9/19/11

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Elder Jake Langlois
Brazil Maceio Mission
Av. Dom Antonio Brandao, 333 Sala 402
Ed. Work Center, Farol
Maceio-AL   57021-190  Brazil



Alrighty! I made it to Maceio! haha it took a while and the flight was nuts. There was a guy that was epileptic and had two seisures on the flight. Craziest thing I have ever seen because he was in the row directly in front of me. I arrived around 3 in Maceio and drove with the presidente to their house. We had some interviews and ate dinner and I found out who my new companion was. Elder Maciel! He is pretty tall and is from rio grande do sul. He is awesome. We both came into this area fresh and we had two baptisms Saturday!!!! I got to do one and a guy in the ward did the other! first one! so sweet. Their names were Rafael and Gabriel both 15 years old. We have two marked for this week too. We don't even need to find anyone to teach because the members are awesome! We have 30 referrals right now. Plus tons of people come up to me and ask about my height so we have way too many people to teach right now.
Our bishop is awesome, and is helping a lot. The president and his wife are also amazing! I got the box and 3 letters. I dont know if I will ever have time to send letters. we are always so busy! but I will try next p day when things get less hectic. Some guy said I was fluent in portuguese the other day and I just laughed. I just pretend I know what  people are saying and smile and nod my head hahaha. but I am getting a lot better! Oh I forgot my camera so I will send them next time:( sorry. And now I am sure you are wondering if I am sick or not. Nothing has affected me yet. I am perfectly fine, except my knee is a little tweaked. I think its from traveling and walking so much but it will be better I think. Everything is fine, I have a bottle that filters everything. I can fill it up from any water and I am able to drink it. Its pretty cool. sounds like everyone is doing well at home. If you want to know where I am, my area is benedito bentes 1 and the city is bairro. It rains like crazy here. It's almost always cloudy but super hot. We bring our umbrellas everywhere with us because it goes off and on all the time! I love it here though. The members are awesome, we get lunches every single day and the people here love Americans. Cant wait for this week because this one already flew by. Elder maciel said that we had record numbers this week, and we only worked for half the week. Pretty crazy. I love you all!!!! LOVE ELDER LANGLOIS

Email #2


Happy Birthday this week to both of you! I wish I were there to celebrate. I am doing really well. I just need to talk to president about my knee. It is fine, no need to worry. So 2 baptisms my first week! can you believe it?! And two more this week. It is so much better being here than in the CTM haha. I love the people and I love working. The food is fantastic. Everyone says its super strong but it is nothing compared to the mexican food at home. OH can you please send a few recipes that are super simple but they cant have certain things. The very basics because the stores here dont have much. No real milk haha and everything that is american is super expensive. Especially chocolate. reeses, no syrup because I can make it here. Your package took like 6 days to get here. I dont know why everyone thinks that it takes so long. I dont know... Your vegas trip sounded fun. And I decided what I want when I get home... Thanksgiving and chocolate eclair dessert. Those are things they dont have here. potatoes, turkey, jam, bread (they do have rolls though which are good) milk is powdered. It's crazy to think I will be doing this for the next 2 years. This week already flew by though.  Hope all is well there still. I have about 50 minutes to write now so I can write a lot more and read some more.  The package was awesome, feel free to spread out sending them because I dont have time to eat all of it hahhaha. You guys are definitely the best missionary parents. Tons of letters and a package on the first week already. I live with two other elders McCann and Ramos who was in the CTM with me. He is super short. We all get along well. Elder McCann never gets any packages so he was really excited when I offered him a reeses. It made his mission I think. I dont have much else to write. The streets are super skinny are dirty here and everything is made for short people. Our apartment has everything you would want except a dryer but we just hang dry. I love you guys so much and hope you continue to be blessed while I am gone! ELDER LANGLOIS