First Week is Done!

Holy cow! How has it been a week already! The MTC (CTM) is amazing, I don't have much time this week but the language is coming great and I made it here in one piece (barely) I hope you're all doing well. I have already taught two lessons in Portuguese and I was made zone leader with my companion which was sick, basically I am in charge over all the elders in my district and two others! The food here is AMAZING and I'm so excited. So funny story every Brazilian Elder who asks about my mission and I say it is Teresina they all laugh then say "muito quente" which means very hot and if they speak English they say "good luck with that!"
I  wish I could tell you all about the things I did this week but I'll try to write more next week.

I love you all, o Evanglho e verdade

Elder Pettingill

I got to talk to Adam over Google Hangouts today! He answered some questions for me, that I will post below. So fun!!

How were your flights? My flight from Sacramento was delayed, which would have made me miss my connecting flight to Brazil, so I was switched to a different airline and flew through Chicago instead of LA. Because of that, I arrived later than all the other missionaries, and no one was at the airport to greet me. That was the one hour so far that I was homesick, because I couldn't speak Portuguese and there was no one who could speak English and I had no idea what to do. But I finally got a security guard to let me use his phone, and I was able to call the MTC. No one knew I was coming, so they sent 2 missionaries to come pick me up! Also, my luggage was supposed to also be rerouted but was not, so it did not arrive until the day after I arrived. So I just wore the same thing for two days in a row. Also, because I flew through Chicago, my flight was 5 hours longer than any of the other missionaries.

What is your schedule? Get up at 6:30 am, shower and eat breakfast, class for three hours, lunch, more class, personal study time, dinner, more class. I have email on Tuesday night at 8 pm and then my pday is on Wednesday.

Will you get to go to the temple? Yes. We will go to the Sao Paulo temple tomorrow and to the Campinas Temple next week.

Who is in your room? We have 4 Americans and one Brazilian.

What do you like best about the food? The chicken and beans and rice. We also had steak on Sunday. That was the best! Also the Brazilian juice and soda are so good.