It started off with service, cleaning a different dorm building. Then for personal exercise, we played tag which was pretty fun. Then we went off to host new missionaries. It was pretty fun to see all the new missionaries who are so scared and show them around. I was showing one missionary to their classroom when one of the teachers said to me, "Do you know a Matt Carlson?" I said "Yeah, he's the coolest brother ever!" Turns out, it was Zach Collier. Out of nowhere. It was fun to see him. Then my trio got to do this thing where we show the new missionaries how to begin teaching. It was alright. We didn't do as good as we would have liked. It was really hard to teach in English after teaching in Portuguese for so long. We didn't go to any class that day.
Thursday was just a normal day. I don't have any funny stories, just lots of class. We did get to Skype with some native Brazilians, which was a cool experience. For gym time, the district played volleyball in the gym, which is usually pretty fun. I and one other elder, Elder Jensen, like to do "trick shots" which means we headbutt the ball or use our elbows. Just non-conventional volleyball moves. Recently I've been studying the Bible Dictionary. It's actually really amazing all the cool stuff you can learn. Like that Gospel means "good news" and the bible is the good news of Christ. I always get to bed late and get up really early. Usually like wake up at 6 AM and go to bed at 11 PM. I'm excited to finally get out into the field.
Friday, nothing interesting happened. Sorry. My district is really cool. We're very diverse but we mesh together well.
Saturday, we had a couple new teachers sit in to watch the teaching process. One of them took over for about an hour or so. When he introduced himself, I recognized his last name, Laws, but I didn't recognize his face. So when we got a bit of study time, I asked, "Would your first name be Asa by any chance?" He replied in the affirmative. I said "I think I know you..." Asa apparently recognized me when he first saw me and he had also seen the picture that Zach had taken. Asa isn't one of my teachers but it was cool to see him. And he had a lot of stories about Brazil which were very informative. He went to Manaus which is the Amazon, so very different from the coast but they were still fun to listen to.
Sunday, however was very good. We listened to a devotional by Elder Holland titled "Missions are Forever". It was quite inspiring. He talked about what a mission actually means and why you're actually serving one. It was a classic Elder Holland, fire in the eyes talk.
Monday was quite fun. We started off the day by playing volleyball out at the missionary field. It was really nice but then it started raining really, really hard. We got SOAKED! It was a lot of fun. For class, we talked about who our investigators really were. It was really cool to see who they really were. They were all people who my teachers taught while in Brazil.
A couple of other things, school started today, so my district is changing teachers. I haven't met my new teachers yet. My old ones were named Brother Gabriel and Sister De Campos. She was Sister Peterson but she was married about two weeks ago. They're both really cool people and they can deal with my very inquisitive nature. I do not have my visa yet and chances are I won't for a couple months. I'll find out on Friday for certain where I'm going and when I'm leaving.
Much, much love,
-Elder Michael Carlson
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