heyyy fammilia! 

So this week was crazy because of transfers and me and my comp stayed together which Im happy about because we have been working with alot of people and we have goals to baptize alot of people. Dos Santos the other kid in my house that i like stayed but his comp left and he got a new American comp. It was his first week here so it was funny translating for him and making him say things in Portuguese that he has no clue what it means hahah. Like the other day at a members house we told him to say eu estou gravido (telling him it meant "Im full") to him after we got done eating and he said it and the member just looked at him so weird and we all started laughing cause it really means 'I am pregnant' haha! Its so fun when you know the language. No but I've been helping him alot with translating and things that dont make sense when you translate them in english so he has it way easyyyyy i had to figure all this stuff out by myselft last transfer. He's pretty cool, hes from chicago but he's one of those artsy musical kids. He has a better accent than me which makes me mad because i have a low voice but im trying. 

This week was weird, i swear i just woke up and started speaking Portuguese and undertanding so much maybe because its because of this new missionary that doesnt know much and i just got a huge confidence boost or something like that. The gift of tongues!! But the last two days i havent been able to hear out of my ear so when he asks me to translate im like dude i cant even hear what they are saying hahah (thanks dad for my terrible waxy ears. They said i cant put water in it because of the humidity here ill get and infection or something. But that's what i did in the ctm with that lil sqeeze thing and it worked like a gem. Later tonight ill probably try that fire candle thing but i dont have anyone to cut the burnt part off and plus i dont trust anyone because i dont want another scare on my arm like last time with you mom ahahhaha. so ill try that. 

Dad we have an interview every 2 transfers with the president and we dont go to Natal he comes to our area and gives us a message about obedience and then an interview. So this transfer we dont have one. But ya from here on out the interviews will be in Portuguese he said only the first one will be in English haha so boa sorte para mim no ill be fine. 

This week i straight up pulled a josh hahah we were walking to the market to buy lunch because our lunch fell through that day but we normally have lunch with members.  On the way we ran into two kids that were baptized by the other two missionaries in our house and they were on bikes and we talked to them. I don't even remember but they wanted me and elder vieira to ride their bikes and show them some tricks.  I wasn't thinking and i did a 180 on the kids bike and bent the kids back wheel literally in half hahah i felt so bad! But i was able to fix it for only 10 reals which is nothing but it pwas worth it for the story!  We didnt baptize marcos last tuesday we wanted to wait until sunday because it would be better.  Plus we can baptize him with another investigator who is 11 years old and hes a super smart kid. We met him by teaching his dad, his dad is a member but in active. So we've been trying to reactivate him but its hard because he's never at his house.  But last week he was there everyday when we were teaching victorio and this kid remembers everything we tell him and its funny cause when we were teaching him about the word of wisdom his grandma who also lives with him and is an inactive member. Well he was going in on her about smoking and drinking coffee, It was so funny he was like veiu avô você não pode beber e fumar -me and my comp were dying and she was like i know im going to stop. But also when we were teaching him his dad would always pull up a chair and listen so i hope this will get him to come back to the church. So this sunday we thought we were suppose to have some baptisms but the second counselor doesn't like us for some reason - I guess because we haven't baptized an older person in a while so he didn't let us baptize them. We were all so mad the rest of the day. Goalado!!!!!!!

I havent got my package yet but i think i will Wednesday.  I hope so because i need that language book. I've been looking at the stuff they give the missionaries in the provo ctm and its so much better than what they gave us. They got a lot more books for the language and more updated books than ours. Also, Portuguese leather scriptures..... Not fair. But i think i will buy some nice Portuguese ones here from a member. 

Nothing else to really say but its really raining hard right now. I swear it only rains on Pday so we can never do anything like play basketball which sucks. I have a new nickname here with the missionaries and the  members haha-Grandon i dont know how to spell it but they call me it because im huge, they say haha! Oh and another weird story, the other day we were at a members house waiting for an investigator to come to teach them but she ended up not coming because she had to go to work with her mom so we ended up just talking about different things which was cool cause i could actually understand and talk alot this week. But we talked about the U.S. and how in Brazil they learn about hitler and about the Boston tea party in their schools like us and we talked about different states.  Also his motorcycle and i always have to watch myslef cause ill talk about motorcyles with people and they ask me how many i have at home and i cant say 'oh i have 6 motorcycles and 5 cars' so i always just say we have 1 car and 2 motorcyles and they still always freak out. But to the funny part haha when we were leaving this lady came up to us and talked to me and my comp and was like im hungry and as missionaries you cant give people money but then she started pointing at one of the dogs on the ground and asked us is she could take it haha so idk what she did with it but it was so weird haha me and my comp were like you can take the dog if you want hahah. There are so many dogs, cats, turkeys, chickens, horses and donkeys just in the street its so weird and i swear all of them are pregnant. i see now why we nudder and spade our pets. Im gonna go -i think we are going to play dance dance as a zone later today. I'm on splits with two other members right now. Im using their computer while my comp is with Dos santos cause he doesn't want to be alone with the new american and there were only 3 computers there haha.

tchau 

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