Sister Emma Kener in Florianopolis, Brazil

hey friends! hope you all had a fabulous thanksgiving and gained as much weight as I have on the mission! lol! kidding, kind of:(  brazil doesn't really celebrate thanksgiving obi, but sis crofts whipped us up a nice dinner with pies and all! this week was so great! we had a multi-zone conference on friday with more than half our mission and it was so so fun! i got to see all my old comps and district, as well as meet so many new people.  it was a blast!  that night we took a bus back to Imbituba and passed by the church because our friend in the ward was getting married.  that was super fun too.  i've honestly never seen a wedding ceremony before so that was pretty legit.  my branch here is seriously the best!  i know i say that every week, but these people here just have something special about them.  i LOVE the people of Imbituba!  on saturday, we put 2 people on dates for baptism.  we have been teaching them both for sooo long so we are pretty excited to say the least! pl

hello! highlights from this week! -we were able to hang out with luana and thaina for pday and go on a hike (they are my bffs i love them) also i have the prettiest mission im convinced! -visit braulio (our sweet crazy old man investigator) that we have been teaching for awhile. this week he had put up 3 hearts around his house with our names because he always calls us "filhas de coracao" which means daughters of his heart. he is such a tender old man. i just love him! crossing our fingers for a baptism here in a bit. -we help teach at the english school here every week and it is so much fun! turns out its a great place to get referrals and speak our native language. how bout thatttt - our singing career is really taking off these days and we were asked to sing in sacrament this past sunday! we only sang in portugues and english, but we are really looking for a challenge so maybe we will try german and chinese next time. NBD spiritual side of sister kener.

OLA! i'm turning into the bullet point missionary...sorry bout it!  this week we... 1 - had an FHE with 3 of the cutest little boys.  Isaque (a member), marco antonio (recent convert) and maycon (an investigator).  it was so fun! we played some games with them, shared a thought, and then I watched them play fortnite!  which made me miss a certain punk back home...love you joshua. 2 - started teaching a referral that we got from an English professor here that we help teach with sometimes.  turns out his names is John, he is from England, and has the coolest accent!  i'm not gonna lie, it's going to be hard trying not to imitate his accent cause I do a killer British impersonation tbh.  so we are teaching him in English, which is actually so weird and hard for me.  but this will be good fun! vamos ver! 3 - our recent convert Thaina and one of my fav wardies Bea, got callings yesterday to be the branch missionaries and i'm soooo excited  i honestly couldn't