Well, another week in the books!!!

Tuesday was distrito amigo in Bagé, so we left early tuesday morning and got back Tuesday night, nothing special happened! Though it was valentines day here so there were a lot of single snakes in the Bagé Central... 

Wednesday nothing happened.

Thursday the other two left for POA to renew Elder Fagg´s visa, so we had to the house to ourself, and it was a SUPER normal day.

Friday We went to Bagé to go to the doctor... I got an ultrasound done on my stomach... Ya, that was cold, and weird... Not something I want to do again, got back at about 7 and visited a couple people then called it quits and went to the store!!!!

Saturday, we had lunch, watched the start of the confederations cup... By choice, no... BUt EVERYBODY was watching it so... I´m getting a taste of what the world cup will be like. Then we had a dinner appointment from our lunch that we had to cancell on Friday.

Sunday: Church, lunch, visiting members, and p-night!!!! wHAT AN EVENTFUL WEEK NÉ?!?!!?

wELL, here in Dom Pedrito, we´re all anxiously awaiting the missionary training thing next week! And the historic announcement that should be coming with it! President Castro said that it will be something that we´ll be able to brag about in 40 years, saying that we were in the mission POAS when this happened.... So, we´re anxiously waiting, with wild ideas about what it´s gonna be!!!!

WEll, this week was actually kind of eventful!!! I think

Tuesday: I actually don´t remember what happened. Oops

Wednesday: We just worked a normal day, then watched a soap opera with a less active member ``Sangue Bom`` I don´t know if I ever told ya´ll but popular tv here is Soap operas. Everyone watches them, everyday.

Thursday: Another normal day!

Friday: Well, I´m not gonna tell you what happened that day becuase everyone will just be worried about it. Anyway, we went to Bagé, I met a guy that likes american football, so we talked about that for a while, then we came back to Dom Pedrito. That´s it. 

Saturday: Woke up early, went to Bagé (Again) ate lunch, I shot a basketball for the first time in 8 months... Ya, not gonna say anything else about that experience. Had a training and interviews with President Castro. Went to BIG (Walmart) and bought stuff (wasted time) For 2 hours waiting for our bus. After 10 months I finally gave in and bought Doritos! (and mouth wash) Then we came home, slept on the bus, got off a little early, Elder F. Silva left our cell phone on the bus, so we had to end up walking to the bus station anyways... Pffff.

Woke up this morning to a ton of fog.

Sunday: Went to church, there was a childs baptism... Went to lunch, watched the first half of France vs. Brazil (The game was in POA) :( it was tied 0-0 when we stopped watching... Brasil won 3-0, looks like I watched the wrong half. :( Then we made contacts to have Elder F. Silva´s first week with 140 contacts in his mission!!!! Woo!!!

P.s. I didn´t know that Gifford Nielson was a member of the 70!

2 hour adventure at BIG

2 hour adventure at BIG

2 hour adventure at BIG

Love getting letters!

Churrasco at the ward mission leader's house

Well, last week on PDAY we made 20 liters of lime juice (Basically lemonade) TO prep ourself during the week to drink Tereré. Well, the sad thing is it only lasted until Wednesday.. Oh well...

WE had district meeting and distrito amigo. IT was a normal day, I bout 2 more pins, then I went on splits with Elder Emanoel because the other 2 had a lot of stuff do to at night, and we didn´t have anything set in stone... When we got home a huge lightning storm started, I have a video, but I can´t send it on this email. :( Then... We slept.

Normal day of work, nothing special until our meeting with the leadership!!! So we wen´t  to the church... And nobody showed up.... >(

Was a holidayy!!! Our lunch just happened to be with Paulo (The ward mission leader) SO he finally hooked up that churrasco that he´s been promising... Well, I´m not gonna lie. It was the best churrasco that I´ve ever had... I´m ready for round 2. Well, then the rain started pounding again... So much that it wasn´t even possible to do anything.So, we went home... Where we found the other 2, (they had the same idea) WE studied, slept then fought our way through a continuing rain storm to get to our appointment.

