Hey there, family! How is everybody doing?
It's been another awesome week here in São Paulo. The most exciting news for me was last week when I heard that Sister Young had received her visa so Sister Gee was coming back to our district! I was super excited and wanted to write to all of you about my excitement, but she made me wait so she could break the news. :-) But ya, it has been awesome to have her back after quite a few weeks, and to be able to learn with her. All of our district got to see firsthand on Sunday how much her Portuguese had improved during the time she had been in the other district as she gave a talk in Portuguese in Sacrament meeting. She did an amazing job! In fact, everyone in our branch couldn't stop talking about how good her talk was. Don't worry about Melissa, she'll probably be fluent by the time she is in Londrina. :-)
This morning we got to go to the Campinas temple! It was really cool! The temple was really pretty and looked huge compared to the temple in São Paulo. I'm so glad that I got the opportunity to go there on my last P-Day here. The only downside is that we are still driving back right now. (That's why my handwriting is so bad :-) We probably won't arrive at the CTM until about 1:30, which is 45 minutes later than usual. I wouldn't mind that, but we are also ending P-Day an hour and a half early today because of an early devotional that we need to be there by 3:45. We are just going to have to go as fast as we can to accomplish all of the stuff that we need to do for our last P-Day. I hear that the speaker is awesome, so it will all be good
Yesterday we got to go proselyting in the city! It was so great. When we first started I was soooo nervous. My companion is not learning the language quite as fast as some of the other missionaries in our district. It almost felt as if I was the senior companion, except I don't speak very well either. For the first 45 minutes or so, we were having a lot of trouble communicating. I was so scared so I would jumble all of my words and I could tell that people were having a hard time understanding me. They would quickly dismiss us saying that they didn't have time. It wasn't until we met a nice man named Gustavo and had a good conversation with him, after that my confidence skyrocketed. In the next 2 hours we handed out all of our Book of Mormons, gave a brief description about it, bore our testimonies about it. We only had 4 Book of Mormons in the first place, but I felt like everyone that we gave a book to was interested in our message. The last book we handed out we literally taked to theis lady for 20 minutes about everything from the Book of Mormon, to our missions, family, Porto Alegre and learning Portuguese. I was amazed at how much better I was doing conversing at the end of the day compared to the beginning of the day. It was an awesome experience and I am so excited for next week when we get to do it again. It should be better than this time, because the majority of the people here in Casa Verde have already talked to the missionaries since it is so close to the CTM.
Thanks for all the emails this week. It is great to be able to hear from all of you. Next time you hear from me I'll be somewhere in Rio Grande do Sul! Wahoo! Wish me luck. :-) I love you all and hope you have a blast. Ate mais!
Love,
Elder Gee
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