so this week was cool.
sunday i went to my last area for a brithday party of that family we were teaching that wasnt married and we were trying to marry them. the rich family. well i got there and they were way excited to see me as i was to see them. it was way cool. the mom was so excited she like ran up to me and hugged me and kissed me haha. i was like uhhh haha. it was way weird. haha. but its normal in brazil. you hug and kiss everyone. its like shaking hands in brazil. haha. it was funny. but anyway they said they decided to get married!!!! YES. that means they will be able to be baptized.
my comp went to manaus this week to renew his visa and the comp of Elder mason was transfered so me and elder mason hung out this week haha. it was way fun. elder mason is going to train again so i will have a little brother and wont be the only son anymore :( haha. but ya it was a great week.
yes! it has been a year, but i dont think i will burn a shirt casue they get warn out faster casue of the way we have to wash them :( so i will keep all the ones i have to make it to the end of my mission!!!
well i hope all is great iwth you all!!! i love ya!love elder stanger
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
August 19, 2009
our contacts are going good. the mission rule is 25 per week and we are doing it but this last week the 25 street contacts we did only 3 lived in our area. that is the problem with working in the center. 
well love ya
my comps name is Elder T. Davis. he is from oregon but his fam moved to salt lake recently. he turned 21 on sunday and has a year and 4 months in the mission. he is way cool. prob my fav comp so far. were doing just great. i have no clue if i will be transfered. prob not though. and the transfers will be sunday.
the food is still just rice and beans. i dont think it will change to much. every once in a while there is a weird meat or somethign but ill let ya know when that happens ok!!!
the weather, well its still bloody hot haha. my toe is good but now another one is hurting. its the one that i broke a few years ago but never straightened it. but o well thats misson life right!!!
and ya the drive on the spyder thruough yellowstone sounds like a BLAST. and romantic. ill for sure do that with a girl when i get back..hahaha.
well we are teaching a family and the husband is a member and was baptised like 20 years ago but inactive this whole time and we got his wife as a referance so we taught her found out her husband was a member!!! so they went to chruch sunday and were received great. brazilians are so friendly. and she read 3 nefi 11 and she asked us if she good be baptised with her kids. so we were like heck ya haha. we makred for the 30th of this month!!!! yes reactivate a man and baptise a family :).
well we are teaching a family and the husband is a member and was baptised like 20 years ago but inactive this whole time and we got his wife as a referance so we taught her found out her husband was a member!!! so they went to chruch sunday and were received great. brazilians are so friendly. and she read 3 nefi 11 and she asked us if she good be baptised with her kids. so we were like heck ya haha. we makred for the 30th of this month!!!! yes reactivate a man and baptise a family :).
so this week we got home to houre house and i saw a cockroach onthe ground so i killed it. then i saw another and another and so on...haha. we found there hiding place under the sink and we killed about 50 that night and then woke up the next day with daiarria because of all the chimicals we used to kill them. i think we got a little sick haha. but now were all good so now worries :)
also Anita, a recent convert was way cool/funny this week. the cool part is we had an Açai party at her house. we drank TONS of açai haha. the funny part is my comps bday was sunday and here in brazil they sell towels with naked girls on them. so after chruch we go to anitas house and she gives my comp a naked girl towel. it was weird. haha. but ya thats this week. some ?´s for you.
well love yaWednesday, August 12, 2009
New Comp & Loads of Fruit
Coconut
Papaya
Garbage
Fruithey mother. ya i have a new comp. his name is Elder T Davis. he is from oregon but his family has recently moved to salt lake. he is way cool and he is from the manaus mission so im learning LOTS of new rules and stuff of how pres jayme works. its way diff the pres milder but im just doing my best to get used to the new mision life. its really weird some stuff. but all is great
Friday, August 7, 2009
Life is Great!
Dear Family, How goes beautiful 1st world country? All is going great here. I am hoping you have not forgotten me... (no mail?) Well, let's see... you have already heard about the Mission division. That's crazy huh? I mean. I am serving in "two" missions as a young man!
News from here: My toe is killing me! I think I might be going to the hospital and amputate it:( I hate pain.) Other than that, life is great!
There are NO tourist here. They do not know Acre even exists. There are some hotels, but they are by the hour if you know what I mean.
