Mother, I am overwhelmed with love and gratitude right now.. I really do not know where to start. I feel incredibly blessed to be here in Brasil.
My companion, Elder Andrade is a Brasileiro and an awesome missionary. He´s always smiling and making jokes. I am learning tons of Portuguese. The gift of tongues is real, for me it comes as knowing what to study, having the strength to always write things down, being humble enough to ask questions and try to speak with everyone, and being blessed to have no choice but to learn the lingua! My comp is the DL and we live with the ZL´s, Elder Pinherio, the raddest Brasileiro around and Elder Baughan, an American who has been out for 20 months and speaks Portuguese fluently. I haven´t spoke English since I arrived which is weird.
The church is super new here, things are definitely a lot more relaxed and that was something that was pretty refreshing, the people here are honest, happy, and live in the moment. They have child like faith, something I need to gain while here for sure. We gave a sick old lady a blessing and after we finished she jumped up and was like, thank you Elders, I am better now. Prayer for them works, there is no doubt in there minds. Oh, and EVERYONE here is beautiful. It´s a bit distracting. It´s a little strange that like 8 out of 10 baptisms in our zone are young women... WHERE´s the families?! that has definitely been something that I have focused on on my mission is to do everything you can not to leave anyone behind. It is all about the family. We will work on it for sure.
Easter is rad here, the Catholics go crazy and sacrament was awesome a bunch of talks about Christ. My testimony of God and our savior have been running through me like crazy. I have developed a constant dialogue with Heavenly Father and a habit of repentance and I see the blessing because of it for sure. We will all live again, learning and loving and growing forever. which is rad.
Almoço, with the members is awesome, I have already ate fish head and chicken intestine soup. We walk like CRAZY. Everything takes a little longer here because it is either the crazy buses or walking. Our casa is rad! its like camping... we do not have warm water or air conditioning and it is incredibly hot, always. But it really is awesome, I have everything I need and I am happy!
I love you all!!
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