This is Ingrid. We went to her going away party for her mission. She was called to the Manchester, England Mission. It was fun to celebrate with her and get her pumped up!
Joelma and I. She has a son on a mission in Brazil so she just lovessss the missionaries.
Henrique and Catarina. We are teaching them right now. They love to receive our messages.
Our studying table. Guess which side is Sister Aionos, haha literally like this every day.
Surprises on my camera. lol!
Friends 4 Ever!
This elevator smashed her while she was looking in the mirror, so she had to punish it.
She made this cute little ghetto sign telling people to come to church.
I was so proud I had to take a picture. =D
Move over Lindsay Sterling!
Practicing for my musical number.
Elder Hart threw himself a funeral because he is going home tomorrow!
2 YEARS he has been gone!
Saying goodbye to Mariano! He is leaving to work at the Circus (true story).
Training break!
#Memmartinsswag- this was Aiono's idea...lol!
Our district
Hello....
Maybe I should join the circus as well...
Letter Home:
Mem Martins Round 4!
TRANSFERS! I am staying in Mem Martins again! This will be the
area that I have stayed in the longest of my whole mission! Yeah, I’m totally
psyched! The members all joke that I need to just send my church membership
records here to Mem Martins because I have been here so long. Sister Aiono will
be leaving (which is really sad...we don’t want to separate!) and she will be
going to Barreiro! That is really far away from me, on the other side of a huge
river. She will have to use a boat to get to her new area. She will be the SENIOR
COMPANION in her third month here in Portugal! Little to say, I am proud! I
know she will rock it. They will baptize and have tons of fun and learn so
much! She is a really awesome missionary, fun and happy and makes friends
really easily. I know that these skills will help her during her whole
mission.
Once we were knocking doors and Sister Aiono pushed the doorbell
and it got stuck in place! The really obnoxious, loud bell was just blaring in
one unbroken note. She started panicking and I was like... "Run!" but
she just looked at the thing and punched the doorbell! Immediately it stopped.
It was so funny, and we have determined that I react with flight and she reacts
with fight.
This morning as we were waiting for the train we heard some men
speaking in English. I said "Let’s go talk to them!" and we went over
to ask them where they were from. They ended up being from South Africa, and
they had huge English accents. They saw we were the "Mah-muhns" and
started cracking jokes about not smoking and drinking etc... We were
very nice and tried to teach them a little about us. Soon we were all just
cracking up and having a grand old time. Then one of them tried to set me up
with his son in South Africa, and then he laughed and said "You could convert
anyone with those eyes!" Hahahah then we chastised him for flirting with a
missionary and luckily our train stop was right there. It was literally the funniest
thing. Made my day!
Diogo recieved the Gift of the Holy Ghost on Sunday. We are
going to start teaching a friend of his named Rodrigo. He has HUGE potential!
He already said that he wants to be baptized! We have high hopes!
Easter was fun. We had lunch AND dinner with members! We ate
soooo much food! It was all so good and the members were sad to say goodbye
to Sister Aiono. I’m so happy not to part from them just yet. My work here
still isn’t done! Church was delivered by the Stake Presidency and it was so
fun.
I am so grateful for the amazing experiences that I am having
here in Portugal! I am loving it with all my heart! Bring on the next
challenge, Heavenly Father! I am ready for anything! Haha I literally can’t
think of anything else I want to do, I am TSTL and I AM TRAINING A NEW SISTER
AGAIN!!!! She is from Brazil. I pick her up on Wednesday.
Love you all!
Sister
Barron
