Hey mom! well you guessed the right address, but I was supposed to email you yesterday, at about 1ish, but my account had been "locked" or something and wouldn't let me in. When they finally got it fixed they said email time was over so I couldn't send one. I had to talk to the president to get permission to email you today.
Sounds like you guys are having fun! I was surprised to hear from Drew. I don't think you should let him go to that concert or whatever ;)
It's a lot of fun here, pday was really cool. we went to the São Paulo temple, which was beautiful, and had some awesome art. I really liked being able to go there, and am looking forward to going there next week. other than the temple, we get to go out into the neighborhood and buy thins and talk to people. I cant really talk to people yet though so that's a bit scary. haha I really want to buy a jersey but the nice ones are really expensive.
It's a lot different from the Provo mtc. The food is really good, but as a whole, i'ts just a little more laid back which can either be a good or a bad thing. Only 1 person from my district came down here with me, and that was my companion, (who isn't my companion anymore). My new companion is Elder Landwehr, from Oregon. He's a pretty cool guy, but also is having some disobedience issues here which is a little hard for me. Hopefully I can help him fix that. We are getting more missionaries from Provo today, it should be like 60 more, which is a lot!
The classes are easier than in Provo, because the teachers here, although they are from Brazil, speak English, so they talk a lot in English, but start to use more and more Portuguese as our time here continues. I like this way better, because in Provo, we had to teach a "mock" investigator, kinda like role play, but she would not speak any English or pretend to understand any English. so it was really hard to teach lessons that way because we didn't know how to say anything. Here the teacher acts as an investigator, and we teach them in English, using whatever we know in Portuguese, which isn't all too much so far. I like this way better because it is teaching us how to teach first, and then converting that into Portuguese.
Pretty much all of our time here is spent in the classroom, either doing personal study, or the 6 hours we have with the 2 teachers. I like it here though.
I had a really good spiritual experience this last week. I'm pretty sure I wrote this to you but I will email it to you anyway.
Throughout the day I was becoming more and more frustrated because it seemed to me like I was the only person in my district that actually wanted to get any study done or any learning in our free time. They would all talk or sleep or something, and it was distracting from my ability to learn, and they weren't being all too obedient to the rules either. After a long day of frustration, I knelt down to pray as soon as I got into the room, I didn't change out of my clothes or anything. I knelt and started to pray and really pour my heart out to Heavenly Father. I thanked him for all of my many, many blessings, everything that I could think of. Then I really let all my frustrations and worries out to him, and asked for His help. Throughout this long period of prayer, I could really feel the spirit burning, because I was earnestly and honestly praying fervently to Heavenly Father. After what was probably an more that 30 minutes of prayer, I went to go to read the scriptures and I was prompted to instead read my patriarchal blessing. It was like an immediate answer to prayer. I had tears running down my face because I knew that Father loves me. The feeling was overwhelmingly strong. After I finished reading and studying my blessing I went back to prayer and thanked the Lord for the blessing and amazing experience that he had just given me.
Well I'm trying my hardest here to follow all the rules, and keep the spirit with me, and learn as much as I can. I really like being here, and I can't wait to go out into the mission field.
Well I love you all! Thanks for everything!
Love, Elder Woodmansee
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