Week One! Oct. 4th -Oct. 12th

Oi friends and family!! i´m in Brazil! What the heck! I dont have much

time to write but i want to update you on how everything is going

here. This last week was without a doubt the longest and hardest week

of my life so far. haha that is not an exaggeration!! The first 3 days

seemed pretty hopeless and I really didnt think i was gonna make it

but because of prayers and fasting and kind people i am still here and

im doing SO well. The CTM is way cool! Its 7 stories high and its

surrounded by like a million other huge buildings. Sao Paulo is a like

jungle city! So many trees and plants but also alot of buildings and

people. The food is weird here haha but im learning to just take a

bite even if i dont know what the heck it is and usually it turns out

tasting ok. unless its the purple grape jello because i almost threw

that up everywhere. Pretty much my schedule is the same everyday. At

least 8 hours sitting in class learning portugeuse. Portugeuse is

MUITO DIFICILE. I definitly spelled that wrong but its very hard and

im struggling with it but also chillin because i know it will get

better and that heavenly father will help me. Its mostly frustrating

because right now i can pretty much get the idea of what someone is

saying to me but i have no idea how to respond to them. My district is

4 sets of elders and 2 sets of sisters. The elders are all only 18 and

they are a little hyper but overall they are good guys. OMG my

companion! So i met her in the Atlanta airport and after talking to

her for like 10 minutes (lol) found out she was a sister missionary

and was also going to....GUESS WHERE. salavdor. I cried, she cried it

was the first little miracle of many since being here. Sister Hamblin

is from Kentucky and is super tall and funny. We will for sure be

friends forever. I have two Brazilian roomates who are SO cute and so

funny. They are both going to Tokyo so they are learning Japanese

which is cool and super crazy. The other night we all prayed together

before bed in japanese, portuegeuse and english and it was so cool

because no matter what language we prayed in, the spirit was there. So

its pretty great here. Things are looking up and seriously there is no

way you can be unhappy or scared here because everyone is so nice.

Around every corner soemone is smiling and saying Bom Gia! or Tudo

Bem! There are always going to be hard and frustrating things but

being around good happy people makes a big difference. We are already

teaching fake investigators which is the scariest thing ever but its

also cool to listen to myself speak and here how much i already know

in a week of being here. Oh funny story- so we were teaching our very

first lesson ever and i walked in all confident and I told her that we

had a massagem (massage) instead of a mensagem (message) for her. So

confidence went out the door after that ahhaha. On sunday nights we

have devotional and the other night we got to see a broadcast from the

provo MTC and the speaker was Holland and it was of course amazing! I

wish I had time to tell you what he said but I will some other time!!

We also sang Reunidos nos estamos (come thou fount of every blessing)

my favorite hymn. Today we went to the temple in campinos and it was

so beautiful but also hard because it was all in Portugeuse. But it is

really cool that we can go to a temple anywhere in the world and feel

that it is the house of god. You guys i just want you to know that i

have no idea how or why im here yet. Like i said it has been very hard

for me and sometimes i wonder if i can do it. But since being here i

have never felt more like i belong. i cannot even begin to tell you

the amount of blessing and miracles i have alreday experienced.

Heavenly father answers prayers and sends us the holy ghost in times

of doubt and frustration and anxiety.  I know that this is Gods work.

I already love brazil and brazilians so much. im not so sure if i love

portugeuse but i guess we willl see where im at next week. I just love

you all so much and i hope all is well back home! Be happy and be kind

to everyone around you!!! LOVE YOU LOVE YOU TCHAU love, sister lytle

Enjoy the view.