Letter July 2, 2008

Hey, Hey, Hey! HOw are things going? How is kaya doing? tell her that i love her and i will write her, because i havent written her yet. but i am really busy, but i think that i will be able to get one off to her today. because my companion and i decided to just chill and stay in the house today. so i will be able to get a bunch of studying time in and just a bunch of time to relax from the long week that we have had. every night i come so tired, i just take a shower and hit the sack. but things have been going good. our baptism that we were supposed to have on this past sunday fell threw, because to find out the girl that we were teaching was pregnant and she has to wait atleast a month now to be baptized. which i really hope that she does, because she wants to be. but we will see, because she never comes to church and doesnt really keep her commitments, but i pray for her and i hope that she does come around. but on a better note this weekend we have another wedding and two baptisms. the couple have a son that might be baptized as well, but we havent had the opportunity to teach him yet, but he did come to one of the church activities that we had a few weeks ago. which is really good, things just seem to be going really good right now.....knock on wood.....and yeah i was able to baptize two of the members of the family that we baptized a week in a half ago, and it was my first time but it was a great experience. and i dont know if you will be mad with me or not, but i kinda gave away one of my suits to father of the family that we baptized, because he doesnt have one and i just love the family so much. and i only need one suit anyways and it will give me more room in my luggage and i wont have to worry about that so much anymore. and he was super excited when i did give it to him, so i am glad. plus they are such a good family. i am been so blessed to know them. save your money up, because i really want you to be able to meet this family. they are awesome, they were confirmed on sunday and that spirit was so strong. and they continue to read and go to church. we still meet with them. and everytime we do they have read something new and have some new question for us. the have a bunch of books about the church too, the scriptures of course and the priniciples of the gospel book and then they have a bunch of dvds that we have given to them. we had Noite Familiar (family night) with them this week and we had the couple that will be baptized this weekend come with and that went really well. we watched a movie on temples that i bet you have seen before, i cannot remember what it is called. but it was good and then we talked afterwards and Laudejane the mother of the family is helping with the wedding this weekend. they just an amazing family. and then this weekend we had another great couple of lessons, we are teaching this one lady. and she awesome too, the first time that we taught her, my companion just kinda thought it was just another lesson that nothing will come out of. but we returned to acompanhar( i cant think of the word in english), and when we arrived she was sitting outside her door. and as soon and she saw us she went into the house grab the pamphlet that we gave her to read about the restoration and sat down and started asking questions about the preisthood and the book of mormon. and it was an awesome lesson. we taught about the book of mormon gave her a book of mormon and she was really excited to recieve it. oh, it was just awesome. i love it. but the mission isnt just all fun and games. we have been having our struggles, we have alot of poeple that seem like they are interrested and then they just reject the message that we have to give, and the weather is hot hot hot and hot. yesterday i forgot to put on sunscreen and it was hot and i got pretty red from it. and now i am starting to get a pretty defining tan line. my companion says that my body is a bright as the sun and then my face and arms are........red........but things have been going awesome. we didnt go to the mission home today to get our mail, because my companion didnt want to make the trip. so i wont get any mail until friday. because we have zone conference with our new mission president and then i wont be able to open and read or write until next p-day, becaise that is the rules. which reallys sucks, because i love letters and i wont get any this week. but oh well life go ons. but yeah we got a new mission president on Monday, because our old Mission president, President Itinose was called to the Quorom of the Seventy at last General Conference. the language is coming better and better, it still is a pain in the rear. and sometimes i feel like just screaming at the top of lungs because i cannot say what i want to and i cannot express myself the way that i want to. but i am trying to have patience with it, my favorite things to do, would definetly be talk english. because i never get to with my companion, but once in a while him and i argue about the stupid things, it is really funny. he is pretty funny i love the guy, but yesterday he acted like he was going to push me in front of a bus and then he said....American dies in Brazil.... and told him that would start a war and then he started talking about how brazil would win and started saying all this stuff about america and then how war is bad. it was stupid and i couldnt say anything that i wanted, because i didnt know how, so i started talking to him in english. but he doesnt understand anything. it was stupid and we both had a pretty good laugh about it. oh and yesterday he decided to make me the Senior companion for the day and i got to pick the houses that we knocked and where we taught and i had to do the talking. which is really hard but it felt good. but things have been going good, every time something bad happens, something good follows. but everytime something good occurs, something difficult follows. so we get a pretty good balance of good and difficult. but being a missionary is good and i love it and i wrote alot this time, because i want to get a lot more from you. you always send me the smallest emails. where is the love? i am just kidding....but seriously.....=) but things have been going really good and i need to write my weekly letter to the president. but i love you and hope that everything is going really good. hope you have a good 4th of July without me, i am going to miss that holiday alot. and alot of the other holidays that they dont have here. but life go on. love you and miss you hope you have a great day and a fantastis week. Com Amor, Élder Jory B. Spotts