It~s funny I was going to ask you how things are going with Mitt Romney because even here people are always asking me, and I have to tell them that I honestly have no idea what is happening there. Did he win the nomination? Is he the frontrunner?
So great news!! I finally got my stuff!! I opened the presents almost imediately. THANK YOU! I love the ties. They are both instant favorites. And the Cranium calendar is super cool, I had been thinking of getting one. Some of the games are hard to play with the brasileiros but that just kind of makes it more fun. Like I had to draw a combover and they had no idea what is was. But really thank you.
I got a card and a letter from you but the other package hasnt come yet and I don~t think I have the chance to get mail for a little while now.
That~s not my apartment building you looked at on Google earth. My building doesnt really look like an apartment building. But I think it~s the little building right next to the one you~re looking at. I literally live above that little shop that is on the corner of the roundabout. But President found an apartment that we are going to move into in a week or so. It has three bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and service area. It~s hugeee I~m excited to move there. Even though I might only live there a week or so. Who knows with transfers? And I~m not gonna see any monkeys here in Santos, it~s too big of a city. I~m not sure how many miles it is from Sao Paulo but it~s a little over an hour ride on a bus, sooo maybe 60 miles?
Um I don~t know the address of the grocery store we normally go to, but it~s on the street conseilho nebius, and it~s call carrefour. It~s pretty big. It~s the cheapest one around. Um we don~t really have one area where we talk to people. We just talk to people when we pass them while we are on our way to our appointments.
I think it~s cool that the future missionary is trying to read the Book of Mormon in Portugues. I~m reading it right now too, it~s pretty cool because I feel like I understand pretty much everything.
So this Sunday was a big day, I gave my first talk in sacrament meeting about prayer. I wrote a bunch down but didn~t really use it. I just talked, it was pretty different for me. But after going through everything I had prepared I had only used about 10 minutes and it was only Elder Lobo and I talking and I didn~t want to leave almost 30 minutes just for him. So I just opened up to Enos and read through and broke down the steps of prayer. It was pretty sweet. People told me after that they understood everything and that I was speaking practically fluently. I know that~s not completely true because I was struggling and I remember making a bunch of errors.
And the other big news from Sunday, Alexandre was baptized. He is the father of the two boys that I baptized my first week. It was really great, the ward has been great with integrating him and there were a bunch of people at the baptism. Elder Lobo actually baptized him. I~ll attach a photo now that I have my cord.
So I have quite a list of things to ask for but I don~t NEED them. Especially all at once. These are just ideas. Dr Pepper (apparently you can send bottles), skittles, beef jerkey (jack links), brownie mix, pretty much any candy.
But here are a few things that I would really like, my priesthood line of authority, and a small laminated version of my patriarchal blessing.
Oh and something cool if you go to the website eventidemusic.co.uk and look at the project with Joao Santos you~ll see a lot of paintings with short messages and at the very bottom a youtube video. If you watch the video you~ll see the paintings and a poetic story that goes with them. I helped Irmao Joao translate those. It felt pretty cool helping him.
Well thats all I can think of for this week. Take care, te amo.
Elder Cameron Bruce
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