8/10/11

First off I want to say sorry because my p-day changed from Tuesday to Wednesday. I will tell you more about the changes later. I got dads letter and sent you one today and I got two of the mission ties letters on Monday. They arrive really fast, within 3 or 4 days. The Doritos were American but the ruffles weren't haha. I don't think I will need probiotics. I will look for that yogurt with acidophiles or whatever is in it. I think my stomach is stronger than most here. Everyone is having problems in the CTM and I haven't had the runs yet.(cross my fingers) Taylor sounds like he is doing awesome! He could totally come see me if it was on a Wednesday between 1 and 5 because I am always outside of the CTM.  There are a few athletic missionaries that I have started to play with but it still isn't the same as when I used to play with the volleyball guys. We started on Wednesday of week 1 at the CTM and we go till Tuesday of week 10 so it is 9 weeks or so. I don't think that there is a chance of leaving early.
 I bought candy today! and I heard razors are 200 reais here. So that is out of the question. I will just use a manual one. OH! you need to talk to missionary mall. the sleeve where they lengthened it came undone so I had to pay 12 reais for it. Maybe you can get money back or something because that shouldn't have happened. I do need to by duck tape though. I think I am going to tape the outside of my scriptures to make sure they last that long. The tucanos was awesome! not as much of a variety as the one in the US but the quality was 15 times better.
Ok. So there were tons of changes this week! The new program was set up last Thursday. Not much changed except instead of studying by ourselves in the morning, we have progressive investigators and we teach them every day. It is really cool and it helps a lot! We also switched our instructor irmão david for irmão martins.  I like the switch. We got two new guys from Provo last week and we are getting two more today. Our district is slowly growing. AND! Two Japanese sisters came last Thursday to learn Portuguese. That is the first time that has ever happened, and now this CTM is the second one to be able to handle  3 languages. And the biggest change of all is that we switched rooms. and got Brazileiro roommates! hahaha they are super funny. We couldn't understand anything one of them said because he spoke so fast and slurred his words, but now we are starting to pick it up. It is going really well. We went to the temple today which was cool. And we went outside and sent letters and ran into missionaries that are three weeks from going home. It is really cool to see where I will be in two years.
Oh, by the way outside there are tons of wild dogs everywhere so there is poop all over the sidewalks and everything. I stepped in it twice today hahaha. Oh well. Everything is going great and I am excited to keep learning more about the language.
I love you all.     ELDER JAKE LANGLOIS


So the funny story of the week is about a girl that came in last Thursday.  She is the cutest missionary that has been in the CTM and every single guy flocks to her!  It is so embarrassing.  Anyway, we just found out that she is engaged to a guy that went out a few months ago so she is serving to "wait" for him.  Now everyone is discouraged and their hearts are broken. hahaha
I love you guys!  Don't stop writing me
Love, Elder Jake Langlois