English for the win - Lages week 10

this week started off more successful than it ended. We´ve been teaching one of our recent converts and his wife lately and its been really fun cause he loves all of the sisters here so we got permission to teach his lessons w the other sisters that i live with! its a good time really. weve been trying really hard for a long time to get his wife to come to church and she hasnt budged but this week was different! they invited us over for lunch one day and we got to meet their daughter and she happened to be studying english and even better her parents wanted me to speak english with her! i was thrilled as you can imagine, but heres the cool part. after our convo went on for awhile i decided to ask her if she would come to church and she quickly responded "yes!" then i very subtly threw in a "and you can bring your mom too" and her mom said "ill go if you go!" hahah can you believe it?? this was a big moment for me cause its the first time ive truly experienced for myself the joy of missionary work since ive been here. and even better, afterwards i got to be the one to translate to my comp/other sisters what was going on!! suckers ;) towards the end of the week my comp was having more back problems so we stayed in a lot. im thinking ill be getting a new trainer/mom next transfer which makes me sad but i guess everything happens for a reason. please keep my comp in your prayers! 

Tchau!
sista kener

heres some off topic but pretty classic pics:
1) got our "dryer" this week. aint she a beaut?
2) now a proud owner of this here cup of witchcraft
3) accurate representation of the weather here in lages
4) uma mai e sua filha
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