Re: BRAFRICAN

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Eliza Shumway <eliza.shumway@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Hey yalls. 

thanks for all the emails this week! A neeeeeeew record! 32! keep them coming! I love hearing from you! AND SEEING PICTURES hint hint (mom, how many months has it been since i´ve seen pictures of you and dad and my brothers? years? hah just kidding)

HAPPY JUNE man i love june. so happy i was born in it. 

WELL i have learned lots of new skills for my future marriage from this week. Such as talking and apologizing and being sensitive and careful and more humble and altruistic... the list goes on. seriously the hardest, longest, most teaching week of my mission. First off i offended and kept offending sister Fuller (by interupting her in lessons and stuff) without really knowing it and of course not meaning to and i tried to apologize and it didn´t work. Then at church President and Sister Fluckiger were there (mission president and wife) and i talked to sister fluckiger after and asked her for help and she suggested we have a little talk right there. But i found out after that that had REALLY hurt sister fuller.. So i really have had to be way more humble than i´ve ever wanted to be (which is way good for me hah) and apologize sincerely afterwards--aka this morning) but thankfully she forgave me hopefully she´ll forget it and we can move on and just be friends. I have really learned a whole new meaning to Ether 12:27 that i thought i had already learned at the beginning of my mission.. that IF men come unto Christ He will show us our weaknesses. I´ve been humbled this week because of my weaknesses and praying for help that i can continue to recognize what they are (that´s probably why i+m here in this area with sister Fuller, for her to teach me how prideful i am and how not to be--for serious.) Christ can help us when we are humble so that our weaknesses may become strengths. I know it is through hard things that we learn how to be more humble. 

well we are in a land with lots of awesome Africans! (I saw a store that said it was for brazilians and africans called Brafrican i thought that was epic.)  We marked one for baptism this week and she´ll get baptized on Saturday! And then we have another awesome Portuguese young man named Tiago who will be baptized the week after. Yay baptisms!! These guys are awesome and understand that this is will change how they live their lives to be in harmony with the teachings of Jesus Christ!  Man! Love this area! It is hard in the way we have to walk for a half our to get to our area and a half hour back from our house but i swear all my skirts are getting looser so that´s good hehe

well here´s how long my hair is! i hope i´m not bald when i get back though, i swear SO much hair falls out every DAY. Apparently in the MTC Sister Fuller said that someone told them that their hair would fall out on their missions. Good thing i didn´t hear that because i probably would have just said see ya and walked right back home. Good thing i´ve learned to be a little bit more humble cuz i don´t really care anymore. Lots of hair falls out and my pony-tail is tiny now, but meh. Whatevs. if i have no hair when i get back i´ll just cut it into a pixie cut again. yay!

Sister beautiful Cardoso will go to her official mission in England this wednesday! it´s been a joy being and serving with her, one of the best girls and friends from the Azore islands! 

k love you all. Be peacemakers. Don´t take offence. Forgive and FORGET IT duh. 

Sister shumway