Dear Family,
Things here are good! Me and my companion have been sharing a fan that we use at night because it is so HOT but it is about to be summer here so it will be a lot HOTTER so we are going to buy another fan. The good thing is that the mission will pay for it so we just need to find one that will work for us and then tell the mission office how much it is and they will give us the money to buy it! I found out that fans here are really expensive! It will cost us $R 130 that is in Reais not dollars that is what the 'R' means in case you did not understand what that meant. I don’t know the exact exchange rate but I think that it would be about 70 or 75 dollars. And this is a small fan! I can’t believe what is expensive here and what is cheap! For example it is really cheap here to take a cab where in the US
Speaking of expensive my contact solution is about half gone so I decided that I should look around and find out where I could buy some. I found some at a drug store and one bottle will cost me $R 45! So I don’t know what I am going to do about that! Will you please look into sending me some because someone here told me that you could not send anything liquid through the mail. I don’t know if that is true but will you look into it and we can talk more about it on Mothers Day when I call.
My companion is a nice guy and I like him a lot but he is not as helpful as I thought he was. He is starting to get impatient with me and not speaking Portuguese. But I can’t help it! He has been speaking Portuguese for his whole life and I have been speaking Portuguese for only a couple of weeks! I am doing the best I can! I know that the Lord will bless me and that I will learn this language I also know that I can’t do it by myself. I need the Lord to help me and whether I like it or not I need my companion to help me. I will try hard to not get frustrated with it but it is a little hard sometimes!
On a good note I think that I am learning a lot about myself and about other people! I know that my testimony has grown so much since I have been in Brazil because I have had to lean on the Lord so much to be able to speak Portuguese and to adapt to a new environment and a new culture! When you have to put all your trust in the Savior you learn about your relationship with him and I am so grateful for the relationship that I have with God and my Savior! I want you to know that I love our Savior very much and that I KNOW that the Savior is helping me help the people that he loves in Brazil
I am very happy to be here and glad that I have a chance to bless the lives of others with the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Spreading the word that there is a living Christ brings me so much joy! I know that I am not really doing anything and that God is doing great things through me! I am so grateful for this chance that I have!
I love you and can’t wait to call you on Sunday!
Love ya,
Elder Vaughn
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