HI FAMILY! IT'S SO NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN!!! OKAY SO MAYBE IT'S NOT SEEING...OR HEARING...or hugging...or anything that lets me actually emphasize my love adequately...but you should all know that I thoroughly enjoy the weekly opportunity I receive every 7th day of each week to weekly make words for you four to five times each month. And I'm not even counting all the times that I open my photo album and start talking to your pictures! That's nice too, but I don't do that very much anymore though, because my companions start calling me names like, "Crazy American baboon," or "Big blubbery girl," or "Silly bum-face." But I don't let them bother me too much, because I KNOW for a FACT that my face doesn't even look like a bum that much.
Anyways, I'm getting off topic. I've been having a really good time labouring in Soledade, I've had a lot of success with Elder Rodrigues. The members here are AWESOME too! They're constantly fighting eachother to sign up more than everyone else to give lunch to the missionaries (that's us!). They really like us!
One thing that a lot of people ask me, is how the United States is different from Brasil. Anyone that's ever been out of the country among strangers knows that it's hot water to answer this question seriously, because the most obvious differences are always money, government and religion. And food. And you never, EVER say anything about people's government, monetary welfare, and esPECIALLY food being better that the other country's.
So I never answer directly. I've learned to beat around the bush a bit.
One of the things that's interesting is what's considered fashionable and stylish here, like clothing. Here what's SUPER popular is clothing with English words on it. Like, just about any English you can think of. Like for example, I've seen some shirts that say stuff like, "Dancing, love, sang, happy." I would consider that good shirt material. The thing is, they have almost NO idea what it's saying. It usually already doesn't make sense, but for all they know, it could be saying stuff like, "Wee, knuckle, pimple, zit," in very stylish font, and they can EASILY get away with it. It's good entertainment value for strangers. :)
Alright, I have to go right now!
I LOVE YOU!
I'm praying for Mark.
-Elder Daniel Reneer
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