This last week was really good! On Monday four members of our district in Provo left for Brasil. We left around 6:30 in the morning and arrived the next day around 9:30 am. Tuesday we took a nap and relaxed before we had some orientation meetings with all the new missionaries. We were the only ones from Provo so we all ready knew the rules. haha. However, they are a lot more strict here with the rules, such as ``no jumping for volleyball or basketball``, no emailing pictures, and only 45 minutes to email your family every week. Even Elder Sugden complained about it. haha. My companion is Elder Beardall, is from Virginia, and is a little different. So for some reason Heavenly Father wants me to learn patience. haha. The food is always good, but it is also always rice and beans. So i still have to get used to that. haha. We did have pizza one night and that just made me wish for rice and beans. The MTC has the theory right but missing some of the ingredients. So they have the crust, then cheese, then mystery meat topping, then about a quarter cup of oil puddled around it. It didn't taste too bad once you poured the oil off but still no spices and no tomato sauce. But the Brazilians say that it is only bad and the CTM and that real Brazilian pizza is good, but I guess we will see. haha. The weather is always about the same, warm with a whole lot of moistness. Let me say that again, moistness. It is pretty humid 100% of the day. But we do have ac in our class room and a fan in our dorm so it doesn't get to bad. haha. We always have to wear our shoes or sandals because i guess that last week there was a sister who was bare foot in her room and ended up getting some kind of infection. Because of the wifi reliability here I am unable to send any pictures until i leave, so i am starting a pile haha. We have a cool view from our room, and we can see quite a few nice buildings but still a lot of shacks and broken up buildings, but no shooting yet. haha. Today we got to leave the compound and walk the streets to see a little bit of the culture and do a little shopping, I brought back a pretty cool blue tie, Brasil soccer jersey, and a couple .45 pens, so like 15 cents USD. A lot of the candy and food though doesn´t seem much cheaper than the US. But that will change for me when i get out to my area. The district we joined already had 3 Elders and 1 sister, so we doubled there numbers. haha. They are all really nice and are American, so we are not too behind them in the language aspect. haha. All the devotionals, and meetings are in Português so we have to wear the little headset things all the time, they work pretty well for about half the meeting then they turn to static, when someone says a joke. So that is fun. haha. We also do a lot more teaching here so we teach two investigators every day, we have TRC once a week, and splits 3 times a week. so we are a lot more busy down here, which is weird because we thought we were busy in Provo. haha. Sorry for the spelling errors, i have to use a Portugues key board and haven't gotten used to it yet. haha. Well i have to get off now, but I hope everyone had a great week and is doing well. Amo você! Tchau!
- Elder Child
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