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I'm Leila.
My husband is Adriano.
I have two kids.
Who makes the best cake?
Daddy.
Who makes the best cake?
He does!
We're going to play instruments.
I'm a teacher of about 120 students.
I love what I do.
I love being a teacher,
to see a child learn to read and write.
I have a dance group, which is my greatest passion.
I love to dance!
As a child, my family didn't eat together
or talk to each other.
My father was a very hard-working man.
We never lacked anything like clothes, food, or a nice home.
But I really didn't have love from my father.
He was an alcoholic.
It's was hard that he never hugged me
or told me he loved me and wanted my well-being.
And today,
I remember, with sadness,
that I wished he had loved me.
Oh, I'm going to start crying.
I had no doubt that I needed to remove this anger.
When I learned about Jesus Christ,
that someone died on the cross for my sins,
the least I could do was to forgive my father.
It took a long time to understand this.
I knelt down on my knees and prayed,
and I felt deeply that I should forgive him.
And I forgave him.
The feeling of relief,
of "it's over," is inevitable.
I felt free.
Today I work with about 100 girls.
I work with kids from families
that have problems with alcohol.
What I pass onto them are principles
like love and respect.
I'm not training them to be wonderful ballerinas.
That's not my purpose.
Through dance they may feel truly capable.
That's the most important thing.
I'm a mother.
I absolutely love to dance.
I'm Brazilian.
My name is Leila.
And I'm a Mormon.