I am doing well!
My companion (Sister Ray/ Becca) has been sick lately which has been hard as we are supposed to be doing divisions with all of the other sisters but I know that the Lord will take care of us and it is all in His plans! Sister Ray is awesome. she was in the MTC with me but in another district and then served in the states for a year. I LOVE my new area and ward! It is the most functioning ward that I have been in and the members here are AMAZING. That is a huge difference from most of the other wards in the misison (all members are awesome but some don´t like to serve so much or participate in the missionary work). We are teacing a lot of people! We have 8 baptismal dates for this week but never all of them work out so we will see how this week goes! They are Kelvia and Clevam (they are married and have two little kids that are 7 and 3), Tinale and Daniel and their son Ikaro, Ferreira and Lucia (also married and older), and a girl that is 21 Lorena. They are all amazing and I am loving all of the people that we are teaching! We have baptized one little girl (Adria) when we were here but her parents are also investigating they just need to get married to be baptized but the whole family is awesome!
We are also teaching another couple (Thais and Fransisco) that isn´t married and has one little boy and they are so great! They are having some financial problems and so on Sunday is usually when they go to the market to sell things and make money to pay the bills and such so it is a sacrifice for them to go to church. This last week Sister Ray and I were praying so hard for them to see miracles and recognize the blessing of the gospel and we fasted for them too. On Sunday they went to church even though they were needing to work and on the way back home Thais found 50 reais in the street! She was able to pay the bills and had some money left over! I almost cried yesterday when she told me because it was so clear that God had answered all of our prayers and our fast. We always have to act in faith and then the blessing come!
I was SO EXCITED to hear that you will be in the stake relief society presidency! How awesome!! What a great opportunity to serve!
I love you! I am working harder than I have ever worked in my life and giving all that I have. Sometimes I honestly feel like I have nothing left in me and I just want to fall on the ground and die because my body is so dang tired and my mind is exhausted and I am trying to focus and my spirit is worn out and I am praying so hard for Heavenly Father to keep supporting me so that I can keep going and I am just holding on to whatever I get from him. But the miracle is that I always keep going and keep teaching and at the end of the day, regardless of what happened, I know that I gave my all. I am so grateful to be a missionary.
Love you soooo much!
Sister Brittany Westover
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