Normal day... Kinda. We had lunch at one of, no, the dirtiest house I´ve ever been to. It was tiny, doesn´t have a table, so we ate on the couches... Interesting these kind of people that don´t even have bed frames, but they have playstation, big screen tv... oh well, that´s besides the point. Well, while eating one of the 20 cats started walking towards my plate, so... I pushed the freaking thing off the couch. I didn´t think much of it... Until we were leaving, while I went to shake the wifes hand she gripped it with all of her force and told me to never touch one of her cats again... Wow, this city is definitely different that my first 2.

Saturday was a normal day....

Sunday too. Though yesterday we ``got`` to watch the Brasil vs. England soccer game. It was kinda cool, getting me excited for the world cup here!!!!!!!

Today we had a service project where we tilled a garden then planted green onion... I felt like a real farmer... Kinda. It was cool we kept sucking on the green onion during, it was a nice treat for our hard service!

Me and Elder Fagg pointing at the Gringo sign

Planting green onions

The only monument in Don Pedrito

Well, first off I made pancakes!!!! Kinda

2nd, what´s gonna happen on the 23 of June!!!! I don´t know if I´m worried or excited!!!!   WEll one more week in Dom Pedrito... It´s definitely a new expeirience.

Well, we had a missionary fireside yesterday in Bagé so we went to lunch, then we left to bagé, 1 and a half hours on the bus, 2 hour fireside then took a bus at 10, finally getting home at midnight... I hate being in the middle of no where, though it´s kinda cool.

Sorry my emails are getting crappy, I don´t really remember what´s going on, but I´m writing a lot of stuff down!!!! I went on splits with an Argentine last week, he was hard to understand, he only has 3 months on the mission, and a super heavy accent. Elder Fagg made Stroganaff last week, We played a lot of poker... Not sure if that´s allowed. Oh well. :D

My District

Well, this is definitely a new area... The ward is small, and not excited. We´ve got a lot of work to do.

Tuesday and Wednesday I traveled the whole day... Traveled 5 hours to Bage on Tuesday then slept with the LZ, Wednesday morning we had a training, then had to wait until 5 to take a bus to Dom Pedrito. Got here at 7 then went to a ward meeting with the leadership.

Thursday I unpacked and got to know some of our investigators... We have one baptism set for next saturday and she´s perfect!!!! Other than that we don´t have much.... 

Friday: More of the same stuff really everyday was the same... Thursday friday and saturday... IT´s freezing here, it´s a small city, super Gáucho.  The 4th guy in our house i Elder Emanoel... He´s got 1 year and a half on the mission, but he´s been home for about a year because he had to have surgery.

Sunday we had church... 50 people were there, our baptism was there... Some peope from the warde told us that they think she´s a member... So we took her name, name of her parents and looked it up on the computer... Sure enough she was baptized when she was 8, more than 40 years ago and didn´t remember. Well, at least we reactivaed some one!!!! :D 

My area is actually Dom Pedrito South. 

Our house

Photo with the new companion. Elder F. Silva from São Paulo.

New zone

 TRANSFER NEWS IS IN!!!! I´m going to the Zone Bage, city of Dom Pedrito! Comp is elder F. Alvez! It´s the coldest city in the mission! I´m ready! :D

He must have really enjoyed skyping yesterday if he included this in his email

Service!

6 new ties for $10

Glad to see he enjoys the pictures we send!

What´s up with the late email? Well, I was sleeping all day today because last night I stayed up the whole night throwing up.

Well, last week was our Yoki with Mara... She made it this time with Cow tongue... I can now mark that off my list of things to eat...

Tuesday: I can now mark one more thing off my list of things to eat...  Cow udder. It waSN´T ALL that bad, but I prefered eating the other stuff. :D

I really don´t remember a lot that happened this week, and it hurts to think... Sunday we had a churrasco with an inactive family. We had a ward activity on Saturday... Nobody really knew about it but that´s okay. I took a pie to the face becuase I didn´t know the question... The question was ``How many sections are there in D&C. Now I know but it´s not really gonna help.

We went on splits this week. I left with Elder R. Ferreira. Just for one day. Ummmmm... Today in the morning we went to the central where I bought 6 ties for 10 dolalrs... Man, I like cheap stuff here. :D

Well, this is all I´m gonna write this week... next week we have transfer news!!!! Until Sunday for some of you! :D