A great thing that we were able to do in October was arrange a special "division" with the Sister missionaries in our mission. As a general rule, Elders have a division every 6 weeks or sometimes more often, where they trade companions and learn from working with someone new. There are so few Sister missionaries in our mission, that they hardly get to see one another, so we decided to arrange a "division" in each half of the mission for all of the sisters. They were thrilled to be together. You can see from the photos that they had a wonderful time.
Left to right: Sisters do Rosário, Conde, Campos, Souza, Fasterra, Silva, Kersh, Modesto, Azevedo, Michael Sister and President Swenson.
Here the Sisters in Pelotas are having lunch with President Francisco Asconavieta (First Counselor in the Mission Presidency.) and his wife Angela. From Left to right: Sister Vicente, Barreto, Negreiros, Daniele, President and Sister Asconavieta, Sister Withers, Almeida, dos Anjos, and Gregory.
Some of the Sisters are having a HUGE impact on the work here in our mission. They are showing the other missionaries how to have 20-30 lessons a week, they are showing them how to baptize. In the month of October, Sister Barreto and Sister Withers helped with the baptisms of 3 families in their ward, Arco Iris (Rainbow). They baptized 11 new members in that month. Now in November Sister Withers with Sister Souza now, are hoping to baptize 2 more families, 8 more people. Sister Daniele Gregory and Negreiros are doing a fantastic job as well, and will baptize two families here shortly. We are so grateful for their hard work and examples. Because of them the other missionaries, especially the Elders are sitting up to take notice.
Hooray for Girl Power!!!!!!!
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