November 10th

Hey everyone.

I thinik it´s been a while since I sent a letter to you all. The weeks have been flying by. As most of you know by now, I´m in an area that is the beginning part of the country area of brazil. It´s pretty cool here. We got good weather here. It´ll usually be hot until about 3 or 4 then cools down and stays cold until the next morning. We also get lots of fog. These past few weeks have been difficult because the work has been very slow. We´ve been doing our best to work hard and in the last few days we´ve been able to get some success. I have a thought that was brought to my mind recently. We talk a lot about having faith in God and trusting in Him. However, one of my leaders here on the mission asked us more or less, Have you gained God´s trust? I never thought much about God trusting in us. I don´t think that ever registered in my mind. As missionaries it´s something vital. For example, we talke to lots of people everyday. This is one of the most improtant things we do. But if we´re slacking and not talking to the number of people that we should, then how can god trust us enought to put the people who are ready in our path. If God doesn´t trust us to talk to the person that He puts in our path then he won´t. And so a thought for all of you, are you doing your part each day so that Heavenly Father turst you? This applies in all situations. How can we gain the trust of Heavenly Father? I hear from many people that topics from the prophet and apotles is about hastening the work. That means people that we are getting closer and closer. The best thing we can do these days is to keep our covenants and talk to people about the church.

Anyways the work continues and I continue to be tired but what´s new? Haha. I love you all and hope the best for everyone.

Love Elder Shannon

September 15

Hey Everyone!!!

What a week! It was a good but really slow week. It´s nice to have a day off and relax. This was one of the more tiring weeks of my mission. I fell asleep a little during church, I felt bad. Oh well. So earlier this week we were walking the roads at night and got stopped by 3 young guys. They asked us a bit about what we do. We were excited to explain to them but after a few min into the conversation they asked us if we wanted a job. They offered us a job to work for their company which goes door to door trying to sell a new type of clean water. Though we were tempted to accept a job from 3 guys who were most likely drug addicts, we had to deny. We did invite them to church the next week.

We found a lot of cool people this week too. We found some families that are just so accepting of the things we teach and the best part is they always give us food when we pass by. Haha, obviously it´s not why we continue going over but it´s a good incentive. We just gotta get them to church now. Always the hardest part with brazilians. They´re all so lazy! Haha but I love them. The weather is getting hotter. It´s getting to the point where we walk outside of the house and begin to sweat. The nights are still staying a bit cool but that´s not going to last forever.

Tudo está bem comigo. O portuguese está melhorando e estou aprendendo novas coisas todos os dias. Eu sou muito grato por tudo de vocês e as coisas que vocês fazem para mim. Obrigado.

Com muito amor,

Elder Shannon

September 1st

HEYO!!!!

It´s been a while since i´ve written for the blog. My bad. Things have been quite busy these last few months. We got a new mission president who´s making some good changes. The weather has been a consistent cold one week and hot the next with a little bit of rain mixed in. But summer is coming and it´s going to be a hot one. A few weeks ago I went to this really big park that São Paulo has. It´s called Parke Ibirapuera. Or something like that. It is really really cool. Think about a park you´ve gone to then mulitply it by 6. It´s got basketball courts, fields, workout and playground areas, a big lake with fountians and you can rent bikes and go on bike rides. It´s pretty cool. Then they have restaurants in like the more forsesty parts of the park. We had a lot of fun there.

The work is going well. I´m in an area called Ubirijara, Piratininga still. There are a lot of people in this area. I feel like i´ve talked to a million people in my area yet there is another million to talk to. We´ve found some really cool people but they´ve all got little problems that we are working with. It´s not easy trying to change people´s lives. It´s hard when we know that we´ve got something that will make them more happy but they don´t understand. It´s a hard work. But we just gotta keep going.

Oh and I got awesome news. I found real milk here. Like milk in the states kind of milk. I was so happy when I found it. I thought it would be 2 years without milk. NOT ANYMORE. Just wait until I get hold of some oreos! Haha anyways, I love you all and stay safe.

Elder Shannon

July 28th

Como Vai!?!?

