Well everyone,

I am in Campinas this week because we are having a special four day training. I am in a companionship of three with my Zone Leader, Elder Ficklin and another Elder named Elder Steck from St.George. The training that we are doing is amazing. I am learning so much. I can wait to get back to my area and to apply it all.
We sing hymns almost everytime we teach people and Elder Fa likes to sing like a Ukalaili Singer, you know with lots of random notes and ``oooohs`` and things like that so it is kind of funny, yet I like him a lot.
Elder Long is once again in my Zone and once again my Zone Leader. This is the third time he has been my zone leader, we basically move around together, yet we have never been companions. We did leave together in a house of four one time. It is good to back with him, we get a long great and we have a very similar view of the work and the same desire to help the people of Brazil.
Today was the first time I went to the temple in brazil. IT WAS GREAT.
When I entered into the endowment I found my Bishop from my last area starting me off. As I stepped in he looked at me and smiled ``Elder Nothum!``. Then he said in english ``miss you``. It felt good to know that he approved the work I did there. I love the temple so much and the Campinas temple is so amazing inside. The Brazilians love the temple and it is always full, always. The people here understand the work amazingly and the church has only been here for around sixty years.
I am enjoying my new area, but it was kind of rough to abandon it for a week, but what can you do. The Lord will bless us.
As I said, my new area is the area farthest away from the mission office and it is very expensive to catch a bus to there, and I was already out of money, so the zone leaders and I were talking on Saturday of how we were going to get to Campinas. We realized that President Tanner would give a talk in my branch Sunday and we decided to ask him if he could give me and Elder Ficklin a ride to Campinas. He agreed and we got to spend a good three hours in the car with the president. It was neat. We all strived to speak Portuguese and not english the whole time, but the president gave in and we started to talk in English. He was totally drained because he had been driving around alll day across the whole mission and he tould us that he yet hadn´t taken a P-day. Sister Tanner then looked at him and said, smiling ``Honey, you need a long rest.``
He shrugged his shoulders and said ``no, I need a big coke``
We all laughed and it was good to see that President Tanner isn´t just our leader, but a comman man with a amazing desire to serve the Lord.
Well, got to go.
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR BAPTISM NOODLE!!!!!! SEND ME LOTS OF PICTURES!!!!! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND YOU ARE THE BEST LITTLE SISTER IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!!!

Com Amor,
Elder Nothum