Hey there ,
This week was a fast week. There were those ups and those downs… We had a
lot of lessons and met a lot of new people but then on the other hand the
old investigators were muito mole! (very lazy). We met some cool people on
the road while we were doing our contacts and we met some people who swore
and yelled at us and called us the church of the devil. So you see there are
two sides to our story. Really there are two sides to everything like Brazil
is really beautiful. It has lots of trees and flowers when you look up. The
other side is when you look down there is trash and broken un-swept sidewalks.
Unfortunately the bad things usually happen more often than the good.
It is however a lot happier if you look for the good side in everything.
I wrote a long letter and sent it Tuesday or Wednesday for moḿs Birthday.
I told about the area and the hills and stuff. Everyone here says that the
cold is coming and that it is going to be worse than the cold in Utah but then again, none of them have been to Utah. They say it is bad because of the wind. I don’t even think anybody here owns a coat though... Wéll see. They say it should get cold in about a month.
So, about some of the pictures I sent:
The Marriage Bus is a tour bus that goes from city to city and people can
get married inside for free. This Bus helped us a lot in Coopahadio but
they dońt have free marriage here in Parana so nobody is married legally;
they are just living together… and nobody can get baptized because of this.
You were asking about the Police: Well the other night there was a drug raid right in front of our
house. The police here are brutal, they just smacked these guys around like
rag dolls. The guys were standing with their hands on their heads and the
police would punch them in their face and sides. It was pretty bad .
Ok well good bye for this week.. Talk to you in another couple of weeks!
Elder Andrew Hyte
