Mission Life is Awesome

Wow... this week. I can't even begin to describe it. The mission life is awesome but the craziest thing ever at the same time. We walk all day. So in the morning we do all of our studying that we need to. Then, everyday... everyday... we eat at a members house for lunch. What do we eat? You guessed it... rice and beans. Everyday. BUT, I really am coming to love it, haha!

Then after lunch, we are either knocking on doors (more like clapping :) ), trying to make contacts on the street, or meeting with some investigators. Right now, it's been pretty crazy with the language. I think I would love it a lot more if I actaully understood what was going on half of the time, hahaha! Whenever we talk to people, I just smile and try to make facial expressions to pretend like I speak Portuguese, haha! Are they the correct facial expressions? I have no idea. :)

My companion is AWESOME! She is from Brasilia. She speaks English but will never speak it with me, which is totally fine by me because I can actually understand her! 

On sunday, we went to church and guess what?? I got to speak, yayyyy... The bishop asked me 3 minutes before the meeting started. 3 MINUTES!!! I think it went okay... I think. 

I wanted to share a little experience I had this week. So we are teaching a woman, Ivonete, and her family. she is blind and they are very very poor.  She was telling us about her family and her grandson was being treated very very badly by his mother, and she didn't know what to do. It was hard for her to see her grandson (he is about 9 years old) being treated so horribly. We promised her that if she prayed to God to ask for help, everything would be okay. We returned a few days later and she was so happy because her daughter pretty much gave Ivonete her grandson to take care of! What a miracle. She proceeded to tell us how whenever we come over, she can just feel peace come into her home. I hope that made sense but it was just amazing to see how prayer helped them.

I am so thankful for this opprotunity to serve the Lord, and bring others to the knowledge that God is watching out for us: ALL OF US! I have to even repeatedly tell myself this, especially being here in Brazil! God is always there.. always. I know God loves you! 

Thank you for your love and prayers!! (sorry for the long email)

- Sister Egan

Today for pday we went to this chinese street where they sell a whole bunch of chinese stuff and food, pretty cool. The part of sao paulo that we were inb today was like new york city.. busy, buildings, etc… smelly.

Pictures of my apartment