letter to mom on sept 30th

mom, i got the package with the tie in it. i love the tie, tell annie good pick!! and i now know that you have a very hard time reading my letters cause i suck at writing so i'm going to take twice as long on this letter to try and mike it legible. (you can read this letter much better hand writing) . ok let me know if you can read it. i hope you can. so saturday the 27th we got to teach the 1st lesson to a brazilion family. you can only imagine hor that went. they recorded us so we could watch ourselves teach. ha ha. it was so funny. O not really. it actually went pretty well! my portugese is a little rusty i asked "how does the gospel bless your family"OOPSIE. the first lesson they are not members! but it wasstill fun. i had a hard time understanding all of their questions but it will slowly come. this sunday the 28th was fast sunday cause next week is conference! i cant wait. church is in English. they split the brazilian districts up from americans. we go to the temple weekly. Sao Paulo on the 30th it is a beautiful temple inside temple session are in english. i really do love the tie idea. i figure ill get about 24 ties right. well 23 left and i should be getting tie #2 this month soon. send it to the feild. i think as long as 24 months is it will go fast. one month is already done and i just got here yesterday. so i also go the letter about rethas labor. sounds intense. how is she doing? she will be a great mom. ryan he will be a fun dad. when the baby is two i will be home!! lets not look at it that way. ha ha.

really i am loving it here. the spirit is so strong. sundays are amazing. i bore my testimony on prayer sunday. it is so crazy. the spirit is goin gto kill me sometimes i think cause its SOOO STRONG. one of pauls letters he wrote "pray to god like he is standing right in front of you cause he is". those lines hit deep in me. as you know i wasnt the best at praying, but since i have been here i have been praying LOTS and studying LOTS. i have started to learn how to pray.i can feel the lord right in front of me. ive learned to talk with him not at him. i can literally feel his pressence in my life. im almost mad at myself. ive had all of this my whole life and never enjoyed the fulness of the gospel. ive never been more happy than i am now!! i love to think that i am so close to my savior. i am all his for two years. i amd so happy. "i am all about service". that has never been more true then now. i hope i am this happy when i get home. i am going to be sad when it is over. it just started but i can tell now it will be to short.

hows the twin falls temple? i made some mission goals. tell me if they are good or if there is anymore i should have ok.
1. be trusted by all
2. love the people
3. be someone others can count on
4. always work hard
5. follow the rules
6. no regrets
7. be happy
8. stay focused
9. serve all (dont judge).
10. do it for me and the lord
11. be a leader
how are they?

in personal study the other day i studied out alma 5. awesome chapter. christ is a stud. i love him. he is amazing. i love that chapter. anyways everything is going great. i hope you could read this letter a little better :) i tried to write better. not sure if i did though. i love you. hope all is well. i got a letter form grandma and chris jones!!! awesome week.

well i love you and thanks for everything. you are a great mom and example. you have always been a great support to me in everything i do. i appriciate it even if i dont always show it you are the best. oh i just remembered a few more things. sorry. is my cousin josh out of jail? what is up with him? how is brother Gee is he doing well? tell him hi for me. Pslams 119; 105 is also a great scripture. substitute "word" with scriptures. the scriptures are awesome i love reading them. i think that is all. i love you. love elder stanger.

i might see Miguel Tuesday afternoon. but i wont have time to write about it much. so i will probably write more next week if i dont.

you will never guess what i just saw we are on a bus ride back to the ctm from the sao paulo temple. we just drove under an over pass bridge. we just saw a pile of seadoo crates weird huh. it was like wow home. ha ha. only the guys on the side of the road were using them wisely than dad. they were taking the wood and making houses out of them. ha ha. it was crazy cool. anyways i just thought i would let you know you could make houses instead of just throwing them away. love you E stanger