Portuguese Food!

uh... i donno which it is... i think its the chauntelle one. lets go with that one... and dang ash!!! she said she would be better cause you werent fwding them haha... oh gotta love my fam haha. jk, i totally do sooooooooooooo much!!!

and ps im super excited for the easter package!!! its crazy that its almost easter!!! (look into the boxes the post office has... the flat rate or something? maybe those are better priced? i donno.)

so, hears the scoop for this letter...
yo fam! alright, so i donno how much time i have but ill keep it shorter than last weeks...

so.... either opening an area is super hard, missions in general are super hard, or this mission is just plain hard. people here are super nice up until the trying to actually teach them anything! its annoying. especially because you begin to love them!! its not like a oh, i love them a little its like i really really love them...and then they take your heart and stomp on it! we are still teaching renato... hes from capo verde... hes awesome! super nice and accepting... but he just doesnt have a big enough desire to actually PRAY about the stuff we have been teaching him... he reads and he prays, but not about the book of mormon... it is so hard for me to watch him soooo close, but yet so far away. then we have the guy that i said reminded me of brad elmer... he came to church with us this sunday and went to a baptism with us... but i think that he just likes to talk to girls... (us) and likes our company more than the message... but we will see... we have an app. w him tomorrow... hopefully... we have a lady that we got as a new inves. yesterday through an awesome family that we have in our ward. i love her already! shes having a really hard time with life right now and looking for something in her life (oooo i know, i know... THE GOSPEL!) and my fav thing about her is that she speaks english!!!! woo hoo! we already made a connection on that which is so good cause if i cant say something in portuguese i can say it in english and she can understand haha.
so, one thing that i really like about my comp is that we open every lesson with a song and of course a prayer... in the mtc when they taught us about using hymns in lessons i thought they were crazy but wow. it is amazing how fast the spirit is brought and how strong it is felt when a hymn is sung! i love it!!! (and yes, it is just me and my comp singing while the inves. tries to sing along haha)
also, mom, this is for you... yesterday... I ATE TOMATOES!!! we had lunch at a members house and we had tomatoes and instead of having to explain that i dont like them in portuguese and then have to respond to their comments in portuguese, i just sucked it up and ate the nasty things. i about barfed. no joke. also, mom we have to cook our own food (duh) so... guess what i did... i cooked chicken. I TOUCHED IT RAW WITHOUT GLOVES!!!! it was so gross... but since then i have done it twice... and dont worry i have a picture of it for you.
so... um... super funny story for you all... Luiz, our lovely brazilian inves. that reminds me of brad... he doesnt live in a house. he lives in the back of a run down house ( i have a pic of that too...) in this shed room thing... anyways... we went to pick him up for church and we walked around the side of the house and there he was w his door open facing us... WITH HIS PANTS HALF DOWN AND NO BOXERS ON!!! luckily for me my comp went around the corner first so i didnt see anything... but, omg she about died!!! shes super proper... shes from england... anyways... it was HILARIOUS! she freaked out!
um... the think that i learned this week... be the best member missionary possible! full time missionaries need the help of the ward sooooo much! give them your references!!!! go to app.s with them... be so supportive of them! our ward here is awesome and they are such good examples to me of how i need to be after the mish! so fam and friends, give the missionaries references and go out with them on splits all the time! (especially you gibson!!!)

well fam, thats all i have time for... sorry i write so dang much!

oh, next week i will get a pic of my bff here! his name is pedro and he is AMAZING!!! he loves learning english from nickelodeon (sp?) and he helps me all the time to communicate with people at church and stuff... he has the best personality ever!!! love him haha.

also mom... in your package can you please send mascara... make up here is SOOOOOOOOO expensive!!!! like 18 euros for mascara... which is like 25 bucks!!! ew. and please, no water proof.

love you all! thanks for your support!!! i still need your prayers :)

com amor

irma graf