1 Month out in the Mission Field

Braden had a busy day on his normal Preperation Day (P-Day). He writes,

The reason we are writing today instead of yesterday is because we had to drive to Rio yesterday and change our addresses from São Paulo to Rio. That was crazy. Sunday night we left Oyster town here and headed for Cabo Frio, spent the night there at the other Elders apartment (which is way nice: four bathrooms!!) And then we had to wake up at three in the morning and get a bus to Rio, which took another three hours or more. We got there at like 8 and waited for the other Elders, changed our address, left, got an expensive snack at the bus station, got back on the bus, got stuck in traffic on the same street for an hour (no joke) haha and then headed back to Cabo Frio... got back on the bus for Rio dos Ostras, and by that time our P-day was over and we were both tired from all the travelling, so naturally, we went to work until 9. It was pretty crazy. So today we are writing emails and trying to get groceries for this week cause I don´t have anything except some eggs I think and then we have a district meeting at 2. It´s great fun here!

He is getting the hang of the language better,
I have such a long way to go with this language but I absolutely love it. I´m not totally lost when people talk to me anymore and it feels awesome!

He's been out a month now and is in need of some things,
Another pillowcase would be nice too.

He's on a get-in-shape program:
Another elder and I are doing boot camp every morning trying to get ripped and in shape haha. It´s great, he´s hilarious. I love the mission and it just keeps getting better with learning the language and knowing more, I love it.

He is looking forward to General Conference this year,
I hope that you enjoy General Conference. I get to listen to it in Português this year so that will be cool; we are going up to Macaè to watch it, so that will be sweet.

He is still enjoying many spiritual moments, as they experienced someone joining the church last Sunday;
The Lord has blessed us in a way that we never would have expected and it is so amazing!

We are so proud of Braden. By the way, he said he is very grateful for those who have written to him recently and he said he will write back to you as soon as he can.