Brazil Campinas Temple (Left) and Brazil Sao Paulo Temple (Right).
In case the first email didn’t go thru... so BYU is undefeated two years running in conference play? Nice! Ha, that’s funny that they have to play UCLA again, but way cool that you guys get to go again. Planet Hollywood? That sounds awesome. Way better than the Golden Nugget. My comp. Elder H... is from Vegas, so I’ll share with him the news. He went to UNLV, but he hated it down there, so I think he’ll cheer for BYU.
Oh, as for card reader and moleskins [small notebooks], I haven’t received them as of yet. Mail hasn’t come today yet, but as of this moment, about 12:20 pm, I haven’t gotten them. Thank you for shipping them though!... Oh, and you don’t have to wait by the phone on Christmas. We poor souls here at the MTC don’t get to call home on Christmas, cuz there would be too many of us to accommodate [ouch!!!]. Besides, I will have only been out a month at that point. Kinda lame that I only get 3 phone calls in my mission, but my Portuguese should be a lot better come Mother’s Day, so look forward to that.
So ol’ Christiansen [former Provo H.S. Football Coach] resigned, eh? Wow, that’s funny. He was good at the football side, but a little overbearing sometimes. Sad that he never got a win against Timpview, but who ever did? Maybe the next dude will be good.
Oh yeah, I heard that for packages, if you put a picture of Jesus on it, it’s less likely to get stolen.
Busy like always this week. Proselyting on Friday was cool/scary. I blanked on some of my Portuguese when I went up to people, but did OK in general. Elder H... and I passed out 3 Books of Mormon, and a few pass along cards. It was pretty good, although I’m still a little afraid to walk up and approach anyone and everyone. I got better as it went on. One guy that Elder H... talked too who got a BOM was reading it when we passed by 15 min later, and still reading after another 15 min! But then after another 15 min, we saw that he had put the BOM away and had pulled out his pack of cigarettes. Very nice... We proselyte again next Friday. They dropped us off in downtown Sao Paulo, main street. Looked kinda like Times Square, but Brazilian style. Man there were a lot of people. We talked to one guy who looked like Bob Marley, and he played “Oh Susanna” on his flute for us. He already had a BOM though, so that was okay. I wanted him to play some reggae for us, but I didn’t know how to ask. I’ll remember for next week.I wrote stuff down to say, but sometimes I forget it.
I always feel quite rushed, and I never remember to say all that I am trying too.
Oh, the most common name down here is Silva. No joke, if you picked out 10 Brazilians (missionaries or non), at least one of them would have the last name of Silva. It’s pretty crazy. It’s so common that you can’t have more than one Elder Silva, the nametags have to say Elder P. Silva or Elder C. Silva. It’s pretty funny.
We got a taste (or sound) of how crazy people are for soccer down here. I guess on Sunday there was a big game between two teams. I don’t remember one of them, but the other team was called the Corinthians. I only remember their name because one of my teachers (named S. Silva-- Silva’s everywhere!) has them as his favorite team. Well, it was on Sunday, and all during the day while the game was going on, we could here fireworks, singing, and yelling going on throughout the neighborhoods whenever something happened. And when the game ended, (I guess the Corinthians lost) fireworks went off for like 10 minutes straight, and some dude played a trumpet as loud as he could for about a half-hour. Seriously, I’ve watched football games where everyone in the house is loud, but not games where everyone in the NEIGHBORHOOD is loud. I love it, I wish that the World Cup was happening now. I’m definitely gonna try to come back when it comes here in 2014. My teacher claims that I don’t know insane till I see Brazil at World Cup time, ESPECIALLY when Brazil is hosting.
... I played Piano in the fireside a week ago, and did well. I love playing the piano a lot more since I got out here. I’m trying to learn to play the Brazilian National Anthem, cuz we sing it every Sunday as an MTC before the fireside, and the person who usually plays the accompaniment left for the field, so we’ve just been using a CD. It’s pretty difficult I think... way upbeat and catchy... Again, sorry that we won’t get to chat on Christmas, but you’ll hear from me in May [another ouch!!!]... I realized how many prayers are said for me and other missionaries when we were at the Temple today (today was Sao Paulo, we’ve been to Campinas as well), and I find it very encouraging.
