Sister Rachael Collins - Brazil Curitiba Mission

Dear Parents, Sister Martins Silva and I are very happy to let you know that your missionary has arrived safely at the Brazil Missionary Training Center.  What a great joy and privilege it is to greet each missionary as they begin their missionary experiences with us! We will surely take good care of your missionary.                                                                                                       The missionaries now have companions and are settled into their room...

well im here in the brazil mtc! i dont have much to  tell you bc we already talked on the phone like everyday leading up to this but brazil is humid! like really humid! i just feel sticky which thats gross but its so pretty! we get to go out of the ctm after we write, so im super excited about that. the flight here was crazy long, i slept for part of it but my butt got so numb from the position i was in i was laughing so hard! imagine the feeling you get when your leg falls asleep and the weird feeling you get when it is waking up, yeah that was my butt, so weird haha anyways yeah the food is good but interesting, rice and beans are with everything, we get to go to the temple every p day, but we leave at 6:30am so thats rough. the president is really into rules, like we cant jump, like at all! i have no idea what that rule is about but no jumping up and down i guess? and no singing happy birthday in the lunch room bc it takes away from the spirit haha weird stuff like that. i only ...

im in the brazil mtc now! kinda crazy, i didnt think that it would be that different but holy cow i was wrong. everything is open and outside so thats so fun! but on p days now we only have 45 mins to write when at provo, we had all day so kinda bummed about that but its okay:) my new p day is on wednesday but they dont know if i will be able to write tomorrow so we will see. but yeah the plane ride was soooo long but its okay i slept a little but im so tired its not even funny. hopefully i can write you tomorrow! I LOVE AND MISS YOU love sis collins

this week was by far soooooo much better! still pretty long so waiting for this "the mission goes by so fast" thing to start kicking in haha but really it was soooo much better! kinda a cool thing abou tmy district is that none of us were really suppose to be there, like me and sister sabel and elder shuman are all suppose to be in brazil, 3 others calls they werent gonna be here until march and another elder posponed his, and we all are in the same district and its the best thing every! seriously i know with out a doubt that this is why i didnt get my visa right out the bat. we all were talking about how hard this has been and if we didnt have eachother that we dont know if we could have made it. god seriously knows us all sooooo well! i cant even describe it! so cool how it all worked out. me and sister sabel had some challeges this week, she kinda snapped and got super upset and told me that she hates my laugh and how im outgoing and when she talks to elders that she doe...

February 7, 2018 AHHHHHH!!!! they called me and sister sabel down to the mission travel office and gave us our travel plans!! we leave on the 19th of February and i am so excited! their are people in our zone that are leaving this week but they never go their visas so they are going state side and they are so sad! i totally thought that that would be me but ahh im so excited! but also im so sad to leave my district, the girls are my favorite and we are already so close, we have 2 more weeks with them so we will just have to party while we are all together haha im so excited but also so nervous to go, being here its nice bc everyone speaks english so i can communicate with anyone but when we are down there it will be all in portuguese. im hoping that will help me be better at the language bc i will be completely immersed in the language. just keep hoping and praying for me to catch on the language haha. today in class i understood alot more then i ever had so far so im looking up and ...

February 5, 2018 wow this week has been full of tears and stress! the MTC is nothing like i imagined. waking up every morning at 6:30 is hard but not as bad as i thought, but by the end of the day i am dead and just crash so hard into bed haha the language is rough. i cant speak it in the least but i keep trying so i guess thats all that matters. i feel the spirit like crazy!! like even just laying in bed you can feel the spirit haha its actually kind of weird but a good weird. im not home sick but i do miss things like just waking up and getting to do what i want to do and not be on such a tight schedule. my companion is sister sabel and shes so nice! shes really girly but shes super funny and we have fun together. we are both visa waiters for brazil and get this, we are going to the SAME MISSION so we will be together from start to finish! my district is awesome! we all are already friends and just hang out together so thats awesome! but they are all going to Portugal on their ...

January 31, 2018 okay what?! haha they only speak Portuguese sooo thats interesting but so cool! i dont really know what to say bc not much has happened... but i dont know your email so thats why i sent you one to this email so haopefullly you get it. do you know the romneys? they were in our stake and im in a room with sage!! so fun! i just met my comp she seems really nice and is going to the same mission! so fun. but yeah my p day is on monday so ill write you then with more to say probs haha okay love you!! know that im okay and already can tell im going to love it!! love sister collins Rachael at the mission home trying to take a picture for her cardboard cutout for Hailey Fisher's wedding!!! Rachael's mission plaque picture