Happy 4th of July from Brazil!

Dear Family,

Happy 4th of July and Family Reunion! Loved hearing about all of you being together :) Brazil was playing so we all had to be home at 5 and my american comp (Sister Moser) and I, had an independence day festa with our roommates. We sang 4th of july songs all day, had french toast for breakfast with vermont syrup and peanut butter (were getting everyone here hooked on peanut butter. Maybe one day brasil will give in.) and made hot dogs and' had s´mores over the stove and watched a church movie in english. That's about as American as it gets being a missionary in brasil.. but we did our best ;)

Best part of this week is we had an awesome training with president and had interviews. So good! I especially loved something president shared. He´s a successful businessman and shared with us 4 things that not only will guarantee you to be successful in working, but in life:

1 - Never need to have an instruction repeated. (if you are someone who needs it twice your salary is already cut in half. 4x and you have to be treated as a child.)

2 - Every instruction/assignment you receive, you complete.

3 - You get along with any person you are placed with.

4 - You accept correction easily.

I feel like my English translation is not nearly as beautiful, but I thought it was super good counsel, and SO applicable in the mission. He also said he wanted to give us some counsel as a father, not as our mission president but what he would say to his daughters. He said when you´re dating, try to find out as much as you possibly can about the type of missionary he was on his mission. If he got up at 6:31, don´t marry him. And Sister Monteiro got up and told the Elders the same thing applies - if she didn´t honor her priesthood leaders on her mission, if she was constantly calling and complaining, don´t marry her either. If you want to find a good spouse after the  mission, you need to make those changes now! They´re so cute I love seeing them speak together :)

I also loved a quote she shared from President George Albert Smith that says mas-o-menos this: "Our eternal happiness will be proportional to the way with which we dedicate ourselves to helping others."

Missions are the best! So blessed to get to serve one :)

Love you all!

Sister Lewis

Photos

- Sister Bergloff. One of my favorite sisters who just got transferred into my zone so we´re finally not the only sisters in our zone!

 4th of July photos. while everyone else is celebrating another brasiliero victory, we´re celebrating american independence :)

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