August 1

So i got lucky and have a chance to email a little today. I forgot yesterday to tell you that i got another email through dear elder. Its from one of the betridges in our ward but i dont know which one. If you have any light on that i would appreciate it. I want to write a reply but i dont know who to write it to. 

So if there are any errors in my emails it could be  because portuguese is messing with my brain. Its gotten to the point now where when i speak english i sometimes use portuguese words because its just a habit. Sometimes i dont even remember what it is in English. Its kind of cool actually. 

So yesterday we went to Salvador to visit a friend ,who is a member, of one of the missionaries in my house. He is our district leader and this was his last pday so president authorized it. Elder Demille is his name he is from Ceder City and he is pretty cool. But anyway like i was saying we went to visit this guy. Im pretty sure i told you that brazilians love people who eat a lot. So he brought us out lunch and we started to eat. I took some and then waited for everyone to be done. Then i continued to eat all the rest of his food. Brazilian lunches are their biggest meals. After he saw how much i ate he loved me. Its really funny to see it. After that he sent his sons to buy some soda and when they got back he took the cup i was going to use ,which was about the size of a coffee cup, and hands me this giant tin cup. He says that anyone who can eat that much needs to drink a lot. He poured me this giant cup of soda before anyone else. It was super cool. :)

So i found out that there are a lot of slacker missionaries here. I am fortunate that i got a good worker for my companion.  A wierd thing about the mission is that every missionary has their own like thing they do. They all have some trait or habit that makes them unique and recognizable. Its really funny to see the brazilians give the missionaries nicknames and joke with them about it. So far i have been called Polar Bear and Polar Seal. The alaska thing is way cool to them. 

So we were teaching this one lady for a while and we thought it was going well. She loves the missionaries and the members but for almost a year now nobody could get her to go to church. On monday we finally found out why. This is the first time she has talked about it with anybody. Because the missionaries before us talked so much about Joseph Smith she thought we worshipped him. She said that she didnt believe in worshipping images and thats why she didnt ever go to our church. So we cleared that up with her and invited her to church again. She said that she would visit but she already has a church she likes better. Then I was like but you have never been to our church...  So she said she would go. Its super wierd to hear all the wierd myths out there. 

Anyway i have to go now. 
Love Elder Jensen