Week Eight

Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:51 AM


Hi mom!


I´m glad things have been going well for you guys! This week is really strange, because it´s our last at the CTM, but it´s been really great and I know we´ll push through to the end. I can´t believe that we´ve been here for 2 months already! I´m so excited for conference this weekend!! It´s going to be so cool to experience it as a missionary. How are things on a more recent note? We went proselyting on Friday in the center of São Paulo; it was crazy! This city is so BIG, I almost forgot because we´re in the same building all day long. We were contacting on this bridge, and there were so many people there moving so fast that it was a little overwhelming at first, but I said a prayer with Elder Stevenson and we got to work. It went so well! We talked to some families, which are like the bread and butter of missionaries, and we handed out Books of Mormon, too. I don´t know if they´ll lead to anything, but it was good to know we gave people the opportunity. I´m so excited for the field!! Elder Stevenson, Three other elders in my district, five brasileiros and I will leave for Curitiba October 5th. I´m excited to be out there and find out what it´s going to be like, but I´m a little apprehensive still. I do know I´m ready to leave the CTM, that´s for sure. Portuguese is coming, but I think I´m going to be learning a lot once I get into the field.


I love you mom, and hope you have a great week.


-Eric







Hi dad!



Everything´s going well here, it´s my last P-day at the CTM, which is kind of weird but really cool at the same time. I´ve gotten a lot of your letters, I´m not sure how many you´ve sent but I really appreciate it. It´s been nice to have some mail. I´m still stuffed up and stuff but I´m sure I´ll acclimate soon, the weather just changed from dry to wet, so that will take some time. I´m sure I´ll be fine in time for the field. We´re all getting ready to go, and it´s kind of hard to wait, but we know there´s a reason we´re here this last week, so we´re working with it. I don´t know anything about what will happen next week beyond guesses from our instructors, but we´ll figure it out when we get there. I´ve realized there´s not a whole lot of use in speculating when you´re going to be undergoing changes on a semi-consistent basis. It´s been really good to be at the CTM though; I´ve liked it. Oh and last Friday we went proselyting in downtown São Paulo! It was so intense; that make me feel like a real missionary. We talked to quite a few people, a lot that weren´t interested but some that were, and they got our Books of Mormon, it was so cool! And we found out that even though our Portuguese isn´t perfect, we could explain what we wanted. It was so great!! I love you dad and I´ll be in touch next week from the Field! Have a great week!!!


-Eric