Bugs and Hair, What a Pair!

Ok family we have a problem here in Brazil! I receive the second to least amount of mail! I thought I would get embarrassed with how much mail I get but on the contrary I have received 3 letters two from mom and one from Jen let’s work on this people. :) I say that with all my love in my heart!Well my week has been awesome! Its gone by so dang fast I really don’t know what happened through all of it! A missionary told us that the days seem like weeks and the weeks seam like days! So true! I cant even believe how fast two weeks has gone! So the ctm stands forcentro de treinamento missionario. Translated in to the central missionary training center! The language is definitely coming! I was able to teach a short lesson 3-5 min about the restoration in portages! So its going much better! Thank you so much for your prayers! Now I just need to learn how to communicate other then gospel subjects! Let me tell you a little about what its like in the ctm, when I take a shower I take it with a thousand bugs joining me. I have to make sure I shake my garments out or else I end up with them joining me for the day, they don’t bite, they are really friendly! When we eat we have to pick out hairs and other weird things that I really don’t want to know what they are. The people who work here cleaning and cooking usually are not members but are so nice! The teachers are all brazilin and have learned ingles from there mission compainaros. They are mostly converts to the church and have testimonies that you would not believe. The average family around here lives off 1000 rehi or about 500 us dollars a month. If you wonder why we clap instead of nock on the doors its cause there is 12 ft tall fences in front of their house so you clap and then they let you in. I love it here, even the parts that don’t seem good I love! The bugs keep me company and the hair gives me some thing to look forward to at the meals. We eat a ton of rice and beans and frankly, I love them they just get kinda old but I keep eating them and putting on the weight I have gained 6 kilos down hear, you do the math! Conference was amazing! We watched every thing at the same time you did except for priesthood it started at 10 pm our time so it would have been midnight before it ended so we watched it Sunday morning! I got so much more out of it when you have to be in a suite taking notes! It was great! My favorite talk was Elder Holland’s! What a powerful testimony! We loved it here at the ctm! But there were so many good talks!I found out some more things about my mission that you might be interested in. my mission president only speaks Portuguese. It’s the highest baptizing mission in the church when I come home I should have baptized any where from 200-300 ´pessoas. They have rats there that are the size of cats and the people eat them for meals! Its one of the more poor parts of Brazil, the new temple that was announced is in the south I will be in the north. It gets hot and humid but it gets really windy! I’m so excited to go! I cant wait until I’m out in the field teaching the gospel!Guys I want you to know that I love this gospel it has indeed been restored to this earth by a prophet of god! Pai Celestial loves us and wants out happiness! The book of Mormon is the word of god!I love you all so much! Have a great week! Remember lets write Elder Engh letters! Also as much as I love e mail I don’t have a lot of time on the computers though so try to keep your email shorter and your letters longer!Love ya
Elder David Engh