Brazil for the Win - Week 2

Emma's CTM district

Olá gente!!!

Feels like I emailed just yesterday! Today is our p-day because tomorrow is the next World Cup game for Brazil and it gets crazy here on the streets. Last week during the game against Argentina, the whole city was going wild with horns, fireworks, and tons of cheering. It was the coolest experience to hear a city that loud for one reason. I even got woken up at night because they were still setting off fireworks! Let's go Brazil!!!

The CTM is still great! My Portuguese is still coming pretty slow, but the progress we have made in two weeks is amazing!! We did an inglês fast last week, where we don't talk in anything but Portuguese for a certain time period...lets just say it was a very quiet 5 hours haha. But it helped point out what I need to work on. 

Lots of my Brazilian friends left yesterday, so it was kinda sad saying bye to them. They are all the nicest people and its crazy to see them leave! bffs even though we could hardly communicate. 

Random fun fact...we got ice cream yesterday and it was yummo.

Today we went to the Campinas temple again and it was just so beautiful! Love the view on the way there, love the temple, love the peace I feel in the temple, love it all!

The winter weather has been very nice and sunny, which is awesome. But also means that is going to be a very hot summer haha. Bring it on Brazil. 

I highly encourage you all to listen to the song Peace in Christ (its the youth theme song for this year I believe), and if you have, listen to it again. Such a great song. https://www.lds.org/youth/theme/2018?lang=eng

Tchau!

Sister Jeppson

Emma answered some questions for us-

How is the Food?  

The food is good for the most part. The breakfasts are kind of terrible. They love ham and cheese for breakfast and have weird liquid stuff that is like milk with flour and sweetened condensed milk. The best days are when they have bananas and more of an oatmeal. The lunches are the best. The desserts are super weird as well for the most part haha. They really like gelatin stuff that is super super sweet.

Did you get your shoes? 

I did get my shoes and its so much better to run with them now! even though the track is seriously the saddest thing ever!! (30 laps is a mile ) :) 

What is your schedule like?  

My schedule is busy, yet we still have some down time, which was kind of unexpected at first, but is very nice. We have breakfast, then personal study usually before activity, then time to get ready again haha, before some classes, then lunch, then classes, then dinner, then classes, then bed. Sometimes is hard because a lot of our classes go right up until 9 at night when we are all dead. But it is good!!