hot dogs?

Posted by Harry May 19, 2014

hot dogs?

Good morning to you folks in America! How has your week been? Seems like you guys have been doing a lot! Thats pretty cool. That wall that dad built is pretty amazing! Looks like you guys are doing a lot to the house which is way cool. Im sitting here in the office of the mission right now, because after I email and such I will be going over to the federal building and getting all of my paper work finished so that I can actually be legal here in Brazil haha. So I guess my p-day is poretty much gone because of that but whatever itll still be pretty relaxing doing nothing. This past week has been pretty good though. Not a whole lot has changed, still working with the same investigators, really trying to reload the area and build up our teaching pool here because this area is struggling. Doing a lot of door knocking, and street contacts. Its so much more different doing missionary work here because every single thing about it is different, language, people, culture, tactics, teaching style, everything! Quite the adjustment let me tell you haha Its all good though.

I was able to go on two exchanges this past week with the Zone Leaders and the other american in my house who is still being trained so a little bit younger than me.. So two americans wondering the streets of Brazil at night thinking we know the language but in reality we dont haha. Quite humorous actually. We only did door knocking and contacts because we knew we werent good enough to hold a strong lesson with just the both of us. I mean we can teach, but its the responses and the questions people have for us is what gets us haha. It was good though. Other than that we had Zone conference on Wednesday, which was actually really awesome. I actually understood pretty much everything spoken. President is so awesome, talked a lot about being focused, and doing our part as missionaries. Also about commitment techniques that we need to use when giving our investigators commitments. I really have been using that one a lot this past week because I need it and my investigators need it too.

So like ive been saying a lot everything here is really different than the U.S. haha. Ive had some pretty interesting foods thats for sure. One family gave us food after a lesson. They ordered hotdogs with some green sauce I dont even know! The hot dog had little potatoe chips, mayo, raisins, miniature eggs, and tomatoes and off course the hot dog haha I ate it! Wasnt too bad, just took me by surprise thats for sure. A lot of people love having a sausage with there lunch, so the usual lunch for me is rice beans, and sausage with some homemade juice. Aparrently after the FBI thing, we are getting lunch at Burger King. Never thought Id be excited to have american fast food.. Well I am haha. Its going to be so good. The culture is pretty crazy here to! Everyone loves to party! Every weekend each block has something called a "festa" or a concert.. so Its super loud. Plus everyone has there little beat up cars and put freaking huge stereos in them and crank the music as loud as it can go! Id say motorcycles/dirtbikes are close to being the main form of self reliant transportaion around here. You have to be a daredevil to be riding one of those around here because everyone goes super super fast and tries to get air of any little bump on the street.. And since my area is straight mountains and hills the roads are very narrow and dangerous. Let alone huge busses travel through there too. Its pretty interesting here that for sure! Thats all that really happened this week! Sorry I dont have more to say, but I have some cool pictures this week for you guys! Kimball will like them :) Love you guys! Hope you have a great week! Hope to hear from you soon!

-Elder Kenning

Spiritual thought: "Good timber does not grow with ease, the stronger the winds, the stronger trees. The further sky, the greater length. The more the storm, the more the strength. By sun and cold, by rain and snow, In trees and men good timbers grow." ----- Mathew 11:28-30