August 19, 2009

hey everyone! how has the week gone? i will tell you a little about my week.
foi uma semana sem sucesso ou não muito. this week was pretty slow. it is the least amount of lessons that i have taught in a week. we also have the least amount of investigators like 0, and we didnt have a single person visit church. i have a hard time now thinking that it is because of me, and because i dont know how to plan. elder garcia doesnt know the area, so i was somewhat of a senior companion this week. i learned tons this week. probably more than any other week, but it was still a little difficult without many people to teach. this week will be better. we found a couple families to teach and they are doing pretty good. we also had noite familiar with a family last night and a friend of theirs. we taught the plano de salvação and it went really well! i think things will get better. i also went on a transfer with elder castleton of sandy, utah. he is best friends with elder barton, my companion in the ctm. it was pretty cool and i learned tons. he is my zone leader now. he helped teach me tons of ways to learn the language quicker and how to be a better missionary now even without the language. ha it was funny cuz during some of the lessons he would act like he was listening to the person and mumbling something to them but he was really telling me in english what to teach next. i almost started laughin right then cuz the person didnt even know haha. pretty cool. he was a pretty good example and he said we need leaders in the mission now and i need to be qualified to be a senior companion by the end of this transfer. i think i can probably do that. crazy huh?! haha i could train chad!!! haha jk they would put me with a brazillian a transfer behind me. once youre qualified doesnt automatically make you a senior companion either. luckily cuz i cant even teach half the lessons haah. but i think it is a pretty good goal. i will need to find some way to study more for that. but that was my week. oh i got some sweet pictures of monkeys that i will be able to send sometime ah. so that was cool as well. oh and we work a lot in an area called pedro costa(pedro, irasema, leandro, maria luiza, joão, rosamea, and christiani all live there). well i have a fan club there now haha. it is pretty annoying. there are always like 15 to 20 kids surrounding me asking me to say something. i cant even think of what to say in english haha. it is really weird to talk to them in english. none of them know what i am saying though and they think it is pretty cool. i dont like it that much. haha
oh and this week we are having a zone meeting with Elder Ellis. he is in the quorum of the 70 and is the first or second counselor over the area of brazil. that will be cool. well i think that was about it for my week. i hope you have an awesome week this week everyone. the church is true! love you!
love,
Elder Long