Well, that was cool. my timer wasnt working on my e-mail, so I got to read mom and dad;s email but then an officiator saw it, and now Im on the clock. dumb.
Ok, so first off, thanks mom and dad for the awesome emails! Please remind everyone else that their e-mails are welcome. I am definitely glad you recieved the email from the branch president. I love that picture. This MTC is super luxurious! Its kinda gross how luxurious it is. Everything in the residence is like polished oak. The only gross stuff is the bed sheets... and pillows... yeah the most important part of the room but yeah whatever, gotta get that imune system boosting. You should also have recieved a letter from me while I was in the Georgian airport. Then you should be recieving one from a place called missionary ties, which is like a DearElder for Brazil. Then I have about 5 more letters to send home.
Ok, so here´s the scoop on my life here. People aren´t motivated here at all. they just sit in garments all day, and would rather just go to bed. Freaked us out on our first two days. But when they realized Elder Hanna and I weren´nt like that because the Provoian ranks just dont do that, they started being better too. Yes, the tone of that sounds very full of myself, but everyone knows Im kidding. I need to shun pride. But yeah this place is pretty much like this - if you dont want to learn portuguese, you can go to the field learning nothing. But if you want to learn, you have the study time alotted to you. Its basically more like the mission feild. Plus you have the use of actual brasilian missionaries that you can talk to and learn portuguese all day. Elder Hanna and I have really taken advantage of that and made a goal to sit with brasilians every lunch hour every day. His portuguese shot off. Mine did too but just, Im not fluent yet. But I can understand pretty much what most people say.
Yes Elder Hanna and I are still a companionship. Elder Welch just arrived the day after us too. We can pretty much see him whenever we want. Its so cool. Our previous third companion just left and he´ll either get here tommorrow or tonight. Oh and we just barely changed MTC presidents. I got to know the old one really well because he spent a lot of time talking to the new missionaries, but the new one I dont really know much about. I bet he´s pretty sweet. He gave a talk yesterday... but I was so exhausted I fell asleep. That was the first time I fell asleep here. However, Elder hanna is just dying in the humidity plus the heat. Its pretty entertaining.
We now have three investigators to teach, and so far I think we have all of them praying at night and with us. Which is good. Elder hanna and I are starting to understand how to teach as a companionship. Its reallly cool. However, the last time, the teacher was so fake at being an investigator... we almost laughed during her prayer... that would have been so bad! Our teachers our awesome! My favorite is Irma pocetthe! She is very kind. She´s getting married in a few weeks.
By the way, Im singing for prelude next week in the devotional next week. And guess what!!! ELDER ANDERSON is speaking for that devotional! its going to be pretty sweet! Uhm... what else. OH my debit card isnt working in Brazil. You may need to tell the bank to activate it for brasil, or... actually I dont think I´ve tried it here, but I did try it in the airport.... uhm... I guess I should do that. I;ll let you know next week.
Ok, so Elder Hanna and Elder Dewey are breaking the flipping rules and they are typing in journal entries and not using up their time aloted to them. Thats dumb. They~re dumb. haha, just kiddin I love them all and they are geniouses. I dont think I spelled that right. But I promise I wont ever do what they~re doing. Uhm. ok. So.... OH! YEah!
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