Augusto Montenegro 11

 Ready Or Not Transfer

 

Hey people!,

This week was pretty uneventful. Except Tuesday we were without water so the other missionaries in the house made me climb into the area above the apartments to check it out, and so I used my non existent plumbing skills to discover the problem ;].  Surprisingly the plumbing was pretty self explanatory, and I figured everything out and was able to fix everything. The water was just dirty for awhile before we could use it again.  

This week we had a service project where I got to mix cement for the first time.  It was fun, but lots of work, and I know why Bob the Builder purchased his mixer.  I learned a lot about how to construct a house out of bricks and cement so basically now I just need to learn about electricity and then I can build a house.  Just joking, there is probably lots more in depth things to building a house, but it's kind of cool I am learning about house maintenance on a mission. 

It was the birthday of the other American in our house so we baked a cake, bought açai, and had a big party until 10:00 at night. We party hard.  

However there was one big surprise! I ended up getting transferred to Marituba! It's surprising because usually new missionaries stay in their first area for 3 or 4 transfers and I only had two. My companion was a little bit sad he will be staying there longer than me.  My new area so far is cool.  My new companion is too; he is huge and funny.  His accent is a bit different so sometimes it is hard to understand, but he is pretty awesome.  The house is different too, but pretty big. I will send pictures next week. The only thing I know about my area is that it is one of the biggest in the mission so we are going to do a lot of walking.  Also when I arrived in my area they were having a funeral and I ended up being the one to say the prayer. So I had to give a nice thoughtful prayer in Portuguese about death and that was difficult but I think I pulled it off and it was heartfelt.  Things are staying crazy here; hopefully they are still crazy at home, but not too crazy.  love you all!

Love,

Elder Holcomb

oh p.s.  my new planner I made is pretty sweet so I sent pictures of that.