Week 2

MAMITA! Please keep writing me in Spanish if you can, it is so good to hear something other than Portuguese and English all the time. By the way, I spelled OI wrong last week, it´s not spelled with an H at the beginning, my bad! You want to hear something nuts!?! One of our teachers made a covenant with us in class yesterday. He said that if we promise to only speak Portuguese for the rest of the time that we are at the CTM he promises we will speak Portuguese faster than any other missionary at the CTM. Then he said that if we speak English we are breaking our covenant to him! So, my companion (Sister Catherine Marie Harris) and I have been trying really hard to just speak Portuguese...but it is so hard. I always say that I speak Portu-Spanish cause I never know if what I´m saying is actually in Portuguese or Spanish. Pray harder for me! One day last week someone asked me if I was Brazilian and I said no, then they said "Yeah, you are Brazilian!" and it went back and forth a couple of times and I kept telling them I was Mexican and they wouldn´t believe me, then they asked me what my last name was and I told them it was German, then they really didn´t believe me that I was Mexican! It was very entertaining! We got to go to the temple today again! Loved it! Next week someone is going to take pictures at the temple for us and e-mail them to you, so be excited, that´ll give you something else to look forward to. Banana-chocolate pizza really is one of the most delicious pizzas I´ve ever eaten! In a couple weeks my district is in charge of the prelude music before Tuesday devotional (on the 25th) and I am going to play the flute! I am really excited! I was thinking about the girls going to girl´s camp last week! Totally jealous...oh wait, no I´m not cause I´m in BRAZIL!!! I can´t wait to get the letters from the sisters in the branch and the package that Hiram is supposed to send. I´m the only one in my district that hasn´t received a letter...just to let you know. Oh and you should tell people that they can do dearelder.com and the letters will be printed and sent to me. I sure hope Hiram sent the package. I am way excited. By the way, I will be here until September 29th! I am very excited about that! Anyway, I have to write to Heather real quick and get everybody´s e-mails from my hotmail, don´t forget to tell Michelle and Steph and Kaven/Megan to e-mail me and give my new e-mail to people in the branch so they can e-mail me too! That would be awesome! Oh and did you get the money transferred from my savings to my checking and did you make sure you were on the account to withdraw? Well, tell everyone I say hello and that I love them and thanks so much for the prayers, I can tell that people are praying for me because of the success and love I feel everyday! Just to leave you with a little something I learned from devotional last night: "The Lord never asked Peter what his qualifications were before he asked him to `Feed his sheep`he only asked Peter if he loved him. That is the only quality we need to do the work of the Lord, if you don´t love the Lord it is extremely difficult to do the work...It isn´t easy to get up early every morning and learn a new language, but think of why you are here - because you love the Lord."
Love you all!
Sister Rhule

Vou a perseverar até o fin!
I will endure to the end!

Oh, and mom, will you print all the emails you send me too cause I can´t print them here. Just save all of them!