Final Week!

Beleza!

This week has been great, pretty much the same as usual but a whole lot of teaching. Pretty much everyday we have taught a couple of fifteen minute lessons and I can really say my Portugues is coming along. This week my companion got sick but thankfully I was able to avoid it and he's finally doing better. Some funny things from this week is that we teach our instructors and after we were done Elder Simper and Elder Davis in my district had a war on the whiteboard which was hilarious to watch. Honestly we have just laughed a lot together this past week. I love it here but I'm ready to leave. I love my Brazilian roommates, one of them is a black belt and me and him constantly make fun of each other and the other is crazy at rapping in Portuguese which is super fun to hear. I wish I could send the video we have of the rap because it's super funny because he pretty much just disses everyone in the room. Its funny because most of the Brazilians have taken it upon themselves to call me Elder Fubeca (bad missionary) as a joke, either that or they call me Elder Pretty girl because they can't pronounce Pettingill and they think its hilarious.

Some spiritual things this week is I'm trying to memorize a scripture everyday in Portuguese and it's super hard.  But right now I'm trying to memorize Isaiah 58:6-12 and if you read it in English then you might imagine it'd be hard to memorize it. You read it in Portuguese and now it's probably just about impossible. It's super fun though because I love a challenge. One experience I had was actually yesterday where we had splits again so I was with a Brazilian Elder for a couple of hours and I thought I knew Portuguese. But after talking with him I was feeling very down. I can literally talk with every other Brazilian but I just couldn't understand a thing he said half the time. Which made teaching very difficult. Afterwards we were teaching our other teacher and before I prayed to Heavenly Father to help me speak and say what I wanted to say, and while we were teaching I had no problem saying exactly what I wanted to and barely had to think at all. I know that God helps his missionaries and that He loves everyone very much. I know that He is watching out for all of you even when you don't realize it. I hope you all have a wonderful week. I love hearing from you all!

Tchau,

Elder Pettingill