Well
I was transferred to Ponta Grossa, which is a city 4 hours outside of
Curitiba. I'm serving in the Princesa Dos Campos ward, which covers part of the
center of the city and parts that are extremely poor and seem like are in the
jungle. My companions name is Sister Garnica, she is from Argentina and has
been out for 5 months she was trained by Sister Lopes. She really is a great sister and I am excited to be able to work with her. Well Tuesday and
Wednesday were interesting to say the least. I went to transfers on Tuesday to
find out where I was going and then rode in a van for four hours to Ponta Grossa
with Sister Cox sleeping on my shoulder (she's serving in Ponta Grossa too). It
was a cool ride. Well I met
my companion and she doesn't look like she's from Argentina at all, which is
funny because everyone here thinks she's from Mexico or Peru. She doesn't speak
Portuguese very well either, she speaks a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese. Well let's just say my companion is super awesome! I have really enjoyed this past week with her. She loves
American music and movies so that's something we have in common. She loves to
work too and we both have the same view on missionary work. This week has been
great. I've really started to pick up the language which is nice. I think it's
because my companion really isn't that good with it as well so I've had to kind
of step up a little. I understand mostly all of what is going on, I still
struggle with the speaking part of it but I think that after this transfer I
will be able to speak almost all of what I want to say, maybe if I'm lucky :) I
see Sister Cox all the time because my area wraps around her area so we walk
through hers to get to the other side of ours, and she's in my district so
that's nice. We live with two other Sisters, Sister Bell from Oregon who served
in Reno for a transfer and Sister Espinoza from Chile. No Brazilians haha. They
have all been out the same amount of time so they are all still learning the
language as well, so we are just one big Portuguese learning group it's great.
I really like the other sisters they are awesome. Ponta Grossa is cool,
definitely way different from Curitiba/Carjuru. It is alllllll hills, like I'm
talking HILLS haha. I am going to have some ripped calves by the end of my stay
here. It is cleaner than Curitiba, well the city part at least. Unfortunately
it has no graffitti... :) Oh & they have sweet thunder and lightning storms
here. Ponta Grossa is known for baptisms, apparently this area is super
receptive right now. I'm so used to knocking over 100 doors a day and teaching
two lessons, here we don't even knock half of that and people let us in. I have
part of the city though so my area isn't as receptive as others, but we're
working on building it up. None of the people we taught last week came to
church yesterday, so that was a little disheartening but this week will be
better. I'm definitely looking forward to this transfer, I hope it continues to
go well.
My
investigators in my last area, Rosanna and her daughter.
You
can't tell in the picture, but this is one of our huge hills in our area.
This
path apparently is the fastest way to a part of our area haha, my companion was
scared out of her mind.
This
plant stuff grows on the power lines here.
