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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
http://elderjakelanglois.blogspot.com/
My people! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Isn't it funny that everyone thought it was going to be Jed.... hahaha.That is so cool. He will have a lot of opportunities to serve with missionaries as bishop. at least here... we visit with the bishop almost 2 or 3 times a week. I am glad that is isn't dad. ha The packages were awesome! I will wait to unwrap everything until the days that are marked. I already saw the clothesline thing and I think it will be useful. so original. I love that we have the same desire to dress up on Halloween, me being a skeleton or a soccer player every year. We have Halloween but people just drink and nothing else haha. pretty exciting huh?
David Lambert broke his foot? how the heck did that happen?! that is crazy... Tyler will be getting is really soon. My stomach is fine. sometimes when I eat too much though it hurts. I am still trying to control that haha. I have plenty of money. We get 100 reais every month and it is plenty for food and soap and stuff like that. I haven't bought anything to keep or for you guys yet. There really isn't anything here worth buying except soccer jerseys sooooo I will probably come home with 10 of those haha.
Some things are really hard to find here, or they are really expensive. Sliced bread.... woo! it is so expensive haha. We had pizza today that was frozen and it was really good. Yogurt is really good but the granola is really expensive haha. we like stuff that is really simple and cheap.
we didn't have a baptism this week but we have to marked for this week and they are pretty firm. The last baptism we had was Amanda and she is 15 years old and had been going to church for 3 months. (very rare) usually people visit 2 or 3 times and are baptized. she just needed to be baptized so we did it. that party was really fun but a lot of work. People don't realize how much really goes into throwing a party like that haha. it was fun and worth it. the intestines were interesting... I don't have any juicy stories to share... yet haha. and juicy could be literal....
so some funny stories of the week haha. if you think you are good at math... try to do a word problem in a different language. oh my gosh!!!! I spent 20 minutes trying to read the question and I realized that it was the easiest problem in the world. I thought I was good at math... haha oh and we taught a lady that has a lisp in Portuguese. that was pretty entertaining.... almost as entertaining as the guy that stuttered haha.
and for the most entertaining we were teaching a crazy lady named Beti. she literally is crazy. We were teaching the second lesson about the plan of salvation and there is a small part about Adam and Eve. We talked about the forbidden fruit and she asked if it was some sort of symbolism and said... are you sure that they weren't smoking weed and the fruit was just a symbol for that? and we had no idea what to say haha. We just moved on.
Iknow you will laugh at this next one and think I am sad but I will tell it anyway. Call of duty actually helped me in life. My companion can't remember our area for anything but the second day I already knew where everything was. It's my awesome mapping skills ahahhaha. I am sure you are proud of me for that one! oh! and i gave a talk! in portuguese obviously. It was really good even though I had 10 minutes to prepare. I just winged it and it turned out pretty well. People are saying that I speak better than an elder here that has already served for a year and 2 months.... go figure.
Being on a mission is awesome and is just like a game. We try to teach and baptize while everyone else tries to avoid us. We focus and how the people we teach feel and not so much on the lessons. It is working really well and are having some awesome success. Sounds like everything at home is going well. I miss you guys but know that when the two years is up I will return and be that much happier to see you.
The best thing about being a missionary is knowing that what we are teaching is true and that when people ask questions we have zero fear because we know that this is the perfect gospel. I feel good every time I think about it! I love you and appreciate everything you have done for me throughout the years. I wouldn't be the person I am now without you.
love you guys!!!!!!!
ELDER JAKE LANGLOIS
ELDER JAKE LANGLOIS
