Brazil news

I'm still trying to catch up on life and here is the latest news from Brazil. The long awaited letter is here! Brandon is a REAL missionary now and in his first area! As you read or skim through notice two of his roomates are from this area. Amazing! Some excerpts:

Hi family,I made it to goiânia and i met presidente Tobias! We then dropped our stuff off at a hotel down the street from the mission office. Then we had a meeting with sis. Tobias and then Presidente. Then we went back to the hotel and slept and then had dinner at Presidentes house. He has a really nice house, it is an entire floor of a building, and the food was really good. Then we talked for a while and with the missionaries that were going home the next day. Then back to the hotel. The next day, back to the office and talked with Pres. Tobias for a while so he can get to know us a little better, and then a while later we got our areas.I´m not in goiania, but in the next state over in a city called Uberlãndia. It´s a good size city but we are in the outskirts, our area ends where the houses end and then there is nothing but open. Some people still use horses to get around. It´s cool, and my companion is Elder Jason Wardrop. He went to highland his fresh., somph., and junior year. .. So ya, i´m here and it´s fun. The members give us lunch everyday and everytime it has been pretty good. I help out with the lessons but its coming. We also don´t have any brasilians at our house, just 4 americans... Also, another elder in my house is also from mesa, i forget his first name but DeBoer is his last and he went to Desert Ridge.The other one is Elder Christianson and he is from Idaho. The people here are really nice, we can get in to almost anyone´s house if they are home. But the problem is to get them to do stuff. No baptismos this week, but hopefully soon, we are teaching some people that seem like they will keep commitments. This area is pretty cool and sometimes we see wild parrots fly by and some other cool birds. There are also a million dogs here wonder around and bark at everything. Our house is actually not that bad, just before i got here the elders bought a new house and it is not bad. Its hot and humid here but not too horrible. So thats about it, qualquer perguntas? (any questions?) Oh ya, the bus ride here was 7hrs and it had no airconditioning, when we were going fast it was fine but when we were stoped it was really stuffy. ... Talk to you later.Elder Lewis