This week was pretty uneventful... but a good one! Only 2 more here! I fly out on October 6th, I was thinking If I had a calling card, or the numbers for one, I could call from the airport if I get a chance. But I have no clue! I forgot my paper that said everything I wanted to tell you all, ugh. I hope Tanner and Kelsey´s wedding goes well, just know I would do anything to be there, it kills me to be here instead. But even though it is hard I am grateful to be here. I have such a strong testimony of this gospel, of Jesus Christ, and His Atonement. I know Joseph Smith was called of God to restore this wonderful gospel on the earth again. The Book of Mormon is SO true and can help us through anything! I am getting so excited to be able to get into the real world, teach families and talk to people, and improve my Portuguese. I love you all and love hearing from you! My mission home address is
Brazil Maceio Mission
Rua Dom Antônio Brandão, 333
Ed. Work Center - Sl. 402 - Farol
57021 - 190 - Maceio - AL
BRAZIL
I printed some pics off, I may send some home, and then if you want to keep them, or give them to Grandma to scrapbook or something... who knows! That is fun for tanner and spence at farmington wrestling! Once again... wish I could be there! and you should have mike help you get a forward email list or something, a lot of people have asked me about being on one. I got Debbie Garners card, tell her thank you so much! And she can write me and I will reply... I can only print off my emails if I go out of the MTC to email. I will probably be able to more often when I get in the field. But it depends on if there is a printer and stuff. Oh... you got the blog to work.... GOOD!! Thank you for everything! Irma Erika was SO excited you emailed her! She said thank you for saying all the nice things!

Letter from Kiley's teacher with a link to pictures!

Hi Family Porath!

This is Erika, I am Sister Porath´s teacher. Last p.day our district went to eat Sushi, I took some pictures and I would like to share with you.

This is the link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42587855@N02/show/

I hope you like it!

Hugs, Erika Guimarães

Sept 15th

got the package last week! Thank you so much! Everyone in my district enjoyed the fruit snacks, even my teachers! They dont have ones like that here and thought it was funny, LOVE the my little pony! Last thursday was a really hard day for our district, one of our elders went home. He had been struggling here and just wasnt happy. We are hoping he can get things figured out and come back out! But we´ll see. Everyone cried, even the boys. It was really sad. BUT friday was amazing! We got to go proselyting! We each got 2 Book of Mormons and got to walk around outside the CTM (in our boundaries) and hand them out. It was SO neat and made me really feel like a missionary! We gave them all away in the first hour! All the people were really nice and I really hope that they will read them and they will want to know more, or meet with the real missionaries. I was surprised at how well I could talk to the people. I definately have a TON of room for improvement, but we got the point across and that is what counts. We were so excited to tell both of our teachers about our experience, and all of the other sister missionaries too. Being coordinating sisters is fun. We were already pretty close to most of the girls but this has made our love for them grow. Some of the new Brazillian sisters that got here last week, asked us if we will teach them english everynight for 30 minutes, and they will help us with our Portuguese. We have only done it once, but it was so neat! I can~t wait to be a teacher! They are SO cute and so sweet and it is so beneficial for all of us! We went to the temple again and saw a cute Brazillian sister that was here in the CTM with us, she was so excited to see us and it was fun seeing her! I cant wait to be a REAL missionary, instead of just one in training! Our district leader shared a wonderful thought with us. It was about Christ, and suffering in the Garden. We all need to go there with him. He has suffered for our sins, and he still is. Each time we are sad, or struggling- He wishes we werent. It is still hard for him to let us go through it, but he really has felt all of our pain before and is there standing next to us, to help us with everything. I love this fact and I am so grateful for Christ. For His love, and for His sacrifice. I am so grateful for my knowledge about him and of this gospel. It truely does strengthen families and bring happiness into our lives. I only have 3 more weeks of training and then it is out into the big bad real life world for me! I cant wait! I know it is going to be SO hard, but it will be worth it! I love you all! Keep smiling :)Mom! I am glad the kids went to kennys homecoming.. I really hope he is doing ok. It has to be SO hard to find a job and get some money to live on for him. I did get the email from Mr. Barney- I dont think I replied though! I need to! THere has only been one Brazillian sister that went to my mission a few weeks ago, she is cute! THere is another one that comes in on thursday so I am looking forward to meeting her and there are like 7 elders going to maceio, Brazillian, but they are who I will travel with. My address is the same that I gave everyone I think, so you guys can send stuff there and I will get it, I will check on it for sure and tell you what it is next week. School is always busy for you! I am glad you like it this year. How is your ankle? Are you healed? Thanks again for the package! It is annoying that it is so expensive to send! I dont need another one... until Christmas! And you can put more stuff from my room in it, thanks! Like facewash.... and prob more sunscreen... I´ll let you know more what I need when the time comes. Irma Erika added me on facebook, so you can accept it for me and talk to her a little, she knows english! and tell her to tell me hi or something! She is SO amazing! Also... her friend send her a CTR ring, but it is too big. Could you maybe get her a smaller one and send it to her? I will send it to you guys in a package next week.. Maybe just look into it, she needs like a 4.5 i think. SO you will prob have to special order it. It is the one with the butterflies on it. So check on that, and let me know. Thanks! I want to hear from tanner kinsey and taylor, and kels agaiN! I will try and shoot them all an email. I love you and am so grateful for your example! Have a good week! LOVE YOU! -----Original Message-----