Thank Grandma and Grandpa for me again for the letter I received, and I’ll keep my eyes out for that package.
Oh, as for card reader and moleskins [small notebooks], I haven’t received them as of yet. Mail hasn’t come today yet, but as of this moment, about 12:20 pm, I haven’t gotten them. Thank you for shipping them though!... Oh, and you don’t have to wait by the phone on Christmas. We poor souls here at the MTC don’t get to call home on Christmas, cuz there would be too many of us to accommodate [ouch!!!]. Besides, I will have only been out a month at that point. Kinda lame that I only get 3 phone calls in my mission, but my Portuguese should be a lot better come Mother’s Day, so look forward to that.
So ol’ Christiansen [former Provo H.S. Football Coach] resigned, eh? Wow, that’s funny. He was good at the football side, but a little overbearing sometimes. Sad that he never got a win against Timpview, but who ever did? Maybe the next dude will be good.
Oh yeah, I heard that for packages, if you put a picture of Jesus on it, it’s less likely to get stolen.
Busy like always this week. Proselyting on Friday was cool/scary. I blanked on some of my Portuguese when I went up to people, but did OK in general. Elder H... and I passed out 3 Books of Mormon, and a few pass along cards. It was pretty good, although I’m still a little afraid to walk up and approach anyone and everyone. I got better as it went on. One guy that Elder H... talked too who got a BOM was reading it when we passed by 15 min later, and still reading after another 15 min! But then after another 15 min, we saw that he had put the BOM away and had pulled out his pack of cigarettes. Very nice... We proselyte again next Friday. They dropped us off in downtown Sao Paulo, main street. Looked kinda like Times Square, but Brazilian style. Man there were a lot of people. We talked to one guy who looked like Bob Marley, and he played “Oh Susanna” on his flute for us. He already had a BOM though, so that was okay. I wanted him to play some reggae for us, but I didn’t know how to ask. I’ll remember for next week.I wrote stuff down to say, but sometimes I forget it.
I always feel quite rushed, and I never remember to say all that I am trying too.
Oh, the most common name down here is Silva. No joke, if you picked out 10 Brazilians (missionaries or non), at least one of them would have the last name of Silva. It’s pretty crazy. It’s so common that you can’t have more than one Elder Silva, the nametags have to say Elder P. Silva or Elder C. Silva. It’s pretty funny.
We got a taste (or sound) of how crazy people are for soccer down here. I guess on Sunday there was a big game between two teams. I don’t remember one of them, but the other team was called the Corinthians. I only remember their name because one of my teachers (named S. Silva-- Silva’s everywhere!) has them as his favorite team. Well, it was on Sunday, and all during the day while the game was going on, we could here fireworks, singing, and yelling going on throughout the neighborhoods whenever something happened. And when the game ended, (I guess the Corinthians lost) fireworks went off for like 10 minutes straight, and some dude played a trumpet as loud as he could for about a half-hour. Seriously, I’ve watched football games where everyone in the house is loud, but not games where everyone in the NEIGHBORHOOD is loud. I love it, I wish that the World Cup was happening now. I’m definitely gonna try to come back when it comes here in 2014. My teacher claims that I don’t know insane till I see Brazil at World Cup time, ESPECIALLY when Brazil is hosting.
... I played Piano in the fireside a week ago, and did well. I love playing the piano a lot more since I got out here. I’m trying to learn to play the Brazilian National Anthem, cuz we sing it every Sunday as an MTC before the fireside, and the person who usually plays the accompaniment left for the field, so we’ve just been using a CD. It’s pretty difficult I think... way upbeat and catchy... Again, sorry that we won’t get to chat on Christmas, but you’ll hear from me in May [another ouch!!!]... I realized how many prayers are said for me and other missionaries when we were at the Temple today (today was Sao Paulo, we’ve been to Campinas as well), and I find it very encouraging.
Thank Grandma and Grandpa for me again for the letter I received, and I’ll keep my eyes out for that package.
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Bye!´till next week
Elder Heperi =w=
Elder Heperi =w=
