Letter #2

Hola family,

It's been two weeks but I can't tell if it's been a month or two days. Time is weird here. Good news, I'm almost fluent in Portuguese, kinda. The Brazilians can understand me and I get most of what they say. I'm probably speaking at about the level of a five or six year old child but yeah. The gift of tongues is real.

Other than spending my days in a classroom, there's not much else that goes on. I have 45 minutes of physical activity today, normally I play basketball but it's been raining so we are confined to the weight room. Not too bad, as I set up and won a limbo contest. Everyone was super impressed to say the least.

Today, we also went to the Campinas temple, it was gorgeous. It's on a hill overlooking the city of Campinas, which looks super fresh. The city is supposed to be about the size of Dallas, 3 million people or so. Sao Paulo is jacked though. It's the third biggest in the world and has over 20 million people. It's crazy.

In my district, I have three Elders going to Sao Paulo Interlagos, including my companion, Elder Webster. The other five of us are all heading to Campinas. I'll send pictures when I can.

We went to the police station to get our green cards, and purely by chance, Elder Webster ended up sitting by a Nigerian woman who struck up a conversation with us. She is new to Brazil and looking for a Church so she asked for the address of ours, which we gave, good stuff. We also gave her a Book of Mormon and explained it a little. Thankfully she was an English speaker. Then, we talked with a Senegalese man and a Lebanese man who are both working in Brazil. They didn't speak English but I think we still got some good points across.

That's about it.

Love you all and tchou,

Elder Schenewark