Short letter last week because the computers we were on last week were iffy and we ran out of time, so this letter should be better. For last P-day we were with the youth for their activity for carnival, they did teams and played vollyball, soccer and other fun games and slept overnight at the chapel. We only stayed or the vollyball, games, and lunch; because we arent allowed to play soccer because appently too many missionaries get hurt and have to go home so its a rule for all of brazil that we cant play. But it was fun anyway. And we came back the next morning to drop off treats we made for the youth and with the help of Bishop harvested bananas from the trees by the chapel (pictures included). The sap was super sticky and would hardly come off with soap. And after a week of ripening, they are the most delicious bananas ive ever eaten, they were truly amazing. Carnval wasnt anything in my little town so work was normal. I tried more weird fruit, in the pictures the green thing that looks like a pepper is called "carambola" and kind of tastes like a current berry that we have at our house (in the US). I also tried tapioca in pancake form? It was good with ham and butter. The truth is no one actually uses butter, everyone uses margarine, so it makes me feel better calling it butter. We got to eat McDonalds the other day (pics included even though my companion wasnt as sad as he looked) and the food tastes the same, except for the soda and ice cream with is way better for reasons unknown, except the sodas all have real sugar :P. There is a thing about being an american elder here in brazil with blue eyes, it attracts a lot of attention, especially the "snakes" (teenage girls and women). So we are looking for people to teach and people dont want to talk to us sometimes but when they people want to talk to us they come us to us and start talking about my beautiful blue eyes "that are like the sea". Its kinda annoying but mostly funny. So me and my companion joke about it quite a bit. Teaching I think is fun because its conversational and normal and most people like to talk about religion, not always to be converted but like to talk. We encountered this youth in the street one day and he came up to us and said "you guys are missionaries from my church!" We didn´t know him but it turned out that he recently moved here from a different area and was less active there and didnt know we had church here. We were so excited to know him because we are always looking to strenghten the young men section of the ward. And so one day we found him at home with two of his friends and we started to teach them. So we have big plans to reactivate the less active young man and teach his friends so when the day comes he can baptize his friends! I dont know if it will work but thats our goal! We are working hard and are greatful for a fun week.
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Elder Benjamin Barton
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