Boa Tarde! So did it end up sending you all the picture ok? There was about
24 of them. After I sent them all i sent me a message that said it didn't send
them for some reason. But if you got them great! I was super bummed out cause I
didn't think they sent. Any way we are only supposed to have 30 mins on p-day to
email and after that it notifies your branch president if you stay on much
longer. My emails have been really cut down the last two weeks cause of problems
with my account lettting me on. But I think we got it all figuered out. Even
today I'm cut down to only 20 mins. So I'll try to fill in as much as possible. I
have a super hard time typing and spelling because all the portuguese makes it
hard to do stuff in english so sorry plus the computer I'm on is a joke cause
it's s laggy and slow. Christmas was awesome. Russel M. Nelson was the apostle
that came and talked to us. It was really cool when he walked into the gym
because everyone stood up and the spirit testified that a man of great power and
faith was in the room. We didn't do a whole bunch on Christmas. We had
breakfast, then personal sudy time, and then we went and got ready for the two
choir number we were supposed to sing during the Christmas devotional. Me and
Elder Saxton are in the Choir and we sang two pieces. One was a beautiful song
called where shepards lately knelt. And then we sang a tough rendition of The
first Noel. But it was also very beautiful and it went great. Elder Nelson spoke
to us about the atonement and how me must all take advantage of the great
miracle that it is. He also dispelled the rumor that there were missionaries
getting calls to learn chinese for 1 year and then go to china for another two
years. He said it was competely and utterly false and to cease spreading that
rumor. Anyway Everything is still going great here at the mtc. We got two more
roomates on the 19th Elder Williams and Elder Thayne. They are great Elders and
they are both going to Portugal. Elder Saxton doesn't like them speaking
portuguese since it sounds different than brazilian portuguese. He likes to try
and correct them. He also gets a little irritated with me if I talk too much
portuguese. He's doing alot better though and has been able to start speaking
and picking up the language better. Our class is doing great with everything. I
think we have the hardest working portuguese district here. Our distict leade,r
Elder Cameron is super great and helpful. He's really chilled and relaxed but he
makes sure we work hard and get stuff done. A typical day here starts with
waking up at 6:30 going to breakfast at 7 then personal study from 7:30 till
8:30 then our teacher teaches us unil 11:30, then we have lunch and gym after
that. I usually play knockout basketball and foursquare but we can also play
volleyball or run on the track above. I ran 2 miles on monday and I almost
killed over and died cause I was so tired. It felt good after, though. After gym
we usually go back for more language study and computer language study. then at
4:30 we have dinner and then we do more study and our teacher teaches till 9:30
and then we go back to the dorms and pass out on our bed and repeat again the
next day. It's great though and there is nothing I love more than being here and
learning more about the gospel. The days seem long but the week just melt
together. Btw tell Kaden happy birthday yesterday. I thought of him several
times throughout the day. Also tell grandma thanks so much for the goodies it
was such a relief to finally get a package full of goodies. Thanks for the
emails and the hoodie and pushup bars. I got them today. Yesterday 43 people
got sick from eating this beef casserole for lunch that I ate too and was fine,
but 3 got sick and threw up during gym time. Also another one from our zone
dislocated his finger playing basketball yesterday but he's doing ok. It's
snowed a good foot here in the last week and everybody is having fun throwing
snowballs around and stuff. Every sunday and on christmas we go walk around the
temple. The provo temple has been closed the last 2 weeks and doesnt open until
january second so I haven't been able to go and do a session yet which stinks
super bad but this next friday I'll be able to go again so I'm super excited for
that. We did that white elephant gift giving on christmas and I got 5 bucks
worth of peach rings to give as my present. I ended up with a random piece of
paper with portuguese words and 2 mechanical pencils. But thats alright we were
also super happy to spend Christmas together. I'm so jealous you guys get to go
on the sweet vacation next month!!! What the heck! you guys have fun though
cause I'll have more fun than you guys in Brazil anyway :) Sorry my email is
all over the place I dont remember what I was going to say. Email me the
questions you still need answered or whatever your curioous on. I'm super late
for dinner so I have to get running. Let everyone know I love them. A IGREJA E
VERDADEIRA!
Love you all. - Elder Kennington
