a quick update

Wessy and his companion! He said this picture was his companion's idea.. I'm not so sure!

This is Wes's current companion.. Also a native Brazilian, but much lighter than the last one! Wes says he's a pretty cool guy!

cute pictures!

So I know I'm way behind on what's been going on since Wes got to Brazil, and I promise to catch up someday.
But for today, I will just post his email he sent with cute pictures! He looks soo skinny! He told me last week that his belt didn't fit anymore so I asked him if I needed to send him one or if he could get one there. Then today he said, my belt fits again, not because I gained weight, I made a new hole! Ha and he said he has had to fix his shoes a few times already. Look how far he has come, he used to be like OCD about his shoes being clean and looking clean. Oh the life of a missionary :). So here is today's email and cute pictures!

















hey yall!! whats going onn?!
things are good here! i got a new comp yesterday and he is awesome. elder pedroso. hes brazillian. we had a baptism on saturday and it was so cool, hisname is jaime. very cool guy and very excited about the church. we have lots of people we are working with right now to get them baptized who have accepted the baptism commitment and have a testimony of the B.o.m. just workin workin workin.im trying to send pictures but it wont work. grr! i hope things are going well there! the city im in is Itatiba. it is west of Campinas. and San francisco is far west in Itatiba. mom i got your dear elder yesterday! and no i dont get taxed for packages, so packages are welcome!!!
i cant believe its been 4 months! that makes it sound like a long time! ha it has gone so fast. its kinda crazy. sorry the emails kinda lame this week. i really dont have many storys or anything this time. just workin and searching for the elects! we´re thinking about doing baptismal commitments in each contact now. because there are so many people here ready to hear the message that spending 30 minutes in someones house that doesnt really want christ just honestly is wasting time that we could be teaching someone that is searching! so we´re making our contacts a little more bold. if they´re elect they´re elect. we hew! i figured out the pictures! i hope you can see them and i still look like the same person a bit!! anyway, i gotta run but i hope you are all doing well. i love you all!!
Elder Christensen

phone call

Okay so I know I am SO behind!! School all of a sudden got out of control and I feel like I don't have a long block of time I can just sit down and do this. But I'm going to try and do a little bit at a time and get all the way caught up of what's been going on in the past 3 weeks! I will start from the very beginning.... the much awaited phone call from the airport. I took a few notes of things that he told me had been going on in the MTC and what he had heard about his mission, etc. So here goes..

-first off, he told me about how he almost got in a fight with a British guy who was bashing American in the MTC.. ha ha wes
was like "do you have a problem?" and I guess the kid backed off. It's good for him to practice self conrol though. They were
told they would probably be mugged atleast a couple times on their mission (SCARY!!) and that they can't fight back AT ALL!
I guess the gangsare super crazy, so they can't cause any problems. If you know Wes, you know that he loves football and he
loves standing up for himself, so this could be a challenge! No I'm sure he will be totally fine!
-He told me that on the way to the airport he took tons of pictures out the window of places he had memories of! Kind of
crazy
when you think about not seeing all those places again for 2 whole years!
-He heard in the MTC that Campinas is a really nice area. He said it's like bigger houses than other places and just a pretty
city!
He told me that there is a big University there and the dental students go out and find monkey's in the streets and sedate
them and work on their teeth! I'm not sure if that's true but if it is that's kind of funny and super crazy!
-Apparantly there are massive snakes in Brazil! Like huge, he's hoping he doesn't run into any of those
-He met this kid from another district the last few days they were in the MTC cause they were both waiting for their visa's. His
name is Elder Royder (not sure how to spell that) and he said they were so much alike! I guess they liked all the same music
and sports, etc. He said they should've been best friends in high school! So hopefully he can somehow stay in touch after the
mission!
-The pictures i posted below that says missionary model? I guess he didn't know his companion was taking them, they were
just joking around and then he forgot to delete them so he sent them to me and was super embarrassed!
-He said when he got there they would be able to exercise in the morning and he got a cool workout program from this kid
named Elder Reedhead from Arizona that he was excited to try! I haven't heard how it's working out, I'll have to ask!
-He lost 20 pounds in the MTC!!! And he is continuing to lose as he's been down there. He said in his email this week that his
belt is too big, won't even fit on the tightest thing! I thought maybe he was just losing muscle but I guess his waste is getting
smaller too!! So crazy!
-I tried to complain to him about school on the phone and then he told me they had to go to classes for 5 hours straight!!! That
made me feel a LOT better about my 50 minute classes. 5 hours is a really long time!

Those are just a few things that I wrote down that he told me on the phone! He sounded a little nervous but way excited to get down there and get to work!! It was so fun to talk to him, but hard to get off the phone! Felt like I was saying goodbye all over again! So yeah, he sounded awesome and he's still doing awesome!