Reunido com fogo bobos Oct 21, 2024

 

Song of the week- Other side by Red Hot chili Peppers ...... 

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Weekly rundown 

( your cool if you read my emails and reach out to me.... i dont make the rules ) 

This has hands down been one of my favorite weeks since starting my mission ahaha! We kicked off the week with a little trip down to Juiz de Fora, because I had to get my " green card". At first I was so mad, because that meant no Pday and an 8 1/2 hour bus ride....  however biggest blessing/surprise ever is I got to see almost everyone from my incredible MTC district  most importantly i got to see SISTER HOOVERRRRRRRRR.... Toover was reunioned for the day and lets just say, there was not a single moment of silence.  we talked and talked, and most importantly we were non stop laughing. Pretty sure eveyone thinks were mentally unstable. Tudo bem lol. We have a certain kind of humor  I love her dearly and genuinely I think god knew I needed that, because it was the greatest Pick me up ever.  think I can make it another few months  lol JUST TEASING... imma stay the full 18 ofc. But moral of the story so grateful for her and for the amazing person she is!! Hoover.. ill see you at Christmas  

Also elder Reynolds..... you were dearly missed and we all love you  go give piracicaba heaven!!! Throw them in the waters elder 

was genuinely so healing talking to everyone, we all talked about our struggles and challenges and it helped me not feel so alone. Also, me and sister rocha had the lovely privilege to explore the city a bit, saw some huge catholic churches and did some window shopping, the city was all decorated for Christmas already...... was making me lowkey emo. I miss home. But all good bc we washed our sadness away with some amazing food! we ate at the yummiest restaurant, and we got mineiro pasta... was one of the best things I've ever had which says a lot because i don't really like paste ahaha, then we went home and got to bed bc we had to wake up at 5 am the next morning to make our bus back home!! Rest of the week was fun, hit my 100 days as a missionary this week and got some yummy açai to celebrate, that was cool now just 421 days to go.. but whos counting  We taught some good lessons, and during one of the lessons this guy basically gave us a whole concert.... it was actually super impressive. He got very into it.  Then later that night we went to a members house for her birthday, and gave her a cake we made, and then it started pouring rain and she didnt want us to walk in it, so she turned on the amazing spider man while we waited for it to die down...... love me some andrew Garfield. Then Saturday we had a super fun family home evening with the ward and everyone just had a great time!!! This week was just very healing for the soul, was nice to do something different  

being a missionary and doing the same thing everyday can become very very old.... 

Brazil cultural norms 

I think its time I address some of these because they are either simply so wild, or just quite literally hilarious to me or fine just different from US ( this is purely my opinion of what I Have noticed and for my area of Brazil, idk if all of Brazil is like this but mineiro cultural is a different ig ) 

- they put mayonnaise and ketchup in / on literally everything...... and its like globs 

- its normal for people to marry there cousins here. This. Is. Simply. Just. Not. Ok. I thought sister rocha was joking with me until we literally met a married couple that were biologically cousins..... 

- Skinny jeans everywhere. Like grown men in butt tight jeans 

- My area of Brazil is basically the Texas of Brazil so you will literally see people ride horses everywhere throughout the city, and even do cattle drives threw the city. Surprised there horses and cows don't get hit by a motorcycle 

- Brazilian Funk music is insane ahaha  they even have it for the babies and Ive never heard nursery rhythms that make me wanna dance more! 

- there is always a party going on in some corner, and its completely normal for everyone to block the streets and be dancing on cars and on the roofs blasting music. 

- every house no matter how wealthy has a HUGE stereo system for there music. They love there music here. And almost every car has huge sub speakers either in it or strapped on top to it. 

- all the sandals/shoes that the women wear here are Pedazzled in all these jem stones, also everyone here basically doesn't wear clothes, lol like men walk around shirtless all the time, and all the women Old, young, fat, skinny you name it, are all in little booty shorts, or crop tops, or bikini tops ahaha cant imagine what carnival is gonna be like 

- completely normal for couples to show extreme PDA here. im talking like literally you will be walking in the plaça and there will be couples full blown making out very very intensely. And No one cares. Bc theres like 10 other people doing it

- the men here are very very flirty, and quite the romantics lol  they be going out of there way to doing everything and anything for their GFs.. even us lol 

- street dogs.. some are very aggressive some are adorable. But they are everywhere. 

- random churchs on every single corner, with the most random names ever

- everyone says Hi to you on the streets and will stop and talk to you, even if you dont know them. Also alot of people here haven't seen Americans so I get asked the strangest things, but most weird thing that people do is they will pet or pull my hair as im walking past or just sitting down... and will try to poke my eyes too to see if they are real.. idk why they would be fake? Ans had one lady try rip off my eyelashes because she thought they were fake... lol  

- if you are friends with someone they greet you with kisses on the cheeks and lots of hugs. I've gotten some fatty wet kisses from old ladys and unfortunately a few grown men..... they drag me in after I shake there hand before i can even form the words " I cant hug you ". very friendly culture 

- they don't really eat breakfast or Dinner here, biggest meal of the day is lunch, and literally they EAT. Never seen someone eat so much food in one sitting. Think of Thanksgiving ×100 but everyday for lunch. 

- super carb heavy, meat is expensive so they don't eat a lot of protein. So sad about that.. but also they make a lot of European influenced meals but add there own Brazilian twist to it. Super good though, beans and rice literally everyday with every meal doesn't matter if it doesn't fit the vibe, you will have beans and rice with it. 

- the most Random holidays 

- you cant flush toilet paper down the toilets so you throw away in a trash bin

- the mint papers strips that sit in your mouth are known as sexy paper... lol kinda funny 

- padiria on every corner ( European influence)