September 8 (Sorry I was so late!)

This week was another great one! We had a missionary conference on fast sunday and we had really neat speakers! One Brazillian mission president related us missionaries to being the lighthouses to the brazillian people. It was neat! We learned that we really need to understand what we are teaching, and have a burning testimony of each part so that we can teach from our hearts. It is easy in english... VERY hard in portuguese! I dont have tonz to say this week, I did get an ear infection, and my cold has never fully gone away, so that hasnt been very fun. I slept until 4 on one day last week to try and get feeling better. I went to the doctor here and he gave me an antibiotic and some ear drops. It doesnt really hurt anymore but my ear is still clogged and I can~t hear out of it. It is annoying! Another boy from Davis got here this week, Jay Faust, I think he was on the basketball team. And Jordan Stuart left. It was sad! He is really cool, he said he will let me know how big of a difference it is out in the field than it is here in the CTM! It was sad seeing the sisters leave this week, I have a feeling it is going to be me before I know it! I love you all and hope everything is going well!
Love, Kiley

September 8th (Sorry I didn't get it up sooner!)
This week was another great one! We had a missionary conference on fast sunday and we had really neat speakers! One Brazillian mission president related us missionaries to being the lighthouses to the brazillian people. It was neat! We learned that we really need to understand what we are teaching, and have a burning testimony of each part so that we can teach from our hearts. It is easy in english... VERY hard in portuguese! I dont have tonz to say this week, I did get an ear infection, and my cold has never fully gone away, so that hasnt been very fun. I slept until 4 on one day last week to try and get feeling better. I went to the doctor here and he gave me an antibiotic and some ear drops. It doesnt really hurt anymore but my ear is still clogged and I can~t hear out of it. It is annoying! Another boy from Davis got here this week, Jay Faust, I think he was on the basketball team. And Jordan Stuart left. It was sad! He is really cool, he said he will let me know how big of a difference it is out in the field than it is here in the CTM! It was sad seeing the sisters leave this week, I have a feeling it is going to be me before I know it! I love you all and hope everything is going well!
Love, Kiley

hey! this week was good! Nothing TOO exciting, but we got to go to the Campinas Temple today! Look it up, it is beautiful! and has an amazing view. It is in a different part of the city and all the houses are really nice. I even saw an audi up there! My companions and I got called to be the new coordinating sisters this week, for the rest of the time we are here. We will be in charge of welcoming all the girls, even the brazillian sisters! It will be hard, to speak to them, but really rewarding. We are really excited! Ok so... I love you all dearly, BUT I still haven~t gotten a letter from ANYONE!!! SLACKERS!! I finally got my first letter like last thursday, but it was from Ryan Prince. So.... hopefully I have a lot on the way or maybe I will soon?? SO glad to hear everyone is related to my mission presidents! Tell them to warn Him and his wife that I am coming! haha How much longer do they have out there can you find out? I should know, but I dont. My companions are great, they are so smart and know EVERYTHING about the gospel, I have a TON to learn from them, but they help keep me going. I haven~t heard from kins.... I really hope she is ok! You can teach her how to drive my car and work all that out however you want, whatever is best! What happened with her accident? How is she liking school? And Tay? Did Tanner start this semester? I havent heard from any of the kids except Kelsey!! I had a rough day the other day, got really frustrated because we taught a lesson in portuguese and our teacher wasn~t very nice while being an investigator, and then he wasn~t very nice about giving us criticism. So the next day I fasted and just really prayed for strength, and that is when we got our calling, and a we got a letter from an elder that left here a few months ago, and my desire and strength was just renewed! It was SO humbling, and I really needed that to happen because I was letting myself be homesick and wish I were there instead of here. But I am once again so grateful to be here, especially with the spirit that is here at the MTC. I love it and love all that I am learning. My testimony is growing so much and I cant wait to teach people and share this happiness :)Sorry if its scattered again.... I miss and love you. Thank you for everything!! Love, Kiley