Thank you for the update on all the sports. It's a little fun to hear. and I want to apologize for sounding like I was complaining about all the questions. I enjoy them because it gives me something to write about. Sometimes it's hard to come up with something to say.
But not this week. A lot has happened. Elder Scott came and spoke to us on Tuesday and it was great. He is such a sweet man. Either his memory is starting to fade or he just really wanted to emphasize how important some points were cause he repeated himself, a lot. It was a wonderful talk mostly about the Spirit and listening to it's guidance and direction. Although he sort of randomly through in a part about when we get home from our mission, we need to stop "hanging out" and start looking for our Eternal Companion. It was so random that I feel he must have been prompted to say something about it. It seems a little weird how much marriage is taught to us here, but really our missions are supposed to help prepare us for the rest of our lives too. So it makes sense, I guess.
So most of my district received their visas this week. Elder Hill, Elder Kerr, Sister Barlow, and Sister Bierman all received theirs on cuarta (Wednesday, they refer to days of the week as first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, saturday and sunday, it's a little weird but easy to remember) (oh and their actual names in Portugues are segunda, terça, cuarta, quinta, sexta (sounds like seista) sabado, and domingo), and we were all so excited for them. The visas are really coming through. So that left Elder Larson, Egan, Peterson and I here alone. But then Elder Larson got his on sexta. So that leaves me in a tri-companionship with Elder Egan and Peterson. It's going to be interesting. Although I like both Elder Egan and Peterson, we aren't great buddies. Do you understand? We work well together, we get a long fine, but we just don't really connect as friends. Elder Hill, Larson, and I were pretty good buddies so I'm sad to see them go. And by the way, Elder Larson and Kerr had been called as Zone Leaders and now they are leaving tomorrow so they only served for four days and then Elder Egan and I were called as their replacements. Being a Zone Leader just means more meetings and you get to welcome and say goodbye to Elders. I think it'll be fun. But our zone doesn't have any new Elder's arriving this Wednesday. It's just another adventure.
So about my visa... I feel like it should be coming soon, just by comparing when I filled out my online part to the others. So probably this week. Most of them tend to come on Wednesday, but it could be any day. When I do receive it, they give you a slip of paper that says you have 5 minutes to call your parents. So what I was planning on doing was stopping be Monica's office when I get my visa and telling her to tell Katie to tell you that I'll be calling you that night at around 9 o'clock Mountain Time. So just be ready for that notice. I want to be able to use all the time I have to talk. I'll call the home phone, by the way.
That's if I get my visa this week....
Thank you for the package, it arrived the other day. The retainers are a little painful right now but not so bad. I'm almost through all the kool-aid already. I always have a drink with me in class so I'm always sipping on my Kool-aid. Pretty much the whole district has them too so it's kind of a district unity thing.
Gym time continues to be some of my favorite time. There has been a big shift in the people playing soccer because Elders are leaving and coming. But now there's a group that I always play with and we do really well together. It makes it fun, because we can actually play as opposed to playing beehive ball with a bunch of elders that have never played soccer before. Apparently at the Sao Paulo MTC they don't play soccer because the Brasileiros are too competitive. I'm bummed. I was looking forward to that. I hope President Tanner let's us play soccer on P-days.
I'm sooo happy to hear that everything is going well with Calvin and Megan. I need some pictures of the little guy though. Oh and by the way, if you are going to send packages make sure you get them out here soon, because if it's close to the weekend, who knows, I might be leaving for Brasil next Tuesday.
I don't have much else to talk about. I guess I'll write a message in Portugues for you. (This computer doesn't want to let me use the accent marks so sorry for it not being 100 percent correct, like you would know anyway. but if you put it through a translator it might now work.)
Primero, Portugues e o melhor lingua. E muito melhor que espanol. Quando eu fala portugues eu sinto muito legal. Agora eu somente oro em Portugues. E um pouco dificil para mim orar em ingles. Mas tudo bem (tudobem means all is well, they say it as a greating and for all sorts of stuff). Eu amo o CTM, e muito diverdido aqui. Eu esperaria que voces escreverao mim, todos os dias. Mas eu sei que voces tem muitas coisas fazer. Eu amo voces e tenho saudades para voces, mas eu sei que sou fazendo o trabalho de Deus e que estou no lugar correto. Ate proxima vez.
Elder Cameron Bruce
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