Independence Day

We went to the Campinas temple again this week, but they didn´t have enough English headphones for us, so while I was fortune enough to have them, other did not. However, I was listening half on and half off and by the end had them completely off. I can understand church Portuguese pretty decent. We had to do the veil in Portuguese without a card which was a bit difficult, but also good. I listened to the speakers at the devotionals Wednesday and Sunday without headphones and while I don´t understand all of it, I understand the big picture and stuff. I don´t remember who spoke Wednesday, but Sunday was a young mission president in Sao Paulo.  On Sunday I had to give the lesson in Priesthood on Christlike attributes, so I just did jeopardy and we had some fun.

Yesterday we started out our infield training, had a TRC with a member where we talked a lot and taught a little message and we´ll watch the recording of that today. I have splits again this week, I´m in another trio with a third weeker American and a Brasilian. We wash our clothes for the last time at the MTC Friday I think. Maybe it´s Saturday. 

We only get to go proselyting once at the CTM, so that was it the other week. This week went by fast. P-Day was pretty fun, my district and I toured the entire edge of the boundaries and got pastels. I´m not really sure how to describe pastels, it is like a fried salty dough on the outside on then whatever on the inside. I got a breakfast one, like a bacon, ham, and egg. It was decent. If we go again this week, though, I´m definitely grabbing a dessert one with chocolate inside. 

Thursday was cool too because it was Brasilian Independence Day, so they dressed up the cafeteria, gave us a really nice lunch with steak with cheese on it and french fries and gave us sorvete after. I love chocolate sorvete.

Nothing big happened for the rest of the fifth week. Weird to think about that the next time I´ll be emailing you, I´ll be in my mission because we leave super early next Tuesday morning. I think we fly. Elder Houser was talking to someone who was leaving to Porto Alegre South and they left at 5:45 in the morning to the airport and left at like 8. The days are definitely long but the weeks are going by fast now!

Love you all!

Elder Trevor Mangum