Thursday, 3/9/08 Belo Horizonte Mission changes

Hey, so yesterday was really long and it almost never ended but I’m good now. It was transfers and I was in the north so that means an 8 hour bus ride to BH which took 10 hours cause of construction on the highway, then went to conference and I’m one of the first missionaries to pool over the wall ... hehe. I got transferred into an area that used to be in the other mission with
Elder Breckenridge in a city call são joão del rey it’s a really cool city. Mom, in your free time you could read up about it. I guess it’s a historical town. It’s really old and has a lot of old catholic churches. My comp says there’s a lot to do on pdays which is going to suck because I like to stay in on pdays and do nothing. But, yeah, I haven’t been here very long so that’s all I can tell you.

My comp is really quiet and shy (American) but talks a lot of Portuguese. It’s his last transfer so I’ll be here for 3 months at least. He’s only had 8 baptisms his whole mission which is kinda rare but he seems like a really nice guy and we have this family that is really good I hope that we can get them into the water before he has to go home.

so the iron curtain comes down over the mission field and Presidente Parrella came out with the frist of many new changes 1. your companionship is to use one computer, in other words while your comp is writting to family you’re right next to him looking at the screen 2. no coke (not a new rule just made clearer) 3. only use myldsmail.net (which is in the handbook but people forget to read the handbook) 4. no more soccer. in large group and stop being competetive
he’s is a man of God called to be our mission president but ..... he scares me like he has this look that kills…

all I hear any more on the streets is micheal jackson music.

The church here in minis is still growing - like they’re not quite to reading the manual, but thet’re getting better. Like in são Paulo, the church runs like a normal utah ward and stake, but here it’s a little different. There are 6 stakes and 4 or 3 districts. I just got transferred to a branch here of about 2 or 3 people attendance and I came from a branch of about 80 to 90 attendance. The members are really lazy so it hard to activate them about missionary work

I did get the package with the blanket which is really good cause I just got transferred to the south were its COLD and I used your blanket last night.

That’s it for today. i love you, mom. thanks for the support and the love and prayers and packages and the money and the letters from the dog and all the others things you do for me.

love the one and only
elder marx