Well I´m finally settled down in an area called Ubirajara, Piritininga. I´ll give someone 100 dollars if they can say that right! Haha but I like this area. It´s actually a bit close to my old area in Apurá. So just to clear up any questions about my one week stay in São Bernardo, I was there to help out a missionary and also to get it ready for two sisters who were going to take over the area. It was fun there. But I´m in this new area with my first american comp! It´s awesome. I love having an american comp. It doesn´t exactly help us with the language because we talk a lot of english but it´s whatever. We do study the language a bit. I´m not sure if the Ralphs from cincinnati are reading this but if the kids remember a Nick Bryant from their ward....well he´s my comp now. We were talking about you guys the other day. We couldn´t believe the chances. And then we were talking about EFY and we realized that we went to the same one. I was actually in the same group as some of his best friends. So it´s been pretty cool getting to know him.

We´ve been working a lot. It´s been pretty cold these past few days so things suck a bit but we continue. We´ve been teaching a lot of people and we´ve got two people ready for baptism the next week. So we are super excited. Oh and one of the guys getting baptized got married on saturday and we went to that and it was super cool!

Anyways we had a good week and we´re super excited for this next week. I love you all!!!!

Elder Shannon

July 21st

Well..........

I did not end this transfer how I thought I would. So last monday the president of the mission called my comp and I. He said he needed us for an emergency transfer.......he called us at 9 at night and said that I would leave for another area for a week. My comp would stay with the missionary being moved. Yeah, so I went to an area called sao bernardo. And i´ve been there with a missionary from chile who´s been here for only 5 months. And then we got the calls about transfers today and we´re both being moved and they are going to put sisters here. An interesting change. I do believe that my area has the closet thing to mountains in all of  sao paulo. The hills here are worse than my first area. There´s a part of my area, close to the size of Upper arlinton (for those of you who know upper arlington) that was put on top of a mountain. It only has 3 roads. The rest is all stairs. Needless to say I am happy to be leaving. I have no idea where i´m going so it shall be interesting. Let´s hope it´s a flat area. So that´s that. I didn´t get to say goodbye to the people in my last area or the people that we baptized so I´m a little sad but maybe at the end of the mission. We´ll see. 

Anyways my advice this week for all is to let go of pride. It will ruin your life. Be humble. It´s not easy but salvation never was. Think of christ when he was suffering and you´ll see a change.

Anyways I love you all and stay safe!!!

Elder Shannon

July 14th

Oi!

Wow. What a month. The world cup is finally over. Sadly soccer for brazil is not going to be the same for a while. After being destroyed 7 to 1 and then losing to ´´Holanda´´ 3 to 0. It´s been a sad time here. People have been so shocked about what happened. Then Germany went on to win 1-0. Things have been pretty calm here since then which is nice. I did have someone yell at me on the road because he thought I was german. I think he realized the hight difference between us because he quickly walked away. It´s been really cool seeing the world cup here and everyone going crazy during the games and decorating everything. But I´m glad for things to get back to normal. We can begin working again 100% without having to worry about the cup.

This week is the last week of the transfer. We´re all pretty antsy to see where everyone will go. I´m thinking I´ll be going to another area because I´ve been here for 4 and a half months. We´ll see. I´m hoping I´ll go. I like this area but we missionaries somtimes get tired of our areas after a bit of time.

I´ve been gaining a bit of weight also. We have people here who give us free food. So when you´re in an area with very little hills and lots of free food well yeah.

I´ve also been learning a lot from the scriptures. It´s crazy how much you can find and learn when you actually sit down and read them. My comp has about 1 year and 6 months so he has a lot of things to show me and teach me. I´ve found that each page can be like a book of knowledge if you allow it.

Anyways things are going good and I´m excited to see what will happen this next transfer.

Con Amor

Elder Shannon

Pictures!

Hey Everyone!

So the world cup is in high gear now. The games officially started last thursday. It´s pretty crazy here. I thought that college or nfl football could get crazy but compared to the world cup it´s like golf. All the streets are painted and have banners and flags haning above the roads. Literally everyone painted their faces, both children and adults. And then there is the noise. During the days when brazil is playing the streets are filled with people going crazy and we can´t get to bed until 2 or 3 in the morning. Oh and we´ve been told that the days when brazil plays, we can´t be on the roads. We have to stay inside the entire day. We´re able to leave for lunch but that´s about it. And then of course about 70 percent of the people here are all drunk too. Everyone is just freaking out. It´s funny because brazil is going to explode if they win the world cup or if they lose. Either way it will be the same. So it´s been a new experience. All the other days it´s pretty calm and were able to go out and work. We´ve been able to find new people to teach and it´s been really cool the people that the Lord has put in our path that are ready to change their lives. 

