Hey guys, how have y’all been. I hope everything and everyone is well and getting excited to finish out the year strong. Pretty exciting and nerve-wracking things coming up. But for now, here’s your regularly scheduled Sister Grace email.
This email is dedicated to last Thursday for being one of the funniest days of my life. It all started with lunch.
We were eating with a super funny Irmã and laughing the whole time. When it came time to give a closing message my companion asked the Irmã to read a scripture in Alma 26:12, a wonderful scripture. However, because of the layout of the page, the Irmã stopped in the middle of the verse thinking it was the end. All she read was,
“Yea, I know that I am nothing”
I burst out laughing thinking that my companion just absolutely destroyed the Irmã with the verse which got everybody else laughing too. Needless to say we didn’t finish the message and barely made it out with a prayer.
Later we had a Family Night which was super cool because we had 4 visitors there all from our teaching pool. They all had a great time and most are progressing right now. The only difficulty was at the end, everybody and their neighbor wanted to talk to us and I was stuck in the middle of 7 conversations. I was hearing and saying everything from the USA retirement practices, to the best coxinha in Brasil, to the fact that my companion is The Rock’s niece. I had a blast but my head was spinning there for a minute.
When we got home at night, our Brazilian roommate, Sister Alves decided she didn’t like the fact I look like I have no eyebrows and grabbed her makeup pencil. She did such a good job that the other 2 Sisteres screamed in fright and then we all died laughing. God knew what he was doing when he made me without eyebrows.
Finally, at 10:25 right as we were getting ready to turn off the lights, a mouse ran out from under Sister Motuga’s bed and hid under mine. Not willing to sleep on a mattress with a mouse in it, we got our weapons, brooms and mosquito repellent, and commenced a 30 minute full-out war. Beds were tossed, laundry bags were beaten to death, and next door neighbors were awoken, but I eventually trapped the mouse under the broom.
Not being willing to murder the poor guy, I told my companion to grab something we could hold him in. She runs back into the room 20 seconds later with the blender in her hands. After nearly passing out from laughing and letting the mouse escape again, we grabbed a plastic bag and grabbed him with that.
We tied him up and then were faced with the question of what to do next. Someone suggested throwing the bag out the window. I, never being one to hesitate, opened the window and yeeted that mouse out of here. Unfortunately for me, I chose the window exactly above our neighbor’s balcony. We scrambled down the stairs and tried to find a way to sneak onto the balcony, grab the bag, and get back over without our neighbor alerting the police. Our planning was interrupted by our neighbor’s chihuahua barking and we hurriedly ran back to our apartment.
Luckily, no one was prosecuted, and the rest of the week was relatively normal. Thank you for coming on this journey with me. Don’t forget to laugh this week.
Gotta blast, 🫡
Tchau Tchauuu
Com amor,
Sister Alyssa Grace
Caruaru, Brasil
Sister Grace. That was quite a journey mouse hunting & capturing the poor critter !When you get home I will no who to call if I get one in my house !!! what a fun time I did have a good laugh with the eye brows story! you looked a bit different, in a good way. Excited to seen you soon , prayers & good wishes sending your way. Love Grandma Genae.