Letter #3

Family and Friends,

Week two, in the books, the Portuguese continues to progress, but nothing super exciting there.

Last Friday I did manage to haggle with the street vendor and get the price of the jersey he was selling reduced drastically. Spicy

HIGHLIGHT #1
I was the on sight person for what looked like patient X for a Brazilian version of world war z. While Elder Webster and I were walking to the basketball court to surely ball up, there was a Brazilian elder from northern brazil who we found unable to breath and was too dizzy to stand. I scooped him up and ran down the hallways to the Whitaker´s office, an elderly couple with zero medical training. I put him on the table where he got covered by a blanket and was convulsing pretty wildly. Not gonna lie, pretty scary. The Whitakers called a taxi because the public ambulence would take an hour and a half to get there and the private ones wouldn´t let you pick the hospital. This old dude rolls up in a minivan, the biggest car I´ve seen in Brazil BTW, and I strap him in the back and off he went. Initially, I was told it was probably Malaria or Denge which are both pretty big in his state.

HIGHLIGHT #2
While I do enjoy the mystery meat, sometimes I get scared and ask. Only once actually. Once a week, the workers take all the meat from the last week and make a little stew with it. Last week I found a baseball card sized piece of tendon in mine, and I´ve managed to get through the tongue and the huge pieces of only fat. BUT, this week I drew the line. I was chowing down and I bit down on a bown, not super uncommon, you just pull it out and keep going. When I pulled it out, I found that it was a whole rack of ribs. What kind of ribs can I fit in my mouth?? Good question, thanks for asking. Mouse ribs. They were actually pretty good, I just had to make sure they weren´t rat related, I don´t know if I´m ready for that step yet.

HIGHLIGHT#3
The jello here is weird. Normally it´s a half liquid, half jello combo, that you can drink or spoon, your choice. This week, we had Pepto Bismol flavored jello, which wasn´t the worst, just the most letter worthy. Two elders, not I, decided to go head to head in a contest. They tied at 22. *Clap Here* However, there was a clear winner. About five minutes later, one of the elders came out of the bathroom wearing what was now a bright pink shirt. Nothing but respect for the man.

HIGHLIGHT #4
Got my first nickname this week, not what I was expecting. Because Elder Johnson in my district is taller than me, he gets all the tall person jokes and nicknames which is fine by me. I do howver, get called Big Schenewarky, just like Tanner said I would. But, the first one that stuck was ´´Rei Delas,`` pronounced Hey Dallas, which is a slang for King of the Ladies. Don´t worry though, my heart is locked.

HIGHLIGHT#5
All the Brazilians ask me about my fiancee. Because I wear my CTR ring on the right hand ring finger, with the shield on the inside, all the Brazilians assume it´s my noiva. My teacher thought it was genius becuase she said it´ll keep some of the flirty brazilian females away. Thus, it´ll stay for now.

HIGHLIGHT#6
We went to the temple in Campinas again, super nice and ..........

HIGLIGHT#7
IT WAS FINALLY SUNNY AGAIN. We had about a weeks worth of rain that has gone away finally. It was about 80 which gives me zero reason to complain.

That´s most of what happened this week. Please remember the Brazilian elder in your prayers.

Much Love,

Elder Rei Delas