Dusty

O man, Maceio is awesome.
  Ok but first we half ta talk about the begining of this week. For starts the 

Jynx battle of the century went down at the begining of this week.  We had 

finished learning all the lessons in our grammer book and for fun another district 

had come in to re teach a lesson to us.  Well me at Whitehead answered one of the 

questions at the same time and then both said Jynx at the mesmo tempo.  This 

naturally sets off the chain of constant jynx´x till the loser takes a breath. 

Well neither one of us were in the mood to lose, infact Whitehead has never lost 

a match.  I could tell he was close to out of breath as i was still going strong 

but he suprised me as i felt myself slowly reaching the end of my limit as well. 

At this point we were both blue in the face and had to lean over as to be able to 

push more air out of our lungs...horrible idea.  So as we´re both hunched over 

our desks...dying, i feel that i can´t take it anymore and proceed to utter my 

final Jynx b efore takiong a breath.  Well i do, and ironically enough so does 

E Whitehead, resulting in a tie double Jynx, unheard of.  When both of us to a 

breath we relized what a horrible idea the whole thing had been to let competition 

get the best of us.  It felt like someone was blowing a ballon up inside of me 

and i was feeling pretty queezy the rest of the day with a slight head ache. 

no good.
  But on to other things, the rest of the week was pretty chill as you might 

say, the CTM kinda loses focus or direction as you get ready and axious to get 

into the field.  We got to leave the compound a few time wthin the week for 

things like dry cleaning, and i picked up some chocolate as well.  Interesting 

was the fact that the same day a bought 3 rather large chocolate bars i wasn´t 

expecting to get any mail.  MISTAKE (scrubs opra singer) My companion comes 

running out of the mail room telling me i have a package, lies.  Theres no way 

its our last week and i was expecting nothing.  So i ask him who its from and 

he tells me not my family but mumbles the distinct word, ´´Mrs Kia? Who is 

that´´ Whos is that! um only one of the greatest families in the world.  So 

yes i have gotten your package Freibergers and i cannot thank you enough, 

neither can the helpful mouths of my district :-) We finished off most of the 

small stuff and maraculasly got the rest of it up to my apartment here in Maceio.

Hense i had a wonderful box of golden grahams this morning.  The reason it took 

so long, in case your wondering, because the had to inspect the propel packets 

for ´´sanitary purposes´´ w/e.  I believe it all got here because the checked 

everything through and claim it was safe, thank goodness.
  I have decided it is impossible for a brazilian to not be happy or to sies 

from smiling by the way.  Now if i can only figure out the words that acompany 

those glowing faces all be golden, however the second may take awhile. (6months 

as most say, 2 down four to go)  
  So yesterday our plane left, at who knows what time (later thatn scheduled) 

and me and 8 other excellent missionaries flew to Maceió.  The President his 

wife his secrateries, AP´s and Senoir Couple all met us at the air port.  For 

the first time ever they were checking your bagagge claim tickets and of course 

i had no idea were mine was.  L literally searched every where and could not 

find it.  So i said a small prayer, and decided to open up one of my notebooks 

again to check.  I klnow for a fact i had already checked that book, but low 

and behold there were the tickets.  Small Miricals
  The mission home here is gorgeous, actually its in a gated community if that 

helps you grasp an idea.  We had an excellent meal and quicjk over view meeting 

as well as entrance interviews with the president.  He is from Draper Utah btw 

and his name is Pr. Beinyen.  Im not quite sure how to spell it.  His wife had 

made brownies too and then we met our new companions.  Mine is Elder Martins, 

and he is from Campines Brazil (they have a gorgeous temple)  And speaks nearly 

zero english as far as i know.  But i was delighted to meet him and as everyone 

slowly pulled away in various taxi´s and such (some had a 5 hr bus ride to 

Aracaju, ie olso and bevan) i watched my old companion and district leave. 

It was a sad but happy moment.  
  Now...my apartment.  Well its really big i guess but there is nothing filling 

the space.  Luckly this m akes it super easy to clean which was good because the 

last elders had´t gone a good job of that (this was E Martins first time in the 

apartment tambem)  We took a minute to bust it and then left to meet up with 

some other Elders who were transfering and stop by the supermarket.  We bought 

more cleaning supplies there and end up moppin gour whole apartment before the 

night was over.  Its fun so count all the living things that run away when you 

turn on a light but for the most part nothing all that entertaining.  Tho on 

the way in from the airport an AP was telling us how one night he had been 

about to go to bed whenh he pulled to covers back and found a foot sized spider.

E Duerden my old comp, who we all know is petrified of such things, just *GASPED* 

We all looked at him as he exhailed and said ´´you know what, at that point i 

don´t tihnk i would even be scared of them,  when their that big, i figure you 

could prolly reason with it´´  We all cracked up laughing.  I knew the word 

for bed here was cama, but i´m not quite sure of that anymore.  If so its not 

a direct traslation, or something gets lost in translation i should say. Just 

Kidding, its a wonderful bed my only complaint is the aged smell it has.  But 

i managed to get some sleep, as i was dead tired last night.
  Today is now P-day so i still have no way of telling you whats it is truely 

like.  But i have been walking around the city all morning and it is beautiful. 

There is always a breeze and its pretty much like any coastal city in the states; 

merchant shops everywhere with people selling thengs on the street all over. 

The only difference is i have no idea what they´re saying, for the most part. 

Needless to say i love it.  And i can´t wait to fill everyone in on all the 

new stories next week.  
  Thats really all i have for now I love you all, pray i can some whow understand 

portuguese tomorrow ;-)
 
E Neuberger