Brazil MTC

Here is first email from Zach. He is excited to be in Brazil and trying to adjust to a little different way of life.

Hmmm, well this email might turn out strange because we have to use Portuguese keyboards and all of the keys and things are moved around which is annoying. Anyways, Happy Birthday to Andrew and Quinton! Tell them that I give them my love. I cant (no apostrophies that I can find) believe that they are respectively 5 and 1! Weird. And thank you for sending me letters! It is supposed to take 2-3 weeks to get letters, which is horrible, so if anybody in the family wants to write me letters then I can read them and respond to them, not in this 30 minute window. And it´ll give time to have new things to tell each other. I like getting letters a lot. It gives you something to enjoy outside of the 30 minutes on P Day. New paragraph:Well, let me just tell you that being in Brazil has been a major culture shock! The moment I got off the plane, I could feel the humidity. The security was a breeze and then we exchanged out money and got on a bus/van thing and went crazy all over Sao Paulo. The money here is cool because there are pictures of little animals on the back. The drivers are insane! Nobody follows the traffic laws and motorcycles are constantly zipping in and around you. It´s quite nerve-wracking but it feels like a roller coaster. The food here has been a mixed bag. There are always 2 types of meat at meals and they seem to really like this one type of roast beef that has pickles on it. It kind of smells like dog food and doesn´t taste horrible, but I´ve had better. About half the food has been really good and the other half has been strange. I´m adjusting to it though. It actually feels pretty good weather wise here. We have a giant fan in our room that we turn on and I actually use my blanket at night becuase it gets cold. We went to the temple this morning and it was neat. It was in English and a good experience, but there are lots of cool plants and things outside. I´m most excited to hear about Randy´s mission call. I wrote him last week so tell him to respond. I´m glad that everything is good at home and that Andrew is still being Andrew, haha. I´m adjusting to the new MTC but it´s been getting better every day. And time is flying by. We talked to a Brazilian from Cuiaba and he said that we´ll get to eat monkeys and neat things there. Yea! Eu amo voces! (I love yall!) -Elder Carpenter

Zach's addresses are:
Elder Zachary Carpenter
Brazil Cuiaba Mission
District (07A) Box (18)
Brasil CTM
Rua Padre Antônio D’Angelo, 121
Casa Verde, São Paulo, SP
Brazil 02516-040


Mission Home in a few weeks:
Elder Zachary Carpenter
Brazil Cuiaba Mission
Av. Hist. Rubens de Mendosa
1673 Bosque da Saude
Consil
78050-000 Cuiaba - MT