I walk everywhere here, and I mean, EVERYWHERE, miles and miles. I’m getting used to the weather, yes; sweating all the time is a ridiculous thing. Mmmm... crazy stories, oh- the other night, I gave a blessing to this guy- first, we walk into his room and he’s face down on the bed, all dead-like, we approach, bring out the oil vial, then I start searching through his hair for his crown, he doesn’t move a muscle all through this time I’m touching him. Then, I unscrew the lid, and drop a tiny drop of oil on his head- he freaks out, jumps up, grabs me, and says “Eu vou matar você!” (I will kill you) and just glares at me all crazily. It surprised me, but I stayed calm, put my hands on his, told him I’m just going to help, and lowered him back down onto the bed, where he just passed out again. CRAZY! I swear he was possessed. Anyways, we gave him a blessing and within minutes he was back to normal. Good stuff. People don’t think I’m Brazilian really, they just get really confused- I’m tan like them, but I don’t look like them, I’m about five feet taller too, but they all say I speak really well, like a Brazilian, The language is coming along just great, difficult though. Everyone here speaks differently and words don’t sound the same because Brazilian’s are way lazy, so they slur everything together and don’t say any of the vowel endings. Oh, plus all the people here have about one tooth. Difícil demais! I’m getting it though, give me a few more days and I’ll have it down. I have been doing just fine, loving everything, even the things I hate. Yeah, the baptism was so sick. I had another one yesterday! His name is Hemerson; he’s ten years old, the only one who’s been baptized in his family, and is probably now the strongest member of the church, he’s the man. The sunsets here are way pretty, setting over mountains of trash and crappy houses, beautiful!

Tell everyone that I say hi and that I love them. I had a baptism of Manaces on Sunday, it was so legit! He up and quit smoking to live the gospel, he's the man. So yeah, you'll see in the pictures that I'm as dark or darker than most Brazilians, ridiculous. I forgot sunscreen today, so I'll be surpassing tham all pretty soon. I had zone conference in the middle of Joao Pessoa for 10 hours! It was good, Presidente and Sister Fernandes spoke, they're the best. I saw a picture of our new mission president we'll be getting in July, I'm pretty sure he's from Arizona-it's going to be great! Thank you all for your support and love! Keep me in your prayers

The language is coming great! I now understand almost 100% of what everyone's saying, even the ridiculously fast-talking ladies in the ward. Élder Padilha makes everyone guess how long I've been in Brasila, they think I've been here for about a year, haha. They freak out when I tell them two weeks, so apparently I'm doing well! We had a... I forget the word in English... when you get together and there's a speaker... Devotional- we had our first missionary devotional since the transfer, it was great. This former mission president guy, a really chubby Brazilian, talked to us, in português, about a ton of stuff. He ended up talking for 3 HOURS! Straight. I was understanding all the words he was saying, but do you know how hard it is listening to someone speak in a different language for a conference session and a half?? Muito difícil. Oh, my baptism fell through. It was so stupid. Long story short, we finally encountered Alexandre at his house, sat down and talked to him, he knows he needs to be baptized, that the Book of Mormon is true, that the church is true, that it's all true- he's just not going to do anything about it. All because he has a girlfriend in another church. Stupid, stupid, stupid! It sucked. So, we took his Book of Mormon back, left his house, and pretty much we're never going to see him again. I was almost crying when we left, haha. It's all good though, when the Lord closes one door, he opens many others- this next Sunday, we have 2 definite baptisms and possibly 3 more. So legit, I'll let you know how they go. I'm doing well though and am still healthy, alive, and sweating.