DANG elena is a baller!! tell her that even if she doesn~t like it at first, push through it and before she knows it she´ll be super good. at least that´s my experience here with portuguese. speaking of, yeah i still feel kind of behind on the teaching aspect, because i like write a script to go off of, and i start out with it, but then i go off on a tangent and idk if it~s the spirit and i can´t get back on script because i don´t know how to say things. but usually things go pretty well. we´re teaching 2 fake investigators right now named manoel and lucas. it~s going well, we~ve asked lucas to be baptized and he´s thinking about it as he reads the bom, and maneol is going to church sunday, and aslso is reading the bom. we haven´t done street contacting yet, but we get to proselyte this saturday. we did splits yesterday, and that was way better than i thought it would be. i mostly understood my companion, but once she went off our plan, and asked me to talk about joseph smith and i did! in portuguese! it was cool! i mosquitoes aren~t bad at all, but i´m mostly inside so who knows. but i´ve seen about 20 cockroaches. only one was a live but i about had a heart attack and died. ew. okay listen i really miss movies. and i am actually having physical withdrawals from music. and listening to people whistle and hum and sing ´called to serve´ in portuguese just isn´t cutting it. in fact, i don´t really like that song anymore, as awful as that sounds. my companion is still wonderful! we get 2 new elders from the provo this week in our district. i hope they´re cool. we have one elder that the lord placed in my district to test my patience. hopefully i learn something from the experience, haha but i´m getting better. also the flowers here are so much better here. also the butterflies and the plants and leaves and trees and humans (brasileros are usually super nice). also they don~t use toilet paper, its a big tissure dispenser and we use tissues. its weird but i guess it saves paper and money. i hate cockroaches. I SAW TWO GREEN PARROT LOOKIN BIRDS TODAY AT THE TEMPLE AND THEY WERE JUST CHILLIN IN A PALM TREE LIKE IT WAS NO BIG DEAL AND I FLIPPED BECAUSE A GREEN BIRD JUST FLYIN AROUND WAHHHTT also they were super talkative. so basically the mtc is a party. oh also the showers are filled with gnats always and i feel so weird like they´re a bunch of litle creeps like go away this is the only time i have to myself and i don~t want you here. although yesterday i had a spider buddy in there too. at least its not a cockroach.
any wayyyy, i love you and i hope you all continute to do well! STAY STRONG and also just embrace the suck because that seriously has kept me going this whole time. also when times get tough, and i think can i actually do this? i tell myself that i am not going home because i am NOT FLYING ANOTHER GRUELLING, 10 HOUR, BOWEL DESTROYING, UNCOMORTABLY COLSE TO PEOPLE flight again, and that is what has kept me here. oh and i guess the bringing others unto christ too i guess whatever. but seriously, just keep pushing, because every time you try something new, or complete somehting difficult, you gain a new experience, a new story to tell, a sense of accomplishment, and a stronger resolve that you will need to undertake the next difficult thing. i love you all so much, i´m praying for you! don´t miss me too much because i´m not homesick at all yet and i´ll feel bad if you miss me too much. love you!!!