Late Mail from Brazil

The following letter arrived today (November 21, 2007), two (2) weeks after Luke arrived at the Brazil MTC. Guess the mail takes a little time to arrive from Sao Paulo.

Hi, so I guess we made it safely. Tonight is Wednesday [November 7, 2007] night, and I haven’t had a decent sleep since I left Provo. I’m pretty tired, but luckily they’re letting us go to bed early of we want. I hope to take advantage of this.

Anyway, the flights were not too bad. Just cramped and kind of hard to sleep on. I got a window seat both times (Yay!) but that meant I couldn’t get up to walk around ‘cuz both times the guy in the seat next to me was asleep the majority of the time (Not cool!). Nothing noteworthy on the flight, except that it was cool to travel with so many Elder’s. I think there was 15 of us when we hit Dallas, [Texas].

Now, on to the MTC. It’s a cool Skyscraper-like building with a big fence around it. In fact, every house around here seems to have a big gate and walls around it. And, as a nice touch at the top of said walls, everyone has chards of broken glass cemented in, charming decorations here.

My room is on the 5th Floor of six (6), which isn’t bad except for the fact that everything else besides my room is not on said floor. Elevators are here, but as they told us in orientation, “You ride the elevators twice; once when you get here and once when you leave .” You know the song Twenty-Flight Rock” by Eddie Cochrane? I hear that chorus in my head every time I have to climb those stairs.

My comp. is a nice guy. His name is Elder H… He was raised in Las Vegas, but moved to Panguitch [Utah], last year. Nice guy, talks a lot, says he hates silence. We aren’t much alike and don’t have much in common, but we’ll see. We’ll get along, he says about 50 words to every ten (10) I say.

Also, it’s so humid here. I’m pretty sure that I’m gonna be sweating for two years , straight, but that’s OK, water-weight, right?

I’m almost outta time so bye until next week.

Elder Heperi