July 10

Hello Father,

It was kind of wierd to have a fourth of July and have nothing happen. Of course because fireworks are legal to buy and explode all year round there have been plenty of them. Thats cool that you got to go and help Kenny again. Im doing well. The teaching is going well. People generally accept our message. Some of them dont believe it but everyone is willing to listen. We hear all the time that anybody talking about Jesus is worth hearing. The real trouble is to get them to do stuff. Bahians are interesting. They are a completely different culture from the rest of Brazil. Everybody is so lazy here. They literally just throw all of their trash on the street. They have a holiday every other week and sometimes two in a week. They find every excuse to party and have no problem just sitting around. We had an appointment with this guy one day and we went to his house and found him celebrating his kids 3 month old birthday. So he told us to come back later.
I really am feeling the Lords influence in my life. Its interesting to be at the sensitivity that i am at.
Yes my companion and i get along just fine. We are pretty different but we are working on finding what way works best for us. I am still trying to learn Português so its difficult to help with stuff. But i am at a point where i can understand what people are saying so now i just have to expand my vocab. He is from Washington state and he has been out a year and a month.
As far as my needs are i dont really have any. But if you could send me a recipe on how to make good food out of nothing that would help ;) Oh actually if you could send me like a little magic trick thing that would be awesome. They love to see that stuff here.
I am glad you are all doing well and i appreciate all you have done for me.
Love Elder Jensen