he is finally in brazil! 10- 17-2011

The keyboards here are a little different so i apoligize if i dont type very good! Well i´m finally in brasil! woo! man is it different here! when we first arrived President Souza did interviews and all that jazz, and to determine who our companions would be, and i think that he thought that my portuguese was the best, so i got a brazilian companion that doesnt speak engish at all, while the other 2 got american companions, so it has been difficult, but it will probably help me learn faster. He is really cool though, and we get along great. the area that i´m in is in the city of fortaleza, but probably the poorest part, so i´ll try to explain what it is like here a little, so we live in a little apartment on the second floor of this building. its really weird because all of the houses here a just like attached, meaning there is no space inbetween them, and they dont have like shopping centers or anything, so the shops are in between houses and stuff. in our apartment we have a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and a place to do laundry. in the bathroom there is just a toilet, shower, and sink, but the shower is just out in the middle, so after i take a shower i have to sweep the water into the drain, oh and they only have cold showers here, so i wont have a warm shower for 2 years ha, its all good though, it is so hot that i wouldnt take a warm one anyway. the water here is too unsafe to drink out of the tap, so we have to go out and buy tanks of clean water. oh and the dont really have indoor plumbing or any real system for getting rid of ´bathroom business´ so when we are walking around outside there is poop just floating down the street, and at one part that we walk by there is like a huge lake of crap and stuff, it smells SO BAD! oh and another think is they dont really have trash cans here so everyone just throws trash on the ground, so trash is everywhere ha. we have to walk everywhere, so i get super sweaty ha, and everyone stares at me because of how white i am, so thats fun. but none the less i like it here, once i can understand what people are saying it will be good. i dont think they have a school for kids here so they are always just running around, people here wake up and are outside in the streets at like 7 in the morning, cause it is all bright and stuff by then. the language is really hard to understand and speak here, but i´m getting better, hopefully in a few weeks i´ll be able to understand. my first day here i tryed teaching part of the first lesson to a guy in portuguese, i think he understood ha. their is a family here that we always stop by and say hi to, they are really cool and are trying to help me with portuguese. they are always making us eat though, everytime we go there we have to eat a big meal. its weird cause we pretty much just eat one time a day, at lunch time, but i´m never hungry, i still feel like i´m getting fat though ha. the church here is really nice, probably the nicest building in our area, and it is airconditioned, so its like my favorite place here ha. its like 2 miles away though so yesterday for church we had to walk there and back twice, cause we have 2 wards that we have to go to, so each time i got really really sweating, probably not the best first inmpression but oh well haha, everyone is sweaty here. oh and yesterday we were walking home from church to our lunch appointment, but we had some time so we stopped by that families house, and of course they made us a huge meal, which made me full, then right after we had to walk over to our lunch appointment and eat again, i almost threw up haha, the people here are super nice though, they love missionaries. one thing that i think is cool here and people are very up front about stuff, like when we teach lessons we are pretty much just like hey you need to do this, and so they do it. oh and they love american music here, like justin bieber and stuff, so thats like all they listen to, but they dont know what it is saying haha. oh and for washing clothes here they just have a washing maching and then they hangdry everything, so that is fun. i really just need to send pictures so that you guys can understand. well anyways i think that is it for now, this week we are going to another church to preach to like 50 people, so that should be cool, and we´ll probably have 2 baptisms this week, so should be a good week! till next time!