MTC Splits

We went to the Campinas temple again this past week. Bought myself the scriptures in Portuguese and a hymn book. My district is doing fine. I think we´re singing this song called Um a Um tomorrow for the equivalent of Brazil David Archeleta. 

This week was pretty good. They seem to go by quicker and quicker. All of the Brazilians that arrived with us left this past night so we got some goodbye photos and stuff last night. This week we had 2 devotionals. On Wednesday it was an Elder Christofferson video from the Provo MTC made the day as well as a great talk by his wife that I really liked, filled with applicable stuff for us. Then Sunday, there was a Facebook live event that we tuned into with Ballard and Soares who are in Sao Paulo and were making the livestream somewhere, yet they haven´t come and unfortunately aren´t planning on coming to the MTC here.

This week we also had splits which was pretty fun. I was in a trio with an American, Elder Olsen who lived in Uruguay the past two years prior to the mission because his parents are mission presidents there so he knew Spanish fluently when he came here and was on his sixth week anyways, and a Brasilero named Elder Costa who is the nephew of Soares and can play the piano really well. He is going to Porto Alegre Sul, so close but not quite. It was also evident from my splits that I´ve still got a lot to go with the Portuguese, both speaking and understanding. We do these splits as an activity in the MTC. We teach a companionship and then they teach us. We did this Thursday-Saturday midday. We planned our lesson, ate lunch, taught, then were taught. But we actually get to proselyte this Friday outside the MTC at some busy street in Sao Paulo. Should be fun! 

Cool to hear that everything is going grand back at home, glad I've got Caroline as my protector. 😊

Lots of Love,

Elder Mangum