February 11, 2013

This week was a good week for me. I felt good physically and mentally

and the weather here was in the 80s all week long. And from your weather report

it sounds like you are enjoying some of Al Gore’s “global warming” too. What a

joke, no wonder everyone was sick. I really am glad I missed out on that January

of yours.

I realized last week that after I signed off that I forgot to answer your

question about how to mail the package. I think it will be fine because there isn’t

anything of material value in there. But it was confirmed last week that Brazilians,

like Guatemalans, do open and take stuff out of American packages. Kinzi sent

me a package with a couple ties and a letter that said, “I hope you like the ties

and enjoy the Reese’s candy.” In the package I found the ties but the Reese’s

had somehow magically disappeared. I just laughed because its all part of the

adventure.

So Carnival is currently in mid swing and everyone is out partying and

getting drunk. Well apparently anyway, I actually haven’t seen anything crazy at

all. Its all been about the same except that on church on Sunday we only have

a fourth of the membership attend because everyone is on vacation. But our

mission president is having us go home an hour early every night anyway just to

make sure we don’t get caught up in anything weird after the sun goes down.

I started teaching an English class last Saturday. The original purpose of

having me do this was to hopefully get some more investigators. We hadn’t out

easily 150 invites on the street but nobody came but members, you know why?

Because it was during carnival! I don’t know whose idea it was to start the class

the weekend of carnival but that person needs to be slapped upside the head.

Oh well, if anything, it will improve my Portuguese because I have to speak in

Portuguese for an hour and 15 minutes straight every time we hold the class. It

was crazy though trying to explain English grammar in Portuguese. How I was

able to do it I don’t know, I guess that was the Lord stepping in.

A family in our ward took us out to lunch this last week and the food at that

restaurant was so good. I think that chicken hearts are one of my favorite things

to eat now. Just to give you an idea of what the food was like, it was an all-yougood-eat buffet with fried chicken, grilled chicken, chicken hearts, pork chops,

two different kinds of steak, potato salad, fruit, vegetables, cake and pudding. I

still wish I could have as good of food as Dad had in Guatemala, but I guess this

will have to do. Nerkity nerk nerk nerk.

We haven’t had any baptisms yet but we do have March 3rd set as a date

for two people. I was thinking that it was taking forever to get a baptism until I

read about Kyle. Seventeen months and one baptism. Geez. But, like you said, a

mission experience is always worth it.

I reached another plateau in the language, and I can understand

everything I need to in order to make street contacts on my own. Also I can

understand about 85 percent of what is said at church so I am coming along.

I don’t have any new pictures from this week, just old ones from the MTC.

Hopefully I don’t end up sending the same ones twice.

Thanks for the love, support and emails. Hopefully I didn’t forget anything

this week.

I love you so much.

Where the days are longer, the nights are stronger than moonshine,

Elder Morris