Today is my first Pday and i am super excited because i actually have so time to slow down and relax a little bit. My week has been crazy! we have 3 hours of Portuguese a day and i love every minute of it. The language is coming a long great! i have learned to pray and bear my testimony in Portuguese and i can do it without looking at any material. i have also memorized my purpose in Portuguese and i am now working on the first vision and hope to have it done before Halloween. The second day i tough my first lesson in Portuguese! it was really hard and i had to keep looking at my notes to remember what i wanted to say, and i am sure i said a lot of things that didn't make sense. haha. the third lesson we taught we asked him if he had been reading the book of Mormon and the scriptures we asked. he said that he read them and was reading everyday when my companion heard this he said nos estamos muito triste which means we are real sad ahahah the look on the investigators face was priceless. he was like "what you guys are said i read the book of Mormon?" the investigator and i had a good laugh about it and so did our Portuguese teacher when we told him. I loved reading all of your emails and hearing about how hard your lives have all become since i have been gone! hehe. So my Pdays are on Tuesday and i only have a little time to write so i will try to get everything thing in the short amount of time. my companions are great! and i have grown to love them all in this past week. we started out with 4 elder and 4 sisters but yesterday one of the elders got his visa yesterday and left this morning to Brazil. it was super exciting and really fun for him but also sad because i had really grown to love him and look up to him. now i have a threesome companionship and it is working out great we all get along and have a really good time together. i have seen a lot of people i know here which has been really cool! i saw Ryan Cantera on Sunday and i also say him at the temple this morning. the temple was amazing this morning. we have the morning session so it was kinda hard to stay awake during the video but it was such an amazing experience to go with so many missionaries, the spirit was so strong i didn't want to leave. i saw one of hunters friends that i met in California and we were able to talk for a little and i have also seen a couple people from school which was exciting.
now for some of the spiritual stuff. the spirit is so strong here it is amazing! everyone that is here is here to serve the lord and you call tell that they are here for the right reason. they all have an amazing spirit about them you can see it in there eyes and all that they do. my first Sunday was an amazing experience. our sacrament was so amazing and the spirit was so strong. one of the presidents wife spoke about the saviors atonement and it was one of my favorite talks i have ever heard i was amazing! that night we went to a devotional and we had brother Steven Allen talk to us and it was really great. after that we watched a talk given by Elder Bednar and it blew my mind! it was so amazing i wanted to change my life and be a better missionary and human being after that. so much more has happened and i wish i could tell you everything but my time on the computer is over. I love you all and hope you are all doing well.
Love Elder Harris
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