Como você está!!! HOMEFRIES!

Como vocês está! Homefries, how have you all been. It´s been great here in the CTM. My companion´s name is Elder Stratton, he´s the one we met at Ryan´s farewell that´s going to my mission, so that´s pretty cool. Hey how are things going? I heard that Zac is doing better in his running, also that Carlee is doing about 6-8 hours of drawing and is barely holding up (I....think? Hm....) Anyway, I got your letter and I thought it was funny that you said it was a quick letter. When has a quick letter been like fifteen paragraphs long? Just kidding, I really appreciate the long letters. Hey tell Derek congrats on being able to stand now. thats Muito Bom! (Heh, like it. I´m going to be doing this for the rest of my mission so you better get used to hearing Portuguese words). I love it here, the food´s great, surprisingly. It´s pizza night tonight so I´m pumped. We get a lot of veriety foods here. A beverage I´m really fond of is Gaudana. It is the greatest drink in the world! It tastes like fruit but it also tastes like pepsi so it is a really interesting combination.

Portuguese is hard but fun. It is sometimes a real challenge and then other times it´s like walking through a field of the softest things in the world. I can´t wait for the first time you guys get to call me. I´ll be doing nothing but speaking Portuguese, I´ll also have a different accent probably. I can already feel it hitting me because it´s getting harder to say things in English. The language is so beautiful, I can see why it is called the Perfected Spanish, ( I know what it´s really called, but I just think it´s better than all the other ones).

The days here are weird, it feels like I´ve been here for like 5 weeks when it´s only been 7 days. Other times it feels like we just got off the bus to the CTM yesterday.

Oh! I forgot to mention. I have  the best district in the world, I mean these guys are just the best! Elder Daniel is one of them, he is our District Leader. At first we all didn´t think he was going to be very good at it. But he fits the role perfectly, and is one of the greatest leaders I have ever met. Then there is Elder Geisler. He was the one that me and Cameron went through the temple with for the first time. He´s the one who looks like an exact replica of Cade, and sometimes I would call him Elder Jolley and he would just give me a confused look. He really is one of the best, he´s always so kind to everyone in our district. His companion is Elder Day and he is like a replica of what Zac used to be, he doesn´t talk very much but he can be really funny sometimes. He is a kind and gentle person and when he get´s the chance he roasts you hard when you least expect it. ( Now I know that´s not exactly like Zac but he´s close). The next two are very special, Elder Harris and Elder Larson. Elder Harris is like a prodigy. He picked up Portuguese so fast and can already say as much as some of the people that have been here for three weeks. Elder Larson has probably broken the record for how fast someone can get sent to the hospital. Yesterday he split his head open because he tried to mug his cabinet. His cabinet didn´t like that so it hit him splitting a less than one inch hole in Elder Larson´s head. ( Really?) They´re both great though. Then you have Elder Liquin who is Elder Daniel´s companion and he really is like Zac. He hardly talks at all. But he still is really great, he´s like Elder Daniel´s secretary because Elder Daniel is the District Leader. Then you have the best of them all, Elder Stratton, my companion. He is really funny and loves to crack jokes and tease a lot, (but it´s nice teasing).

Well I need to go now, miss you all. Tchau Family, Friends, Missionaries, whoever this get´s to after my mom posts it. Tchau!