Apr 2, 2014
Ola familia e amigos!!!!
Soooo... guess who's in Brasilllllll.......
Well, we actually missed our flight soooo.. [connecting flight in Atlanta?]
BUT we caught the next one and got here anyway :)
SO YES, YOU WERE RIGHT, I AM IN BRASIL!
SOOOOO weird... I still don't believe it. It kept hitting me all of a sudden -- I'm in
Brasil... what??!?
We walk out of the airport and into the JUNGLE. WOAH!
I forgot what green looked like!
It was soooooooooo hard to leave Vegas, but I very much feel
the comforter pulling me to Brasil. I am
so excited! Super nervous about the
Portuguese, mostly because I cannot understand anything and will soon be very
much like the guy on The Best Two Years when he got to Holland. But I'm sooo excited!!!! I said my goodbyes Monday night and got a
blessing from one of my favorite families --the Ward Mission Leader, the
Williams. I love them sooo much and am
soo excited for them to keep the work booming with Sister Nilson and Sister
Area! It's going to be great!! Especially with the Jackson family's baptism
in two days.!!! I'm so sad I won't be
there... I think my hardest challenge
here will be not looking back. I want to
remember everything and bring the amazing things I've learned with me to
Brasil, but I need to remember not to keep looking back. I finished my work
there -- I truly felt the confirmation of doing what I needed to do in Vegas,
so now it's time to look forward and find why I am needed for 8.5 months here!
My companion is...... Sister Merrill!!! She was in my
district in the MTC haha! I just will
never have to meet another new person as my companion again! Lucky me!!! :))
She's the one who sang Savior Redeemer of my Soul in the MTC
when I played cello! I'm soooo
excited!!! I am NOT excited for the fun
MTC things like sharing a community bathroom and room with 5 bajillion other
sisters.... but it's okay! It's only 2
weeks!!
The flight was torture...... each seat had its own screen
where we could do stuff -- they had a bajillion movies, old and super new, and
music and tv shows and ALL KINDS OF TEMPTATIONS!!!! [Missionaries can’t watch
movies] and no matter what I did, where I looked, someone had a movie or tv
show playing in front of me..... it was so insane. I just listened to my iPod [Missionaries can
listen to uplifting church music on their iPods] and slept. or tried to. It was soo uncomfortable -- my tailbone hates
me hahahahahah but it was fun. Quite the adventure. I still have vertigo every few minutes... super
weird haha. but man do I love this humidity. Sao Paolo is GORGEOUS!!! I was thinking how this is really not too
bad! It very much reminds me of
Hawaii!! But then I was reminded it’s
Fall here and going into Winter and this is way south of Teresina. The fun is yet to begin hahahah.
It was really interesting talking to another missionary who was
on the plane who came from the Columbus Ohio mission reassigned. He was out of the main city area in a place
way south that no leaders ever go to -- so they were quite
apostate -- kinda like Kingman except we weren't apostate in Kingman -- lol but it was soooo
interesting hearing about their mission vs ours in Vegas. WOW we were SO incredibly blessed to have President
Neider and such amazing AMAZING missionaries and leaders. No wonder our mission was 2nd top baptizing
in the US. We were so obedient and we take things seriously. I'm sure not
all of the other missionaries are like this, but Elder Harris -- my traveling
companion from Vegas reassigned as well-- and I were the only ones who actually
stayed away from the movies and tv shows on the flight.
hahahhaha. We were both like ...
what..... you actually watched that??
LOL but we can't judge. They
didn't have such an amazing president and mission mom who literally LOVED each
of us into WANTING to follow the rules as exactly as posssible. I feel soooo incredibly blessed to have been
able to serve in their mission for 9 months.
It’s something I will never forget and never regret. I am also so excited to be here in the CTM no Brasil para comecar minha missao aqui em Brasil!!!! I love it here
already. I love the people, the culture,
the land, the everything. It's sooooo
amazing!! And I can't wait to learn even
more!! I will take pictures and send them. It's so crazy.... I'm in Brasil!! WHAT??
ps. It was really funny, One sister told us that we are going to be
baptizing a LOT more than we were in our reassignments [temporary mission
assignments like the Nevada Las Vegas Mission]. And Elder Harris and I looked
at each other and I know what we were both thinking -- you haven't been to the NLV Mission,
have you? haha. jk. We're not really that stuck up. but we just
love NLVM.
pps. We're going to be doing awesome non normal MTC things
here -- like going out into the streets outside and contacting in Portuguese to
practice and stuff like that!! REAL PEOPLE YAY!! So excited but nervous and scared I'll just
stare at them if they talk!!! I'll just
say hi! church. come? and hope they don't ask me anything. hehe.
I'M SUCH AN EMOTIONAL MESS RIGHT NOW!! I DON'T know if I'm scared or happy. I'm also still kinda sick from the flight
(and the stress), but I'm excited. but so nervous! ahhh!! I'll update you on Pday when I'm more together. Sorry for the mess of an email. I LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
com muuiiiiiitoo amor!!
do brasil,
Sister Yoshimoto
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