Our mission president is leaving at the end of the month and were going to get a new one. It´ll be interesting the changes he brings.

Other than that things are normal. I love you all.

Love Elder Shannon

We love pictures! Week 20

Alo!

So one more day and I´ll have done 6 months in brasil! I´m not really counting the days but I have to keep track of the important ones. I think I´ll buy a pizza and some oreos. Something tasty. 

We haven´t had rain here since back in april and so the water supply is going down. Every now and again they have to turn the water off for like 2 days. Hopefully we get some rain soon, I don´t not taking showers.

So my comp and I have been teaching lots of people for the past 3 weeks and we had two baptisms yesterday! One was a yong kid and the other was a woman in her 20s. It´s been really cool to see there progress over the past few weeks and then to see them make an even better decision in their lives and be baptized. I love the people here in my area and they are so kind to us. We´re always getting free food or free rides from the buses. Obviously not everything or everyone is perfect here. There are some parts that we always try and avoid but we also try and do our part to talk to everyone. Time is passing by quickly and I´m getting use to waking up and going to sleep with a cold. One thing I want to leave with you all is don´t be afraid to talk to show that you belive in God. Talk with people. Don´t be like Peter when he denied Christ 3 times. If you´re scared, have faith. Faith conquers fear. Anyways, things are going good here. I love you all.

Elder Shannon

Week 19 and pictures!

Hey Everyone!

So 2 weeks ago we changed companions again. I´m waiting for the day when I will be able to stay with a comp for more than 6 weeks. We´ll see...haha.

It´s been getting pretty cold here in the past few weeks. I´ve actually had to use blankets and jackets. It doesn´t help that we live really close to the water. The cold isn´t like it is in the states but people here act like it´s freezing. The worse thing about it is we always have a lot of congestion. Running nose, stuffy nose, the whole works. Also i´ve been able to play volleyball with my zone., We get a good 6 on 6 going. It helps that we have one american that played in college and one that´s 6 feet 6 inches tall. There´s also a few brazilains who´ve played a fair amount before. So we had some good games going.

And of course, happy mother´s day! We didn´t celebrate it too much since our moms aren´t here but we were able to skype home. 

Other than that we just continue to work. I think this past week we taught almost 20 different lessons which is a lot for us. I got a bit tired of talking towards the end of the week but this is what we´re here for. To talk to people. We have a phrase that we often use a lot, ´´ Fala com todo mundo.´´ It simply means, talk with the whole world. This week was also really cool because we saw people recieve answers to their prayers about what were teaching.

Anyways I´m pretty tired, I think i´m gonna go sleep for the next 10 hours. I love you all!!!

Week 18

Hey everyone!

So it´s been some time since I sent an email. Sorry. My new area has been treating me well. It´s a lot more flat than Mauá which is a blessing and I actually live in my area too! My comp right now is a Brazilian from Minas. Which is close to Rio De Janiero, I think. He´s an interesting person. He doesn´t dis-like americans but sometimes he gets fed up with us. One thing I´ve learned to deal with is that Brazilains are prideful and don´t have a lot of respect for other nations. Obviously not every person in brazil is like that but there´s a good number of them that are. But it´s all good. He´s a cool guy. His name is Mike Beâta.

We´ve been working hard. We were able to bring some people to church these past few sundays which is good. We get a lot of help from the church members here for references to go talk and teach to and also for other things. We know a member that gives us free food from his small restaurant throughout the week too.

These past few months i´ve been trying to forget english so i can learn portuguese but recently i´ve had to begin teaching english to people here. I don´t like teaching english, partly because I don´t remember any of the rules for why things are they way they are and also because it´s hard to teach when I don´t know portuguese. Haha oh well. Anyways I love you all, stay safe!

Elder Shannon 

Week 17

Baleza!!!

So I´m in my new area now, Apurá. It´s a little closer to the city of São Paulo and it´s quite different. We have a nice little suburb area that´s pretty much flat. Then there is a massive field of hills and then the other part of our area which is much bigger and has a few steep roads. The area is a little bit more friendly. I´m really liking it. Oh and we switched companions. My comp I have now is a brazilian, elder Beâta and we live with elder mantilla, a columbian and elder J. Frost, an american. Our house is much nice than the one before though our shower is a bit ghetto. The bathroom is literally all blue and when we shower we have to hit the showerhead a few times.

