Elder Chris Dellrie

Ola! I'm going to send a bunch of pictures to show you a little bit of what goes on every day here, I know you'll enjoy them, haha. I'll explain them a little for you. Bonita is a photo of a part of our area that Élder Padilha and I discovered; pretty much a huge forest/plain, so pretty. Burro is a photo of this donkey that was sleeping in the middle of the road one night, so I decided to take a picture with it; but he got up in the middle and about killed me (he's rising in the picture). Café is when I made breakfast for everyone in the house; eggy in a basket and suco de maracujá (passionfruit), so good. Comida is a photo in the house of a member, Irmã Daguimar- if she sees us walking down the street, she'll invite us over to her house and make us a ton of way good food, it never fails- and this is one of those occurances. I don't remember what Eu is. But Eu Floresta is a picture of me in the middle of that forest zone in our area, so sick. Eu Guarda is me next to this bridge over a river, it rained a ton that day, hence the guarda chuva (umbrella), the streets were flooded! Família is me with a the children of a family of investigators, we're going to baptize both of them- I danced tango with the boy in their living room, long story, haha. Macacos is a photo of me feeding a monkey a mango in the front yard of one of our investigators, it was so legit. Manacés is a photo of the first man I baptized next to a sign that basically says, "fear the wrath of God" and a bunch of other nonsense, he was assisting us with lessons, he is so firm in the church and is trying to serve a mission! Novo is a picture of us today leaving the bus port all crammed into a car the size of a VW Bug, five people. The one in the middle is my new companion, Élder Carvalho, he is way legit. And Remerson is a picture of the boy we baptized a few weeks back on my shoulders as we walked down the street to church. We now have two families, one which we're going to marry on the 21st of April, three men to baptize, and about five kids to baptize- so sick! Oh, I received a new companion today, Élder Carvalho; he's the jam. He's Brazilian, surfs, wakeboards, and does a ton of other stuff that I do-I'm the only American in our house and one of two or three in our district. I eat a lot of chicken, tons of weird vegetables- my favorite is macaxeira (like a huge, potato, but way better), macarrão (like spaghetti noodles, but seasoned), and just various other things, something new about every day. I cook for my companion and everyone in the house, thank you so much for teaching me mom!