I'm Alive in Brazil!

 Hello!!

I am happy to announce that I am alive and doing well! I have made it to Brazil and am loving it. It has been such a new experience. Fun, crazy, difficult, yet amazing all at the same time. I can tell that these next 13 months will be a lot of growth for me haha. For the past week I have been in Santos which is a huge island city about 2 hours from São Paulo right smack in the middle of the mountains and the ocean. The area that I will be serving in the at least the next month and a half or so is the most northern area in the mission where elders go, it is called Caraguatatba and I can't wait. Everyone says it is so beautiful and fun and it'll be great. The language, oh boy the language haha...Now that is a feat we have ahead of us! It is so cool being immersed into a language and culture where you have to learn everything very fast and everything is so new. I an able to not speak much haha but can understand the conversations which Is good! If there is one thing I know for sure it is the principle that God sustains those who he calls. During conversations this past week I felt like I could hardly speak a word (pretty much because I can't haha) but the second it was time for me to share my testimony in the lessons the Portuguese began to flow, and the people began to understand. I am so grateful that I have a Savior I can rely and who wants to me to rely on him. Love you all!! Elder Rhodes












Location: Caraguatatuba, State of São Paulo, Brazil

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