So I am in Brazil

So I am in Brazil

(pardon my poor grammer/spelling i now only have 45 minutes to email and im trying write as much as i can and the key board is all out of wack with extra letters )  ok so brazil is pretty sweet my room will have atleast 2 brazilians so thats cool they will be able to help me speak way better than i could have learned in provo so thats cool also the food is a million times better here which is pretty sweet. I leave the brazil mtc in two week on october 6. also i dont know if i said anything about this in my last email but my last zone had a couple elders going into seals and they had us do a core work out this past saturday. im still sore.... so thats fun i get to go out into the streets of sao paulo in about 30 minutes  and explore with my district. so thats fun. so crazy stuff has happened already i heard a drive by last night two to be exact. so that was a thing. the flight was pretty bad we had multiple medical emergencies on all my flights. i couldent sleep cause some guy was beat boxing in the seat in front of me i had a body builder and his girlfriend to the left of me and some guy who only spoke araibian to the right so i had like no space and no one to talk to all the way to brazil. so yea that was fun. my first day a ton of brazilians corrnered me and asked a million questions and wouldnt leave until I answered them all. also my companions in prove got their visa monday morning so they should be on their way down next monday if they decide not to keep them. brazil is hot and it  rains randomly  but thats ok its very similar to home. im in a trio again and my district is super cool theres 5 elders and 3 sisters. theres bars on my window in my room cause of neighbour problems and theres a million stairs in this building and its way diffrent. tell the kids hi and love you same with the dogs and dont forget to check on my martin mom. yea my p day is on wednesdays now

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From Mark

I got my visa

As you all probably know i got my visa the other day so i get to take my p day early to say hi becasue I leave Monday at like 5 am. to be honest I'm kind of bummed out because i really like my companions, the mtc, and my teachers but its Ok because I'm finally going to Brazil which is awesome! so yea during the devotional this week i got to be in the choir which was cool because elder Stevenson was there annndd... my companions got to shake his hand. because they were in the regular seating. by the way there's a talk by Elder Bednar that's really good its on byui's page its called the character of Christ so yea its awesome. last night i did this work out with some Elders who did their bud/s entrance exam (physical) before they came out needless to say I'm pretty sore right now. so yea ill be online for a while please respond so i can talk to people from the outside world.
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From Mark

Excitement in the MTC

So we had a toilet blow up in the residence hall.... 

thats a story to tell when i get home though. 

Anyway im still alive and well my companions and i are getting along well and what not 

the mtc is fun although im getting cabin fever pretty bad. we also had a devotional yesterday that was pretty crazy people came up on the stand and started talking into the mic... but it was what ever. i dont have much stuff to talk about becasue i cant think of anything so sorry for the short email this week. tell the dogs i said hi and thell the kids i said hi and love you 

 

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From Elder Mark "Kevin" Bledsoe

Week 2?

So I'm still alive and this time my keyboard is not broken! My companions and I are doing well, we were supposed to get 2 new sisters in my district but they created 2 new districts instead... we had way more people come in than we thought we would! The food tastes ok but it pretty scary to be honest. I got to be about 20 feet from President Nelson while he was speaking at a devotional so that was pretty cool. im learning a lot and my personality has pulled a 95 from being a super not touchy person to being fine with random people hugging you and being super close. Cause the thing with the mtc is that they totally immerse you in the culture. so yea in class we have a brazilian dude teaching us and he just will give you hugs after class so yea thats still pretty weird but hey its taking down my rough edges which is good I guess. One of my companions and might do a special musical number at a devotional where we do a church hymn medley or the efy theme or something on guitar. By the way they actually have guitars here so thats nice. But yea were working that out. I hope you're all doing well, dont die, hi kids, tell the dogs i said hi and make sure that my martin is ok please. Ill send pictures in a little and my mailing address is something Im still not sure Ill send it when I send pictures (maybe).