12 May 2014 Hello Ponta Grossa

5-12-14

Dear family,

It was so fun to get to see so many of you yesterday! I’m So blessed to have the best family in the whole world! I told you most of what is going on already, but I heard it was hard to understand so just a quick update:

I got transferred from Piriquara. It was the hardest move I’ve ever had. My last night there we had a big FHE with the whole ward practically and there was lots of crying and laughing and I have definitely felt some ‘saudade’ for that area my first few days here, but we go where the Lord needs us right?

I’m now here in Ponta Grossa (it’s basically its own mission but with the same mission president) in the ward Dal Col. They want to split this ward so they took out all 3 companionships of Elders and sent all 3 Sister Training Leaders to the same area and basically we are leaving our STL responsibilities this transfer and President just wants us to get a boost in this ward. So pray that we can make it happen because even though I´ve been blessed with a lot of success in other areas, I know it´s not because I have some really amazing ability, I´ve just been blessed with a lot of elect individuals so I pray we can find a lot of them here too and live up to the expectations!

My companion is Sister Moser - my first American comp! She is awesome. She studied at BYU-I before the mish and took a class from Hyrum and loved him as a teacher. She´s the 9th of 13 children from Vermont so it’s funny when people ask us about our families because I’m pretty sure they all think Americans have crazy huge families now.

We had one of the Elder´s Recent converts get confirmed yesterday and she is one of my favorite people I have met here in Brazil. This girl is awesome. She´s 22 and has  twin little boys  that are 1 yr old. She gave up playing soccer for Cambridge for her family. She found the gospel and totally gets it and it’s amazing! She hadn’t slept for 3 nights straight because of work, school, and two 1-yr old boys, but just the same after literally being up the entire night she got her mom to come take care of her sons at 8am so she could make it to sacrament meeting. She already is willing to sacrifice a lot because she knows it’s true! Makes me think about when we complain about our responsibilities in the church. She’s known about the church for less than 3 weeks, but she already understands how important it is to keep her covenants and be there.

The gospel is true. Love y'all lots! SO grateful for you!

Love, Sister Lewis