I want to bring a monkey home with me next year. They're cute little guys.
I am living in an apartment right now. It's about the size of Annie's Room... That is including study area kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, laundry room etc.... It's tiny! Ha Ha. You guys are really blessed. We are really blessed. The ppl. we teach here live in houses worse then our old wooden barn but smaller. They don't have plumbing so everything (poop, pee, shower water, sink water, garbage, etc.. ) just goes in the streets so it's all really swampy and gross as you can imagine. It is a crazy life.. Just imagine living in that wooden barn... cooking, sleeping, eating and NO you do not get a bed, just a blanket on the floor and YES the bugs stay there too. That is how it is. For water to wash the dishes and stuff they just have a bucket full next to the sink cause NO plumbing to pump water to the house. The other day I was teaching and most of the time we sit on the floor cause ppl don't have chairs, but while I was teaching a cockroach came and visited me. I hate those litle guys. They are annoying! Well that's all folks! Love you lots!
(note from mom: PLEASE WRITE HIM)
News from here: My toe is killing me! I think I might be going to the hospital and amputate it:( I hate pain.) Other than that, life is great!
There are NO tourist here. They do not know Acre even exists. There are some hotels, but they are by the hour if you know what I mean.
I want to bring a monkey home with me next year. They're cute little guys.
I am living in an apartment right now. It's about the size of Annie's Room... That is including study area kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, laundry room etc.... It's tiny! Ha Ha. You guys are really blessed. We are really blessed. The ppl. we teach here live in houses worse then our old wooden barn but smaller. They don't have plumbing so everything (poop, pee, shower water, sink water, garbage, etc.. ) just goes in the streets so it's all really swampy and gross as you can imagine. It is a crazy life.. Just imagine living in that wooden barn... cooking, sleeping, eating and NO you do not get a bed, just a blanket on the floor and YES the bugs stay there too. That is how it is. For water to wash the dishes and stuff they just have a bucket full next to the sink cause NO plumbing to pump water to the house. The other day I was teaching and most of the time we sit on the floor cause ppl don't have chairs, but while I was teaching a cockroach came and visited me. I hate those litle guys. They are annoying! Well that's all folks! Love you lots!
(note from mom: PLEASE WRITE HIM)
Thursday, August 6, 2009
BATHROOM :)
OH MY!This is a bathroom at a house. this is how almost all the house bathrooms are in the neighborhood we are working. WAY poor. I just go behind houses or something, i think its more sanitary haha.
House fallin down!
River!
Me Brandao Comp
Arison & Me!
Taken at Anita's home, a recent converts home.She is AWESOME!
August 6th.. A visit to a Chacara
so about my week. well, not a whole lot happend this week. it was more like just a normal week. i did eat some armidillo. i dont know how to spell it but it was alright tasting.
cute dog 
pineapple
vacation time!
comp kissing dog!
Ya! It's a big SpYder!
Fish!
Cacau
yesterday we went to a chacara of a member. its like a cabin in the jungle haha.
but it was AWESEOME. so so so much fruit there that is way good. haha. like lots of fruit. and these chacaras are WAY cheap. to buy the land and the house it cost like $12,000 dollors and its like alot of land. like the size of our lane and yard and draw at our house!!! and there are tons of fruit and animals. its cool. but ya that was about all that happend this week.
but it was AWESEOME. so so so much fruit there that is way good. haha. like lots of fruit. and these chacaras are WAY cheap. to buy the land and the house it cost like $12,000 dollors and its like alot of land. like the size of our lane and yard and draw at our house!!! and there are tons of fruit and animals. its cool. but ya that was about all that happend this week. 
cute dog 
pineapple
vacation time!
comp kissing dog!
Ya! It's a big SpYder!
Fish!
Cacaulast night the ward did a surprise good bye party for my comp. it was really good.
Adalgisa, the lady we baptised two weeks ago is WAY firm...she is doing great. she will help the ward here a ton. but she bore a quick testimony at the party and it was awesome. she was just thanking us soo much for finding her and helping her move her life and how she will never forget about us for her wholel life.!!!!
