This week has been CRAZY!!! From day one it has been busy. We start everyday with breakfast, of course, then class until lunch, lunch, then class and study time until 5 which is dinner. Followed by study time until we have to be back in our residence by 9. Then repeat. It fries your brain but you really have to do your best to learn the language as fast as you can. The language by the way is similar to spanish but i still have trouble understanding it. Elder Arispuro, my companion, attended a spanish ward growing up in California, but says that he only understands about half. So that is comforting haha. The other Elders in my district are cool too. Elder Smith is from Middleton, Idaho, and Elder Sugden is from Alabama. haha. Elder S has a super deep voice not unlike Herman Munster and is very punctual with everything, which is good. haha. He already has exact obedience with everything so that is fun. haha. He and Elder Smith are already the new Zone leaders, because around 20 missionaries left from our zone this morning. So there are only 10 or so of us in the zone until Wednesday, then we have 22 scheduled to come in. We also have host duty this week so we will be escorting the new missionaries around, so hopefully i will be able to see some family friends. haha. A funny experience this week was during our study time. In our room there is one wall that is made up of windows and since I sit closest to it I find myself looking it a lot. Friday night there was a basketball game across the street so i was watching all the people walk by the building, I had my head on the window. Then down below a couple of people looked up, saw me, and waved. I couldn't help myself so I slowly raised my hand and put it on the window and slowly backed away. haha. We all laughed about that pretty good haha. Sunday is cool too. The services were in Portuguese so you really have no idea what is going on but you can still feel the spirit. We also have had the opportunity to teach an investigator twice already and we have another one tonight. Its amazing to see the progress on our Portuguese each time we teach a lesson.
Last night was movie night and we all watched the Character of Christ by Elder Bednar. If you haven't watched it you need to do so. The other missionaries are saying that it is on YouTube. It is around 2 hours but definitely the most eye opening talk I have ever heard. I encourage you all to watch it when you have the time, maybe tonight for FHE. It basically gives amazing examples of how Christlike Christ was, and how we can follow his example and always turn outward when the natural man would turn inwards. It is very inspiring and i hope you will make time for Elder Bednar's message.
Pictures will be in a separate email.
Sua Amigo,
Elder Child
The first photo is of the elders in my district after we went to the temple this morning.
The second one is all of the stuff the leaving elders left us. mostly food, but also a couple lint rollers haha.
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