Hey family,
okay i have Alot to say today. first, i can not send emails to other people besides family. so friends... im sorry. okay second is congrats to mom and patric, parabens!. third, last week was the day that i transfered and i was on a bus or in a bus station for the majority of the day. so sorry. but ya. so ya hear it goes....
tuesday:
we got off the plane in joao pessoa and the president, his wife, and the APs were there waiting for all of us. we went to the mission home and had a couple hours of training, interview with the president, etc. then we had a great dinner with a slide presentation that showed our area, zone and a video of our companion. then bed.
wednesday:
woke up, got ready, and headed out on a bus. after the bus broke down and we were stuck for and hour we got to Natal and i met my companion Elder De Oliveira. He has been out for ten months and he is awesome. he speaks no english. then after 4 or 5 hours in the bus station we went to our area. called Goininha. we are the only missionaries within like 45 minutes. so the town is all ours
Thursday
first real real day. we went out and started teaching. really hard, i thought i knew alot of portuguese. turns out i know none. haha. its 100% normal for missionaries to say that the first week of there mission in the field is the hardest week of there life. it was really hard. but if this is the hardest week of my life, then i will have an amazing life. it is truly difficult to teach and have investigators and members laugh at you. ha but they say it takes 6 to 7 months to get the language down. thats if you hardly study. im not waiting 6 months!! my goal is to be able to communicate with everyone in 2 months from today.
anyway the people here are receptive to the gospel, and i love them already, and they love me. the love americans and they LOVE tall people, so its good.
for friday and saturday basically copy and paste thursday. haha. teaching alot and walking in the heat and rain, and seeing all sorts of animals and beatiful things. and i ate goat. yes goat. and it was sooo good. i didnt know what is was till i was done and then companion told me. ha.
oh before i forget, monday is my pday so u will get letters every monday.
ok so sunday. we have to walk around the entire city and pick up out investigators. its a long walk and even longer when you are soaking wet, but once we got to church it was great. we had more people at the church this weel then ever. its a group of 20 people. no bishop no branch president, a leader. 2 people not including us have the preisthood. so we perform all the ordinances. but this weel we had 43 people at church. doubled the usual. its was awesome. oh and i had my first baptism. a 16 year old boy named romulo. we taught him this week everyday and he chose me to baptize him. so cool. such a nice expericence. we have 2 set up already for next week. so excited. well im going to go. i love it here. its hard. its stressful. and it sucks not being able to be myself cuz i can hardly communicate. but i love it. thanks to all of you for everything. i love u all
Elder Fletcher
okay i have Alot to say today. first, i can not send emails to other people besides family. so friends... im sorry. okay second is congrats to mom and patric, parabens!. third, last week was the day that i transfered and i was on a bus or in a bus station for the majority of the day. so sorry. but ya. so ya hear it goes....
tuesday:
we got off the plane in joao pessoa and the president, his wife, and the APs were there waiting for all of us. we went to the mission home and had a couple hours of training, interview with the president, etc. then we had a great dinner with a slide presentation that showed our area, zone and a video of our companion. then bed.
wednesday:
woke up, got ready, and headed out on a bus. after the bus broke down and we were stuck for and hour we got to Natal and i met my companion Elder De Oliveira. He has been out for ten months and he is awesome. he speaks no english. then after 4 or 5 hours in the bus station we went to our area. called Goininha. we are the only missionaries within like 45 minutes. so the town is all ours
Thursday
first real real day. we went out and started teaching. really hard, i thought i knew alot of portuguese. turns out i know none. haha. its 100% normal for missionaries to say that the first week of there mission in the field is the hardest week of there life. it was really hard. but if this is the hardest week of my life, then i will have an amazing life. it is truly difficult to teach and have investigators and members laugh at you. ha but they say it takes 6 to 7 months to get the language down. thats if you hardly study. im not waiting 6 months!! my goal is to be able to communicate with everyone in 2 months from today.
anyway the people here are receptive to the gospel, and i love them already, and they love me. the love americans and they LOVE tall people, so its good.
for friday and saturday basically copy and paste thursday. haha. teaching alot and walking in the heat and rain, and seeing all sorts of animals and beatiful things. and i ate goat. yes goat. and it was sooo good. i didnt know what is was till i was done and then companion told me. ha.
oh before i forget, monday is my pday so u will get letters every monday.
ok so sunday. we have to walk around the entire city and pick up out investigators. its a long walk and even longer when you are soaking wet, but once we got to church it was great. we had more people at the church this weel then ever. its a group of 20 people. no bishop no branch president, a leader. 2 people not including us have the preisthood. so we perform all the ordinances. but this weel we had 43 people at church. doubled the usual. its was awesome. oh and i had my first baptism. a 16 year old boy named romulo. we taught him this week everyday and he chose me to baptize him. so cool. such a nice expericence. we have 2 set up already for next week. so excited. well im going to go. i love it here. its hard. its stressful. and it sucks not being able to be myself cuz i can hardly communicate. but i love it. thanks to all of you for everything. i love u all
Elder Fletcher
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