July 12, 2013
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| Elder Brady Shanklin and Calvin at the Missionary Training Center(Brady is going to Norway)(Brady and Calvin grew up together in Springfield) |
Oi!! tudo bem?
This has been a crazy first week! the mtc is Awesome! I don't
know if you guys got my letter but anyways my comp is Elder Young he is
from Alaska. Today is p day we get an hour to e mail. I am so tired and
definately needed the p day. So when I first got here they stuck me in a
class with some guy that only spoke Portuguese. I was the 1st of 6 elders
in my district. We also have 6 sisters. It was really hard at first to
understand my teacher. His name is brother Durfee. He's pretty awesome! The temple is closed the whole time we are here so
we can't go to the temple.
We taught Amedeu,our investigator, on the 3rd
day in Portuguese. It was super hard! We eventually got him to commit
to baptism and to come to church. Yesterday was super hard for me and
my comp. It started out as the worst day ever and then we started
planning and decided to say a prayer that our day would turn around and
a few minutes after that Elder Young said how about we change our
attitude and instantly the day got a million times better. Our lesson
didn't go as planned but that was fine and we answered questions that our
investigator had and taught him the importance of keeping the sabbath
day holy and committed him to go to church. It was awesome!! I saw Jared Wilkenson!
and I found Brady and took a pic. He is super tall lol.
The packing thing didn't really work. I was too excited and forgot to take it all out at once. lol We have 6 elders in our small room. It's pretty crowded on the 3rd. 841 missionaries showed up I think it was close to 1000 new missionaries. on the 4th they let us stay up late and watch the fireworks that they were setting off at BYU for Stadium of Fire. That was pretty cool! There are soo many sisters here. It is crazy awesome! The elders names are Elder Carr, Anderson, Johnson, Roaton, Young and me. Our district is awesome!
The week has flown by. The days are long and the weeks are short. wearing a white shirt and slacks is normal and wearing regular clothes feels kinda weird lol. We also have to pray in Portuguese and Sunday. I have to have a talk ready in Portuguese on enduring to the end. Sundays are not a day of rest here. We are always doing stuff whether its studying or learning the language or whatever. We are always doing something. Its kind of weird. our life for the next 5 weeks is already planned out for us and on a paper. I don't really know of anything that I need. Mints would be nice or idk anything would be nice really.
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| Provo Utah temple. Closed for cleaning while Calvin is at the MTC(missionary Training Center) |
The packing thing didn't really work. I was too excited and forgot to take it all out at once. lol We have 6 elders in our small room. It's pretty crowded on the 3rd. 841 missionaries showed up I think it was close to 1000 new missionaries. on the 4th they let us stay up late and watch the fireworks that they were setting off at BYU for Stadium of Fire. That was pretty cool! There are soo many sisters here. It is crazy awesome! The elders names are Elder Carr, Anderson, Johnson, Roaton, Young and me. Our district is awesome!
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| Calvin's district in front of the Provo, Utah temple |
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| Calvin and his companion, Elder Young studying |
The week has flown by. The days are long and the weeks are short. wearing a white shirt and slacks is normal and wearing regular clothes feels kinda weird lol. We also have to pray in Portuguese and Sunday. I have to have a talk ready in Portuguese on enduring to the end. Sundays are not a day of rest here. We are always doing stuff whether its studying or learning the language or whatever. We are always doing something. Its kind of weird. our life for the next 5 weeks is already planned out for us and on a paper. I don't really know of anything that I need. Mints would be nice or idk anything would be nice really.
love
Elder Brown chao!
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| Calvin in deep thought. |
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