Hey everybody

I keep finding things in Brazil that remind me that I´m not in America anymore. I never thought I´d find myself cold in Brazil, or cold in the middle of august. It's been about 50 or 60 degrees the last couple weeks. It feels nice mostly, but I get the chills every once in a while. I laugh that I was trying to get a tan before I came here. I wanted a tan so I´d avoid burning in Joao Pessoa, but now after 2 months in doors I´ve lost all the tan I had to begin with. This week we had a big church open house thing. It was neat. The choir got to sing at it for a few nights. Someone said the event might end up in the Ensign or something, but I don´t know much about it. They made us sign press releases though. I went proselyting for the first time this week. I went on splits with a Brazilian, so it wasn´t that hard. I´d try to introduce myself, and explain the Book of Mormon, and when I´d stall out he would pick up the conversation again. We handed out 9 Books of Mormon. We were only supposed to do 6, but I thought is was fine that we did extra :) It was tons of fun.

We lost our second set of Brazilians this week. That means I´ve got 6 weeks down, and only 3 to go. Only one more set of Brazilians and then I´m out of here. Time has been going by so fast... I hope my whole mission doesn´t fly by this fast. I´m really enjoying being a missionary. The schedule is tough, but every night I go to bed knowing that I accomplished something. That feels pretty nice. Today I got the chance to go to the Campinas Temple. It was really pretty. I didn´t get the chance to let Amber know I was going there, so I didn´t get to see her. I don´t even know if she could get permission to go there. I don´t now how close to the temple she is now that she´s been transferred. I´m going back to the Campinas temple next week though, so maybe I´ll get to see her then. The Sao Paulo temple is closed for cleaning. Mikayla was wondering if I learned how to tie my ties like Elder Miller. I learned to tie the cobra knot one of my first days here. I thing it´s way legit, and now my whole district wears it. Thanks for all your love and support. Everything is going great here.