First 2 Days!

I've made it everyone! And I love, love, love it already! Everyone here is seriously SO nice. At all the meals, other missionaries come up and just start talking to you and saying to ask them anything/questions/etc. (We have a blue dot on our tags that lets everyone know we are new hehe.) The food has been pretty good so far. The pineapple is amazing and they have different fruits out all the time, so I am excited to try all of those. They of course have beans and rice and meat, and they are all good!

Once we met up with everyone at the airport, we were all so excited and just talking and laughing. I love them already. Sister Sheppard is my companion and she is so awesome! We have had a blast together already. She is the only other Sister going to my mission right now, along with one Elder.

Sao Paulo is amazing! It is crazy how many huge buildings there are, but also how much greenery there is. It is not just pure city, but has a ton of big trees everywhere! It is so colorful, lots of graffiti on the buildings, and the drivers are crazy! (very glad I am not driving)

We did a bunch of introductions to the MTC (missionary training center) yesterday, and also had some free time to unpack, which was nice. The people here are honestly some of the nicest people I have ever met. So if all Brazilians are like this, it's going to be an even better 18 months than I thought.

This morning we woke up at 5 am to get off to the Campinas temple. It was an 1 1/2 drive and was so fun to see all the neighborhoods and a ton of more foresty area. The temple is beautiful!! We had a great session in both English/Portuguese which was pretty cool. We got some great pictures in front of the temple but I need to figure out my camera downloading stuff still, so it might be another week before i send pictures.

The spirit was so strong at the temple and it was awesome to be there the second day here!

We start our Portuguese tomorrow which im excited/nervous about, today is pday, so after this we get to go out on the streets and explore a little!! They apparently have a very yummy cookie place that is owned by a Brazilian and an American who were companions a while back, so they give a free cookie to the fresh missionaries (me haha).

Okay sorry everything is scattered right now, and I don't have too much time so sorry for the randomness above. Hopefully, I will get the hang of this in future emails haha.

I love the gospel and it is true!!!!

Love, Sister Jeppson