March 19, 2012

Answer to Mom

The weeks pass really fast. It's hard to believe that another transfer has come and gone. I'll be staying here in Eldorado, but my companion, Elder Larusso, is going to Guarujá, and an American will be coming to be my companion, Elder Pearl. I'm excited to have an American companion. I feel just fine with my Portugues. Elder Pearl has more time than me on the Mission. I was kind of hoping to train to really test myself. But that'll have to wait a little bit. This transfer is going to be a little different. It's only 5 weeks. Every year there is one transfer of 5 weeks because the Americans can't literally stay two years because of visas. Which means I will serve a mission of 23 months and 21 days. Or something like that.

Calvin is a cutie. I show pictures of my family to pretty much every one. It's fun to talk about family and then explain things about the United States for them.

No no, I don't need a new memory card. That one of 16 GB should last for quite a while. It's a big one. That holds like 1000 pictures or something like that. It should at least be a few months.

 

It is cooling off quite a bit here. People think it's so cold, but for me it still seems like summer weather. I was thinking the other day that a year ago for me it was spring right now, then I passed through summer into Fall, then I went to spring again, and through summer again and now its fall again. I DIDN'T HAVE WINTER THIS LAST YEAR!! How weird? The same thing will happen when I go home, but I'll have two winters instead. Weird right? I still have that umbrella, buuut it's kind of small. So I bought another one that is a lot bigger. It rains REALLY hard here and the little guy just wasn't holding up.

For breakfast I usually have a type of crackers they have here or cereal. Fruit Loops are expensive because they are American. I eat the rip off frosted flakes because they are the cheapest. That's kind of my thought process with everything now. What is the cheapest?

I haven't really seen any weird animals. I saw a giant spider once but we were walking in an area far from our house that was a little more wilderness-y. There are about a million dogs that live in the streets here. You get the weirdest combinations here. There is one we pass all the time that has the body size and shape of a daushaund (wienner dog) but he looks like a lab. It's the weirdest thing. I'll try and take a picture for you. The only dog that causes problems is the one that lives in our building. He is always snapping at our heals and barking at us. He is super annoying. He is a miniture pinscher. SUPER ANNOYING. But other than Lupe, his name, we don't have any problems with dogs.

Zone conferences are every 3 months. But the ZL's have a meeting with president every month where they can grab packages, and also at transfers they have packages. So maybe there is a chance that I'll get it tomorrow.

Well you can read a little about the work with the email to Dad. I'm doing great, really starting to get in the grove of mission life a lot more. The greenness has pretty much worn off completely.

Te amo

Elder Cameron Bruce

Answer to Dad

Did BYU win!?!?!?

I liked the "play by play" updates on the Kansas game.

I'm doing great. Our only baptism that we had that was really firm for March fell through. But an investigator we were working with and had kind of lost hope because she doesn't seem to really understand our message, she talked with the bishop on Sunday and then after church told us that she knows that this is the true church where she needs to be. WOOO HOOOO. She is going to be baptized here in a week.

To be honest working with members is the hardest thing to do. We really only have one or two people we can count on. But the best thing is really family nights. We have been using them a lot more recently. And that really helped with this woman that wants to be baptized now.

Well I had better read and reply to mom now.

Elder Cameron Bruce