Its always hard to start my letters because I gets kind of boring
just saying hey everybody or good morning or bom dia, so Ill start like this I
guess. Anyways its been another quick week, I don't have much time to write
today cause I have to leave here because today we are going to have a dual zone
activity here in Campo Grande, we are going to go to a members "farm" its a
little place that's good for making barbecue and playing games guess, we are
expecting 33 missionaries so we will be meeting them in one of the bus terminals
here and then going to the mini farm, it is located at the end of our area and
is about 40 minutes from our house, it should be a good time and I look forward
to it. Last p-day we went to the center and bought some stuff we were with the
zone leaders and they got permission to go to the campo grande shopping center
to buy white shirts so we went there, it was super americany and it reminded me
alot of the gateway and the mall in Provo. It was nice but things were super
expensive there and it was just all rich people that go there anyway, while we
were there i ate some subway and then after we went to one of the chapels in the
center where there was lot f missionaries playing soccer and hanging out, I got
to see alot of good friends that i hadn't seen in many many months and also meet
alot of new missionaries, everyone is so young now on the mission, they all had
these astonished looks on their faces when they asked how much time we had on
the mission. I still feel young though, I aint no old missionary! anyway we took
a picture there which I will upload right now. So also to of my old companions
will be getting on the plane back home today, Elder Geisler and Elder Piñon
finshed up their missions today, they are in a group that is going home 2 weeks
before the transfer because of school or something. That means that there are
only 6 missionaries in the mission older than my group. That's so weird, but 3
months is still so much time and there is still so much to do. Well this week
was pretty good I guess we walked alot in the blazing sun and I got pretty red.
We marked a date with that guy José, but I think he was traveling or something
the end of the week cause we went by his house like 3 times but his house was
locked up, we even went by Sunday morning but it was still locked up. We did
take a les active member to church that hadn't been in years, she is wheel chair
ridden and has never been able to walk. Luckily though she lives super close to
the church so we just went there in the morning and pushed her to church, she
had a great reception at church because there were lots of members that
remembered her I know she really enjoyed going back. I did get a little irked
with one brother there who has a reputation of being a little "louco" we pushed
her in and he looked at her and yelled "Sumida" which means pretty much
disappeared then he yelled "fugida" which means like ran off, it doesn't really
make much sense in English. But pretty much he meant to say well look who ran
of and disappeared and came back! But the way he said it was not at all
pleasing and its the last thing people want to hear when returning to church.
That grinded my gears pretty good, and I told him after that that's not the kind
of reception people deserve when returning to church, i just hope it doesn't
happen again. We ate alot of food this week and we had one day where we didn't
have lunch and so a sister from the ward Marechal Deadoro where I had served
before invited us to eat with them. It was nice being in my old area again and
being able to enjoy the company of old friends. My shoes are officially hole
ridden and everyday I get back home with my socks full of dirt and dust. It is
what it is though, anyway so we are going to have to leave here now but next I
will give a better account of whats going on. O also this week the president of
the area of Brasil President Claudio M. Costa will be here in our mission on
Saturday and Sunday, he will be presiding our stake conference that will be cool
but I heard that he can be pretty rough on he missionaries at times, but I guess
that's a good thing, I tell you about it next week.I love you all and hope you
all have a great week, I hope school goes great for the brothers and I was
thrilled to see that everything went great at grandma and grandpas anniversary
party, which I had been there but thanks mom for the pictures. Well take care
and have a great week!
-Elder Kennington
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