This week has been great. I am going to try to answer your questions as best I can. I don´t know my address here. But just send any packages or letters to the mission home in Teresina. I don´t know if you can find that somewhere or not because I don´t have it with me right now. There are certain things that you cannot send here in packages though. I don´t know what they are but I can ask my companion and tell you next week. Some things that come through have to be taxed and can be up to 300 reis. (240ish american dollers) My comp. is in Teresina today for a meeting so I am on an exchange with a Brasilaro for a couple of days and I don´t understand him very well. I do know that there are ways to get around the system haha. Like putting a picture of Jesus on the outside of the package helps people not question what is inside it I guess. But anyway, I will get you more information soon.
The food here is really good so far. It is the same everyday. Beans and rice as you would expect with a little chicken and noodles as well. I eat that 6 out of 7 days. Then everyonce in a while a member will cook something different. We had a really good lasagna one day and some kind of sausage another day. I really really like the fruit here and the juice they have. It is so good. They make a juice out of the fruit that a cashew grows in and add lemon to it and is is amazing. Also a lot of passion fruit desserts and juices. passion fruit is very good.
I don´t know if I am getting used to the heat yet. I still sweat a lot but I think it is slowing down. Apperantly my body will get used to it and I will not sweat much at all. My companion never sweats it seems like. But I do love the weather here. It is perfect every single day. Was it really 60 degrees in Teresina the other day? are you sure it wasn´t 60 celcius? haha. It is the hottest time of the year here and Teresina is the hottest of all the cities in this mission... was it in the middle of the night that it was 60?
My mission president is awesome. He doesn´t know english very well but I was able to communicate with him well enough through the Portuguese I know and the English he knows. His wife doesn´t know english at all but she is very funny and a very happy lady. Pres. Dias is a tall guy. He is probably 6´5 which is crazy compared to other brazilians. They are mostly short people. He has a pretty big family and a young family. 5 kids I think and the oldest is 15? i think. He is a great man and very helpful and inspirational.
I don´t know much about the people I am teaching because I don´t understand them very well. We are teaching Cassio who hit a few speed bumps but he really wants to be baptized and just needs some time before he can. He is really into it though. We are teaching a 15 year old girl, Vanessa as well. She has a good fellowshipper that introduced her to us and she should be getting baptized on saturday along with a 20 year old guy named Nedo. I don´t really know too much about him... We have other investigators but I am still trying to figure out who is who haha. It is hard because I recognize them, but I can~´t put a name to their face yet.. I am working on it though.
I can understand a lot of what people are saying now. Still no where close to being fluet, but I am getting used to their accents and am able to get the gist of what people are saying. The kids in the ward are very helpful for me and they help me learn better and faster.
I was able to watch conference in English here. The three American missionaries in the area went into the releif society room and hooked up a little TV so we could watch in English. I didn´t get to see the priesthood session because it started at 9pm here so it was too late. I will have to wait for the Liahonna to come out so I can read it. I was thinking about all of you during conference. It wasn´t too long ago but it brought back memories of all the kids curling up with a blanket with a muffin in our hands listening to the prophet as a family. The spirit was always so strong during conference. I missed being with everyone for conference. But, the spirit I felt watching conference was the exact same and it was very comforting to me. Conference was amazing this year. I loved all the talks.
It sounded like Italy was a blast. That would have been so fun. I am jealous. Was the food there amazing? I am glad it was a success even though you had to walk a lot. It sounded way fun. And I was hoping and praying that Dad would have got his goal in the marathon. I really want you to go to Boston because that would just be sweet. Do you think that the injury set you back too far during your training? Next year you will qualify. That is my prediction.
Well, I don´t know what else to say. I will get the address of the mission home to you next week if you don´t find it somewhere. I love you all very very much. I love hearing from you about what is going on. I miss you all, but I am so glad I am here. The church is true and the gospel will help anyone with any problem. I know that because I have seen it in my own life and the lives of others. I would invite you to all share your testimony with someone that seems to be having a hard time. It will bless their lives. I love you!
Love Elder Hoberchson. (that is how most people pronounce my name here haha)
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