day 187

Hey Fam, This week was great i have a lot of stories to tell but little time i'll save some stories for next week.

The reason i have Elder Joseph is cuz this week we had zone confrence and Sister Canuto called me up to the pulpit using the name Elder Joseph it was really funny!!! 

This week we did some power training from Pres. Canuto where we bless the house and ask each of the members of the family if Jesus Christ was in front of your face what would you ask him?? And most of them say peace and happines and stuff like that and we did the prayer with the power of the preisthood and stuff and the ladie ended up crying and her husband too they could be a great baptism for this ward if we could get them thrown in the water in the next two weeks!! 

But thats about it from Elder Joseph ;) 

Peace

questions:

last letter you mentioned that being sick on the mish is the worst...when I've asked about you being sick, you said that you hadn't gotten sick yet...have you been?  I'm sorry...it is the worst!

not been sick yet

when have you felt the spirit this week?

The story above

how do you get around town?

Busses or my feets

who cuts your hair now?

My neighboor is a barber and he cuts for free too (non Member)

does Christian write you? or Jens?

Nopes their lame

Does anyone know it's your birthday this week? 

I DOOOOOOOO and my comps and the mish sends a letter to the whole mish with the birthdays of the week so i dont know...

Planning on doing anything for it?

WORK WORK WORK WORK SLEEP(HA) 

Did your package come? do you have to go get it from the mission home or do they forward it to your place?

Yups itll get to me on tuesday 

What are you planning on doing today for pday?

IDK I wanna go kick the ball but my comp wants to get suger cane drinks so IDK

day 180

Good morning to all and to all a good morning!! This week went by a little slower then i wanted it to but its all good!! Im sorry that you didnt have such a good week either that sucks being sick and its worst on the mish! 

questions:

do they have halloween? or what is similar there for them?

nope

are you pretty good about managing your time?  I'm not always good at this.

yup im good 

has anyone written you beside us?

not this week but yes

what do you miss most about merica?  :)

everything and my truck

were the gomez' pretty good cooks? 

yea i like them 

day 173

I'm having fun here in Araras theres alot of cool things to do here and lots of awesome opportunities for teaching. We arent really doing much now only cuz we are just now getting ajusted and stuff like that! but we didnt really do much this week.

Thats about it...

Peace Elder Smith

questions:

What is the new city like?  more farmy? or more citylike?

i live in the middle of the city and its lots of cities and junk

What is the favoriteist city to be called to?  

São Juão de Boa Vista cuz its the nicest area to go play in 

Is there a richer area? a poorer area?

Here there is and thats the other Elders' area so i get the poor areas...

Do you ever go sightseeing on your pdays?  See anything really special in brazil?

We might go today on the way to the church to kick around

where is your new companion from?

Chillie

Name?

Elder Jiménez

How long out?

7 months

Are there any cars on your mission? except perhaps in the mission home?

nopes

day 166 Transfers

I'm leaving Nova Venaza and going to Araras Rio Claro!! So this is a bitter-sweet moment... 

i dont want to leave my people here in Nova Veneza!! :( Im really going to miss this place!! The people here i really love them and im really going to miss it here!! But the journey continues in Rio Claro. The sweet part is im leaving Campello and Im going to be with a hispanic from Chilie. Idk how well that's going to help my Portuguese but we'll see how it goes... 

Its Blazing hot here and im dying of heat is it too much to ask for a little snow!?!?! 

This week went pretty well we went to Matão on wednesday and did a baptism interview and then went home thursday 

we did a service project with helping a member build his roof cuz its one of the last things that he needs to do to finish his house so we did that for almost the whole day then on friday we did the same thing with the service project 

then saturday we went to Matão again for the baptism! It was really cool to be a wittness watching, the Elder had to do it 3 times cuz her hand kept staying out. 

Then sunday was good we had lunch with the Gomez's. It was flippen good then we had a training meeting about an activity that'll happen in november so i just chilled and did nothing cuz i wont be here... 

then today imma pack my bags and get outa here early tomorrow morning and go to Piracicaba to meet my new comp!

Thats about it y'all peace love and the Lord

Elder Smith

Best thing you atethe best thing i've eaten this week would have to be i dont remeber pie...
Worst thing you ate this week

 the worst thing i've eaten this week would have to be i dont remember cake...

have you been sick at all?

nope but both of my comps have been sick so i dont know why i havent...

day 159 Conference Week!

Howdy Y'all 

so this week went by super fast i dont even remember what really happened but ill try my best to remember some things!
The talk about "Which way do you face" was one of my Favs too! Lynn G. Robbins

This week we got a "Familia de OURO" a Golden Family!! Their names are pretty cool Kilnaiany, Kilciany, Kiuany Francisco and the mom i dont remember her name...

But tomorrow we have a lesson marked with them and we are going to mark a date for their Baptism!!!! But the sad part is, is that they havent been to church yet and they have to go at least once to be Baptised and this coming week is transfere week and im pretty sure im going to be leaving and going somewhere else so i wont be able to see them get baptised soo sad ;( 

I got to watch Confrence in English and Portugese too but other then that not much else happened!!

