Hey guys,

I love my new area and my companion is awesome. In the little time of a week w have managed to develop a pretty strong friendship. He is a hard worker and he is a farm boy from Washington state. He played rugby at BYU and he is just a funny guy.
Our area is going great here. The ward has Taekwondo every Tuesday and Thursday and there is always a bunch of nonmembers there to talk to and teach. We are being blessed with a great number of people to teach and they all are accepting very well.
We are teaching a family right now that is great. Zilma the mom and Jefferson, Marcos, and Barbara are the kids. Jefferson is 19 and he was baptized this passed week. Barbara loved the church and she said that she felt an amazing feeling of peace as she participated with young womens. They are a great family and Elder Rowley and I love to pass by there.
Also, I learned how to make my new favorite desert. It is called sweet rice. We are making it quite a bit and I am getting pretty good at it. It is normal rice, cooked, then you put milk, sugar, and this type of condensed milk that they only have in Brazil. It is good. They always eat it rice and beans with every meal here, so I thought that sweet rice with jelly beans would be a good desert, but jelly beans don´t exist here.
Today we are going to play football, Elder Long is here in Campinas from his area that is far away because he did a division with the assistants. I am pumped to play football with my good friends that I have made out here.
Well, we got to go catch our bus. I promise that next will be a big letter with lots of details and cool stuff. ASK ME QUESTIONS AND I WILL RESPOND!

Love,
ELDER Nothum