The people here are relaxed and super nice. We´ve been able to teach a lot of people here. It´s a new place to get use to but I´m enjoying. It´s still hot, as always but we still got the rain! Haha anyways short email this week. I love you all!!!!

Elder Shannon

Week 16 and some awesome pictures!!

HEY EVERYONE!

So I`m being transfered this tuesday! I´m really nervous. I´ve gotten use to being out in the country of Brazil with the other three missionaries but now I have to leave! I´m going to miss all the people here! Though the hills here, not so much. My area here is actually has the worse hills in all the mission. So my next area should be pretty relaxed. I don´t know where I´m going or who my next comp will be but I´ll find out tuesday! It´s been a blast here in Mauá, Sao Paulo. I have to repack everything and say goodbye to people. I´m really excited though. The experiences I´ve had here have been awesome. Hopefully my next area is just as cool if not better. Vamos Ver! Eu amo vocés!

Week 15

Hey Everyone!!!

I´m coming up on 4 months here in brazil! I´m still in the same area with my comp from peru. Brazil keeps on surprising me each week. The experiecnces are....interesting. Between singing and playing on a guitar with a drunk man to walking through the midst of a funk party on the road, things are crazy. We talk to so many people. We´ll just walk down a road and whoever we see, we just start talking. We´ve been teaching this man with a daughter who has downsyndrom and she is so cool! Honestly people who are mentally or physically handicapped are often the best kind of people.

I´ve found that here in brazil people really don´t know much about the douctrine or gospel of their church and those that do have some very interesting beliefs. And there are some interesting churches here too. I think my favorite is one called Spritualism. The people though are really good people. Asside from the criminals. They can be really friendly.

Anyways we´re working hard and I can´t wait for it to cool down a bit. Stay safe and I love you alllll!!!!!!!

Week 14 (no post for week 13)

Hey Everyone!

It´s been another great week here in Brazil! Everyone is getting ready for carnival this week so things are a bit crazy. For those of you who don´t know about carnival, google it. My area is going to get a bit crazy with it so we wont have a lot to do at night. I´m not really excited for it though just because of all that happens during the week. It´s really sad. But it´s a new experience.

We´ve taught a lot of people this week, some good and some bad. We have a term here in brazil called -snake. This is a term for people you teach (usually women) who pretend to be interested in the church but really are only interested in you. This usually only happens with Americans. And this past week my comp and I taught 2 girls. I don´t think we´ll be returning there again.......

One of the hardest things about the language here is pronouncing the words right. My american accent really hinders my abilitly to have conversations with people. I can communicate but sometimes people don´t quite understand me. Learning the language is a long process.

One thing to remember: It doesn´t hurt to help someone out each day. Everything we have in our lives is from The Lord and all he asks is that we serve eachother. It doesn´t have to be something big. Often small things here and there are better. Blessing other peoples lives really will make you happy.

Stay safe and I love you all!

Love

Elder Shannon

Week 12 ( no email for week 11)

Hey everyone!

It´s been a crazy week, as always. For the past two weeks we haven´t had any rain and Brazil survives off of the rain. So the water was going to be turned off on friday to conserve it but come thursday night a miracle happened. It began to rain and rain and pour and pour. It was one of the worst rain storms Ive ever been in. And my comp and I got caught in it on the way back to our house. We didn´t bother using our umbrellas because of how bad it was. It was much needed and it felt sooo good.

Anyways this past week was a bit rough. I got a new comp for this transfer but he´s not the greatest missionary. He´s from here in Brazil and speaks very very little english. We had a talk with the mission president after a few days and tonight he´s being switched to another area. So I´ll be getting another comp. We lost some good investigators this past week because of my comp but hopefully we can find some new ones this next week. We did talk to a man who sounded like Jabba the Hut from star wars. I didn´t understand anything he said. Despite that though I am making some progress on the language. Hopefully I´ll get it down soon. It´s always nice being able to understand people.

This next week should be good.

Con Amor

Elder Shannon

Elder Shannon saves the day!

Oi!

Not a lot of time this week but I will write what I can. So quick story. Here in brazil they have something similar to the sewer holes in the states. It´s a rectangle hole 4 feet by 3 feet. And so I was in the car of a member and we were trying to back the car up to a parking spot. My comp got out of the car to spot. I looked out the back window and all of a sudden he just dissapeared. He had walked over one of the man holes and this one was covered by a wooden board. It was a bit too weak. SO I got out of the car, walked over, grabbed him under the arms and pulled him out. I´m pretty awesome. It made my day.

