Hey friends! I got to go to the temple today! For the first time in 4 months! I love the temple, it's my safe place. So yeah I am doing good now that I got to go. Now you get to read about my lovely week. Highkey don't have too much to talk about, it has been the most uneventful two weeks of my mission; made for a long lot of days but it was worth it.

Hey friends! Good morning from President's house! What's pday without a random sidequest? This morning I woke up, made a quick trip to the hospital (don't worry I was just the translator), and then Sister Andrade asked if we wanted to have lunch at their house with some old missionaries, Elder Bahia and Elder Bowen. Of course I had to say yes. So now writing, chilling on President's couch.

Hey friends! 36 hours: 2 airport trips, 33 Ubers, 6 vans, 14 pizzas, 12 liters of soda, 22 Americans, 8 trainings, and no sleep. That’s transfer and novinhos day for ya. If we were to do whole stats for the whole week it would be another 10 Ubers, 6 more pizzas, 6 more trainings, and a little sleep.

Hey friends! I am gonna be so for real, I have been staring at this screen for an hour with zero clue what to write so bare with me. The original title was “Calm Before the Storm” but the storm hit early. My brain has about a million thoughts in it because of transfers but, it’s okay because it is my favorite week of the month. This week was good, lot’s of organization and prep work but it was super fun. I am now a pro at furnishing houses, I know how to pay utility bills in Brazil, I learned a whole new system. Oh but transfer news! My comp and I will stay together once again. BUT, we are going to train a new missionary who will also be a secretary! It will be good, we are excited. Our ward is also gonna have 9, yes nine, missionaries now.

Hey friends! It's been another week but now we are here and we can chat! Ok, first off, the subject line, my testimony about prayer grew a ton this week. This is a line from a really good song called “A Child's Prayer.” It explains how Heavenly Father really does hear every single prayer. You should listen to it.

Hey friends! One year ago today I was set apart as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's been one year of trials, miracles, lessons, tears, smiles, laughs, side quests, and, can't forget, walking. I'll be real me being out for one year there has a lot of reflecting. How have I changed in the past year? What do I need to improve? How is my testimony doing? Where are the people I have helped at now? How can I continue helping people? How are the people I love? What are my friends up to? What's life going to be like a year from now? Do I know my Savior better? The list goes on and on. I spend a lot of time pondering so let's chat.

Hey friends! This week was interesting to say the least. It all started with zone conference, then it was rent week which is always fun, followed by; one of those “I can’t tell you about” events that practically made up 48 hours of my life, appliance shopping, writing some reports, some visits, the best planning session of my mission, Church, and yeah, so overall a pretty normal week. Now you are gonna keep reading to see if I let something slip aren’t you? Spoiler alert: I don’t… maybe.

Hey friends! If I have counted properly (which of course I have… at least I think) this week is week 50 of my mission. Exactly one year from now I will be headed to the airport to fly home… not that anyone is counting or anything. This week was the most uneventful, exhausting week ever. I know that doesn't make sense but I just died this week. Absolutely cooked but I am happy so that's what matters.

Hey friends! Let me tell you a little bit about the absolutely zero hours of normal sleep that I got this week. All starting on Monday night right after I sent my email. From that night straight into novinhos into a sidequest outside of the mission at 1am I finally got to sleep on Friday night. With all that said another crazy transfer week has come and gone and for the third time in a row I loved every second of it.

Hey friends! It’s transfer week and boy oh boy do I got news for you! I am staying right where I am at with the same comp! That doesn’t mean transfer week is chill. Today is p-day but would it really be p-day without a meeting in the office at 9am and three truckloads of deliveries? This week I also became a professional appliance shopper. I probably bought more appliances in the past week than I will buy in my adult life.

Hey friends! What is uppppp??? This week was so exhausting but for a different reason… we actually worked in the field this week!! Crazy I know right? It was actually so much fun and we saw so many miracles! 

I saw a sunset for the first time in forever… want to see it?

Things are finally getting settled in the office. After a transfer and a half of solving the lingering problems everything has been wrangled in and solved. When I got to the office 10 weeks ago (yes it has already been 10 weeks) I was thrown into a raging fire with no clue what was going on, where the problems came from, or how to solve them. It took a minute but I can confidently say I am able to breathe now. It has been really satisfying to get to the point that there aren’t any problems but it has had me questioning “well now what?” a few times.

Hey friends! Welcome back to another week of unplanned adventures! So this week the mission split happened, do nada. I woke up Thursday morning and the system had split the mission, no warning. That was not in the plan for this week but hey what can you do. That being said this week had so much to be done. If I am being so for real I don't even remember yesterday but hey we are gonna try to write this email anyways.

Hey friends! I am going to be straight up, this week was a heavy one; an emotional roller coaster, exhausting, difficult. However, at the end of it all I am happy with all that was accomplished, the problems solved, the people helped, and, most importantly, the spirit that I was able to feel through it all.

Hey friends! Well, it was transfer week, send people home week, get new missionaries week, random problems week, just as predicted. Transfer news isn’t anything crazy now that I know I will spend most of my mission in the office. I did get a new comp though, Elder Corales! He is super dope and from Peru so I am making him teach me Spanish. I moved over to his area which was next-door to my old one, still the same ward. My old comp, Elder Allen, went to Guarulhos because he will be the financial secretary in the new mission. With transfers our p-day moved back to Monday… not really the biggest fan but we will survive. Anyways this week was wild, the things just did not end.

Hey friends! Welcome back to another absolutely wild week as a secretary. Sometimes people think that the office Elders just sit at a desk all week and do nothing. Maybe in some missions that is true but not for us. I barely sat at my desk this week, in fact I barely had a second to breathe. It was just go go go. Multiple days started at 6:30am, running on straight adrenaline, so many adventures, high emotions, and days ending only when I went to sleep.

Hey friends! My bad, I completely left a cliffhanger in my last email and I'm gonna leave it like that hehe. I'll keep y'all deep in thought for now, at least until transfer week. About this week, well at least these four days. It was busy but also not as crazy as I expected which was kinda nice. Lots of random tasks, like really really random. I just know you want to hear about them.

Hey friends! Don't worry, I didn't forget about you this week. We have Zone P-day this week so we traded our P-day to be able to participate and were out working on Saturday. This week was good, I'd say it was crazy again but crazy is the new normal so it wasn't very different. Audit, temple, late night problems, miracles, sidequests, Sunday, and now we are here.

Hey friends! This week passed by in a blink and I don't remember too much. The thing about the office is there are four levels of information: Random things, things I won't tell you because they are boring, things I shouldn't tell you for one reason or another, and things that I can't tell you. It's an interesting life I live, certainly not one I expected but I love it. Most of this week was just random sidequests but we did hit the other levels of information a few times which always makes life exciting.

Hey friends! Welcome back to another week in the office or, for a more accurate description, mission control of mission São Paulo Leste. Why mission control, because every problem, even if it's not financially, passes by us and we often get to be the ones to solve it. You thought last week was crazy? Well you're right however… someway omehow… this week was even crazier. We were getting calls left and right of things that needed to be done, changed, or solved. Trainings, material runs, 2 zone conferences, emergency transfers, audit preparation, this week was non-stop. To preface this email: I love my APs so much and I love my calling as a secretary. I am not complaining, solely telling y'all all the adventures I have.