Helping with flood relief and overcoming discouragement

It´s been raining like CRAZY this last little while. WAY more than normal, houses are flooding and people are losing everything. We live on top of a huge hill (SUPER fun to climb up after a long day, let me tell you ;D), so we´re safe, but there are a lot of people here needing a lot of prayers.  We spent our missionary work meeting time last week bailing out the church full of water bc the roof fell in. I haven't taken my camera out much because it's been so wet, so I don't have many pictures. 

Our week was a sad one. Lots of people who decided they didn´t want what we have to offer.  I´ve been having some pretty intense problems with discouragement and depression these last few weeks. Finally today I'm feeling better. I learned this morning in my studies what it´s been that put me so far over the edge. I´ve put my expecatiaons WAY too high, and imagined that the Lord was feeling the same way I was with my failures. I´ve been listening to a whole pack of lies from Satan about my lack of capacity and how I´m a sinner whose eternal salvation is beyond saving, but finally today, I read some things that broke through the noise, and I´ve been able to feel the Spirit again, and know that it was ME that´s been breaking myself down-the Lord would never do that. 

Anway, tell Cam that I ate a REAL churro this week (and they pronounce it shoohoo-I about died the first time I heard it! XD). FILLED with filling and stuff on top. Google Brazilian churro-deve ter uma foto. AND I saw a capivari...DE VERDADE! I would have caught it to send to him, but the bus driver had better things to do and wasn´t gonna stop and wait for me to snag him.....he´ll have to wait for the  next one to come along. [Cameron jokingly asked her to bring him home a capybara when she first left. Haha! ]

I´m so grateful for eternal families. This is what is more important to me than anything else! I am preparing every minute of everyday to live with my family forever and for the family I will create with my husband one day. THIS is what is most important and this is WHY we have the gospel. Our family here, and our family with Heavenly Father. 

We are so blessed. Even when life is hard, we have everything we need in the Atonement. 

Alma 17:9-11

Alma 26:27-31 (Thank you, Calvin for these two-they´re been my life savers this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Over and over again. You sent me these right before I left when I was nervous, and they were exactly what I needed now!!)

Alma 26:35-36

[Cam's mission call should be arriving anyday, and we had asked Ashley for a stateside and foreign prediction. ] And Cam. I´m feeling the Bahia-HARD CORE! I don´t even what to say a stateside bc I´m so sure! But if it has to be stateside, Boston, so you can speak Portuguese! AND THE 22nd, right!!!! VOU MORRER! [I will die!] That´s a TUESDAY!!!! AH!

Ran into one of my favorite people at the rodoviaria during transfers! 

Love you all tons!  Gotta go! 

Sister Little