Sister Emma Kener in Florianopolis, Brazil

hello everyone! these past couple weeks have been awesome here in lages. we had Jose´s baptism last week and this week put a couple on date for their baptism and a wedding at the end of this month :) i am really loving my area (even the cold), the members and my comp!   a good scripture from my personal study this week that i wanted to share!  “I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.”  love this a ton! alsoooooo happy fourth of july this week americans!! thanks to good old mama trish who sent us all things american, sister miller and i are feeling right at home ;) boa semana gente!   loves, sista kener

helllooooo! this week was one to remember! we had the wedding and baptism of Cristina and Ivonir and everything went SO well! they are the cutest fam ever. i couldn't be happier for them. be ready for a lotta pics :) i know i've been slacking in the email department lately so this is me making up for it - this week we were teaching our investigator Jandira when she started to cry telling us about the trials she was having in her life right now. she told us she was lost and confused and didn't know why God wasn't answering her. and because naturally we as missionaries tend to make other peoples' burdens our burdens, i got home that night and said a prayer with tears in my eyes wondering why Heavenly Father wasn't guiding her. the next morning i woke up and found the answer to my prayers: freaking AGENCY! haha. "But, behold, i say unto you, that you must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right." YES, our lives would be a l...

ola! this week is gonna be more pics than words but i wanted to share a quick/cool experience we had sunday! our area is super big and we have some cities that are almost two hours from our house and the church.  we can only go if we have referrals. but yesterday we had the opportunity to take a little road trip with some members from our ward to Urubici (2 hours away) to attend sacrament there in the member's home. this family consists of 8 people (all from uruguay). they are the only members in this city so they hold their own meeting every sunday in their very simple and modest home. this experience was probably one of the most spiritual experiences i have had on my mission. i got super emotional as soon as i walked into that house seeing all the kids dressed in their sunday best and two trays of sacrament on the table in the middle of the room. when the members from our ward invited us to go with them they told us "we are going there to give them a push of encouragement...