Campo Grande 11-20-12 to 11-25-12

"I made it safe to Cuiaba. It is really hot and muggy, but it feels kind of like how Georgia did. Not too bad."

"I´m going to head off to my first area in Campo Grande which means I´m going to have a ten hour bus ride tonight. Not as bad as some other elders coming in at 18 and 22 hours for their areas (by bus)."

 "It´s kindof hard to write on this keyboard because it´s different from the one I´m used to (in that it has a bunch more accents and stuff)..."

"So the long bus ride eventually got me here to Campo Grande. And where to start?! M companion is Sister de Oliveira. And she doesn´t speak much English. So I think that´s been my hardest challenge this week. Just having everything in Portuguese and not being able to understand everything. There´s also a lot of change in just the culture and different things around the house and stuff that´s strange to me and idk that my companion knows its strange cause it´s perfectly normal to her! So that´s been interesting."

"Yeah, a lot of people here have been commenting on how white I am and how I need to wear a lot of sunscreen. I have though. And I should have asked for aloe vera for Christmas. Lol. Just kidding. The other thing people like to tell me is that I´m going to be black when I get home and that you won´t recognize me in the airport, lol. I´m starting to wonder if they are really joking or not, lol."

"Aside from the sun we also walk a lot. We´ve taken the bus occasionally when we have to go to another district or farther areas of our district (which is huge btw). I really like the bus as I can agree with Julia that it is like a roller coaster, lol. But we also walk and walk and walk. It takes about 30-40 minutes to get from our house to the church building. We also stopped by someone´s house before church on sunday so it took us over an hour of walking to get to church. I don´t think I´ve ever been so glad to sit down for Relief Society before. It´s all okay though cause I tell my companion that I like the sun and am proud of my tan lines and that I also like walking so when we have to visit someone far away I just say that it´s good cause I like to walk. Truthfully I have to convince my feet now, lol."

"Bom dia!

Sister Grimes"