Week 63-- It's only getting better here!

Hello again one and all. It´s only getting better here truthfully. My brain is in some strange middle ground between Portuguese and English, so sorry if things don´t make too much sense. It´s like I´m thinking in English with Portuguese spelling and grammar with random words mixed in, ha ha. 

So the biggest news from last week I guess is that we had a baptism and a confirmation (see what I mean?). It was pretty pretty great but some funny stuff we going on. First of all the woman we baptized was 69 years old and has lots of problems with her back, so we actually joint-baptized her. I said the prayer and Elder Kinney helped support her back while I baptized her. And as for the confirmation no one told us we wouldn´t be in the circle to give the blessing so we walked up there to do it but then the bishop looked at us like we were crazy so we just sat on the stand while they did the confirmation. I guess we lost touch somewhere in the middle there somehow. Either way, two more souls to the celestial kingdom! 

Some other awesome stuff that happened was at a zone conference Friday. We traveled for 5 hours or so total and ended up in a place called ´Monte Negro´ which, being interpreted, means black hill. We got there and I met up with some familiar faces, Sister Green, from my other mission, and Sister Gamez, from my MTC group in Provo! It was pretty cool and we caught up on the old ´ol days, ha ha. It was funny because Sister Green´s comp said I speak better Portuguese than her even though she´s been here longer (totally didn´t effect my pride, ha ha). 

On the way home a lady also wanted to practice some English with us. We asked her how good she thought her English was and she responded `I´m a chicken`. A little confused we asked what she meant in Portuguese and she said she meant to say Ì´m a child` ha ha. It´s funny, everyone here wants to speak English. They seem to think it´s better for some reason. They learn it in school like we learn Spanish in grade school. A few phrases here and there but nothing really substantial.  

Um, the other day it rained like freaking crazy. I thought I saw enough rain in Missouri but there was literally rivers of mud-water running in the streets. All the little kids were out in the mess and playing and having fun it was pretty awesome. We were soaked to the bone and only had one small umbrella between the two of us, so we started home. About 15 mins into the 30 min walk the rain let up so we thought it was all good but 5 mins later it picked back up and started really getting nuts. Hail started falling that was about as big as golf balls but we didn´t get hit. The wind picked up and the rain was almost coming in sideways, so we just closed the stupid umbrella and ran for the last 3/4 miles or so. It was nuts. As we watched it almost looked like footage from a hurricane. 

Running out of time here so I´ll sum up a few things: 

--We moved like 1000 bricks

--Went to the Porto Alegre North temple which was awesome. They asked us to do some sealings too so we did that for an extra 45 mins. SO cool!

--We ate these things called torpedo fries. Feeds 4 people and has fries, cheese enough to kill you, pulled pork, chicken heart and some other mystery meat...

--Elder Kinney kinda dislocated his shoulder

--Church is great here!

--We meet elect people everyday.

This is the true church. Stay strong and carry on. It´s like Paul said: 

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Have a good week everyone! 

-Um no exército de Deus

Elder Teela