11-25-09 Email

Hey everyone. This week was really good for me and I hope that it was great for all of you. I have received a lot of your letters and I appreciate all the time that you have given me with your thoughts and your words.
This new area is great. I love being here. The people here are so awesome and we have already some great things here. We have already done 2 service projects moving dirt and stuff for our members. We have played soccer with the guys from the different wards and we have taught so much.
We had the ward olympics the past week and it went pretty well actually. We had only about 30 people there but it was still fun. We called it Dia Das Galinhas(Day of the chickens). We had 3 different games that all involved eggs. The 1st was the egg walk where they could only use a spoon to carry it and pass it. Then we had the egg toss. But the last one was the best. All of the rm´s should remember that when we get in the MTC we receive plastic exercise bands. Well we don't ever use them for exercising but we ended up using them as a way to shoot the eggs onto 4 targets that we put out on the court. It was so funny. Our bishop went first and shot the egg out of the court.
The rest of the week went pretty well. We ran into some really good contacts and so we should have a pretty good week this week. We have some divisions marked with Tebas and they are supposed to be the ones closed down. But they are working super hard. Its awesome.
Thanksgiving would be good. But they don't celebrate it here lol. I think I will make peach cobbler. They have a super easy recipe. Just put cake mix in a thing of peaches and you are set to go. lol. Do you remember that thing thing you did with the pickles and ham I believe. And you put cream cheese around it:??
That sucks that Jordan isn't going to get home for Christmas, but better later than never.
Dad is going to California? Really what part? I know a lot of people from Cali. Just let me know and I will tell them to tell their parents to go out with y'all lol.
I don't need more SD cards. I will send this one back when it fills then you can send another lol. I am good for now.
The packages already arrived. I already opened the box because we didnt have room so I put everything in my bag to take it home. I didn't open anything so no worries. I think we are going to go buy a tree or something lol
But I have to go. Talk to you later mom. Thanks for everything. Love ya lots. I think I will put up some new pictures next week. We have interviews next Tuesday!
Love ya.
Justin

Hey,
Things here are going well. I like this new area a lot. The new companion is cool. I am staying healthy but at night I'm getting bit up lol so gotta figure something out here shortly. It has been a while out on the mission. Idk what's changed lol I guess we will see when I get back what has really changed. I'm glad that you like the photos last week.

But I haven't really heard about anything that has to do with visas. We are kinda short on missionaries too. If we don't get any soon I'm sure we will be closing a lot of areas or having missionaries taking care of many areas like we are doing here.

Tebas Ward here is the one that is shut down but for some reason they are helping a lot more than the ward that we are supposed to be taking care of lol. We have like 7 dates marked in Tebas. Hopefully we can get this ward up and active. They have a new bishop that got here 3 weeks ago and he is on fire. He is bringing a lot of encouragement to the ward. Im sure things will change there this transfer. We should get a lot done and hope that pres. puts some missionaries there.

They didn't approve Jordan's leave? O my, that would suck. What day will they HAVE to let him go??

Where are you going to watch the double feature? Sounds like some fun. You and a couple of friends are going?? That sucks that you cant take the next day off. But that's good you will get time to spend with Jeannette. Is dad going to be home for a while??

Steve is running for judge? That's awesome. It takes a lot to do that I have heard.
Thanks for the advice from the rev lol. Its good.

But here we have been definitely working hard. My companion got sick on Thursday when we were moving some dirt into this lady's house for her foundation. He about fainted out there. He was throwing up and had a bad case of diarrhea. But He is all good now. We hadda take that day off and so Friday and Saturday we taught 11 lessons which was great. We have been doing a lot here. I have been doing a lot of divisions in Tebas. Its cool there. I like it a lot. I hope that I can be the missionary there to open up the area. The members are awesome!!! We have an activity this Saturday. It should be awesome. Will be the ward olympics. Will tell you more about it when I know more about it lol. I am still hammering out the details.

Well not much new is going on here. A new area which is humongous because of the 2 wards but its cool. People say its really dangerous here but don't worry. The missionaries haven't been really effected by it. We have a good friend on our side :)

Have a great week. Take care,
Love ya lots.
Elder Mitchell

11-11-09 email

Hi everyone,
Its good here. I am in a new area. Amiliana Pernetta. Its in a city called Pinhais. We are taking care of 2 wards here. It looks like a good area. We will just see what happens. I have a new companion as well. His name is Elder Games. He is from Utah but he was born in New York. He is Latin. His dad's Mexican and his mom is from Ecuador. Its pretty cool. He said its hard for him to speak Spanish now because all he has been speaking lately is Portuguese and English. But its pretty cool here.
I got here about 10 hours ago lol. We were late there too because the traffic was bad and B Fernandes needed to pick up his new companion from the bus station.
Yeah they usually do the transfers on pday. But I found out on Monday that I was leaving. They call everyone Monday night and tell them to either meet in Barigui or go to the Bus station. If you are staying in Curitiba you don't find out where you are going until Wednesday. If you are leaving the city and going far away they tell you where you gonna go and what time the bus will leave. Its pretty stressing. Because you never know where you are going to go. lol
Ah I C. Yeah Our power didn't go out. It just blinked I thought it was just natural. LOL. Our power blinks a lot. Well it did in the old house. Now we live behind a LAN house lol. Its pretty nice here.
Yeah I was still in Derosso for my birthday. It was alright I guess. Didn't really do much. We had a division and so it was pretty cool. We celebrated with the kids from my English class. They are awesome lol. We also ate pizza with these two kids from our apartment. They aren't members but they are really cool. We talked with Igor´s dad for a little bit. But not about the church just about life. It was good.
Yes, I had heard about Fort Hood, crazy. I just put pictures up and you have some in the mail. And no, now im not in Curitiba. But its just like Arlington and Dallas. Basically the same thing but different. I had to buy a new bag because C Williams broke my other one so I had to take money out. I bought some other things as well.
I still haven't gotten the package from dear elder yet. IDK where it is. Maybe next week.
Jnett just sent some pics for me. YEAH!! I will let you know when I get those.
Well, I have to go now. Have a great week.
Justin

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