Sister Rachael Collins - Brazil Curitiba Mission

brazil is always keeping me on my toes hahah alrriiight so for this weeks story, brazil is having this greve and all gas stations are closed bc they dont have gas, schools are closed, and the markets arent getting more food so everyday theres less and less food on the shelfs. for us tho its not too bad, like dont worry we still have food but its just crzy whats going on. we were suppose to have transfers today but bc of the greve we cant bc we dont of busses with gas to transfer people. i dont know exactly all thats going on bc i have nothing that connects me to the world but i heard that some flights are getting cancled bc the planes dont have gas...HAAHA brazil is so weird haha idk about the missionaries who were suppose to go home but i know the ones that were suppose to come, arent now haha really crazy, and we dont know how long it will last either so ill keep you updated haha but yeah so since no transfers sis williams is still with me so im loving the english while i can bc i kn...

SUCH A GOOD WEEK!! Guess how many people came to church.....8!!!!! 8 FREAKING PEOPLE GOT OUT OF BED WHEN IT WAS 6 DEGREES AND WALKED TO CHURCH!!!!!!!! DO MIRICLES EXSIST? YES!!!!!! This sunday was the best ever bc of that and one of our investigators is a family, and families are the goal of course so yeah dang good week! This week no crazy stories! Kinda weird, like I don’t even know what to write about bc I didn’t get robbed haha. But actually there's just a funny thing that happened not crazy just funny, so we were walking up this hill and I always like to walk on the curb, makes me feel like a gymnast haha, and we were walking and I was wearing my slippery shoes. We call them my slippery shoes bc the soles of the shoe is just plastic and so I slip on things that aren’t slippery. It’s not a big deal just funny, well as I was walking on the curb my foot slipped out from under me and I like FLEW! I landed on the not street side but that side was also a hill so I’m rolling down thi...

it was SO GOOD to talk to you guys!! ahh you have no idea, like after that now im like ready to take on the world haha kinda feels like im dead like everyones crying and we are just talking through a computar haha idk just kinda funny if you think about it. my comp was like aww thats so cute your whole fam was just crying haha and im like yeah dood i kid you not when i say we are all bffs haha but yeah that was the best. im still totally stolked about jo and jared!! AHHH the best is that i totally knew!! i seriously told sis williams that she was before i even saw you!! it was at church and i was like dood i have a feeling that my sister jo is prgnant and they are going to tell me today haha so crazy. im so excited for them tho ahhhhhh while talking to you guys i just felt like a total spaz but i was just so excited haha i couldnt handel myself haha i havent done the blessing thing yet but i will  and yeah if the DL doesnt work its okay bc i have it now so thats good and the ...

wowza what a week in brazil. well this week was difinately not normal. monday guess what happened AGAIN!! we got robbed again!!!! like what the?! the weirdest thing about it is that im in the safest area! so this is like un heard of but ever since i got here all these bad things have happened! i dont really think brazil likes me haha but okay so heres the story, we were walking home from a members house bc they had bought me a basketball, and we were on a popular streeet but here in brazil no one is on the streets at night, so it was just us and we were walking when we saw 2 huge guys cross the street on our side and one of them put something shinny behind his back. right when we saw that he had something behind his back we knew exactly what was about to go down, but it was to late to turn around. the guy points the right at us and tells us to give them our bags and my watch. so while the other guy was pointing the gun at us teh other got our bags and was getting my watch but he was ha...