Oi tudo bem?!

Im finally in Brazil!  It has definitely been crazy and surreal with all the traveling we've been doing these past couple days and one of the suitcases i brought decided to loose a wheelso itll be fun to carry that around during transfers. 

I love my mission presidents! They are so amazing and have such strong testimonies. We had dinner and dessert at their house the day we arrived and they also took us to this cool little aquarium  the next day i met my mom!! (My trainer) sister santana! Shes awesome shes from brazil and only has three more months left on her mission! She speaks a little english so im trying my best to understand. She actually told me yesterday she had to confess to me that she didnt want another american sister to trainapparently the last one she had to train didnt go so good... but im already learning so much from her!! On our first day out we went prostlighting and it was scary.

Cuiaba is a big area and the area i was sent to was 12 hours away and i couldnt tell ya the name of the area im in right nowso the next day we got up early and got on a bus and i slept 8/12 hours so that was nice The next day we went right into it. To be honest its been hard, its been hard trying to understand the language its definitely different here with their accents and how fast they talk. Im definitely getting more and more humbled each day. Our house we live in is cool, its me my comp and 4 other sisters sharing it. Sooo im currently in a new area right now tho with a new companion... my trainer is a STL so she hadda take the bus all the way back to cuiaba for meetings so i got new comp for three days in a new area. She doesnt speak any english so its been interesting.

Its been hard but good its a new learning strech for me that ill learn to love. The people here are amazing they give good hugs and have a lot of patience with me when i try to bare my testimony. The members are sweet too. We had gereral conference and i thought it was AMAZING this might sound bad but ive never paid more close attention to every talk. My prayers have definitely been answered through general conference. We went to a different members house for each session so one time i was watching it outside in the heat, watched in on the church floor, in a members home, and in a members house were we all sat on her bed and watched it. Plus wearing headphones to listen to it in english. #notfortheweak and definitely not the usual family tradition im use to but different it good.

My miracle this week was I met this one lady, she knew i couldnt understand a lot of portuguese and was so sweet she used google translate and told me about her life, shes been through a lot and told me how she gave up drinking and is trying to give up smoking to get baptized. For this lesson we were teaching her about temples and even tho i couldnt understand much i felt the spirit so strongly. I shared my simple testimony as best as i could in portuguese and she told me she was happy with me and what i was sharing and doing. She had questions about the book of mormon and i had a prompting so share one of my favorite scriptures, alma 32:28

28 Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.

She said she would read it and because of her happiness and willingness i felt the spirit and cant wait to feel it again! 

GENERAL CONFERENCE 

 my shampoo spilt all over in my bag 

Spiritual thought: one of my favorite talks this week was in the saturday morning session given by Elder Kevin Hathaway, he talked a lot about how with faith in Jesus Christ, He can deliver us joy He can deliver promises and He can deliver the unpossible becasue He is He. That the Lord is not delayed on His deliverance because He knows you and knows that making you wait will convert you unto Him even more. I invite you tk read Isaiah 58!

I wish i had google photos to share but our president has some rules and no google photos are allowed and neither is the messenger app  i miss you all!!! Please please pleaseeee email me if you can and send me photos id love to hear from you! 

Jesus ama vocês Tchauzinho 

Sister Madsen