June 24, 2009

so it is my last week before i go to the field. i am a little nervous. i dunno the language the greatest. there are a lot of others in my district that know a lot more than i do. I will work hard though and catch up soon. I am nervous about my trainer but i know things will work out. i am really excited to get out into the field though and start doing missionary work. I really have liked the CTM though. I have learned a ton. I finished Jesus the Christ this week. It is an awesome book. You should all read it! It goes right along with the 4 gospels (Matt, marc, luke, and john) and has some book of mormon references. It taught me a ton about the Savior that i didnt know. I wish i knew all the scripture that go along with it though. I am gonna finish up the new testament in the beginning of my study in the field. And i think i am going to read our heritage on sunday and monday. I have done a lot of gospel study and not language study so i think that might be the reason i dont feel ready to go to the field yet with my language skills. I hope that everything turns out well though.

A Birthday Present for My Mom

Some of us kids gave this to my mom for her birthday today.

June 17

we went to the farmers market and that was really cool and ate some pastels. they are like flaky scones with whatever you want on the inside. kinda like a hot pocket. the farmers market just had a bunch of fruit. i cant remember what they were called or anything. i had some coconut water though. that was pretty good.

i guess we are the only mtc that has been shaking hands still. we arent allowed to shake hands anymore. it is pretty laid back here though and the teachers shake our hands a lot still. and elders definitely cant hug ha. thats always been against the rules.

i shut my window before we left but my roommate decided to open it up and he left it open and my stuff is next to the window. my stuff got wet but it doesnt need replaced. my portuguese scriptures and my jesus the christ got a little wet. i am gonna get new scriptures anyways. oh and my PMG got really soaked and one of my notebooks. but i just got a new PMG so it wasnt a big deal!

June 10

Last Friday, Thomas went proselyting for the first time. He said, "we placed all 4 of our books. it was really fun most the time but real scary the rest of the time!"

My parents sent him a Pizza Hut pizza party through Mission Ties that Thomas was enjoying today. He also got Guaranas, which is really good pop from Brazil, and he said you can get it at Winco. He sounds really good, but says he's been craving chocolate.

Thomas has 3 more weeks in the Brazil CTM and then he'll go out in the field.

June 3, 2009

it has been a pretty boring week actually so this email will be pretty short i think. so sorry ha. well i wish i was learning more lately. it seems like we have slowed down a lot on the language study part. i am sure it is just cuz i have been learning conjugation or verbs and i will probably do that most of the rest of my stay here. i have done a lot with the gospel aspect tho. i am going proselyting on friday. i hope i can remember my lesson! it seems pretty weird that i am going to be teaching people. i know i wont be able to answer their questions if the ask any so i am kinda nervous. i went to the temple today. são paulo of course. it was good. i didnt pray about anthing this week. i wish i woulda. i finished that book though in two days. i have started reading Jesus The Christ though. as well as the new testament. it is going to take me a while to read those i think. like the rest of my stay here!! whoever told me it didnt ever get cold here was lying!! it is way cold. it was probably like 40 yesterday. and it is only fall ha. well that was my week ha.