I've got nothing to worry about, so I worry about nothing

Hey guys!

So, I'm here in a new LAN house in a new area in a new city with a new companion and all is well. My first week here in Birigui was a very tiring one, but I survived!

I talked about my new companion last week, but I hadn't met him yet. His name is Elder Harris, and he's awesome! He's from North Ogden, Utah, and he has three months on the mission. His trainer was a Brazilian who doesn't speak English, so I'm kind of acting as his trainer 1.1 this transfer. Since he can easily communicate with me and ask questions about the language and everything, I should be able to help him out a lot. I hope.

It has actually been pretty crazy to have a companion who's so new on the mission. After being with my last companion for more than four months, who spoke Portuguese really well and is a very good teacher, I still haven't totally gotten used to being with a newbie. It's weird having to be the guy who leads in planning and contacts and lessons and everything, but it has been good for me to take charge of something. We still have a long way to go, but I like getting to show him new things and teach him new words and all that fun stuff.

Being with a n00basaurus rex has helped me to see how much I've grown on my mission. It's weird, because everything has been reminding me about my first area on the mission. The houses look like those from my first area. It's starting to really heat up again, just like when I was in Mococa. The ward is small. The house is gross. I'm the ward pianist again. And I feel like Elder Harris is me from the beginning of my mission and I am my trainer now, because he's excited to be on his mission and work hard, but he struggles (like we all do) with the language and with teaching, and I can actually talk to people and save him when people start speaking quickly in street contacts and stuff. I've been getting some serious deja vu.

I honestly don't have much else to say. We have some investigators that we've been teaching, but none who are really really progressing. At least, not yet! A lot of the members here are pretty discouraged about the ward and inactivity and stuff, but we're going to baptize the entire universe for the remission of sins anyway. Or something.

We're working hard, and I'm doing all right. I feel like becoming senior companion is turning me into a man. I don't know if it's because of that or all of the hormone-injected chicken that I eat, but something is putting hair on my chest!

That was kind of a lame joke.

I love you guys with all my heart, might, mind, and strength! A Igreja é verdadeira! Amo vocês até o pó, viu?!

Tchau!