Jones, Landon

Olá Pessoal!!! It's been a while sonce I've sent out an email; I've been here in Petrópolis now for I think 3 weeks! Which is just wild, it feels like it's been maybe a week. Anyways, it's been really crazy the past few weeks, tons of Português all day long, but I'm definitely learning a ton!!  When I first got here i would say I probably understood about 10% of what people were saying, but now I'm probably around 45% which is wild to me how much I can understand.  The other day at church, we were getting the Sacrament ready, and I was talking to this kid who we had lunch with the other day. He was asking me about my mission and stuff like that, and I was able to have a conversation with him without any help from anyone else. Granted he's like 10, but still, I think I can say I'm now as smart as a 10 year old when it comes to Português !  My companion, who's from Brasil is learning English right now, so he tries to talk to me every once in a wh...

5 more days until I leave the CTM, I've got mixed feelings about leaving. On one hand, I'm getting really bored of being locked inside everyday, but on the other hand I know no portuguese. But I think I'll probably learn a ton better being in the field.  This week again was really uneventful, on Monday our teacher Irmã Tavares stopped teaching us because she's going to Portugal. Which sucks because she was our only good teacher. Our other teacher Irmão Deviyd is such a cool dude but just doesn't care that much about his job, so we don't really learn anything. Monday was a crazy day! When we started our night class, we started smelling this weird kinda gross smell. And a few minutes later there was like an alarm sound on the speakers and people speaking weird words in portuguese on the loudspeaker, which none of us could understand. Our teacher and his friend decided it would be funny to tell us that the building is on fire, I had no idea what was going on. It st...