But on a lighter note, things are going good here in Soledade! I got a new companion, his name is Elder Roberts, and he's from down in the Southeast, São Paulo.
ALSO maybe you didn't really know, but I had a birthday about 2 days ago (standard time, 1 Day=24 Hour units)! And I had actually forgotten about my birthday the day of, until I had been awake for a few hours, during studies. What's SUPER COOL is that some members of the ward remembered better than I did, and ambushed me at the chapel when I went to give a class for some of the youth that are headed out on missions soon. Sister Tereza, a recent convert MADE ME A CAKE that I can eat! During the morning, President and Sister Gonzaga actually called me to wish me happy birthday, and sang to me in ENGLISH! YES! IT WAS SO DELICIOUS!
You should know that some of the members from the ward recorded a video of surprising me at the chapel, and they wanted me to tell you to accept Bruno Oliveira on facebook so he could send you the video. And I'm just sayin', you know if you want to see it, you can mosy on over to facebook and add him, he said he already requested me as a friend.
I also gotta be completely honest with you here, there's an elder from idaho that's in my zone, Elder Figgins, who I got to chat with the other day when we were awaiting our new companions. And I won't lie, I think I may have had my first "almost trunky" conversation with him. The term "almost trunky" is a particular phrase that denotes a sensation that you feel like you're becoming old on the mission, and that denotes also a certain sensation of realizing that you're REALLY HERE IN BRAZIL. It doesn't mean trunky, which describes missionaries that want to go home, don't like Portuguese, or don't enjoy strolling on vertical hills while being cooked by the sun, which in turn, cooks the ground too, which ground then also begins to heat up and cook you too, which then starts to melt your shoes and make you stuck, which means you end up stuck on a vertical surface, desperately trying to search out shade, while being cooked in place, while everybody points at you and calls you mean names, like "gross sweaty American." No, I like all that stuff, it's like a happy way to suffer. :)
No, the problem was in our conversation, that we discovered that we both LOVE snowboarding, and that BOTH of our bodies are dying to bathe in the cool powdery freedom that it brings to the soul :) Seriously, if there's anything that makes being in Brazil at all tough, it's thinking about snowboarding down a nice, cool, peaceful mountainside. A mountanside that doesn't make you melt, or call you "gross sweaty American." I hate those mountainsides. :)
But truthfully, all is going superbly out here in Soldedade, Sergipe. I recovered my photos! So I'll be sending more now, and I'm gonna go ahead and use my "birthday money" to invest in a backup drive to dump all my photos.
Alright, I bid you adieu. It was awesome to hear that Jacob smoked the Pinewood Derby competition. :)
LOVE YOU. Well, at least some of you ;)
Elder Daniel Reneer
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