Hello Family!
There hasn't too much gone on
over here in Brazil. Same daily routine, Gospel study, and continuous
Portuguese! I feel like I am coming along pretty well with the language.
When I skype you, I will make sure to speak Portuguese to you guys.
It's a lot different from Portugal Portuguese though haha. Brandon and
Melissa's Portuguese is the kinda lame Portuguese; Brazil's is the best
of course. Haha just kidding.
Anyways, on Friday, last week,
we went proselyting for the first time. We took a city bus to Sao
Paulo, but it poured heavy rain over there. We had a great time, though. We
were able to give out some Book of Mormons, and they were all really
friendly and nice to talk to. Most of them wanted to be left to
themselves during the pouring session, though. Nonetheless- a geat
missionary experience!
I still cannot wait to get out
into the field! Only two more weeks left here! Oh, so the past couple
of weeks, we've slowly been having the missionaries drained out of the
CTM here, until there was maybe 200-180 of us left, and today we got
another batch of missionaries. Over 120 of them! A combination of
visa-waiters, Americans, Hispanicos, and Brasileiros. I'm so glad today
is my P-Day haha.
I don't know too much of what I'm
going to do today. I think I might go with some other missionaries to a
McDonalds nearby. I know some other missionaries are going to get sushi,
and some others the churrascaria. I just came back from the Sao Paulo
temple again. Its about 30 minutes away, but of course, us taking the
bus through the city brings it close to 50 minutes. We usually take the
bus, but last week we took a van.
As for church here, we have
our own branches with maybe three or four districts per. I am in Branch
1, and my Branch President is President Kawai; he's from Japan, but he's
super poly-lingual. Its crazy. Anyways, yes I do play piano. As soon as
the zone leader found out I could play the piano, he asked me to play
for a few of the meetings. I don't play too much, but I can still play
the main songs. But, as for any sort of calling, we don't have those
really. Just district and zone leaders. My companion is the Zone leader,
so we're going to go and visit the new missionaries later tonight.
Yes, my fingers are better. They're still a little purple, but they are fully functional and they don't hurt at all.
By the way, Happy Birthday
Dad! I hope you enjoy celebrating the yearly day of your birth! You've
been on the Earth for a long time! Haha.
Anyways, I miss you all and love hearing from you. Till next week.
Your brother and son,
Elder Collins
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