Hello the house. Thank you for your letters. This week I received a package from you and from Jacob and Suzie. I don't know if these were the 2 packages you were talking about or what but I received them.
I had divisions this week. With Elder Cunha. He is Brazilian and probably the only one I can communicate really well with also. He knows how to say things in a way that I can understand them. Also he understands American missionaries very well.
We have been working lots with the members trying to receive references and also to get members to go out with us.
We went and visited a few less active families and they were great. I am not sure why so many go less active because they know that the church is true and that they should be going.
The couple in the picture are the biggest helps to the work we have in this area. They go out with us several times a week, giving us many references. They are a great couple and love helping us out. Their names are Paulo and Ceclia França. Ceclia gives us hair cuts we eat and they just are a great help.
Things I have been doing. I have taken a large interest in the history of the Book of Mormon and how Mormon put them together. It is very complex and yet it expands our views on a part of the world that otherwise would have been lost. Personally I want to read all the plates of Nephi and the other plates but I will have to be satisfied with what I have for a while.
Another thing i have been doing is learning the structure of Portuguese. I am learning all the subjunctives and other things. It is a little funny but I don´t understand a lot of the words and there are a lot of people I don´t understand just because I am with an American companion who has a similar way of saying things as I do, but, I can put basic sentences with subjunctive together correctly. Not always though. However, Elder Cunha said that I spoke much better. Now I just need to always think in subjunctive and then add to my vocabulary with words and other things.
Two weeks until transfers happen and then I will be done with training. Which is a little crazy. Who knows what will happen.
It takes a lot of work to keep us prepared to go out for several hours a day and return and still make everything on time.
The woman that I told you about is one of our few good potential investigators. I am not sure if she has a desire to change to our gospel but she loves to have us over and give her a lesson. I think that love we show her and the love of Christ really touches her heart. Now we need her to understand that by living the gospel she can experience a change as well.
The basic day for me is.
Wake up six thirty
Prepare for the day and eat and clean house by 8
Study from 8 to 9
Then Study with my companion from 9 to 11
We then prepare to leave and walk up to 35 minutes to get to lunch.
We eat lunch and give a message and leave around 1.
We go to the apartment and I brush my teeth due to the issue I had earlier. Brush after ever meal and floss after every meal is something I do every day now.
We then study the language for 1 hour. After that we go teach some lessons. If we do not have any lessons we go and talk to anyone that passes by us. However many people have heard about us and don't want to listen. I have yet to do something like setting up a stand and doing something like that.
Sometimes we visit members to get references.
After a lot of walking and talking to people we return home at 9 to 9 thirty and plan eat a quick dinner and prepare to go to bed.
We have been trying to work with the members a lot more to teach people and hopefully we will get some success out of that.
This is about our average day.
Love Lots Stay Strong
Elder Kramer
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