E Agora... Portugês!
Olá irmãos e irmãs, Boa tarde (good afternoon) amigos e familia! It is both incredibly exciting and also somewhat terrifying to be emailing you all already as um missionário da Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Últimos Dias. It seems like I opened my mission call just the other day, and yet here I am! Even though starting CTM (as it's known em portugês) on Wednesday means I have not technically had a full week of training, it might as well have been. I may not be in São Paulo agora (now), but I think this is about as close as it could be. We have language classes for over 6 hours a day, but they fly by because of the incredible amount of information that is being thrown our way. At this point, the vast majority of class time is spoken in portugês! When I say "majority," don't think I'm saying we're by any means fluent, but we sure are heading in that general direction. By week 3, we will have a new instructor that will not know a lick of English, so the p...