Stuck Inside- June 24, 2014

Dear mom,

I´ll try to stay safe. It´s actually not all that dangerous during the games of Brasil because nobody is on the street. For 2 hours literally it´s like a ghost street. Although, when they make a goal there´s a loud cheering/screaming heard from everyhouse with a 5 second delay of really loud fireworks!! Every time they score I have a mini heart attach. Yeah that was the life for me for about 6 months...just bumming it. Now I automatically wake up before my alarm. Not because I´m accustomed to it, but because I drink so much water that my bladder complains in the mornings. I started reading the Doctine and Covenants I think a week ago and it´s got some stuff I didn´t know about. 

The studying in the morning has actually become one of my favorite hours. I have a nice time to just read and think without a whole tons of distractions. I made six months here! HOly cow! We have a bunch of good lessons to start. We actually had a baptism fall through this week, though, because a member of the church said some things to him which didn´t sit well with him. So as members, we need to be so careful in what we say to others and around others. I was so happy beause he was going to have tons of blessings in his life, but when it fell I felt really lost and upset. I´ll try to do better this week. It´s difficult sometimes to keep animated, so These days that Brasil play are well needed days of rest. 

I love you all,

Elder Padilla

16 June 2014 World Cup

Dear mom,

Yeah Operation Graduation was the best after I graduated. I had nothing to do and it was a blast! I think I was a zombie too...not sure if I went to church though..haha..

That´s crazy that Brandon H is going to Fiji! I´m getting excited to see where my Joshie bear goes! Yeah the world cup is pretty awesome. The stadium is in Castelão and that´s in our mission! The missionaries there are probably in their house everyday that they play there..haha! The people here are kinda weird, but its all good! 

Yeah so we run in the mornings now because there´s an elder who leaves to the states in two more transfers and he´s trying to thin up. The other morning we were running and a dog ran after me. He missed at first coming from the side and then he did a u-turn and hit me in the legs with his open mouth. Stupid mut! He´s lucky I was tired or I might have had to wrestle him Hulk Hulgan-style. Yeah so there was a guy that died in front of our house this week. He got shot 6 times. I was in the shower at the time when I heard it. Usually people use fireworks around here, but this time I could tell it was a gun. I ran out of the shower slipping and sliding-still really wet- but I missed the guy who did it. There was a bunch of people running. so yeah..When Brasil scored a goal we could tell by all the screaming , cheering, and fireworks. It´s like they won the world cup when they scored once..haha it happened several times that night. I actually lost 2 kilos, but i may gain them back tomorrow. Yeah so we had a pretty unfocused week. Every house we entered there was a game on. Not sure why, but Spain totally shouldn´t have lost that game...not that I watched...;) yep and that´s the fun stuff happening. 

Love,

Elder Padilla

bytheway..next week I may not send an email due to the game on Segunda

Watch this...it changed my attitude about the atonement and missionary work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo0mOZ4S7GE

Staying in the house all day

Sunset

9 June 2014

Dear mom, 

That´s soooo crazy that Kirk has his call!! It´s so weird that we´ll all be serving. By the way, how many people from our ward will be serving at one time?! I bet we´ll need another board to put missionary placks. Tht´s really cool though that he´ll be serving in  near Ashley in Provo. Yeah Heavenly Father has a great sense of humor and likes to humble me sometimes too..hahaha. Wow! I miss the cold in Virginia. Sometimes I take the ice from the freezer and make a snowball and throw it to remember the good times..haha..usually I throw it at the wall and then just walk away..yep. Yeah so how trunky was that elder that you "retired"?...haha. Sweet! THanks for the monies! I may have cause the calls because I was trying to look at my other account, but I forgot which Type it was and I forgot I had 2 different passwords for the 2 cards...haha :D 6 months have gone so fast! Wake Me up, when September ends...haha It really has gone by, though, fast. 

SO this week was fun. I found out that Elder West is in my zone now and he goes to the same chapel on Sundays  so that´s pretty sweet! I did a division with my zone leader and he´s awesome! We had four Americans in our apartment! And of course we only spoke english! haha ;) But this week was good. We have a blood baptism next week...doesn´t really make sense in English I think...Pretty much she WILL be baptized...or else (-_-) haha tou brincando. (Just Kidding)...and we´re working on this family and they´ll probably be baptized too!! So excited ! Oh! So I found out that we have to stay inside our apartment the whole day the days which Brasil plays in the world cup...So GO BRASIL! haha we can´t leave for anything. so that´ll be fun! And I read some good verses in the Doctrine and Covenants this past week which I thought were noteworthy. 

D&C 49:18-19   a response to vegetarians and vegans

D&C 50:26    a description about those called to serve

Doing well Thanks again!!

Love you ALL,

Elder Padilla

After two years of not driving...

2 June 2014

Dear mom, 

That sounds crazy! I remember way back when I graduated almost a whole year ago! haha Well that´s good that Dad is staying busy fixing stuff. Geez!! There´s a ton of people putting in their papers! That´s so crazy! Dang! Can´t wait to hear where everyone is going! Yeah, Kirk will probably go to Antarctica....preaching to penguins living in an Igloo....hahaha just kidding, but an Igloo sounds great right about now. I step out of the shower and I´m already sweating again. It´s kind of like that Key and Peele where they´re sweating ridiculously from their heads...but worse.  anyways, the zipline sounds cool! That´s awesome that her hair is growing back! So who´s hair is shorter, Dad´s or her´s? Yeah I would say that it´s not great to wear wigs here. ever. just don´t. it´s hot. I can´t wait for Christmas! With lots of...sun. 

Yeah this week was the most mentally challenging week so far. I had to kill my companion and stay focused on the work. He was so trunky. But now I can say, " It´s done". I got a new companion today and so far he seems nice. So I noticed this week that my fat pants at the start of my mission are just pants now. that´s depressing. It was even more depressing, though, when a sister in my district asked me if I gained weight whiling playing volleyball on P-Day. It´s alright though because she had to go to the doctor for her knee and he said that the reason she´s having problems is because she weighs to much and needs to lose weight. So yeah..felt a lot better after that. And I finally accomplished my dream on my mission. That´s right! I ate a whole pizza! :D haha. Elder Matheson, from my district in the CTM, is training right now! It´s crazy! He doesn´t even have 6 months and he´s training! I was talking with President and he said that I´m not training this transfer, but I need to be ready for the next one! IT´s so crazy! The thing is there are so many newbies that President needs so many more trainers now.

Hey, mom, could you tell sister Simmons thank you for the letters! They´re really helpful.

I love you all so much!

Elder Padilla 

Five of calebresa and 3 of Chocolate!

Maybe the reason to why I´m getting fat...Brownie and Brigadeiro...