Foster, Luke

Merry Christmas Everyone. It still doesnt feel like its Christmas Eve today, but whether I'm ready for it or not Christmas is coming and going. This week for me has been super busy and I have learned a lot. I went on three different divisions this week and every time I went to a different area, so I only worked in my area for about a day and a half. My first division was on Tuesday with Elder Couch. He is american and just got here 2 weeks ago, so he's still working on the portuguese. His area is more country than mine so it was super awesome. This was an awesome opportunity to put my portuguese to the test because my comp for the day didnt know anything. It was super awesome to see the progress I have made in the language and to communicate pretty much normally with everyone we taught. The next division was with our LZs. I went to their area with Elder Arce who is from Peru. He only speaks Spanish and Portuguese(or so he says haha). But I learned a lot from him. He is the most...

Sorry to everyone who was waiting on my email last week that I didn't write, but I have a good excuse. Last week my stomach started to feel super sick around Saturday morning, but not wanting to stop working, I popped a couple pepto-bismol and went on my way. The rest of Saturday I felt super sluggish, but I made it through. On Sunday the next morning I felt even worse, so I figure it was food poisoning and still we continued to walk and pick-up people for church that morning, because food poisoning is basically just a weekly occurrence here haha. We had a baptism that Sunday and after that I went home and slept. When I woke up from my nap I felt like my stomach was going to jump out of my body. Long story short I got samonella, the next three and a half days I spent on the edge of death, went to the hospital twice l, went on every drug imaginable, and killed the 250 pack of wet wipes I bought. While this was defintely was one of the hardest weeks of my mission, it was also one of ...

Another week has past by and it was pretty slow. It was the last week of the transfer and I'm definitely gonna miss my companion a ton. My comp is going to be an lz in a different area and train someone new. I'm staying in Casa Amarela. We had two areas Casa Amarela A&B, but they got combined so now my area is huge. Its cool though because I've been on like 10 division with my new comp already. Definitely the most exciting part of this week was the baptism of Cristyano. He is 11 years old and is super smart. I knock on his door about 4 weeks ago and we already baptized him which is crazy. He is a super good example to me, despite having literally zero support from his family. It was super sad to see that he only knew me and my comp at the baptism. Another thing that happened was I bought an orbe gun. Everyone on the streets kept shooting us with them so I decided to get even. I talked to a kid and he told me where to by one. It was in someones old abandoned house, where...