Love Elder Smith

questions:

Did you get to watch conference live?  Did you get to hear the portuguese guy talk?  Don't you think that's awesome that they're talking in their own languages?  I thought it was pretty cool...

Yea i did and it was in English for me and the other American Elders and whoever else wanted to watch in English!

Picture questions:

why Elder Marquies? what's special?

Cuz he and i are just buds dont know why i sent that

Why Elder Pearce?  what's special?

He was the first American i met here in the mish

Why Elder Meira?  what's special?

He was a good friend when he was here and he got transfered

I see you have a picture of Elder Bandiera (he's your bestie right?) but where are you and what are you drinking? (pink drink)

We were doing splits and at my house and drinking a milk shake we made from frozen milk and Toddy whick is a chocolate powder mix

And the fence picture?  what's special?  or why you take dat picture?

cuz we were going to lunch and we got lost and we had to go throught the fence

There is a picture of a smaller group of missionaries (most of them are sisters!) where are you?

This was at the Mission Tour with Elder Antunes of the 70's

And I LOVE your sweet smile, you're sooo guapo!  I love the picture of all the missionaries...is that your whole zone?

No thats Mission Tour and its three different zones same with the question above

What's happening with the Sumare sign?  Just to show where you are?

No thats the border between my Mission and Campinas Mission

And the group of fuzzy (picture is quite blurry) elders, where are you, why are you there? etc.

We were at the house of Matão doing splits

Oh and you said that you sent a video or a couple videos..don't see them yet.

I'll try and send them tonigh with Fran

Are most things that you buy in the store in English?

Nopers most thing are in portugese Even the OREOS

day 152

Hey Y'all,

Thats pretty crazy about the Earth Quake!!  (Brian and I went to Alaska for a week and had a little shake up while in the hotel 6.2er) When i get back i want to be a tour bus driver for the tour of alaska for the reason of the scenery and the money i heard they make BANK.
So this week was pretty good,
Monday we didnt really do anything,

Tuesday we had another set of missionaries come to our area so we had to go to their house and help them set up all their stuff cuz its a brand new house and all brand new stuff so we helped them with that.

Wednesday we had District meeting and we went to that, then on the way to the buses a ladies car had broken in the middle of the road and we stopped and helped her with that and luckily Elder Rosa is a mechanic so he knew what to do we were there for about an hour fixing this car in the middle of the road and i didnt know anything about what had happened so i just directed traffic. Boy are these drivers thick headed they dont pay attention to signs telling them the roads closed, so after about an hour of working in the hot 90 degree weather, the ice cream shop that we were close to offered us to wash our hands and then when we were all done they offered us some ice cream FREE!!! You dont know how greatfull i was for that!!! It was so flippen hot!!

Thursday we went to the new Elders' area and make the split of our area and theirs so that was that.

Friday Work Work Work

Saturday "       "       " 

Sunday    "      "       "

Today prolly nothin

I sent two pics and one video of my district and the other is some soulution for my contacts thats really good it makes my lens' super soft after almost like new!! The video is Irmão Nicasio (Boi) He is super cool and we spend almost three hours there just listening to him talk and answering questions about stuff and hes just super cool

Thats pretty much it so tchau for now until next week!!

Elder Smith (aka) Joseph

questions:

In Hawaii, when we went, they had something called malasadas (little doughy, donuty things, they can have cream inside them too).  They said they were portuguese, but I wondered if they possibly had them there...I know it's not portugal but perhaps??  I absolutely loved them...I would go back JUST for those.  Pretty sure you would love them too.

I just asked my comp and he has no idea what it is...?

What was great about this week?

The free Ice Cream

Favorite part in the book of mormon?

The part of Alma of all the wars

Favorite food?

The lasagna here they put in some other stuff then we do!!

Name two things you're grateful for?  I'm grateful for you!

E-mails from amazing people and for Patience.

day 145 I ei familia E pessoas!!!

So this week was a little better. We did splits with the Elders from Matão so that was fun the first one was with Elder Bandeira we went to Boi's house and chilled there for a while then after that we did made some milk-shakes from frozen milk, the milk here is super terrible but put a little chocolate in it and your good We then did  a split with Elder Chipana. He is a bit more serious then i am so we didnt really do anything fun just walked around and visited members and stuff cuz i dont like other people teaching my peoples.

Dad drove a bus?? I want to hear about this!!!

WOW thats soo sad about Rebecca I hope that she can still do the mission.

Man why do you have to go to Alaska w/out me?!?

Well Peace out

Elder Smith 

questions

Is the weather changing at all?

The weather is getting alot hotter!!!

Best meal you had this week? with who?

Was yesterday with the Bishop, He

How did the exchanges go with your bestie in the zone?

It was the break i needed its above too

Are things better with your companion? same? worse?

more or less better

Best moment this week?

Tuesday we did exchanges with Elder Bandeira

Have you bought anything special?

I have to send yall a package with some cool soda in it. 

Anything special coming up?

General Confrence is whats coming up!!! other then that not much.