Augusto Montenegro 6

[I mentioned I heard about renting an alpaca to take hiking with you...not to carry your stuff, just to hike with you and this is Isaac's reply to that]:
The alpaca thing, Elder Kaiser from the CTM says there is this sport that's like ultra marathon racing, but it's with a donkey. You carry all of your stuff on your donkey and you have to train your donkey to run with you. It's hard because sometimes the donkeys get tired and you have to pull them. Only like a small number of people do it and 90 percent live in Colorado. His gym teacher was one of them and one time his gym teacher brought his race donkey to school for them too see.  I was like, this is a sport I want to get into.
[For Ben Sharp: Answer is yes, I have had all of those things that Ben asked about. I just can't recognize them yet; and all food here is good, but I do really miss artichoke dip for some reason.  I am excited to get home and eat American food though.]

Happily Ever After

This week not too much happened; both me and my companion had pretty bad colds.  We did work a little though.  

On a side note this transfer we got a new American in the house and he literally knows nothing. Like I am not saying that as an exaggeration, he actually know no Portuguese so we don't really know what he did in the CTM. However it made me realize how far my Portuguese has come a long because now I translate everything for him and help him out with stuff. Also, another thing about my Portuguese is I can successfully argue. Like, we had an argument about if true love and happily ever after actually exist, and I was the only one arguing yes, but by then end I had the majority so I felt good about my Portuguese after that. Also people are finally starting to get my sarcasm so I think that is a good sign.  Also side note, "your mom" jokes do not work as well here. People take their mothers very seriously which is probably a good thing, but also it means if you tell a "your mom" joke it will either be very very bad or if you hit it at the right moment it can be the funniest thing. So I have to figure out the right moments pretty quick.  

We also made a grape cake which was interesting because I never had a grape flavored cake before, but it was surprisingly very good.  Also carnival is next week, but it basically started this week. Yesterday was insane. I think everybody was drunk and music was blasting everywhere. I could never focus and it went until like 3 in the morning.  Also I saw the best marching band I have ever seen, so sorry Mr. Buller.  Part of it was proably because they were all drunk and trying to walk in a line and play music together in tune but it wasn't working, that made them the greatest, it was very funny. 

Also side note for William, I saw somebody playing Pokemon Go the other day, and I was like oh yeah that exists! so maybe they have that one Pokemon only in South America.  

I love you guys and I am feeling better now so that's good I will hopefully be healed this week and then work hard and make my companion work too.  

Love you guys and [I] miss the snow.