Hey the address is
just the office so it will never change. Send away :)Sister Tess Huntington, R. Sao Sebastiao
#1003-centro, Ribeirao Preto-SP, 14015-040, BRAZIL
Hey so wow, this week
has been rather strange. We are opening an area in the incredible city of
Joboticabal. It is so pretty and way cooler, and has hills and we have a new
house, and I can see the stars at night, and my comp is incredible and
yeah......life is good.
So, our house actually
isn't really ready, but we were just so excited to get here and get to work, so
we are kinda camping out. We borrowed two mattresses from our neighbor and are
sleeping on the ground. There is no stove or fridge or actually anything. It’s
just four totally empty rooms, but it's great! Our area is on fire and our
mission leader is incredible. He is a lawyer and is so together. I never even
knew that leaders like this existed. He actually wants to help us! What? He
actually used to be a Jehovah's Witness and then left because of a few things
that didn't jive with him, but when he discovered the church, a lot of blank
spaces were filled in and he joined the church. He is familiar with missionary
work because of his background in JW, so he is so organized. It's awesome.
Wow, okay so funny
story, it really is like we are camping because guess what we had in our house?
BARATAS!!! Translation: cockroaches.
AHHHH UGHHHH NOOOOO
WHYYYY? I don't know why those guys freak me out so much. I can fight big men
in jiu jitsu and it doesn't scare me, but show me cockroach and my body goes
limp. Problem, my comp is deathly afraid too, and we had the biggest cockroach
I have ever seen in my life!!! He was like a dog, I swear...and he wanted to
kill us. I could see it in his eyes. Oh my goodness, it was terrible. We had
just killed a little one and were overwhelmed with the whole fiasco. Then Sis F
started screaming and pointing right above my head, and I looked at the wall
and the monster was right behind me. F hid in the bathroom and I ran away
screaming and we were frozen haha. I kid you not, we had to go get our neighbor
to kill it, and neither of us slept that night. Our neighbor's wife said that
when she heard us screaming, she said, "I bet they are battling a
cockroach right now." ahahhaha. So there you go. I'm not as tough as I
like to think.
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We don't have any
investigators right now, because we are brand new and don't even have a map,
but the work is gonna start rolling. I can just feel it. My comp is just an
angel. I mean really, she is celestial. She is so loving and selfless, and
cries all the time just telling me how happy she is to be my comp. Her other
comps were really hard and she is just starving for love. Sometimes I feel like
a mom that just needs to nurture, but at the same time, she is constantly
trying to do things for me and care for me. She cuts up mangoes for me ,even
when she doesn't want to eat any because she knows I have an allergy to the
peel. It's a good relationship :)
Okay well I love you
guys so much. God is so involved in our lives, it’s crazy. I have been saying
tiny prayers throughout the day, and guess what! He answers them. I think most
of our sadness and frustration in this life comes because we don't ask for help.
Ask and you will receive. God wants to help. He is our dad after all.
LOVE you all
sis hunny
