Elder Avery Rhodes Mission

Hey all!! Elder Rhodes here, still alive and well. The Brazil Santos Mission has been very cool and a great learning experience. At times, I miss how so darn comfortable my other mission was lol but I know that this is exactly where I need to be at this time.  With that being said, I've already been here for 5 weeks, isn't that crazy!! And get a load of this, in a few days I will be half way done with my mission, already a year!? Man, where has the time gone. I don't know too much haha but I do know one thing for sure. When you love what you are doing, the person you are becoming, the people, and the Savior you are serving, time certainly flies.  Caraguataba is good. We have started an English Class here and the turnouts have been so awesome. We have found lots of teaching opportunities about the gospel by doing this.  We were also able to have zone conference this last week which is where a lot of the missionaries gather together for an awesome day of trainings and food ...

This past week was certainly one for the pics holy smokes! To start, my area now that I am covering is Caraguatatuba. It is a small little town on the beach a couple of hours from the City of Santos. We do lots of our missionary work on the beach, contacting, studies, and what not so that is nice haha can't complain about that! The drive in was a 5 or so hour ride in a van all along the coast and it was about the coolest thing ever driving on mountains of rainforest and looking down and seeing the ocean waves crash against the rocks. I've come to realize that between serving here, and Enterprise, Oregon, I have been pretty lucky on the views side of things haha. Soooo, Life in a new country what is it like eh?? Well let me tell you, not easy haha! Going from a place, mission, and friends, that I loved so much to coming here where I don't know how to do anything let alone talk lol has been a little challenging! But you know it's okay. I know and do feel ver...