Londrina calling

So today I´m coming to you guys from Londrina. Visa renewal time rolled around so I’ve spent a lovely Sunday night riding on the Bumpy Brazilian Bus (The journey was supposed to be about 12 hours I think, but the driver drives like a man possessed and managed to get us there in 10 hours. Not bad, eh?) And, I got to take a look at the mission office for the first time. (I picked up my Christmas package from the family. Thanks for the harmonica!)

P-day will be a little slow today as we have almost no idea where anything is in this city.

Yesterday was good as we had some investigators that had never been to church before show up. Including that guy... that I said came to church last week but gave a wrong address to us so we ended up not being able to visit him. He’s a great guy... He sometimes doesn’t remember how old he his and stuff like that... we’ll keep working with him.

It’s been raining for a good 4 days straight in Campo Grande, which has its good parts and bad. The good side is that we don’t roast alive in the sun, we just get soaked. The bad part is that my laundry once again is not drying, and we recently discovered that the tube-thingy responsible for carrying the water away from our back porch area doesn’t drain very well and creates a bit of a flooding problem when it rains too hard.

As a result of the heavy rain yesterday, it seemed that about half the ward didn’t show up. It was a bit sad to see so many not there as a result of the weather, and the bishop expressed disappointment that so many were missing. I also had the opportunity to try to put into practice some council of President Kimball when he said that if some parts of Sacrament Meeting are boring, that’s your fault and not the speakers. (Or something like that.) The last guy spoke for a good 45 minutes, and obviously didn’t prepare his talk. He would just read a couple of paragraphs from his manual and then make some commentaries. I tried to stay interested, but only managed to pay attention to the last 10 minutes, which weren’t too bad.

In other news, it’s mango season here in Campo Grande, and the place is loaded with them. There’s usually trees growing all over the place and sometimes in the road, so me and my comp usually grab a couple from people that offer them or grab ém from a tree in the road. It’s pretty cool.

Welp, that’s it from me.

I hope everything’s good over there, and good luck with the Christmas preparations.

Give Berkeley a congrats from me for the wedding. I’d love to see Andy’s, so tell him to wait till I can make it.

´till next week!

-Me