BRASIL!
I don't even know where to begin, there is so much stuff to talk about and I know I wont even come close to saying it all. First off my new address for the rest of this month until i go to the field is
Elder James Richard Gleason
Mailbox #29 District 36-A
Sao Paulo Brazil CTM
Rua Padre Antonio D'angelo, 121
Casa Verde CEP 02516-040
Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Letters are going to take a whole lot longer to get here now but it'll all work out. They said on average it takes about a week each way...if theres no prblems with the post office. To those I told to wait to write me back until I sent my new address home..you can write me back before I write you :)
Anywho, so Brasil is absolutely amazing! In Sao Paulo the weather is perfection because it is spring right now. We have a huge window that we can open in our room and the skyline..phew. Makes NYC look like nothing. Basically the whole 180 degrees i can see is full of skyscrapers, its crazy. I find myself just staring out the window for long periods of time trying to take it all in. Thinking this is where I get to live for the next 2 years. It stinks the time is going to fly by. Oh yeah and on P-Days we have a set area around the CTM that we can walk around the city so we're not enclosed like in Provo haha.
However, our P-Days dont have as much free time because getting to the temple and back takes awhile. So thats what my morning was, but so worth it! A templo de Sao Paulo e muito bonita!! its just right in the middle of the city kind of like Manhattan..but not at the same time. The temple grounds are so awesome, theres a huge fountain in the front that is so sick.
The other HUGE difference is having Brazilian Elders all over. As opposed to just a few. We have (oh yeah and I'm in a trio until tomorrow when we get another Elder from Provo) 2 Brazilion roommates! They spoke zero English when they came in on Thursday so it was really hard to try to get to know them at all and have an actual conversation. But they slowly have picked up some English because they all want to learn it, and I'm definately learning how to hold a regular conversation in Portuguese. As opposed to just gospel and church related like it has been so far. So yeah it is awesome to have them in our room and it makes me learn and understand a lot more. Also everyone here is super nice and everyone keeps telling us thats how all of Brasil is. I know I'm going to love the people here because I already do. All I need to work on now is how to get the things I want to say across in a new language. NBD
Lastly a quick touch on conference this weekend. How great it was, am i right?! I just wanted to sit and listen to more and more i don't know what i was thinking not paying attention to it ever before. They are truly called of God and know what we need to hear and how we need to hear it. The next 3 times I listen to it it will be in portuguese, what an experience that will be! A couple quotes I really liked from conference real quick since I cant type them all out.
"Let us be as quick to kneel as we are to text." -Ian S. Ardern
"Take as your weapon the word of God."-Elder Jeffrey R Holland
I love the gospel. I love the work that I am doing. And I absolutely love being a missionary!!
With much love from Brasil
Elder Gleason
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