Muito Quente (10/28/19)

These words have been burnt into my mind for two reasons, 1. literally every Brazilian says that about Goiânia the second I say I'm going to Goiânia, and 2. I checked the weather at dinner and it was 96 I think. Nice.

 This week has been interesting. Everybody is happy to leave and I don't want to leave. The São Paulo temple was great, last temple trip for 2 years. My companion has been receiving some super crazy revelation about super specific things, nice.

 One of my instructors, Irmao Rodrigo told us a ton about his mission and he showed us a ton of pictures. It was so cool. He showed us a picture of his girlfriend and they are in the São Paulo temple visitor center and the next picture Rodrigo is head down looking straight at her chest. That picture was absolute gold. He told us he was trying to look at her shoulder, then fix the picture, then he gave up and said, "I'm not a missionary anymore, it's ok." Hah. Nice.

 Actually this week has been kinda boring. Oh I also taught a lesson yesterday and it was SO BAD. But it was hilarious. I prepared, thought I did a great job, gave the lesson and ended 20 minutes early. Then I played hang man with them because I didn't know what to do. Then I asked for everyone's favorite scripture. Then an elder gave a mini lesson with a piece of paper. His lesson was great. Now when I see any of those elders they just start laughing because I basically laughed the entire lesson.

 This computer has the usb thing turned off so I can't upload a picture of a sunset. Look at a sunset and it'll basically be the same.

Posting one of my own pictures, since he couldn't send one. I take
pictures of sunsets all the time, but this is the last one I took,
back on September 3. I have lots of pictures of clouds since then.

Tacos? (10/22/19)

We had tacos for lunch, it was tortillas that were very stale with meat in them. They were awesome. I love it here so much. Tomorrow we are getting 168 new missionaries I think, might be getting some new roommates.
This week was really good, we had the same obediencia exata devotional. We basically have that memorized haha. We did splits and I was a little concerned. My companion for splits doesn't speak English, maybe 100 words. One of those words is the n word. We were at lunch and he said he has a black girlfriend, said we were racist, then started saying the n word a bunch. Not going to lie it was hilarious. I was laughing so hard I didn't finish my food.
Also for breakfast today the oatmeal milk stuff had a bunch of brown sugar, I love that stuff. Classes are very long, and the chairs are very hard.
Here's some statistics that I have taken here so far: 1 white shirt has disappeared, 3 socks, all from different pairs, one pair of pants came un hemmed and seamed after I took them out of the washer, all but 2 of my shirts are wrinkled (because one shirt is missing and the other didn't get washed), an elder over loaded the washer, still wanna punch him, I broke my watch in the first 3 days, bought another, and it is giving my wrist cancer, my wrist swells a bunch, and it ripped one of my shirts, my companion also broke his watch haha, church socks are starting to tear. My companion ripped his garments while putting them on. That was hilarious, he ripped half the waist band off. We can tell whose garments those are when we do our wash. And lastly, I bought another pair of bottoms, washed them the next day, gone. Nice.
Well other than that, this week was kinda long, good in most aspects but I am looking forward to Goiania. Everyone says it is hot there, nothing else, just hot. Here I come, heat. This computer won't let me open my usb card reader thing, no pictures, there wasn't any new pictures though haha.
How could I forget, a sewage pipe broke next to my classroom, dumped poop all on the 2nd floor, ha. Nasty. It was in one of the classrooms, glad it wasn't mine. But it was 3 down from mine.

