Because our teacher was out of town, we've been having substitutes. We
had six different teachers over four days! It made it a little difficult.
But one of the teachers spoke Portugal Portuguese to us (our normal teacher
served in Brazil) and it was practically a different language. We couldn't
really understand anything he said. So we've been practicing it with the proper
pronunciation, and hopefully we'll pick it up in Portugal as well. One of the
substitutes also told me and my companion that we needed to stop using our
little red handbooks, that have lesson outlines and sentances and things written
in both English and Portuguese. So we were terrified, because that's how we get
through the lessons! But we decided it would be good to try. And the first
lesson was a complete disaster, we didn't know what our investigator was asking
about, let alone how to answer him. But the second lesson went SO WELL, the
Spirit was so strong and the investigator went from thinking the Book of Mormon
was evil (because of our bad lesson the day before) to agreeing to get baptized
(but not really, because he's just a pretend investigator). For the first time I
felt like I was really teaching and really saying what I was feeling and not
just trying to say Portuguese words. But it was really cool, I feel like our
Portuguese has gotten so much better just in the past few days. I carry a little notebook with a few
Portuguese words that sometimes I forget, but that's it. And of course our
Portuguese scriptures. It is good because before, sometimes we didn't really
know what we were saying. Now we are saying much simpler sentences, but it is
okay.
I hope all of you had a good New Year! We celebrated a little at around
9:30/10:00, Sister Palmer's friend had sent some sparkling juice and noise
makers. It was pretty fun. It's strange thinking that it is already 2012.
I love you all! Thank you so much for all of your letters, I really
appreciate them! Have a great week,
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