Hi! Thanks for all the letters - I love hearing from everyone. It seriously is the best part of the day. Also, thank you for the package! I am glad you sent me hint of lime chips because first of all, I love them, and second, I get hungry before bed since dinner is at 4:30. Okay I'm trying to remember what happened this week. It seriously feels like I've lived here my whole life and that my former life is a dream. Okay Sunday we had a "regular" Sunday for the first time. We have relief society with all the sister missionaries. This lady talked who has been on like 5 missions and it was amazing. She was really funny, too. Sacrament meeting we have with our branch - it's like 5 or 6 Portuguese districts, but we're the only ones learning Continental Portuguese, so when we sing hymns, we are the only ones doing a different accent. Also they do all the prayers, and the sacrament in Portuguese, and the talks. Everyone in the branch has to prepare a 3-5 minute talk in Portuguese on a topic and then they just call a couple people up. You don't know before. (I hope I don't get called up...) After that a member of the branch presidency and his wife give talks (in english). We have a devotional Sunday night. And we don't have Sunday School. On Tuesday, we have a devotional in the evening. This week it was Elder Richard G. Scott!! He spoke about prayer, and it was really amazing. Our district was in the third row so it felt like he was looking right at us. At the end of his talk, he paused and said something like, "I feel impressed to bestow an apostolic blessing". I'm not exactly sure what that means but I am pretty sure it is a really big deal. He blessed us that we would be able to MASTER the language, and a bunch of other really great things for our mission and our life. :) And then after the closing song, he went back up to the podium in front of the sister who was supposed to pray and said "I forgot a few things" and then talked for like 5 more minutes. It was pretty amazing. On Thursday, Sister Carroll and I left the MTC. She had to get glasses so we went to the optometrist's on University Avenue. It was SO weird. I don't think I liked it. (But I did wave at D&H for Kalen). I don't have much else to say. The days are all pretty much the same here. Oh, but we have two new "investigators". We also tried to teach the Plan of Salvation for the first time yesterday and it was not very good... We didn't know enough words to explain it so well. Oh one more thing. On Wednesday night we had a substitute teacher who actually went to Portugal on his mission instead of Brazil like our teachers! So he told us all these things about the accent and now we can actually try to learn how we will speak :) Except s's make like 4 different sounds so that's confusing. Everything is pretty good. I started sleeping with earplugs and I've been sleeping better. Portuguese is HARD but I can tell the gift of tongues is real, because I am remembering all these words from Spanish 3 years ago, and sometimes I just make up words and they're right. That is about all. Keep writing me :) I loved hearing from Grandpa and Uncle John and Aunt Miriam and everyone else. I love you all very much, Sister Gidney "The Church is true and God loves you!" P.s. the pictures = me and sister carroll waiting for the shuttle on thursday, and our district at the temple. :)
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