Another Week

Ohh yeah the trip to sao paulo, well there was a delay in phx so yeah i could
have waited an extra hour with you guys but didnt matter to me, after i went
through security in phx there was another elder there, elder kilgrow and he is
from flagstaff and thats were we found the flight was an hour late arriving,
there were two flights to sao paulo that night and we got delayed again we we
got to dallas because of traffic or too many planes coming in, but we eventually
got into the airport were we meet with another elder, elder howard from colorado
he had some delays as well and we switched our tickets for the last flight to
sao paulo which was also delayed 30min but eventually around 8:30 dallas time we
were off the ground, we did try to contact sonja and the ctm before we left
dallas but they never spoke english and we did get english eventually but they
either hung up on us or we would lose the connection except elder howard said
that he got hold of them and told them what flight he was getting on so they
expected at least on missionary to be late. So we tagged along and figured we
would just go with howard and turns out no one was there to pick us up at the
airport so we have three gringos who dont speak the language and we again had to
depend on the phone thing, well eventually we got hold of the guy that was
supposed to pick us up and just told him misioanarios and what number to pick us
up at, so we waited about an hour for him to pick us up and was a fun drive to
the ctm, so we were supposed to be at the ctm around i think it was 7am and
didnt get there till 11:30am, but the three of us decided that the delays were
ment to happen to elder howard wouldnt be alone on that flight because I guess
imagine yourself in a foreign country alone with noone there to pick you up so
things happen for a reason....

Umm this week they decorated the cafteria with american decorations and had an
ice-cream buffet, that was fun and we all sang the national anthem on sunday
conference, when we usually sing the brazilian anthem every sunday. Today we
went to campinas temple again and hope to go to sao paulo next week, tomorrow my
district goes to police federal to get fingerprinted etc, and on friday morning
they take us out to the city to do our first street contacts with pass along
cards and boms, i hope i do well pray for me hehe, breakfast is the same every
morning cold ham and cheese with bread roles, lunch is their biggest meal of
almost always rice beans meat, and dinner is the same as luch just not as big i
guess, ive developed the habbit of drinking their gaurana which is a soda famous
down here and they have really good fruit, so i do like the food and it reminds
me of sis castellanos´s cooking, i just bought 4 bags of their gummi worms today
that should last me the week, i have adjusted to their candy, currently there is
just four of us in our room but they will put 2 brazis in our room tomorrow im
sure and they stay 3 weeks then leave and then the next day we get 2 more, the
first week is the longest but is all downhill after that so tell tate to just
stick it out and its funny i think i might have eaten with his friend just last
night with some brazis, im not sure but i will look for him, well i appretiate
anything you send me and i did send some photos to emily and stacie and i told
them to share them with you so hopfully you get those and i get 45 min to email
and luckly the store is open because everything is closed today because its some
holiday here today and the streets are empty, ive never seen it this empty.

Heidi good luck driving just dont get caught speeding

Emily where are you?

Stacie hi

Mark tell jason and jared to write me and i need yours and their adresses and
find out the status of jareds mission and let me know as soon as he gets that
call

henry its weird thinking that i was just in your room and now youre there but i
still feel like your in newyork

have fun in chicago and ohh yeah i need my mothers adress as well and the
antonelis

I love you all and if you you want me to write you youll have to either send me
a letter or give me your (home)address because i was lazy and didnt get them from you
before i left. well again have fun and let me know how things go with tate and
the whole vacation things
Elder Roberts (they pronounce it hoberts) and theres this brazi that looks like
barrak obama ill have to send you the picture of us next week hehe