Anyways I gotta tell you. The cereal here is super expensive. A box is about $5. It´s thievery. Though fruit here is cheaper than anything in the states. So our breakfast and dinner consist of some fruit, bread, butter and maybe an egg. OH! and we have these packets of fruit powder that you can mix with water. Their called Tang. And often we like to buy Nestle Chocolate milk mix. Lunch is our main meal. It´s a little wierd having to get use to eating a huge meal for lunch and then just little bits in the morning and night. The food is awesome though. Plus every week they have massive street markets with fruits and vegetables. We like to indulge ourselves often.

I love you all and I especially love all the emails!

 

Con Amor Elder Shannon

Week 9 and lots of pictures!

Oi!

Well the mission continues. We´ve been making good progress with some investigators this past week. We have one woman who loves to cook food for us so after every lesson with her she feeds us. She´s really wanting to change her life around and be a better person! This past sunday we invited her and 6 other peopl to church. Only one showed up. It was an old man who we love and are teaching. He actually showed up at 8 instead of 8:30 for church, haha. But yeah, we´re working hard.

So i´ve been introduced to some new food here. And it´s AWESOME! For those of you who thought I was a picky eater.....well lets just say, you don´t know me. Brazilians love to eat and always have some food laying around to give us. It´s a shame the States don´t have some of the fruit that´s here.

The music here is interesting. Brazilians like something called Funk. It´s not exactly like Funk in the States. But everyone just rides around blasting something that they call music. And they also like to have Funk parties in the street.

Anyways, being here and the time I spend studying the scriptures I´ve found things that i have never noticed before. Its awesome what you can learn when you take time to study the scriptures. Also i´ve learned here that life is hard and sucks sometimes but in the States we have it so much better. We´re teaching a man who has diabetes and other health problems. He has trouble walking and he´s like 60. He was the man that showed up to church early. We have another man who has to have heart surgery next week. There are many more. These people live in conditions that most Americans wouldn´t be able to stand but they have families that they love and they go to work everyday and quite a few of them don´t have cars and so they have to walk. Heavenly Father knows our lives are hard but we neet to show our faith just like some of the Brazilians here. Christ paid the ultimate price, the least we can do is persevere a bit.

    Well there is my spiel for the week. I love you all and hope things are going good in the north.

Love

Elder Shannon

Week 8

Todo Bom!

As of today I have been on a mission for 2 months! I´m about half way done with my transfer in my first area. Brazil is an awesome place!

So I´ve recieved a few emails concerning weather. Contrary to what it says online, it is blistering hot here everyday. Add that to the hills that we walk up each day and I wish I could have some freezing cold weather! I got a bit of a tan mark because of the watch I wear so I spent this entire past week not wearing my watch just to even it all out.

Cool story: My companion and I were leaving a lesson one day and we found a huge crowd of people in the street. We saw that two girls were arguing with eachother and the crowd was holding them back from eachother. Then the two girls were let go and they ran at eachother and began fighting like dogs. This went on for a bit. My comp and I ran into a store to use the bathroom and when we came out we saw that their moms were fighting eachother. One of them had a large stick and was chasing the other up and down the streets! It was really funny. I guess that´s their form of civil justice here.

Missionary work continues to be good but difficult. We talk to lots of people each day and make appointments but some of them usually give us a wrong address. But we actually found these 3 women who are super interested. They were references from a previous family we taught who moved to another area. They are a bit crazy because they love that I am an american and I can hardly speak the language. But if that´s how we get into their house then so be it. Hahaha. Anyways, I want you to remember that life gets hard sometimes. But you need to trust in the Lord. He has a plan and even if you can´t see it, it´s there. Try not to doubt and stay positive! I love you all!

Con Amor

Elder Shannon

Some catching up- Two letters in one. He made it to Brazil, Yay!

