what a week! I arrived safely in
Cuiabá yesterday night....my traveling time ended up being about forty hours
long, including the layovers. my week in washington included me being sick,
sick some more, and oh, just a little more sick. talking about an exciting
email. well have a great week...to brincando.
So i missed my flight on monday. i
blame it on technology. but this story is more of how the lord works in
misterious ways. so i walked up to the gate that i thought my flight was at,
got in line and was about to get on the plane when the person there told me
that i was at the wrong gate....seriously....so i ended up walking away
confused, looked at the screen and it didn´t show any flights to NYC where my
connection was at to go to São Paulo. As i looked at my ticket one last time, i
saw my gate number, B9. i was currently at D8, the other side of the Seattle
airport. i ended up missing my flight and having to setup a different flight to
try and get to minneapolis then to NYC. as i went through the workers at Delta,
the last seats from minneapolis to NYC filled up! I was praying continually at
that point. what ended up happening was that i got on a flight to detroit then
i went from detrioit to brazil. The cool part is that the Lord got me to that flight,
because I met Kelvin. He is from China and was on his way to Ohio to study at
Ohio State. His english was good enough that we talked about a lot of things.
He said that he liked to read in english and read Eclipse; he really liked the
book. So I gave him a book in english that I thought he´d like. This book ended
up being the Book of Mormon. He was really excited! The lesson I learned was
that the Lord is incharge...all the time.
My travels ended up being extremely
long. The worst part was going from a ten hour flight to a twelve hour layover.
It was exciting...especially with the two nights of little sleep. We actually
took a bus to board the plane, which was kind of weird. But I got to use stairs
to board the plane! We have been in Cuiabá the past day and I will be in an
area on the outskirts of Cuiabá with my native brazilian companion that I´m
going to meet here in about an hour. Some elders have to travel by bus later
tomorrow to there areas that will be an 18 hour bus ride. I found out too that
from the top of the mission to the bottom is a total of a 40 hour bus ride. It
is bigger than the size of California. Transfers will be fun! The other
realization that I had was that it is hot here! I like to think of it as a
refreshing sauna all the time. Blessings. I don´t have much time, because I´m
leaving here in a few minutes to go to my area, but I love you all and wanted
you all to know that i´m in Brazil! By the way, USPS works for sending packages
and you all can just send letters here no big deal. USPS is pretty good, may or
may not get here, but usually does. The problem will be getting my package from
the office. Since the mission is so big, it is hard to get mail quickly. So send
mail, but make sure it can sit somewhere for awhile until it can be delivered.
I love you all!
Love,
Elder Moody
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