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