Letter #6:

HEYYYY

What a week. I´ll take it from the top. So i took my flight from utah to atlanta georgia. There i met up with 8 other missionaries who had all been waiting for their visas here in the states. They are all assigned in the same mission as me! We got on to our flight from atlanta to Sao Paulo. It was about 9 hours. The captain said we flew faster than planned. Between the flight and the night before, i got about 2-3 hours of sleep. Seems like enough, right? We landed and went and got our passports checked and got our luggage. There was some brazilain man with a sign waiting for us. I guess he does some kind of work for the mission office. We then picked up 15 other missionaries form the brazil MTC and headed to the mission president´s house. It was a really nice place. There we met him, his wife and his assistants. They gave us a pack of things with information and our mission debit card. After we went to the church to get a little bit of training and to meet our trainers. Mine is an from argentine and his name is Elder Batalla. He´s been here for  10 months already so he is fluent in the language and knows what to do. From the church we went to our house. We actually got a bit lost trying to find the right bus to get on. We live in a small little house with another set of elders. They are Elder Lawrence from minnesota and Elder G.Santos from portugal. Elder Santos was actually in the top 10 for portugal idol. It´s like american idol. He sings really well and he has videos on youtube. Anyways, the people here are awesome. They´re really easy to talk to unlike americans. They also love to feed you more than you can handle. They don´t have a lot but they still feed us very well. Our diet is mostly beans rice some meat and lettuce. It doesn´t change much from that. But their desserts!!!! Oh my gosh!!! I can´t really explain them but the desserts here are so delicious! Oh also they have very tasty soda here. I´m enjoying the food here.

Well my comp and I have already taught many people and also just talked to people. He does most the work because I can not understand 85% of what anyone says. And when I do, I can hardly respond. It´s super frustrating. I really want to join in and talk to these people but I can´t. It´s probably going to be like this for the next 6 weeks. But I´m in luck. Elder Batalla lived in Georgie for 2 years so he knows quite a bit of enlish. Elder Santos has studied it and speaks it almost fluently. So I´m not completely lost.

It´s super hot here. I think i sweat like 10 gallons a day. A little disgusting. 

It took me the first day to really grasp that I am in Brazil but I´m over it and I love it here. Though we have some super super steep roads. AND our house isn´t even in our area!!! It takes about 15 min to walk to our area. Most days we are on the far end of our area away from our house and it takes about 45 min to walk home. My feet and legs are sore everyday. It´s all good though cause it´s super cool here.

Anyways, if you have questions let me know! I don´t know if I´m forgetting anyting. I hope everything is going good!

Con Amor

Elder Shannon

Letter #7:

Todo Bem!!!!

So I´m beginning my 2nd week here. It´s still super difficult to communicate but it´s all good. I´ve become really good at smiling and nodding. It´s progress. So we tried to teach a woman this past week but it was a little difficult because her husband was drunk and trying to tell us bible stories. It was really funny. Here in Brazil there are some new religions that i´ve never heard of before. There is one called Spiritualism. Weird. They believe that the bible is false and a bunch of things having to do with spirit stuff and spiritual surgery. We found out about it from a man we talked to off the street. Afterwards we found out he was actually a homosexual. He told us he knew what he was doing was wrong but he didn´t want to change. So we told him if he ever wanted to change to call us up. Also we think he is a little crazy in the head. Who knows.

So on wednesday I had to go to the federal police station to get my ``green card´´ so incase any police talk to us, I have proof that I´m legal. My comp and I had to travel on the metro for about an hour and a half just to get to the mission office. We arrived about 9pm along with all the missionaries that arrived the same day as I did. We spent several hours the next day taking pictures, writing down information and giving our finger prints. Afterwards we got to go to a brazilian buffet!! Talk about delicous! Oh and we´d been wearing the same clothes for 2 days because we didn´t want to carry a big bad of clothes around all day. We were smelling pretty gooood.

Anyways, everyday is hot and sweat but we talk to lots of people and we fill up our schedual with lots of contacts on the street. The walking is difficult but I´m getting use to it. We also have to be careful of two things. One is the sunburn and the other are the mosquitos. In about 3 days I got covered with somewhere around 40 bites during the night. We´ve been told that my area, Mauá, has never seen mosquitos this bad before.

People here are usually really nice. Twice this week we´ve had people buy us drinks from off the street and another man tried to give us money. Mormons are popular in Brazil.

Today we get to go to an event called vinte cinco which is a massive street market festival. Hopefully i can find some cool things to buy!

So for those of you who may send packages a few things:

1- When you send it and they ask how much it´s worth, don´t say more than $50

2-If you have to say what´s in it or what it´s for, say it´s simply missionary supplies

If you don´t, there´s a chance i´d have to pay a lot of money to pick it up.

If they don´t ask for these things then well alright!

Hope everything is going good in the states!

Con Amor

Elder Shannon