Letter Home May 7, 2008

Well all is well here. but we will just have to bag the idea of me getting my driving record, because i am not aloud to go on to any other webstite other than myldsmail.com so i will just have to get used to the fact the if there is a car in manaus i wont be able to drive. which is fine with me, i dont think that will be that big of a deal. but today was a good day and so was the week. it feels like we are all starting to learn a bit faster now, for a while it was hard because we were not used to brazil at all, the time zone, the climate, everything. but we are getting back into a normal routine and things have been going muito bem. the language is coming pretty good. i am not to worried, because as long as i put in a good hard effort to lear, i know that the Lord will do His part. i have to realize that faith has a very big impact on how well i learn. but faith without works is dead. and we went to the São Paulo temple today and had an amazing seção. it is the most beautiful temple on the inside that i have ever seen, and the spirit was so strong. the mission has been amazing i love our distrito, everyone is working hard and we are starting to work together. oh yeah.....and i got called to be district leader on sunday. it was kinda unexpected, but i hope i can do all i can to help out the elders learn a lot more. and fast sunday was so good, and i have been fasting for me to learn as well as everyone else. and it has really been helping. my teachers are awesome, two brasileiros and they are way funny and really good at helping us out alot. and we went outside the ctm again today and i bought some candy and some other stuff. which is always nice, because the ctm kinda feels like a prison sometimes. but i got to going, i love ya and will talk to you next week
Elder Jory B Spotts