I ate COW LEG this week!!! Yup!!! Like the whole thing
just hacked up and cooked!!! It was SO GOOD!!! (I say that, but the
first about 5 bites, I had to not think about it, so I wouldn't gag...I
had to think about just the flavor-which was good- and NOT about the
texture or what it really was) It's called Mocotó. It was good, and I
ate two oranges and drank hot water after, so I didn't have stomach
problems either!! (My Brasilian comp had some stomach something after,
and she said it was because it's been too long since she's had it and
isn't used to it any more, so being an American and NEVER having eaten
it before, yup..I totally rocked it!!!!! ) The family who shared it with
us was TOTALLY surprised that an AMERICAN ACTUALLY LIKED IT!! Super
funny!
Madalena and her daughters Debora (22) and Danielle (16) are really
sweet. We've been teaching them for a while now. Madalena has a testimony
that is growing so well and she's reading her scriptures everyday. We're
finally teaching the boyfriend of Debora now, too, Thiago. He's
learning quickly, and we're praying that everything goes well for their
baptism later this month. Danielle has been really busy with school
lately, so we're trying to teach her more. We'll see how that goes. In
the way of prayers, they need prayers to come to church and continue
living the commandments with strength.
Also pray for Maria and her son.
She's about 80 years old and is caring night and day for her adult son
who is mostly incapacitated from some accident that happened. She's
willing to be baptized and cumprir todos os compromissos [fulfill all the commitments], so we just
need to pray that her son will be well, and also that she'll be able to
take at least an hour out of the house for Sacrament Meeting.
Also,
in general, pray for the testimonies and strength on Ana Mara and her
mom, the family of an other Maria, Nelson (he needs prayers of health
and the capacity to remember the lessons, so he can continue
strengthening his testimony), and Luis so that he can continue down this
path for the right reasons.
The girls I spent time with while my comp had meetings for the end of
the mission deal-i-o. Two of them left the CTM the day before I went in
and know Irmã Araujo and Irmã Tamiris. That was a sweet, sweet love note
from Heaven!!
By the way, killing off your mãe [mother]
stinks. (Mission slang. Desculpa. My "mãe" or 'mom" is my trainer on a
mission, and she "died" today meaning she finished her mission and went
home. When you're the comp -companion- of someone who 'dies", you
essentially kill them off. Yup.) It makes you super homesick, and your
schedule goes out the window, you miss them like crazy, and everything
changes again. BUT I pray that these changes will create more growth, and I'll get to keep training with another missionary and learn new things. Heavenly Father knows everything perfectly!
I love you a lot!!! Hugs, and thank you for saying that you love me more than tacos. That made my weeek!
All my love,
Ash
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