Chocolate (10/15/19)

my companion and I at the Sao Paulo temple
(the Campinas temple is in a better location;
some people say it's better but the temple is the temple)

I was thinking, I should probably kinda make this email sorta spiritual. I have been craving chocolate, then it was my birthday, then Presidente Milder and his wife came to my classroom and were talking in Portuguese and I didn't understand anything of course, then an elder was like hey Elder Locey, they have a bar of chocolate for you. God is great; He gives me chocolate, and blessings, it's great. Life is great here. We went proselyting and this guy came up to us and my companion told me after that he said he loves us and loves God because God has given him everything and he is taking lessons from the missionaries. Way cool.
I also want some cinnamon rolls. I have gained a few pounds, I'm up to 135 lbs and that's about 62 ish kilos. One elder is trying to brag about how he's lost about 10 kilos. He did four 24-hour fasts in about a week, I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND. Everybody has their oddities and quirks but we still need to love them. Some of the drama is resolved but one elder is still rather negative and is still holding many many grudges. It's sad to see that.

my Peruvian homie

The night classes really kill me. I have resorted to reading the dictionary. Not much else has happened. My Peruvian homie roommate left today at 1 am. He is very kind. I have no idea where he went on his mission but he helped me memorize the missionary purpose in Portuguese. He is very patient.

my car in Brazil hehe

9 Pieces of Pizza (10/8/19)

We have a sister in our district who is the littlest thing ever, like 110 pounds, and she's lactose intolerant and 2 weeks ago she had a very undesirable time eating pizza, so she ate 9 pieces of dessert pizza instead. She was in a competition with another elder who is around 6 foot 3 and 280 pounds. He ate 9 also. Not sure if I should be completely disgusted or impressed but she went and threw up after and then in class was bragging about it. Interesting.

Campinas temple

The Campinas temple is so beautiful. It's about an hour away, but it is well worth the uncomfortable seats on the buses. On p day we bought jerseys and I don't know anything about soccer so Elder Erwin got me one, I think it's Manchester? No idea. Looks kinda cool.
I took a spoon from the cafeteria and tomorrow I'm going to go buy a tub of ice cream hehe.
General Conference was great. We got to watch it in English. My instructors are pretty awesome.
They love to give us these ungrilled grilled cheese sandwiches, ew.

my 2 new roommates from Rio de Janeiro and Peru

This week has been kinda interesting for lots of us.
I can't figure out how to use these computers. I honestly love America and how I had so much there.
Well that's about as much as I can remember from this week. The days mush together and are very long. Things I think happened 4 days ago happened at lunch. Weird.

the view from my room

Obediencia EXATA

This has been drilled into my head from the 6 devotionals I have been to in the last 2 weeks. It is the same slides for every single slideshow (exact obedience).
There was some drama with our district. There were 2 sisters who were companions and one is a little difficult. She likes to just say anything and we are a little worried about her knowledge of the church and the gospel. Everything is in the Lord's hands though. The sister that was basically being a mom to the other sister was transferred and presidente split up a companionship that the two sisters knew each other before the mission. Every single day there's about 4-6 times when she will come into the classroom wiping her eyes or she leaves the classroom. I feel bad for her. It has been very hard for her.
Something that I absolutely loved and hated was p day. Last week they said get up at 5 am and get on bus 10. We get outside and there's bus 1-9. No 10. We waited for an hour while it was raining and then bla bla bla. We got to the temple, so pretty. I wanna go there again with my family. We got back to the CTM at 3 and they said we had until 4 then we had to be in the classroom and p day was over. Rather annoying but what can you do.
We have a full room now with 2 more Brazilians that showed up. They are very nice.
I can't communicate with anyone haha. We taught a lesson in Portuguese a few days ago and I said 5 words. It was very hard haha. I am abnormally calm and relaxed about everything though.
My companion is great; he is very militant though. Very rough and tough on me, whatever. We tried cutting his hair and a bunch of people got mad at us haha.
The rice and beans are starting to get a little old. We had burgers after the temple. They were awful, but I ate 5 because I hadn't eaten since 5:30 am.
We are getting kicked out again. If they see you with a camera on any day other than p day they will take your camera and delete the pictures. My companion likes it here because he is going into the military after his mission. He kinda enjoys the strict. I don't. They could relax a bit if you ask me.
Also I bought a watch because mine broke. I bought a fake Casio for 30 real (hey ai). [This converts to about $7.20.]
I love this district; it is like my family, they kinda annoy me occasionally haha.