My new baby! This is Sister Aiono! She is from California and a brand new missionary! Isn't she so cute! She's tiny.
The day I picked her up.
WHAT have I gotten myself into...! =D
We have fun.
We got a weird reference and it led us to this door in a wall. Haha...surprise! No one answered.
Sintra is too beautiful to explain. I will be bringing my family here in the future.
In her onesie.
GUYS! This is Lilli!
I saw this while helping Lilli with her English homework Haha! Ya, we're basically hicks.
This is Irmao Celso. He is like the COOLEST guy of the ward. He was baptized as an
80 year old and used to be a clown. =D
My letter Home:
Hello everyone!
On Tuesday we packed up Sister Bakkers stuff and headed up to
the mission office. There, we had a little training on how to train ( It was way shorter than I thought it would
be...they must have confidence that we all automatically know how to train!)
and we waited for the newbies to arrive! When I first saw my new comp, I
thought WOW she is tiny! And oh so cute!
My baby is named Sister Aiono! She is so much fun! She is from
California, but she has Samoan roots. Everyone here is fascinated to know where
she is from. They think she is Asian or something. I have literally never met a
Polynesian on my mission, so she will probably be getting that her whole mission.
Haha I have been singing songs from Lilo and Stitch all week. I am so cliché.
She knows how to legit hula dance and I want her to teach me! Our new ward
loves her and thought she was so courageous and cute on Sunday when she bore
her testimony. I felt like a happy mother and afterwards a member made the
comment to me that my face was "glowing" while she was bearing her
testimony! I love training so much and I just want her to have the most awesome
and successful mission! The hardest thing is that she sometimes gets really
down on herself for not knowing the language and she really wants to
participate more in lessons. I try my best to lead so that she can have the
chance to talk, but either the investigator talks a ton or she gets nervous. I
will try my best to just pump up her confidence a ton so that she can speak
like a pro by the end of her training! She is actually an amazingly confident
missionary, she will talk to anyone! I love her new excitement because it
reminds me of what I felt like when I was new and the fire that I had for the
work. It is contagious!
One thing I have realized now that I am training someone that doesn’t
know the language yet is that I am definitely fluent in Portuguese! I
understand 99%!
As the trainer of a new missionary, I have heard a bunch of what
is going on in the world today. As missionaries, we don’t watch any TV or get
on the internet at all so we are definitely away from “the world” and all of it
affairs. My awesome new greenie taught me some abomination called the
"Whip and NayNay." Haha what has the world come to? ; ) We ended up
whipping with a little African boy named Tiago in the stairwell of his
apartment building. He was cracking up that the sisters could whip! In an
angelic way, of course:) Hey, who knew that was useful for missionary work?!?!
We have been caught in the pouring rain a few times. It gives me
flashbacks to when I was a greenie and it rained everyday. She is so funny and
loves to just run through the rain saying "if we are doing the Lords work,
we can’t get sick!" Haha wellllll we are protected, but lets try and
remember our umbrellas haha.
We contacted a referral from a member and she ended up being
really elect! We marked her two daughters to be baptized in two weeks! The
mother, Tamara, will be able to be baptized once she is legally married to her
boyfriend. But things are going great! I am feeling kind of a lot of pressure
to have a "model" area as the STL of our zone. But I have faith that
if we just keep working hard and doing our best that the miracles will come! We
are going to baptize this month!
Love you all! Don’t forget to always be yourself!:)
Sister
Barron
