Well I´m down to less than one week in the CTM and I'm super excited and a little nervous, but I´m confident the Lord will strengthen me as I work on the language. I still don´t really have a personality in Portuguese, but I feel almost functional in the language, at least on gospel topics. We have the joke that we will be the most obedient missionaries ever because all we know how to talk about well is the gospel.
My companion, Elder Nelson, and I had some of our best lessons ever this week. He already has a good grasp on the language, but I was able to talk a lot more and express some of my ideas. They decided to throw all three subjunctive tenses at us this week and I think I might understand maybe one. They don't exist in English, there's something like a hypothetical tense in there.
Some info on the district; everyone in the group loves to sing and we do it a lot. One of the frequently sung songs for the guys is "Let's Get Down to Business" from Mulan. We have four other people from Texas in our district and no one from Utah. Elder Bowcutt is our district lead and enjoys country music, fishing, and wants to go into medicine. His companion is Elder Freeze and he is really good at piano and likes the band 21 Pilots. Elder Karren is from Ogden and his main talent is knowing everybody. Elder Nelson is from Maryland and is a movie star. (made a movie in college and some how Elder Karren saw it) The favorite movie of our district is Nacho Libre. I have never seen it, but they quote it so much I have started to quote it also.
Me weekly randoms:
* I had a dream I went to Disneyland with my family and rode the haunted mansion, but I skipped the corpse bride room in my dream (guess my subconscious doesn´t like it)
* I started ironing this week and got my dry cleaning done.
* I talked with a Brasilato while at the temple and understood him, so there´s hope.
* The guys in the district got shakes and they were really good because I haven't had ice cream since the first day at Provo (July 29)
Elder Quain
Elder Hollingshauos & Me
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