Hey guys!
How´s
it going?! Hope everything is going well! (Thanks of the words of comfort and
advice, if I don´t get a chance to email you individually, love you guys!) Holy
cow I hope I have time to say everything!
This
week was better! I adjust more and more every day, and I like it more and more
every day. Don´t get me wrong, it´s still hard, but I´m adjusting to it.
We
knocked on a lot of doors this week. We actually went proselyting in a richer
area for most of the week. Some of these people are rich even for people in the
U.S. It´s crazy! In my area we have super rich areas, and super poor areas, and
some in between.
Did you know they like
never have dinner here? Well, they do but they have it late and it´s not a very
big meal. Lunch is the main meal of the day. So we eat lunch some time between
12 and 2, and then we work till we get back to the apartment at night and we
eat then. I´m starving! Haha JK! But seriously, I need to start bringing snacks
to eat throughout the day because 7 hours without food is killing me.
Haha!
But
yeah! It´s all good! I definitely enjoy the food here. I haven´t had anything
disgusting yet, but I definitely miss American food sometimes. A lot of the
food here is the same with snacks and everything. But meals are always rice,
beans, meat, and some kind of salad (with a little variation). We don´t usually
have stuff like pizza or American meals.
This
week went pretty well with the work. We talked with a lot of people on the
streets and knocked on a lot of doors. Oh yeah! Here in Brazil everyone has gates, batemos portas. We knock by clapping. It´s definitely a bit different, but
it´s pretty cool. We met a lot of cool people this week. We don´t have any
progressing investigators right now really but I feel like we will pretty soon.
There is this super cool and super nice family we know. They live in our area
but their son visited a different ward a few weeks ago. They´re super cool, and
their son seems really interested, but they´re really strong in their church.
We´re probably going to invite them to watch General Conference next week. We
met another family this week that are going to come to General Conference.
Speaking of which I´m super stoked for it. I can´t wait for it! We get to hear
the words of a living prophet and living apostles! It´s super great. Encourage
everyone to watch it.
The
language is coming along pretty well. I get better every week. I already feel
like I learned a LOT more from when I left the CTM two weeks ago. But I still
have a long, LONG way to go. Mission president, MTC president, and other
missionaries keep telling me not to worry about the language. As long as I do
my part it will come! There are some things in Português that I definitely need
to be careful with. Por exemplo, coco means coconut and cocô means crap. Haha!
I definitely have to be careful if I ever ask for coconut water. Baha!
Alright!
Almost out of time! One last thing. One of my favorite songs to listen to is
Savior, Redeemer of My Soul. It´s great and I want to figure out how to get it
on my ipod. I encourage all who are having a rough or stressful time to listen
to it. It will bring peace to your heart.
Love you guys! Keep me posted .
Elder
Jackson
Here are some Pictures from Zone Conference
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