March 10, 2009
The first thing I’m greated with as I get of the bus last week HOT HOT HOT, and while it's not hell it sure is extremely hot down here. Last week it was 40 in our room at 10:30 its Nice and hot down here, but it's all good.

So the ward here is good and bad. this ward for the past 12 weeks (again) hasn’t had any real missionary work done so we have some work to do, but I’m excited.

So its hard to describe my area, I’m like 45 minutes bus ride away from any other area. Its weird it is like jungles(not really jungle more like forest), then my little area with about ohh 23,000 ish has very few paved roads, then forest again. I can’t think of a good way to explain it to yall I’ll work on that maybe if I can remember.

The chapel is in our area, its nice, and pretty new but just one ward dad.
There is no wind down here. After the first week here I got a lot of sun(yes I’m using sunscreen before you ask big al)

My house is really nice just was really dirty, I really don’t like to clean and my level of live able mess is pretty high as you know, but this is just plain crazy. So I spent today cleaning, I really don’t like cleaning I think you guys know that!

It's all good, so now we are teaching English here, so there’s a lot of people excited about that!

Oh yeah so matt was lucky, I’ve only had 3 Brazilian companions that could speak English, that’s breaking the odds of life. Its crazy only like 30 or so Brazilians speak English, so that helps me not go crazy, but it is not helping me learn Portuguese.
Oh so this family in our ward , they are really funny. Their borther in law looks like me a lot well, actually when I was bigger, and so they keep calling me Macel it is funny, but they are a good family and they have helped us al ot here already.
Thats all for now.

Love,
Elder Linford