amazing irma Alessandra and she made a thanksgiving feast.
She made green bean casserol and mashed potatoes and PUMPKIN PIE. It was
the best ever.


And so that was my week.

I loved being on the mish. I know that this church is true. I love you all!

Sister Helm