¡HABLO PORTUGUES! ¿QUIEN SABIA?

Reunited! With Sister Jacobsen who I coulda-shoulda known at BYU!

What a super week! Another one!

Yesterday we met our new president and he is awesome. His name is President Brotherson and he has a 17 year old daughter named Grace! Good name choice I’d say. Something that I really loved about President Morgan and that I think will continue with President Brotherson is that he was and is soooo so loving, and at the same time expects exact obedience. And because I love him, and more importantly I love my Heavenly Father, I want to be obedient.

I have really learned how important that is. I have seen miracles happen when I or others are obedient to the commandments, and I have also seen lives fall apart a little bit when someone decides that the commandments are more like vague suggestions rather than tools that God promises will help us and make us happy if we use them. Rather than feeling obligated to be obedient to the Lord, and as a missionary, the mission rules, obedient has become something I really want to be! And I am seeing miracles and blessings brought to pass before my own two eyes :)

We got a reference of a woman named Juliana probably 4 months ago and we have tried to contact her about 32,459,357 times, and this week we finally did! She’s from Brazil, so we asked a Brazilian member, Simone, to go with us and help us in a lesson. They clicked right away and just went flyin’ off talking about who knows what in Portuguese. Hermana Briggs and I were lost for a sec, but then I really started listening and found out that I understand! WHAT?! Shout out Mama for teaching me little portu things when I was little. It all paid off😊 After they talked about Brazil and Juliana offered the hermana a job (?!?), we talked about how God is our loving Heavenly Father and the Church of Jesus Christ has been restored. Juliana loved it and is excited to learn more!!

We had intercambios this week and I was with Hermana Jacobsen!! Crazy story: we lived in the same building on the same floor at BYU and we never met each other. WILD eh? She’s really awesome and I learned a lot about pure love and diligence from her. Love love love!!

Other fun things: I shared my testimony in sacrament meeting and thought I was going to die. I thought after sharing my testimony everyday and speaking Spanish for a year I’d be good to go, but nope! Another fun thing: there is an inactive young woman in our ward who’s in a band. She’s gonna help us write a hymn for the new and revised hymnals that I think are happening, and we’re gonna help her come back to church! Woohoo!

Okay I love y’all to Pluto and back! Hope it’s the best week and you tell the people you love how much they mean to you! 

Besitos!

Love, Hermana Siebach