A typical day

typical day. 6:30-7:00 pray exercise.
7:00-7:30 shower get ready (4 ppl 1 bathroom)
7:30-8:00 breakfast 8:00-9:00 personal study (BOM first, then Preach my Gospel, then other church stuff we want to study. i study D&C and mathew)
9:00-10:00 comp study(practice and prepare for lessons that day)
10:00-11:00 language study.
11:00_12:00 work
12:00-1:00 lunch at a members
1:00-9:30 work (walk, teach, walk, teach) we get an hour of dinner before 6:00.
9:30-10:00 plan for the next day.
10:00-10:30 write in jounal, shower, pray.
10:30 lights out

Are you Homesick?

im not homesick. i just think about home. but its not homesick. its just normal. haha. its hard to explain. but dont worry about me. im great. and the 3 kids that were supposed to be baptized..., well no. they back out the sunday of there baptism because ppl told them weird stuff about our chruch that wasnt true and we explained and answered there ?s but it was to late. they were like nope. so it was sad cause we were way excited for them to be baptized that day. but we got a couple new ones now. we knocked doors (clapped hands) on the houses around ours and found a family that we think will be really good. never been taught and her house is in front of ours. weird. but we only taught once and it was short. we didnt have much time. but she talked lots and seemed really interested. so we marked for friday. but its all going good. monday we walked to the bishops house. he lives WAY far away. like an hour to walk there (and we walk WAY fast) and we got there and no one was home so we had to walk back. it was GREAT. haha. its weird. thats the bishop. but the church is much newer here. haha. LOTS is different. still TRUE. just different. i LOVE the stuff im learning. haha. i always thought our church was so confound and dificult to learn. but wow, really its simple. the basics really are all we need. and ive learned the basics here alot more. i still have ltos to learn but when elder cook talked to the cuiaba stake everyone one here was soo excited to hear an apostle thinking of all he would do and guess what he talked about. strengthen families. family home evening, pray, scripture study. thats all he talked about. its true. the basics we need to strengthen more.

CTM photos

Love of Family & Christ, Merry Christmas

hey mom. so this last week not a lot happend out the ordinary aha. just> alot of trunky and stuff. haah. but thats normal right. its christmas. nothing i cant handle so dont worry. your prayers are greatly appreiciated. everyday i find another reason why the lord sent me here. i would die if i was in the states where ppl decorated for christmas. its not bad here> cause it doesnt seem like christmas.. our house is the only house in cuiaba with christmas presents and decorations. but tonigh we have a party with a recent convert. we all bought presents for the kids. and tomorrow night we have a chirstmas party at my recent converts. i cant wait. we bought those kids presents to. im sooo excited to see there faces when they see they have presents for chirstmas. they are soo cute.. one of the litlle girls always grabs my hand when were walking in the streets and im like no you cant do that sorry. its sad cause there just soo innocent and happy and have nothing. we are so spoiled in our family. not just with objects but just my family alone. im soo thankful for my family. i have an awesome support. i have like billions of letters and presents. i thank the lord all the time for my family. ive love reading the christmas stories and reading about christ. what a great time of year. i love giving presents to these ppl. i wish i was a millionare so i could just buy them all presents. there so happy with anything they get. ill prob give most of the presents i get to them to. and no im not saying i wont like my presents its just that if they could use them and it would make them sooo happy i might give some away. but ya....i love you thanks for everything. take lots of pics during chirstmas ok. thanks love you

A conversation in Portuguese

mom: Você pode escrever-me algo no português?(write me something in Portuguese)
Hyrum: o que você quer (what do you want)
Mom:Pergunte-me algo!(ask me something)

End of conversation!

1st Baptism

i had my first baptism..it was awesome.. she was confirmed also...so thats exciting...she just absolutly loves the church and everything about it....and ya its that family with the lady that was almost dying...but she is all better now i think..she went to a new doctor and he fixed her up. and she is way strong. her daughter and grandson are members so it counted as a family baptism so that was awesome.

Did you do the baptizing? ya i did it!

Photos: elder mason and me and the boy is glauber the one im baptising is waldirina and the her daughter is valderine and i dont know the two girls names. baptized sat...i think it was the 6th

1st Testimony

It rained a couple times this week. last week we had to shower using a bucket. but ya its awesome...the language is getting a little better...i know like 5 words now...haha..jk..sunday i bore my testimony and the other elders there were like i just wittnesed the gift of tongues elder..you spoke perfect..it was amazing...haha...so that was cool...