Hey family, and happy father´s day dad! So answer to some of the questions real quick, yea my time stamp was off haha my bad, yes I drooled over what you cooked for dad, that´s ridiculous and totally unfair. I can´t even get peanut butter out here and you´re having steak...haha jk. Congrats on the tooth Hannah, I´m very proud, oh and I expect responses from those letters (they took me pretty much all day to write heh). Um not anything I can think of that would be good to give to the Brasileiros, I´ve been wondering about that a lot, and I suppose I can work out of my suitcase...not sure. NO PACKAGE YET! I have no idea what´s going on, really hope it comes this week so I can get pictures of my instructors. If not my comp has his, and since we´ll see each other in the field I can probably work something out with him, maybe take pictures of his pictures if I absolutely need to, though they won´t be as good quality.
PS, did you get the blog working yet? We´re taking off this coming Tuesday, so no email then, but the address will change. Elder Daniel Wickstrum, Brazil Fortaleza Mission, Caixa postal 72800, 60150-973 Fortaleza-CE, Brazil It´d be cool if everyone reading the blog knew that...I´m guessing that´s where my camera might have ended up, though I can´t fully explain the logic behind that assumption yet. Guess I´ll find out this week. Anyways, so this week was intense. They´re really preparing us to get out into the field by immersing in portuguese. We had a TRC (teaching experience) with a Brazilian where we had 10 minutes to teach a lesson which was recorded. pretty intense, but we did well enough. Starting tonight at 7 we´re doing something Brother lopez calls ´survivor´ which consists of tonight through Saturday of nothing but portuguese speaking, learning and memorizing 70 verbs a day, doing 2 grammar lessons per day, and filling out a vocab sheet every night. Bro Lopez does Capoeira (Brazilian fighting style, consists of kicking), so every time someone speaks English or messes up in any way he gets to kick us, which sounds amusing but is actually kinda hurtful...oh well. Oh! Also went proselyting for the second and last time on Friday. It was cool, not too different from the first time, a little less spiritual though since we knew what to expect. Downtown Sao Paulo is pretty amazing though, I thought I knew what sky scrapers were until I went there. WOW. Very impressive. We proselyted on this huge like strip mall almost, no cars allowed just people, but they filled it up. Got all the books given away, and one of the people we contacted even started reading right after we left, it felt great to see. The World Cup was going on that day also, Brasil was playing, so they had a huge screen right outside of a park for the whole city to watch it on. We might´ve seen about 10 minutes accidentaly *cough* while we were passing through. It was cool, but the Brazileiros take it to a whole new level. Every time Brazil plays the city shuts down completely, no one on the streets at all, and though we´re not watching we always know when Brazil scores because the city literally blows up. Fireworks are legal here, so for 10 minutes after there´s explosions and horns and screaming EVERYWHERE! We don´t get to sleep the night of or before because of all the fireworks keeping us up. Last thing, I had my first official Brazilian restaurant experience. It was like Tacanos in Utah, they come by with meat and keep filling up you´re plate, tasted so good after 2 months of cafeteria food and whatever candy we could scrounge from nearby shops (did I mention there´s no peanut butter here? Meaning no Reeses? yea. Or stick deoderant, go figure). It was awesome, went with Bro lopez, turns out I had my first weird food. Ready? Garlic chicken hearts. Oh yea =) I downed 5 of them before Lopez decided to tell me what they were. Still not bad, just a little disgusted that I liked them haha. Man I´ve been here too long. Well that´s it for now, talk to you in two weeks where I´ll tell you what Fortaleza is like. Please edit this so people don´t get tired of reading my emails haha. love you very much family, can´t wait to send you pictures and tell you about the first person I baptize. So excited! Love, Elder Wickstrum HAPPY FATHER´S DAY DAD!
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