MTC 11-6-12 to 11-13-12

Oi!

"So, I only have two more weeks here in the CTM. I leave on the 20th of November on a plane with half my district out to Cuiaba. I'm semi-nervous, just because it's a change from the CTM and I know I'll have to learn a lot (of Portuguese still) but I'm also excited to get to my area."

"Everyone says it will be hot, but our President here (Pres. Degn) said Cuiaba is an awesome mission as the church is new and pretty much every member there is like a pioneer and he said there's this swamp area that hasn't been over-run with tourists yet and that there isn't corruption in the city yet cause it's new so he said it's like stepping into the Old West. Haha! It'll be fun!"

"I´m going to need to buy shoes and a jacket there in Cuiabá. A sister from Cuiabá said that we can buy particular shoes that won´t melt on the sidewalk. Crazy. I know. I think the soles are made of a different type of material. And depending on how bad the rain is (i´ve heard several different things) I may need rain boots. For flooding. But my mission president will let me know if I need to get anything else."

"They didn't do anything for Halloween."... "Anyways, my whole district all wore orange and black though and gave our teachers candy. So that was at least fun."

"One of my instructors, Irma Kikuchi, has us right after lunch, so a lot of us are tired and sometimes close to falling asleep, and she's so funny, she said she'll draw a mustache on the elders with her marker if they fall asleep. So every time someone's head is bobbing she'll be like (in her Brazilian accent) "Moostache!!" And everyone will laugh :p  So last P-day my comp and I were looking at some earrings and we saw some gold mustache earrings for really cheap so we bought them and gave them to her for Halloween, lol. She was so excited and happy when she saw them! She was like "Moostaches!!!" and put them right on. lol. She's worn them several times already!"

"the OJ here is full of pulp and I don´t like pulp. But the hot chocolate (with peanut butter in it) is amazing!"

"the time change was opposite here, so we actually lost an hour of sleep. Lucky!!!! :p"

"So this week we got to go proselyting! Just around the CTM. We´ll take a bus out a bit further next Monday. It was cool! I didn´t really understand everything the people were saying back to me and my companion (she is at my level as well in speaking the language) but I felt like I got the gist of what they were saying, though little details like if they were saying they liked their church only, or just that they felt the spirit at church, I couldn't tell. Ooops. I tried to read their facial expressions. We handed out 4 copies of the Book of Mormon though, and I believe that all of the people we gave them to will really read it. Two in particular I think really felt the Spirit touch them. It was really cool. I just need to keep working on the language, lol. I hear it´ll come even faster in the field though because I´ll be around it all day and will have to speak it all day. Basically, I´m going to be praying a lot the first couple weeks, lol."