Primeiro Área

Olá,

This week has been crazy! On Tuesday we left the CTM at 4:30. The plane ride was only an hour and a half so that was good. Our mission President and his wife were waiting for us. It was kind of funny because The airport was so small that we were waiting for our bags and awkwardly waiving at them 40 feet away. haha. We then had an hour bus ride into Juiz De Fora. We dropped our bags off at a house then went to the Presidents house. Which was really nice, and had AC! Wooohoo! haha. Quite a few missionaries came to greet us and spend the rest of the day there. We ate lunch, took pictures, had some devotionals, and testimony meeting, went proselyting, and ate dinner. We were also assigned companions and an área. The next morning we left for our área at 5, and got here around 1. Three buses and a taxi. haha. Then we spent quite a bit of time cleaning because it was filthy. But were on the streets by 5 or so. Our área is Nova Friburgo which is in the bottom right of our mission. It is ´´cold´´ (stinking hot) here and rains almost every day. It is also really mountainous so we are either hiking up a hill or down one. Good exercise. We set a goal to get 2 baptisms and have two schedueled for Saturday. The Stake President wants 10 by the end of the month though, so we are still going, haha. We are trying to work as ahrd as we can. Yesterday we had stake conference, and got 20 more adresses from it. The people however, never seem to be home when we drop by. One part of our área is 1:30 minute walk. And we have been there only once because it has been dark the other times we are close. haha. But it is still cool to be here. The food is awesome, and everyone is nice to me with the language thing. A lot of people will say something in english and i cant understand them because of the thick accent. They have only had one other american missionary here, so a lot of people look at me when we are talking to them. Which is great when they are talking to me and lokking at me and Elder Torres has to respond because I have no idea what is going on. haha. I will attach soime pictures of our casa, my district in Sau Paulo, Juiz De de Fora, the bus ride, and of some other stuff.  There are other pictures on the Juiz de Fora mission facebook page. Glad everthing is going well!

Tchau,

Elder Child