BOM DIA! Another good week in Brasil! Im alive and kickin! Excuse the lack
of apostrophes and such. the keyboards are funky down here! Heres what happened
this week -
wednesday - its always great to get outside! brazilians are so hard to
understand when they start speaking muito rapido! Elder Allen and i try to make
an effort to sit with them at lunch though. Theres an elder from Teresina here
that showed us some pictures of our mission president and of the mission home
and stuff! made me so excited! its muggy anywhere you go in Brasil, but EVERYONE
here just laughs when we tell them where we are going. Hahah the heat in
Teresina is uncomparable they say! Im looking forward to it though! We should be
out of here by Nov 30th! A mission is making me grow up and be a lot more
independent, even if its just the mtc still. Its so crazy to think that im in
south america right now though!
thursday - Eventful day! Went to the police station to register our
passports and such. We met a bunch of missionaries from sao paulo mission that
had been out for a while! it was fun talking with them and getting good advice.
They speak portugues like its no big deal. Today was Dia de Criancas (day of the
children). We had all kinds of good american food for lunch and all of the mtc
staff were dressed up as clowns ahaha! Brazilians literally find any reason to
celebrate! they have a different holiday like every other week!
friday - we had TRC today! This time, the investigators were brazilians!
They were so much harder to understand (especially the one with the lisp)! But
we did pretty well! Our proffessor is so funny! His name is Irmao Zamignani from
Sao Paulo and he is a red head! hahaha! Everything he says just cracks you up!
We call him Atrevido Fogo Ruh which means saucy fire frog which is exactly what
he looks like hahaha! He told us to Focus On it in portugues which is written
Foque-O which sounds like F-You in english! hjahahah we all looked around for a
second and realized it was portugues finally hahaha!
sat - We met more elders from Teresina today! They all are so funny and
speak faster than other brazilians! The chubby brazilians are by far the
funniest! one is literally a Brazilian Chris Farley! Me and my comp teach so
differently, but together we make a good combo! Hes more of a written out, word
for word kind of guy where i just ask questions and go with the flow of the
discussion.
sunday - Today was awesome! gained a lot of respect for the 2nd counselor
in our branch! i thought he was kinda weird at first, but hes such a great
speaker! He taught our lesson today about listening to the spirit when it first
speaks to you and act! dont put it off. He served in WV and knows exactly where
Steubenville is! Its so cool to meet people who know where you live! His
companion was a huge BYU linebacker. He said some days they would knock a door
and the person would open it and say sorry, im baptist. he would say, well im
sorry too, but we will still teach ya! hahaha!
monday -im soakin up the portubgues like a sponge! we started having jejum
para ingles (fast from english) for an hour every day! Its amazing how much you
know when you are forced to speak it! Our brazilian roomies leave tomorrow! Ill
miss them!
tuesday - Got like 3 hours of sleep from our guys in our room packing all
night! ugh hahah! at night we taught our best discussion yet! Everything i said
just rolled off my tongue with ease! The dom de linguas is kickin in!! I felt
confident about the whole thing! I truly am blessed to be serving the Lord in
such a cool place with such warm, loving people! It amazes me that ive been here
for 3 weeks and learned this much already! I memorized the whole first vision in
portugues this week too!
Vi um pilar de luz acima de minha cabeza
mais brilhante que o sol
que desia gradualmente sobre mim
quando a luz possua sobre mim
vi dois personagens cujo esplendor e gloria
desafiam qualquer descricao
pairando no ar, acima de mim
um deles falou-me chamando-me pelo nome
e disse apontando para o outro
Este e meu Filho Amado
Ouve-O!
I love you all so much! I am so blessed every day that i am here! Be safe
yall!
Com Amor
- Elder Larsen
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