Week #2 ~ A Thankful Missionary

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December 13, 2011

Hey!
Things here are good.  I´m starting to get in the groove of things.  The first few days felt like a few months, but now time is speeding up I guess.  Yeah, my schedule pretty much is eat, study, class, and sleep.  Sundays are way awesome because we have like 3 or 4 hours of free time, so I just crashed and took a long nap! (Ha ha).  The food here is pretty good, usually just some sort of a meat, fruit, and rice and beans.  They also have really good fruit juices that I like to mix.  It kind of gets boring, but oh well, that's okay, because when I got here, I weighed myself and I weighed 69 kilos. Now I range from 70-72 kilos, so about 156 pounds! (Ha ha).  Tuesday through Saturday we have one hour of exercise time, so we go play basketball or volleyball.  On Sundays, we have church and devotionals, and on Mondays, we have service. On Tuesday, we go out in the town and shop and all that.  I´m saving my sheets for the field, because they provide towels, sheets and all that, so I'll just kept those sealed, and other than shoes, have kept the other luggage closed.  We try to balance gospel and language and they are trying to drill into us just to be ourselves, which is easy for me, but it is pretty tough for a couple guys because they came down ready to be in the robotic missionary mode.  The temple session is in English, so that is nice! (Ha ha)  It's interesting to see the session in the movie mode too!

I´m glad things are going good at home.  Tell Jack happy birthday for me!  I bet he´s super excited to be growing up now (ha ha), and good luck with six more years with him!  Thanks for always letting me have my friends over.  I heard from Seth which was nice, but nobody else. I would love it if you gave them my address and all that!  I have not gotten the package yet, so hopefully it gets here in the next couple days...if not, then I´ll let you know later this week or next Tuesday, because I´m going to send a letter with some bracelets in it for Al and Jack sometime this week.

Tell everybody that things are great and let them all know that I love them and miss them!  Keep me updated on everything that goes on at home, and tell Peppy "hi" for me! (Ha ha).  I love you guys so much and can't thank you enough for being the BEST PARENTS on this planet!  You guys have taught me so much and hopefully now I can go share that knowledge of love with the people of Londrina.  I hope everything is great back home.  I love you so much!

Love,
Elder Chandler Halpin