A 3 month surprise

This week. I hit my three month mark on Thursday.  Word of the day for me that day....piolho......MUITOS!! Haha...look that one up!

Yup, lice.  A rip roaring case of it! BUT all is well now, and with expensive shampoo, and HOURS of sitting in a chair combing bugs out of my hair, I am now bug free.   HOURS! WE actually went to get it cut (I was on the edge of crying), but the hairdresser, Esmerelda (member-woohoo for people who love you!!), said that if we were cutting it just because of the lice, we didn´t have to. So we didn´t. My comp picked them out for the first day, and after that, every spare moment I had in the house, I sat in a chair and combed them out myself. Sheeshanoly! It was hard. But yeah- Happy three months in Brazil!!! You have LICE!!! HAHA!

Cleaning the house last p-day. More than 4 hours of cleaning to try to get our house in decent condition. Apparently it´s one of the worst...like ever....haha- glad I haven´t known anything else!

Oh! but this is how you clean a house in Brazil. Joga agua!!!!!! Throw water!!! LIKE FOR REEEEAAAALS!!!! It was super fun!!!

So - I´m going to melt here. It has been 41 degrees celsius and full sun all week. That´s 105.8 degrees farenheit. And humid (like, your clothes in the house are always a little bit damp when you put them on-NOTHING is every actually dry). So...yeah...spring starts TOMORROW (yup, it´s been winter, too.....) and summer starts the end of December......I will melt, or burn to a crisp, or I don´t know yet, but please pray for our skin and hydration!!!   I´m actually a totally different color than when I arrived here. I´m going to come home looking like Kyra!! I´m getting super dark, and my hair is turning red. It´s SO light in comparison to before. Everyone asks if I dyed my hair before my mission when they see photos! HAHA!

This was a SUPER HOT DAY that we had been walking in the sun ALL DAY, but we kept going, and were taught a lot of things-a LOT about the Atonement. 

Serving a mission teaches you a lot, a lot about the Atonement. There are days when you´ll sacrifice your study time to meet with someone because it´s the only time they can, pay for a bus, walk in 40 something degree weather (that´s celsius...), get sunburned, everything, just to get there and find that they´re sleeping or too busy making lunch to talk with you. You leave knowing that the message you have will change their life now, and offer them happiness, peace, unity in their family, security, identity, and SALVATION, but they don´t want it. Other things are more important. This is how the Atonement is- Christ did a lot more than get a bad sunburn. HE did EVERYTHING for us,  felt everything, suffered things we can´t imagine, and did it all for us, but so often,  far too often, we are too busy with other things to open the door He´s knocking at and take it. I understand much better the picture of Christ knocking at the door. That´s what we do all day, and wow. Yeah, I´m learning a lot about my Savior. I need Him so much, because I´m also learning how incredible incapable I am alone. I can´t do diddly squat alone. But, thanks to the Atonement, I´m not alone. And neither are you. Don´t forget it. PLEASE! It´s so easy, and I know we do forget, so please, remember. Pray to Heavenly Father, and He will talk with you.. He will. He promises He will, and I trust Him.

Sunburned!  You actually can't see it much on me.  Thank you flash!

1 Nephi 22:9 - "And it shall also be of worth unto the Gentiles; and not only unto the Gentiles but unto all the house of Israel, unto the making known of the covenants of the Father of heaven unto Abraham, saying: In thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed."

Also, I´ll write more about my investigators next week when I have more time and more good news. Kind of a downer week to report, but GOOD THINGS ARE HAPPENING!

Boa semana!

Sister Little

Omni 1:26