Fique Firme

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Ola meu familia!!!
So the weeks are going by so fast, and yet it feels like I’ve been here for so long already. SO much happens everyday. I have to think about what happened this week. Some new Portuguese missionaries came this week so we are no longer the newest kids on the block. One of the elders went to Highland High School and a couple of the sisters I already knew because they went to BYU this last year. A good friend of mine Savannah Neal is in our group now and she is heading to Brazil as well. I got called down to the front desk and they sent me over to the travel service desk and then I was informed that I GOT MY VISA! I leave a week from today to the Brazil mission training center. I’m so excited and so anxious. Now I have to learn so much more Portuguese so fast because I will be completely surrounded Portuguese speakers. The downside is that I can’t get anymore packages in the Mission Training Center once I leave. I've really gotten a lot closer to the people in my zone and in my class. I feel bad for the ones that didn't get their visas and the people I'm leaving behind. Also today a whole group of elders left for Brazil and had too much stuff to fit in their suitcases so they left behind so much food and ties and It was like Christmas in July. This week a sister dislocated her shoulder playing volleyball, an Elder sprained his ankle pretty bad playing volleyball another Elder had to use his Epi pen after an allergic reaction. You could say it was a rough week. I hurt my shoulder a little bit in the Gym but I've been doing some therapy with it and it feels almost back to normal. Everyone had hospital visits and are all healed up now. 

Lows-
-Missing my family
-Hurt my shoulder at the gym 
-I’m thinking in half English and half Portuguese now so I’m essentially braindead
-I have so much Portuguese study to do this week
-Because I’m going to Brazil I’m leaving the friend here
-We are pretty sure everyone is getting hurt because the new missionaries cursed us
-The Romanian elders realized they are going to be in the place where vampires come from and have decided to start carrying wooden stakes and holy water with them at all times

Highs-
-My Visa Came
-A package full of cookies and cookie dough
-We did lots of service this week
-We are getting pretty dang good at volleyball
-We have been memorizing so much
-Teaching one of our lessons in Portuguese didn’t go so well but we laughed about it
-Everyone is still alive after this week
-The Romanian Elders are our designated Vampire Hunters
-We learned so much

Word of the week-
FIQUE FIRME (stay strong)


I miss everyone 
Sorry I am always so bad at emails
TUDO BEM

-Elder Sheffield

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