Feeling the Love (and Fearing For My Life) in Fortaleza

Família Família!

I just love you guys!

This week was pretty awesome!

We went to Fortaleza for mission conference on Tuesday and Wednesday. Conference was really good. Mission presidents are the coolest. President Bonini is like our own little celebrity. Everyone gets super pumped when he walks in the room and everyone wants to talk to him and take pictures with him. He´s the greatest (even if I only catch about half of what he says to me <3 #Portuguese)

So you´ve heard of fruit salad. Well almost every single day we eat a little creation I´ve named Carb Salad. (Seriously, the people eat this like everyday for lunch. Wow. Where are the vegetables, people?) It consists of rice, beans, pasta, and potatoes. Usually some kind of meat too. (Olá, kilos).

Fortaleza is super different from Paracurú. Paracurú is more laid back and quiet, but Fortaleza is like city-mortocyclists-every-two-feet-and-they-wear-flip-flops-and-your-taxista-is-actually-a-driver-for-Fast-and-Furious. I´m convinced the Fortaleza Ônibus was the inspiration for the Harry Potter Night Bus.

I got 13 letters this week. I felt like a movie star. That´s prob what Beyoncé feels like.

In other news, Devid got baptized yesterday and it was the most wonderful day ever. My heart was smiling. Like so big. It was even cooler because earlier this transfer, we baptized his older brother and sister (Rafaela and Felipe). Tender. #EternalFamilies.

I LOOOOVE THE BOOK OF MORMON AND BEING A MISSIONARY. WHOA. ITS SO FUN AND GREAT AND MAGICAL AND WOW SO AWESOME.

That´s all for this week.

I LOVE you guys and pray for your success and happiness every day <3

Love From Brazil,

Sister Chamberlain