Brazil backwards starts with Liza!

We live in a rough world people: here's some good quotes of the week, "I prefer to use a cellphone more than play" (Artur, 5 yrs old) "I can be mad, YOU CAN'T" (a Mom to her daughter as they passed us on their bike)  "I just wanted to teach a few people about repentance and help them get baptized" (my companion on the bus when we were in traffic for 5 hours)  *the translations might make them less funny, it's debatable  This week we went to a conference with our whole mission and the church historian (LeGrand Curtis) spoke to us. It was actually super awesome. He spoke about all the details of how Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon and one quote I loved is:  "It would be a wonderful gift if we had just one chapter of the Book of Mormon, but we have the WHOLE THING" -LeGrand Curtis  He also told us a super cool story that one day he ate lunch with the first presidency by accident in the lunch room (id...

^^It has been raining for like 5 days straight  {Apparently "Chuva" means rain in Portuguese. Thank you, Google!} this week in bad english clothing: a ladies t-shirt "CALL MY AGENT" (so random). Also, "I did not mean to offend you that was just a bonus"  There's a missionary couple here in our area that lives in the same apartment building as us. We don't have a water filter in our apt so we go there a few times a week to fill up water. They are super funny and the husband is really oblivious and the wife just orders him around and I die every time I see them. She was trying to tell us a story and her husband started talking and she shushed him for like 20 seconds straight " shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hh, let me tell the story, Elder."  And my comp and I could not keep it together. They were so confused why were laughing.  We asked him to install a fire alarm for us a few days ago and they came to our apt to do it ...

We went on a hike today for p-day and it was literally in the jungle. It was super cool but there were a ton of spiderwebs and i got attacked by mosquitos bc I always forget bug spray. But the highlight was that i almost died bc i walked right past a cobra. it was HUGE. It was so freaky. The view at the top of the hike was incredible! You could just see beaches and green mountains. We were up super high so the view was prime.  A bunch of random stuff here is in English and my favorite thing that I saw this week was an older lady's dress that said "take me to the after party" and a lady's bag that said "home sweet home" which doesn't make any sense bc it's on a bag. haha  This week in acai:  We found an açai place here where you can literally buy an açai "boat"  and you get to choose 8 toppings. It was so huge but not as huge as the cobra. And of course we managed to eat all of it.  We used our bikes to ride to this neighborhoo...

It's true. I am in Ubatuba. But we have BIKES! They're actually pretty sweet. Like basically cruisers, but we have to wear helmets (ur welcome mom) so we look like idiots, but it's fine.  Here in Ubatuba it's just a branch, not a ward, which is really different but the members are really cool. It's really different here than closer to Santos because we are like an hour away from Rio so everyone calls it the "other mission". The closest other missionaries to me and my companion are a two hour bus ride away. Literally have no idea where in the world I am.  This week was crazy. We stayed in Santos in an apartment with 4 other sisters from Monday until Thursday bc we were in between transfers waiting to come here. The apartment was teeeeny and my companion and I had to sleep in the little front room area that had two desks and my two huge suitcases and tons of other crap. It was really funny. We just worked in Santos with the other sisters and I got to...

^that's not random typing gente.  that's a place. and it's the place where I'll be riding a bike(!!!) at least the next six weeks. I have a new companion and she's super cute but I am really sad to leave my other companion because she is a literal missionary rockstar.  Guarujá was a really good first area and I am sad to leave all the members there and the people that I met, but I am excited for a different area.  The other day I met this super cute family contacting on the street and the parents were kind of trying to ignore us and get into their car, but the little girl was loving our attention and for some reason little kids speaking foreign languages are ADORABLE. When i was walking away she said to her brother "Ela é Elsa" (she's Elsa). Haha.  Valerio's coffee machine broke the other day and he decided that it was a sign for him to stop drinking coffee! He said he started thinking in his head if it really was something...

I don´t even like golf. Crazy things happen on a mission but I never imagined that i would play golf. My mission president decided that he was gonna take my companion and I golfing which I have never done and never really wanted to. But it was really fun and super random and I probs will never play golf again in my life. Obviously he is super rich because he plays golf but spending time with him you just feel rich-ness  spewing out of him. He is super awesome and I am super lucky to have such an awesome mission president.  An investigator named Valerio we had at the beginning of when I came to Guarujá stopped talking to us for some reason a while ago. But about a month passed and last week Victor (recent convert) told us that he saw him and that Valerio wanted to talk to us again! So we took Victor to visit him and Victor just said to him "So why aren't you baptized yet?" and then Valerio (who has been hung up about the fact that he can't serve a mission bc ...