December 14 2011

Dear Family,

So this week was another fast one that is crazy to think that after this week i got like two weeks here then I am out in the field! Ahh I don't feel like I can't speak enough Portuguese yet to communicate with the people which is not good! But to be out walking the streets in Brazil is  going to be so much fun!! All i have to say is I at the post office down here it is like the dmv and takes for ever to get up and be able to mail out the letters! Yes I did receive the gift card that was awesome now I can enjoy all the shakes that i want! Hahaha yes they are so good! Um do this last batch of missionaries that left yesterday I wasn't very close to so it wasn't a sad Tuesday. Um mom heads up you might be getting a call from Sister Clark she wants to talk to you! All I have to say that her life story is insanse, I can't believe it! Um I still haven't gotten your handwritten letters to me which kind of concerns me I am typing this email with no letter from Mr. Chaney's so it might be better for you guys to send the email to them earlier so that I can have it before my pday so I can answer the questions that you have! Um so breakfast has gotten better probably because I am so use to eating the same stuff everyday for the past month! I hope Gentry is still kickn it! How is dad doing?? How is life up in the 801??? I love you guys and I think about you everyday. So update: I am doing good! I am over being sick which is awesome! Me and my companion are getting some where in are lessons and we are actually able to teach stuff instead of read questions to are fake investigator and then trying to guess there answer! I love reading the Book Of Mormon. Every time i read it I like want to eat it, ya i know kind of weird but its true. Once you get over 2 Nephi it gets a lot better and I like the chapter Alma 8, how after being cast out from the city of ammonhaih I don't know know to spell it then anjo appeared to him and told him to return speedily back because  there was a person waiting to hear what he had to say! I know I am going to hit zones in my mission that I probably won't have many contacts but I am ready to go into that zone and be able to talk to some and maybe have the door shut in my face then to have a feeling to go back and knock on the door and be like dude I got a totally righteous message for you and it will change your life! Hahahahaha that is about it for the week, nothing really new is happening in the ctm in Brazil. Oh I did get an insiders view that Christmas here is going to be really good, well that is what I heard from Sister Clark. So that would be fun if it is really good. Oh it is not nice to make of my English. Portuguese is like taking it over and it makes it really hard to make complete sentences in English hahahaha but it is a good thing! Wow I make no sense! Hahahah
Love,
  Colton