Christmas 2014

Hello everyone!! It is great to talk to you! It feels like forever sense I been on a computer to write you guys! Brasil is beautiful! So amazing. Always hot- I sweat even when I sleep! I will not have a white Christmas; it’s actually the hottest time of the year now! Coming here is a super humbling experience, I can’t speak with people and I can barley understand them if they talk really slow. But you know what they say when you hit rock bottom, you only can go up from there. I have a great companion; he is going home though so I get another one next transfer.  People here are really nice I got a coconut for free! And drank it then and there, with a dissembled pen ha-ha. And again it is beautiful. I hope you are all doing well! I’m surviving so far, all of the Brazilian think because I am American I am "like glass" which is probably true

compared to them. Have an awesome week

From Brasil. Your "little" Cody 

So this week was good, Christmas and just getting into the swing of missions here in brasil. They are different then the USA missions. Still really hot, still no rain, I want it to rain, because everyone says that rain here is so crazy thick and I want to see that! I getting more relaxed too! (If you can believe that) just learning to go with the flow of the people. They are not rushed at all. So I am in the city, Linhares it’s by Vitoria, but I can’t see the ocean... But I know I will get an area by the ocean eventually.Your "little" Cody

Some other things Cody told us on Christmas are that their apartment is very humble, there are 7 missionaries living there and they only have cold water. Which he says is not that bad because it is so hot there the cold shower is a nice thing. His companion speaks English and Portuguese  so that is a tender mercy for him. I think not speaking Portuguese  for a month right after learning it really kicked his butt so it is hard relearning it when the native Brazilians speak so fast. But he says it is getting better, he’s catching words and sometimes sentences and has his companion to help fill in the pieces he misses. He says the Brazilian people are super nice – which is a nice thing for this mommy to hear! 

Well I just want to thank you all for your love and prayers and support of my sweet ‘little’ Cody.    Lora