Adalgisa, the lady we baptised two weeks ago is WAY firm...she is doing great. she will help the ward here a ton. but she bore a quick testimony at the party and it was awesome. she was just thanking us soo much for finding her and helping her move her life and how she will never forget about us for her wholel life.!!!!
Saturday, August 1, 2009
week of July 31st, 2009
my pres. well he is way laid back. ive only met him once but he is way relaxed and laid back. haha. this last year will be alot dif then the first year of my mission. im way excited. i know i will love it. i will be able to breath a little i think haha. i love pres milder to its just they are diff ppl and i love them both and ya haha. its gonna be great.. and 3 packages? what did you put in them haha. thats alot of stuff haha. thats nuts. but ya. all is great here. love ya lots.
we had a baptism sunday!!! her name is Adalgisa. she is way cool. she was deff being prepared before we met her. she was a referance from a member. so we had some FHEs with her and her family. she loved them and so we continued teaching her. she had a few big problems with some comandments but she dropped them all like it was nothing!!! for example she smoked and drank ALOT of coffee. she droped those two things like it was nothing and she was also having a big problem with the 7th comandment inthe 10 comomandments. ya she was sleeping with her best friends husband and her best friend didnt know. she been with him for 10 years and has 2 kids with him but when we taught her this comandment she talked to the guy and put and end to it. she will be a great member. she is very well educated which is hard to find here and she makes good money and is already paying her tithing!!!! she will be a great help for the chruch here. also there were some ppl from Peru here this last week selling cool hand made stuff so i bought a couple of cool things!!! :) also this week it got WAY cold. i almost died. it got to like 60 degrees i think but here no one is prepared. all i had to sleep with was a sheet but a recent convert game me a little blanket that helped a little i think. haha. i dont know because i was still dyeing from the cold. ahha. i slept in a sweater pants socks and all sorts of clothing. haha. i also didnt shower for like 3 days cause the water was SOOOO cold haha. and another thing this week that is way crazy. the moms here LOVE the scripture in proverbs 23:13-14. every one uses this scripture. its anoying. i feel bad for the kids here cause they all get beat. seriously. we got to a house and there was a liittle boy kneeling in a pile of beans and we asked why and she said she was hitting him and wanted to stop so she put him there and we asked why in beans and she said casue it makes it hurt worse. yikes. haha. another lady took telefone wire and made like a whip out if it and beats her kids with it. ppl here are CRAZY ! but ya that was my week. it was great. well the baptism part haha.
and have a great week.elder stanger
we had a baptism sunday!!! her name is Adalgisa. she is way cool. she was deff being prepared before we met her. she was a referance from a member. so we had some FHEs with her and her family. she loved them and so we continued teaching her. she had a few big problems with some comandments but she dropped them all like it was nothing!!! for example she smoked and drank ALOT of coffee. she droped those two things like it was nothing and she was also having a big problem with the 7th comandment inthe 10 comomandments. ya she was sleeping with her best friends husband and her best friend didnt know. she been with him for 10 years and has 2 kids with him but when we taught her this comandment she talked to the guy and put and end to it. she will be a great member. she is very well educated which is hard to find here and she makes good money and is already paying her tithing!!!! she will be a great help for the chruch here. also there were some ppl from Peru here this last week selling cool hand made stuff so i bought a couple of cool things!!! :) also this week it got WAY cold. i almost died. it got to like 60 degrees i think but here no one is prepared. all i had to sleep with was a sheet but a recent convert game me a little blanket that helped a little i think. haha. i dont know because i was still dyeing from the cold. ahha. i slept in a sweater pants socks and all sorts of clothing. haha. i also didnt shower for like 3 days cause the water was SOOOO cold haha. and another thing this week that is way crazy. the moms here LOVE the scripture in proverbs 23:13-14. every one uses this scripture. its anoying. i feel bad for the kids here cause they all get beat. seriously. we got to a house and there was a liittle boy kneeling in a pile of beans and we asked why and she said she was hitting him and wanted to stop so she put him there and we asked why in beans and she said casue it makes it hurt worse. yikes. haha. another lady took telefone wire and made like a whip out if it and beats her kids with it. ppl here are CRAZY ! but ya that was my week. it was great. well the baptism part haha.
and have a great week.elder stanger
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