In the First Area

I certainly hope this is the hardest week of my mission, I guess it´s always the first week that really blows; it´s not as bad now, but it´s still really hard.

I got transferred last week. I was serving in the suburb of Goiania with Elder Brum (a native) and then we got a call in the morning that me and the other new American were getting transferred. So we went to the office, and I met the other elders from my district in the MTC, which was awesome. A week away felt like forever. But me and two of them took a bus out here to Anapolis, we passed through some pretty legit jungle. But the city looks pretty much the same...except...THE HILLS!!! There are hills everywhere and it feels like I´m climbing Skyline drive every day, no matter where I go.

My new house is better than my last, it´s just me and my companion living there, we have a REAL door, and no cockroaches or geckos in the shower anymore haha.

My new companion is Elder White.... he´s a bit of a fruit-loop, and he´s definitely a trial of my patience, so we´ll see if either of us are still alive after this. He looks like a lemur...except not cute and and I don´t want to pet him.

I don´t really know any of the investigators yet, I´m still working on the names. But a few now have baptismal, and marriage, dates. And one, Mr. Anderson, went from smoking 30 cigarettes a day, and drinking and doing crack, to absolutely nothing in 3 days. Pretty impressive.

I think it´s probably better to mail stuff to the office probably, that way I´m almost guaranteed to get it, haha, and it´s a permanent address, since I never know how long I´m gonna be in an area. It might take a bit longer for the mail to get to me from the office, but after 3 weeks in shipping, it shouldn´t be too bad. I have 2 years to figure it out, so no worries.

No monkeys yet, but I have seen turtles, big lizards, huge ants, and chickens everywhere! And it´s good to hear about the drop in heat coming, it´ll be good to not sweat myself to sleep at night, haha.

Well until next time.