Year One, Letter Twenty Three

heyyyyy everyone!

so how is everyone doing?? oh but before you answer....if you are currently in hawai´i, i don´t need an answer. i am more than 100% sure that anyone who is there is having more fun than they can describe. haha i can´t even imagine what hawaii must be like. i think the heat here has fried my brain. i woke up this morning and it was 89 degrees in our bedroom. and we are the only house in foz do iguaçu that doesn´t have air conditioning. BUT as of yesterday, we have a functioning kitchen sink and a clean apartment thanks to the skills of elder guerrette and i. and the jig saw that we borrowed from a member. and the 2 inch saw on the swiss army knife. but somehow, we made it work and now we have a semi-working apartment. we still need curtains, because everyone can see into our house in the morning and at night...you know...the only times that we are IN our house. but when you receive that memory card, it has a video that will be sufficient to describe the situation.

anywho! scripture. Jacob 2:18. probably be good to remember this one.

oh yeah!!! so what is this with the new batman? with johnny depp? and charlize theron? the penguin and the catwoman and stuff right?? i saw a preview and then a magazine about this. so what is going on there?

i am glad that mom and dad were able to take that laptop...but dad...that backpack should probably stay in my room...for another 19 months...haha. you see...that is my school backpack. pretty cool though, huh? (mom...make sure that dad doesn´t steal that, okay? thanks).

so the hawaii news sounds...like paradise. lol i am going to go there when i get home. i just will. i can swim there if i have to. but that just sounds so ridiculously fun so i am pretty sure i gotta go. ziplining and the hiking (hiking for RECREATION is key here) and of course...the golfing. but i won´t be able to golf those courses until about a year after i get back. but yeah i am sure you both are missing the office pretty bad.

oh and dad...i wish i had been there for the flip flops that you wore to church with your suit. that is almost as bad as me wearing a black suit jacket with brown pants. haha! did anyone say anything??

oh and if i had a choice to go anywhere in the mission right now, it would be to the catartas (the waterfalls) at Iguaçu National Park. haha but i don´t have that option. i think i wanna stay here one more transfer after this one to try and see where we get with Três Lagoas. We have one lady right now who we are probably going to baptize on the 13th or 14th of february. her name is cida. she is pretty cool and she has gone to church with us once. so she will be ready relatively soon. but afterwards, i don´t know where i would wanna go. somewhere where i won´t melt? but i have heard this is probably going to be my best area during my mission. it is definitely going to be the richest area i will serve in unless i go to the middle of londrina. but this is a pretty awesome area in centro. Três Lagoas is different. it is way dangerous. there was this guy there and he was an assassin (no joke - he is an assassin for hire) that killed 46 people before he got caught. he got caught a week and a half ago. so we will probably avoid the area where he was.

but me and guerrette are pretty cool now. he didn´t talk very much, but i talked a lot to kinda just to get to know him more and such. and, despite the fact that he is a boston celtics fan, a new england patriots fan, and a boston red sox fan, i think we will make it as friends. haha no we are having a really good time now. we ate at SUBWAY yesterday! talk about a change from the usual rice and beans. it was delicious. thanks to grandma and that gift card she sent! lol thanks g-ma! but yeah that was delicious.

it is pretty tough to teach a lot, though. you see, no one wants to listen to two americans talk about something they have never heard of with accents that are pretty...different. ya know?

um i haven´t got the glove package yet. and i really really really hope that you guys get that memory card. OH AND THIS IS IMPORTANT! change the address on that blog. it needs to be the address of the mission home. otherwise stuff will arrive at the house after i leave if someone sends a letter and i get transferred. so just leave it as the mission home address. oh and the place i live doesn´t have an apartment number. we are just "condominium." so if you send a letter here, make sure you clarify that. but i think it would be better right now to just leave that as the mission home address.

oh and morgan and stuart...i am glad that you guys are enjoying american idol so much. haha when i read that comment about randy i busted up laughing...but i don´t think the brazilian guy next to me understood why...

oh and lauren! i haven´t heard from you lately. i have an impression it is because you are too busy dating guys. i have a feeling that i need to tell you that it is important to make friends with girls, as well. actually...what i am saying? you don´t need to have anything to do with guys. just make friends with girls and you can go back to dating when i get home. you can hold off for a year and a half right? oh...no? alright then. but you still need to make friends with girls. that is my advice...use it wisely. morgan will be visiting you at the end of this month to see how well you are applying this advice in your life...

ummmmmmmm anyway. this week was pretty awesome. we are going to beg sister leal for air conditioning...and some curtains. i will have updates on that next week. haha. odds are the curtains will pass...not the AC.

anyway! i love all of you so much! i miss you all and i hope everything is going great. you are always in my prayers! andddd until next wednesday! TCHAU!

elder scott ghormley!