The Porter Brush (Week 66) — Called to Serve in Cuiaba

Alright folks I gotta say, this week was preeeeeeeety goofy I cannot lie. Here in the area things have been going kind of slow. This week was particularly poopy because we had to cut a ton of people that we had been teaching for some time, which was an absolute doozy. Here in Brasil alcohol is literally 2 times cheaper than bottled water, so whenever we need a break from society we retreat to a field and collect a ton of beer bottles and take turns skeet shooting bottles with bottles. It's much of a relief.

On Saturday there was a Futball championship down here in South America and a Brasilian team won so everyone was absolutely bamboozled with Brasilian booze, and we were walking up the street and this one medium level drunk dude starts like yell talking to us so I just yell talked right back at him and we had like a 2 minute super loud conversation ahaha. I then come to find out that he only has a little nub for his thumb because we sawed it off accidentally, so as we were leaving I was like well my man it was nice meeting you champ, I gotta ask you a favor tho.... gimme a thumbs up HAHAHH and he just looked at me like what... and I was like dude come on don't be butthurt about it and then he just gave me the most enthusiastic thumbs up and yelled so loud hahaha and then I just yelled HUZAHHH so loud and it was pure comedy.

On Sunday we, the Elders, all gave talks and sang a musical number in Sacrament meeting. It actually went super well, and as we got up to sing the musical number I totally tripped and biffed it so hard and my name tag flew off at mach 12 and went like half way across the pulpit area. Like 150 people just started laughing at me hahaha and I got up and took a bow and it was so wack hahah. Moral of the story, the bow is a save face at any instance.

As this Christmas season swings in full tilt, I've realized how good it is to be out here as a missionary. I literally get to study about Jesus for 3 hours every morning, which one year and 4 months ago I probably would have laughed at anyone who said that to me. So go ahead and laugh, Jesus is still the raddest human who ever passed on this earth. I've been reading the New Testament a lot, and it's really just humbling. In John 14:18 Jesus says “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.” I know there are a lot of people out there, maybe even you dudes reading this who are going through some major ish. I know life can be a total doozer at times, but I promise you dudes that if you are tired of feeling bummy, our Savior is ready with open arms to help you.

Wellington & Vanessa’s kids chatting with the Man.

Elder Farr wanted a paint brush to paint with, so we cut some of my hair off and made one out of a coconut branch.

Here's what Farr painted with the Porter brush.