Wednesday, August 20, 2008
whoo-hoo - Scott answered my questions this week!

How do we send you letters?
Just send stuff to the mission home. I'll probably get it like twice a transfer 'cause they bring it to zone conference and interviews. The apartments are a really scary place for mail to sit all day.

What's going on in Brazil?
It's elections here so there are just cars driving around with huge speakers on their roofs turned all the way up so it's really hard to talk to someone on the street when they drive by. I call them satan mobiles cause anything that tries to stop the work is of satan.

How's the teaching going?
We are teaching Charles. He is not a member, but his wife was baptized like 3 years ago and they had two boys die while ago and some buddy some where said some thing to make her mad about her sons, so they never went back, but we started teaching. And I said, "Charles, is the book true?" "Yeah," he replied. "So then the church is true and perfect cause it's of Christo, but the people in it aren't perfect, so get baptized." So he is on the 31st with the other family. And we have a baptism this week, Edinalva.

...big problem, getting people to church 'cause the building is really far away and people can't afford the onibus ticket to get there, so it's hard to get them to church.

Had any good experiences?
...back to Charles. We taught him about fe last night and I didn't really know what was going on, but at the end I thought I should tell him that is would help if he read the bom every morning before he went to work and it would help him throughout his day. And later Elder Broud told me that we gave him a scripture and we are going back tonight and he wouldn't have time to read it but then I told him he should read in the morning. So that was so the Spirit 'cause I didn't even know what the heck is going on...like antes the mission I didn't really know what was the Spirit and what was the crazy ideas of Scotty. I'm starting to realize how to recognize and follow thoughts or promptings.

In zone conference, sis. Frei talked about pineapples and how it takes them 18 months to develop and everybuddy always wants fresh pineapple, so they continually grow them and harvest and plant more. So she was saying that we need to always find people and plant the seed.

We have 5 baptisms on Sunday.

Just funny Scotty talking about trying to get home fast after an appointment went late-
So we're keeping the pace up and moving right along but we are going up and down and up and down these hills and my fat legs are getting tired but we finally get to the last stretch and I just want to fall over, keeping in mind I've just been walking all freaking day up and down up and down hill mountains all day so it's the last stretch and I'm like, "Pai celestial, help make it home." and right then this thought comes to my ehad, Elder Broud is a little in front like always and I thought 'race him home.' So I was like, yeah, I could beat him. So I raced him -- and won by the way.

Wednesday, August 17, 2008

I'm here in Betim, Brazil, a little city out side of BH. My trainer, or father, is Elder Broud. He is from Oregon and speaks really good Portuguese. This is his first time training so it should be fun for both of us. You should be getting a letter from me in the mail, they had us write. It's really short and simple, didn't really feel like writing.

I don't know much about the area, just that there is a girl that is close to baptizmo and I'm way excited for that um... my apartment is... nice... Brad should know what I'm talking about. No badays, but hey we can't all live in high class.

peace elder marx
ps. eu tenho mais vente e dois mézes



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Pictures!

MTC laundry room. Writing letters during the rinse cycle.

Cafeteria or House of Beans & Rice

View of Sao Paulo from the roof. Under the metal roof is the indoor gym

View of Sao Paulo from Scott's MTC room.

Mr. Cheneys across the street. The missionaries can go here on p-day to get American items, cookies, and email.

Week No. 7 July 30, 2008

hey elder marx here.

ctm life is good now that the strike is over. i got some letters (9) from my mish and a package(2) from her just some tapes and some really fun stuff like markers and postit notes, she is wonderful. along with the package from sis hig i got a package from the iron mountain ward primary. it was so fun. i was hoping i would get something like that. tell sis leavitt i haven’t read all of them but i will.

um... nothing too exciting except i leave in two weeks, yeah ya. i fly to belo like a 1 hour flight at 5 in the morning. i hope to call you from the airport cause the rules say i get 2 calls home a year one christmas and another day ( useally mothers day) so I’m going to talk to pres frei about seeing if i could call but no promises. if i do it will be at like 2 in the morning.

um... yeah proselytizing again this week. teaching experience was good. taught a bishop lesson 2 so it was pretty cool. i did well, i think. he smiled and nodded his head the hole time so whatever.

oh we just ate lunch as a district out side the ctm at this really good burger place for cheap, like i got fries and burgar and the avocado concoction for 8 reis pretty good except for the drink

um.... im doing good and studying hard omg..... thanks for jinxing me, mom. elder housley made ap in our branch so, yeah, now on sunday i have to go to meetings instead of lunch. i know, i know, i can hear dad agorda" thats what he getts for being obedient" but now i have to suffer ... jk its not that bad, plus i really like our branch pres so i just use it as an opportunity to learn from the branch pres.

god be with you

elder marx