Whats up y’all!
After flying for a
whole day, I arrived in Brazil! But it was defiantly worth it. When I arrived
to the airport they were blasting Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus and i knew i was
going to love it here. The Mission pres. speaks absolutely zero English. Along
with every single other person! Needless to say, I have gotten pretty dang good
at the language here. My companion is seriously so awesome. He is this white
boy from Ohio and he’s the District Leader so we get a lot done. He is the only
one I can communicate with fluently at the moment so I am hoping that our
companionship does not go downhill or else I am absolutely screwed because then
I can’t talk to anybody.
1st day here.
I was held up by a
drunk man. Like straight up! After a looooooooooooonnnnnnnggggg flight, I had
to go out with my companion and find people to teach and it is like 8 o’clock, so
it is started to get dark, but it is still like 89 degrees outside. So we are just
sweating our butts off and I feel something on my back so I go to turn around
and this man screams at me!! I almost needed a change of clothing I was so
scared! So instinct kicks in and I start taking off running. Then I remember I
had a companion so I turn around and the fool is talking to the drunk man and I
just remember thinking, are you kidding me? This white boy is going to get
shot. So,I have to turn around for him and we starts talking to him.
The guy is calmed down
by now and my companion starts sharing a message about Jesus Christ and in my
head I am just like DUDE! You are not even serious right now! He just tried to
kill me! But long story short, we ended up visiting him throughout the week and
he has a date set for baptism. The Lord works in mysterious ways!
I am in the straight
up ghetttttoooooooo like not even north Omaha is this ghetto. in the mission
presidents broken English he told me this was the most dangerous mission so be
careful. Thanks pres. but it’s also super beautiful! The land is and the
people! And when you see and old dude walking around you just think wow i want
to be like that.
The food is to die
for!!!!!
Members of the church
feed us every meal but breakfast and they FEED you! I am pretty sure I have gained
like 8 pounds this week. They have awesome drinks here and some of them I do
not think should be legal. There is this place on the corner of our apartment
that grows sugarcane. They put the sugarcane through this smasher thing to get
all the juice out and then add lime to it! IT IS SOO DELICIOUS! I believed in miracles
after that.
Everybody here bumps
to either Zomba, reggae, Miley Cyrus, or my boy Nelly. Like the music is so
awesome its crazy. I don’t miss the US of A one single bit. No offense to any
of you! But my area is right on the beach and everybody lives in wood huts. So it’s
pretty awesome. I’ll send some pictures!
My future wife is
going to have to move to Brazil with me! That is if she doesn’t already live
here because I now know what true happiness is! I am seriously debating about
coming home in two years!
I literally work my
butt off every single day! But it still feels like a vacation. The missionaries
in the area before us sucked terribly. The president said that they have not
had a good set of missionaries in this area ever. So I’m about to change
that! In the week my comp and I have been here we have two people set for
baptism and we talk to 30 people a day. And surprisingly I talk to a lot of
people also! The lord has truly blessed me with the gift of tongues, because I
can understand Portuguese and speak it a lot better than I could 6 weeks
ago.
