Oi family and friends!!! 
HAPPY NEW YEAR. i spent new years trying to sleep while outside my window justin bieber was blaring and someone was setting off fireworks until 4 am:) haha oh brazil.
Im back in Camaçari! The members have been so nice and loving and call em their bebê. They have all been so worried about me and it really feels like i have a family here. Also they make sure to tell me EVERYTIME i see them to hold onto the handrail, wear sunscreen, and eat lots of food. Whenever we eat at members houses they always always say EAT MORE EAT MORE and im always about to throw up. You guys would not believe how much they eat.
My new companion is sister jones from Oregon..i keep getting American companions which is weird because there are only like 5 of us in the whole mission! i miss sister Nogal a lot and i wish i had had more time with her but she calls me very night to send a beijo (kiss)
Teaching this week has been hard because evryone leaves for christmas and new years. So we had alot of appointments fall through and did alot of walking and being disappointed. Luckily in my mission i dont have to be disappointed very often though because the people are so accepting. Heavenly father new i needed loving people and i know brazil is where im supposed to be in large part because of that.
We are working really hard with a woman named Auzenie right now. Her husband is a member and 2 of her 3 sons have been baptized. also we found out this week that her uncle is the stake president here. So baptism will hopefully be soon for her. Her only problems are that she works on sunday and she doesnt like to read and never follows up on her commitments to read o livro de mormon. But we are working with her on that and i have faith she will be baptized soon!
We taught a man on a bus this week which was an interesting experience. So on the buses her you always have a guy from some religion who is screaming about god and how we are horrible people and we will all be burned if we dont praise him right now and sing HALLELUJAH and clap our hands. And you know what everyone on that bus starts singing hallelujah and clapping there hands and yelling AMEN! and while this is happening youre trying not to be thrown out of your seat by the sharp turns the bus driver is taking at like 60 mph. and if your anything like me you´re trying really hard not to throw up. But somehow while this was all happening my companion managed to start talking to a guy about our church. He was super intersted and i didnt hear most of what he said but i was able to yell my tetsimony at him at the end. We got his info and will hopefully be contacting him soon.
we taught a man named vinancio the first lesson this week in his restaurant which was really cool. We taught him about joseph smith (oh haha funny thing they pronounce his name Josephy Smichy) and about the priesthood and gave him a book of mormon. He is super awesome and very receptive. Something funny ive noticed about brazilians is they love to touch you the whole time their telling a story or talking to you. So hes telling us about his family and about his beliefs in god and what not and the whole time hes either squeezing my shoulder or grabbing my hand unexpectedly or adjusting my bracelets. haha it was super weird and uncomfortable the first time it happened but now its pretty normal.
I am starting to understand people better which is so exciting! I still dont speak very well but being able to understand makes it alot less frustrating.
I am eating lots of weird things! the other day i tried a fruit called jaca which was gross but i choked it down and told the guy i loved it haha. I ate a chicken heart! i hated that too! but honestly most of the food here is super good and pretty normal.
Theres something good in every day even when its so hot and im so tired and just want to sleep or sit down. But i remember a talk by eyring where he said that whenever he felt like he had finished some hard task and deserved a rest he would remind himself to "remember him" to remember christ. I try to do that as well. Sometimes i think okay, i just walking like 6 miles in the heat and we taught alot of people and im hungry and my feet hurt and im so sweaty and gross and you know what i think i deserve a rest! and then i remember this thing. remember christ. I remember that i can keep going for a few more hours and i will rest when its time to rest. i remember why im here and who im here for. firstly im here for christ. but also for the people here and for my family. and its all worth it when i remember this.God lives and i know this!! he is here in brazil everyday and i see his influence and i feel his love.
happy 2017 people! i miss you all and im so happpy to hear about the happy things going on at home. be safe and be kind to the people around you. love your family and hold them tight!
AMO VÔCES! TCHAU TCHAU
sister lytle
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