Week 8

Christmas was pretty good, thank you for the presents. :D I'm wearing my hat right now, and have the pictures set up and am working on eating all the candy. And I liked the letters/cards you sent, haha. Funny stuff.

The biggest news this week is that my companion is now in Brazil. Four elders in my district got their visas this week, and left on Tuesday, so now there's just 6 of us left here. I have a new companion, he's the district leader, but it's still kind of eerie. And we still dunno when we're leaving. And another one of us got put into quarantine, so now there's only 5 of us walking around. It's weird.

I got to host on Wednesday; the ones that stand on the sidewalk and rip kids away from their parents and tell them to stop hugging and such. That was fun :D. Got to stand out in the snow with hot chocolate and watch everybody say goodbye. Awesome.

We've done a couple "language fasts" already, where we try to talk nothing but Portuguese all day... those have pretty much lasted until lunch, cuz someone wants some french-fries or something, and doesn't know the word, and all the english comes forth.

Still the champ at the dot game, and nobody wants to play the push game anymore :D

We're supposed to write a talk each Saturday in case we're called to talk on Sunday, on Christlike attributes, I was running out of time last week, so I'm glad I wasn't called. But here are parts of it. Just so you can read some port-too-geese.

A humilidade é meu tópico, meu tópico é humilidade. Eu vou falar em humilidade, e em humilidade eu vou falar....
A humilidade é a disposição de submeter-nos a vontade do senhor e dar no senhor a honra por tudo que for realizado...
Eu sie que humilidade enlata mostrar voces um todo mundo novo, lustroso, brilhante esplédido...

Humility is my topic, my topic is humility. I will speak on humility, on humility i will speak...
Humility is the willingness to submit to the will of the Lord, and give honor to the Lord for all that we accomplish.
I know that humility can show us a whole new world, shining, brilliant, splendid...
(Aladdin was stuck in my head all week, and I had other stuff to replace it in my talk, so no worries)

Eu amo voce, e o pensi de voce.
(love you, and thinking of you)