Sister Emma Kener in Florianopolis, Brazil

olaaaaaaa! hope you all had a fab christmas! i got the best gift this year getting to talk to my keenweens :) sure miss those punks. christmas here is different, i think i prefer it in the US but its all part of the experience nonetheless.  a few highlights from this week:  - having american breakfast on christmas with americans  - one of our investigators was asking us why we walk so far each day and i said well we don't have a car and then her son offered us a ride..naturally we said no thanks and she replied "yeah i guess Jesus didn't have a car either"  hahaha touche girlie - update on Luiz's cigar intake: he let me take his last pack away from him... and then bought more yesterday sooo were gonna need some love and prayers from my good americans. por favor  - and last the best of all the game, we have a baptism this week!! my good friend jeferson is getting baptized in the ocean on saturday! i am so beyond happy for him. he has come so far and ...

Merry Christmas eve cuties!! Some highlights this week : -i got an early Christmas present last pday when we found a ZARA in Florianopolis!! I was one happy girl if you can imagine. -we had Christmas conference this week with the entire mission and it was so fun! It was so cool to finally get to meet all the missionaries in our mission and see all my friends again. -summer here in Imbituba is soooo hot during the day and then 5 oclock hits and we just get wrecked w rain and lightning. But you know what they say about the rain on the mission… #espososmaisbonitos (husbands get hotter when you work in the rain) #blessings - we have an investigator that is super super catholic. every time we teach him he really ends up doing most of the talking about his religion. last week we went into our last lesson because we were going to have to drop him and i asked him if he believes that Christ will come again and he said yes. and i said ok well then I guess we will fin...

hello friends! some updates from this week: - we had district meeting for the first time in four months lol! and i got to see my long lost bff, sis hermes.  great gal  - casually walked into a Christmas carnival on our way home one night.  got to see my good friend "Pappi Noel" (Santa Claus) and bought some cotton candy for the walk home. bem legal (cool)  - we have a date for Luiz for the 29th of December.  the only thing is that he has to quit smoking by then...so naturally we took matters into our own hands and wrote positive comments on all his cigarettes!  haha!  seems to be working tho (he can read English)  - a family in our branch have daughters that live in the US and married Americans.  they're all in town for Christmas and we got to have lunch with them yesterday.  it was great to speak English again, and they brought American candy! i didn't even know that i missed gummi bears, but I do!  the mish does we...

hello everyone! not too much for this week or pictures.. but heres a few highlights!    -we have been teaching a guy named luiz for quite some time now.  he actually lived in utah for 5 years and is literally obsessed with utah. he always talks about the people (the mormons) how cool we are of course, and how he wants to be a "mormon", but didnt even know that the church existed in Brasil until now. one day we were talking about the difference between temples and churches and he was just so confused. he searched on google to show us the building he had been to and it was the conference center... turns out the guy has seen and listened to the prophet and didnt even know it! he thinks its pretty funny now to rub it in to all the members faces hahah. classic luiz lol -we had a branch christmas party this week with some of the kids from the local orphanage here and it was so so fun! the kids were so cute and so happy. it was a really humbling experience to say the least. ...

* Mom note  - Emma is doing great! Thanks for all the love and support! If you have an extra Christmas card, drop one in the mail to her! She would love it!  It takes one international stamp!  Thank you!! Her mailing address is: Sister Emma Kener Brazil Florianopolis Mission Rua Feliciano Nunes Pires, 42 Centro, Florianopolis - SC 88015 - 220 BRAZIL emma.kener@myldsmail.net