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Holy cow let me tell you that the lord in amazing!!! I have now taught 10 lessons in Portuguese with 3 different investigators!!! The first one i knew was my teacher but last Wednesday he decided to actually teach class. It was super weird when he started to speak English and was like yep i'm not from Brazil i'm from Orem....... Oh how every face in my class turned there smiled into are you kidding me faces haha. It is really funny how the brain works because we thought he was from Brazil our brains made it seems that is facial structure was of a native Brazilian no joke!!! I will not lie to you guys the language is tough! Last Tuesday tho Richard G. Scott came and talked and it was focused as what i thought directly at me in every aspect, He gave us an apostolic blessing that according to our faith the gift of tongues will be manifested unto us. I had been lacking that faith a bit over time but bam the next day after this talk something hit me and Elder Davis and we learned 60 new words and phrases in 4 hrs!!!! Talk about amazing and it was all by the Lords hand! We went into our lesson that day and did not take notes we only took a O livro de Mormon! Holy cow i had never felt the spirit so strong and we committed to baptism! Yesterday we taught a lesson and idk what it was but it was the first lesson and the spirit told me to invite to baptizado so i so did wouldn't you believe it he said yes!! So i know our investigators are just paid actors but we really feel the spirit in every lesson and we legit worry and pray hard for our investigators. Trying to cram so much info in so fast is exhausting tho yesterday i learned 20 new words in 2 hrs and i was dead after i went into a room with my companion turned the light off and just watched spiritual videos on the Mormon channel for like 2 hrs and surprisingly the spirit was still hitting us so hard in that! So i have lost 10lbs since being in the mtc i just get so exhausted and stress and when gym time rolls around everyday i end up running 3-5 miles and its crazzzy! One day i walked into the cafetiria and got super sick and had a fever I layed in bed after and the spirit just hit me and was like go hit the gym because gym time was next i ended up running 3miles and no more fever hahaha it was pretty epic and made my day!!! Oh my gosh my friend Mia sent me krispy kreme dounuts today lucky she did because me and my roomates didnt get breakfast cuz our temple time is at 650 on Tuesdays so every tuesday we dont get breakfast so when we got back bam there were doughnuts so we had breakfast so i am glad for that one hahha! It was pretty cool tho cuz she sent them with some MTCdilivery.com website or something i had never heard of if but now i have and i noticed soooo many elders get stuff from it hahaha its awesome! So i think Michayla left the MTC yesterday i was looking for her sunday to say goodbye but with the MTC having 4000 students its kinda hard hahaha. At times i feel like the MTC is spiritual prison your just always cooped up and wanting to leave 24/7 but other times i am extremely grateful for it i know it sucks being in class 18hrs a day and learning a language that feels confusing but then i just listen to the Asian speaking classes across the hall and i decide i will stick with learning Portuguese i swear those Mongolians only speak like in some weird vocal tones cuz that's all i hear all day is super odd grunting i just want to go and shut there door and say stop not cool i don't like being grunting at im Brazilian hahaha but im just kidding its just funny. So this week we get to Skype actual investigators in Brazil im way stoked!!! Also Dad im not sure why missionaries flip gang sings i like to think they are more islander sings that we flash because the islanders are cool so that's what the hang loose signs are about thanks for asking :) hahaha. Its crazzy cuz in my district two elders are going to cape Verde and in my zone everyone is going all over to Africa to Portugal and Brazil haha. We are getting a new district in our zone tomorrow so that will be interesting to talk to them. The MTC is amazing and God looks out for us here you can feel it. If you guys ever feel the urge you can write me letter and of course use the free dearelder service and then i will get it same day its pretty awesomeeee just saying hahaha. Everyday you should take time to go somewhere by yourself and pray to your heavenly father i promise that if you do this he will make things be known unto you. If you seek for his guidance and put in his work he will bring unto you anything he needs to or wants to. I have been so stressed about my visa it is crazzzy i try not to think about it ive come to the conclusion that i will go where he wants me to go i don't even care about my visa anymore. There was a gal in my zone who turned in her visa stuff a week before we left and bam she got it last week and left last Tuesday. She is also from Florida and apparently they're visas are the fastest ones. Only problem with me is that she said the church made her go down to the consulate and pay a fee that the church gave her money to pay and turn in all her forms. Dad you should call the travel office and ask if you can do that to hurry up the process cuz they wont let me even fill out the online application yet cuz they think it will expire which means my visa hasn't even been applied for yet hahha. Im not so much worried about my visa im just worried im never going to get to Brazil and i want to sooo much hahaha. Well I know with all my faith it will work out and i promise you that if you do the lords work and become like the character of Christ he will bless you. Everyone read the Character of Christ talk by Elder Bednar it is amazing Amor Voce!!!!!
Elder Lee
