Well hello again, everybody. Upon a lot of reflection and thinking, I haven't said a whole lot of much of any experiences I have had these last few weeks. To start out, we accidentally walked into a protest against the Brazilian president. I was rather scared, and the spirit was like yeah get outta there. But we kept going, and there was a ton of people yelling and screaming and had mega horns and cars were honking and people yelling, then, here's where it got real good (bad), people are filming and then somebody yells, "Leave president, and get out of here Mormons also!" (This translation is pretty bad, but that's the gist of it.) So we just about started running to the bank. Super sketch. But I was thinking about what my people in my country were doing last year for those protests and what was happening and I thought, if those things were happening in America, imagine what would happen to me in a different country with people who don't like their president. It was pretty sketch. I wouldn't recommend it. But a good story to tell haha.
We had açaí for like 5 days in a row also. It got to the point where I was like ok no I don't want açaí anymore, but we ended up just getting açaí again. And again. And again. It was so good, but my stomach ended up being very sad because too much sugar makes my stomach not super happy. But it's so good.
We had a nice testimony meeting last week, and I talked about Jesus being our medic. It was really nice the experiences I had that week because it always blows my mind how many times God will forgive me because I am always doing stupid stuff haha. Like Nephi in 2 Nephi 4 when he's like dude why, I hate this, I'm always messing up and doin all this dumb stuff, but I trust God and I love Jesus. We just gotta love and trust God and Jesus. Some great stuff happens because of this.
I have started to discover the extent of my companion's love for cheese. He seriously loves cheese so much haha. We got to the store, and he's like ok we are going to make lasagna. We buy a normal amount of things and then like twice as much cheese as a normal person would need. It is fun to see the individual personalities of people and what they like, don't like, what they love, and what they need. Everybody is different, and it's fun to learn about those differences. Sometimes I'm like ok dude we seriously don't need this much cheese, but we buy it because I think it's kinda funny. It turns out being kinda expensive but still, this brotha loves cheese so much haha. Fun to see it.
I was reading in Jacob this last week, and I always forget how good the book of Jacob is. I'm always like dang, Nephi dies, so sad, then Jacob just tells a story about an olive tree that is a representation of the gathering of Israel and the scattering of it too. But like the other chapters of Jacob are great too. It was nice to have the Spirit say, hey, remember this? Look at this. And this. Remember this? So fun. I love the scriptures. I hope you do too.
We got really bored after our trade off with the assistants, and so we calculated how many hours I have left in my mission. It's like 1,600 or something. We didn't use a calculator--just a pen and paper. I seriously forgot how to divide. I was putting the square root thing instead of the divide sign thing, and then we checked our work with a calculator and we were close enough I think, maybe. But I seriously forgot how to divide. When I'm a dad, my kids are going to be like, "Dad, help me with my homework," and I'll look at them and say, "They aren't letting you use a calculator?" It'll be like 8 x 4 or something, and I'll either start counting on my fingers or pull out my phone. I never really learned my 8 times tables either. heh. oops.
But basically it has been fun here in Brazil. There are good things everywhere, and we just need to look for them. I hope that all of you can feel God's love this week. One of the top 3 feelings ever. Next to forgiveness, feelings of the spirit, and taking off your tight shoes after a long day. Or washing your face. That's nice, too. You get all sweaty and gross and then you go wash your face, so nice. Anywho, have a great week. Take your vitamins also. The prophet is right.
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