Week 5: IM GOING TO BRAZIL!!!

Well, needless to say, this has been quite the week!

 

First and foremost, I got my visa and I leave for Brazil on Monday morning! I'll get to that later though.

Last Friday we got to go and clean the Provo temple. It is undergoing some major renovations (which look amazing) and there was a lot of dust everywhere from the construction, so most of my district was dusting and cleaning. My job was to scan in the contractors, which I did for 3.5 hours. In any other situation that would've bored me out of my mind, but I was able to read and FINISH the Book of Mormon while I was there. To understate it a little bit: it was awesome.

Then on Saturday we skyped with people in Brazil! Elder Andersen and I got to talk with some guys that work in an institute building in Sao Paulo. It was hard to understand, but I'm going to blame that on the computer and microphones; I mean, come on, its hard to understand english on skype sometimes! But it definitely gave me a wake up call! We taught them the restoration and plan of salvation and then got to hear a little bit about what their missions were like. Overall it was a great experience!

Sunday was normal, and Monday was far from that, because I got my Visa!

Elder Andersen and I were teaching one of our progressive investigators and just as we were asking him to be baptized, my entire district burst into the room yelling about how the travel office just called in on the intercom in the classroom asking for me to come down. We finished our lesson and then ran down to the travel office where one of the workers nonchalantly handed me a packet with "Travel Intinerary" written on the front! So here's the scoop:

I leave the MTC at 8:45 Monday morning and take the Frontrunner to SLC, where I fly to ATL at 1:55. Then at 9:55 (after a 2 hr layover) I fly to BRAZIL! I'll get there at 8:25 am on the 13th! I'm buying a calling card today and I'll be able to make a brief phone call at the airport. I don't know which one or anything, so I guess just stay by the phone all day? I'll try the home phone and then I'll call mom's cell. If you want me to do it differently, email back and I'll check later today. I'll let you know during that call an address to send stuff to, although it will probably just be the mission home.

Once I'm in Brazil, I will go to the mission home and then go straight to the mission field. No one else go there visa, but I was talking to an Elder in the lunch line and he is on the same flight, so there will be at least one other elder there (Plus Sister Yankura who got her visa last week).

Mom, to answer some of your questions:

 

My district's reassignments just got here and I have to go get the mail, so I have to go, but I'll get back on later today. If you have mmore questions let me know soon!