Brazil

Hot. so hot. First and fair warning for everyone. The following email is going to have worthless and pathetic grammar and punctuation. Because keyboards in Brazil are different. And the particular keyboard I'm using is really stiff. so... yup. :)

The people are SO NICE!!! WE greet everyone with a hug and a kiss and i just love it. Everyone feeds us. oh my goodness i will never go hungry simply because i get fed SOMETHING whenever we go to a person's house. And it's especially humbling and precious when you go to someone's home where clearly they don't have a lot of food to begin with...and they offer you food anyway. 

I had my first BBQ here. OH. So awesome. The meat was perfectly salted and the vegetables here are so sweet. I actually eat carrots and enjoy them. true story. 

the language is kicking my trash. but every day im learning a tiny bit more and more. i love it

my comp!! her name is Sister Ramos. she does NOT speak English because she is from Columbia. She has been in the field for 11 months. And shes awesome. shes 25 years old and she is so... adorable!! She truly and honestly loves the people. But seriously though, how could you not love the people here? Everyone is incredibly patient and kind with me because they have to repeat themselves forty times each sentence. And usually what they ask me ... they use words that i know that i know!! But their accents are so thick. Especially here in the south. haha actually... just like how Texans talk much differently than new yorkers do? Yeah, in the mtc i learned New Yorker Portuguese. And here they speak Texan Portuguese. you know what i mean?  and then some of the people here just mumble. Straight up mumble. hahaha what a life. but its awesome. I'm learning a lot about culture and love. And its awesome!!

my hour is almost up!! i will have more time to send pictures and stuff next week because right now I'm still getting accustomed to all of this!! 

have a great week

love,

Sister Hennefer