5/14/12

It's my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but I am in Brazil......  Thank you to everyone who sent me birthday wishes!
We are going to an all you can eat pizza place tonight to celebrate! so excited!
Skyping with you guys was awesome! cant wait till the next time!
 Don't worry Natalie I wont come home fat. I am keeping my figure hahaha
I am the disrict leader now.  I am taking pictures still just waiting to find a computer that doesn't have the usb blocked.
Sister Gonzaga called me and sang to me in English. The accent was funny, but she did really well.Things are going well. In two weeks we should have 3 baptisms and in a month we should have a wedding and a baptism. We are hoping that everything goes smoothly and that we can help them from giving up. It's fun being a missionary, almost like a game that I am trying to win but I liked what President Holland said" we are doing the most important work in the universe! the salvation of souls"
Joshua Dale Wong is my comps name. He is querky but likes to work and I am laughing all of the time.
I think those were fireworks you heard when we were Skyping because there weren't any cops that came. Don't worry about me:)
It would be awesome to win that trip to Brazil, but as you know the Langlois family is the worst with luck. I have never won a raffle in my entire life.
So my comp is from Portland Oregon and he is a convert. His family aren't members. He likes to sing, and I just laugh at just about everything that he does.
Also avocado is sweet here. They make smoothies with them and use them like fruit instead of salty vegetable things like guacamole. I thought that was weird
Also can you buy some byu shirts really cheap that I can give to other people. The 5 dollar ones for football with various sizes. That would be fantastic.
So funny story, some guy came to church this week and sat in the first class. We talked to him after and gave a 2 minute lesson about the restoration of Christ's church in these days and he said" alright I am staying in this church for the rest of my life and I want to get baptized"  also he found out about how we can't drink and he said " yesterday was the last day I will ever drink in my life." hahaha He is hilarious, a little crazy but an awesome guy.
Anyway happy mothers day again to all the mothers! and hope everything is going well.
love you all
LOVE ELDER JAKE LANGLOIS

5/7/12

Hello!
So we baptized again this week! A girl named Larissa. She is 21 and is a chef, and almost has no time to talk with us. Not sure how we found time to teach he and prepare her to be baptized, but it happened!

My new ward is awesome! The bishop is hilarious. Saturday, we had a baptism with two wards and both the bishops were there, and the last bishop in the building has to turn off the lights. He ran to his office, got all of his things out, and ran out haha all while the other was talking with some people. He is hilarious! I get my new comp tomorrow.        
We can skpye Sunday and I am planning on going over there 7 our time.
I heard about Dylan, maybe I will train him! I will ask the president haha. When does he get into the field? do you know?
When went downtown in Aracaju Thursday because Elder Bradshaw didn't buy anything for his family so I had to drag him there. We went downtown in Maceio today so I have some ideas, just don't want to buy anything yet because there is still a ton of time left on the mission.
You got an ipad! what the heck! you are so spoiled.

Oh and by the way.. thanks for the birthday wishes everyone! I enjoyed them! Happy Mothers day to all of you!
So the funniest thing that happened to me on my mission happened this week:
we were riding in the bus and I was sitting in a window seat with Elder Bradshaw behind me in the other window seat. Everything was fine and we were moving along and our bus goes to pass and stop in front of a bus that was already stopped which is normal. So we are passing and I was thinking "wow, we are really close to the bus." So the mirror on the bus that was stopped hits the window behind mine and rips of the mirror! Rips off the entire bumper! and breaks the front glass of the other bus! hahahaha it was ridiculous and I think the guy lost his job because of it. We just sat there... what do we do now? haha it was awesome, but we had to wait a little for the next bus.
Also there were transfers this week and I was the only one in my district to stay. All of the sisters left:( usually elders don't like working with the sisters, but they always make food for us! not the only reason I like them. ha)
Anyway, hope all of you have an awesome week!
LOVE ELDER JAKE LANGLOIS