Boa Tarde!‏

Olá Familia!

Tudo bem? Its another beautiful day in Casa Verde, São Paulo Brazil. It has been amazing weather. I just wish we got to see more of it. It has not rained a single day. I love the winters down here. There not too hot and the nights are mild. Its perfect. So before i give a recap of this week, I thought i would first recall my last statement in my previous letter. I DID NOT attend the Curitiba Temple haha, it was the Campinas TEMPLE, which was dedicated in 2002 and i went there again today. It looks new and I was really tired when i got there, and the bus ride was long so i got confused haha. But nontheless it was beuatiful. The session is in English, becuase there are so many of us Elders. But everyting else is in Portugués. Its na amazing experience. This week has been really intense. We have finished our lessons in English and are now practing our lessons in Portugués. I love the language but it is really dificult. I have to learn how to ´´re-wire´´ my brain becuase, even the sentence structure is different. Mas, nontheless I love it. The food has continuned to be good. The meat here is so incredible and the Juices they have-Niki you would die J haha. There so good. As for my district, were all kinda getting along. Elder Maier is our district leader. It seems like most of the Missionaries in the CTM are from Utah. Its hilarious. O and to anwser your question about the Elders that come in to the CTM its not very many at all. We get amercians and brazilians in once a week. And there are only around 230 in the CTM. Its crazy. I love how there is not a lot, becuase then it seems more like a big family. Its crazy to hear about everyone´s missions. There is this district on my floor, where about half of them are going to Belem.. Its in the Amazon. They were only allowed to bring one bag and one carryon. The mission is located way in the north of Brazil. It sounds pretty intense. Well i hope i get a letters soon. Haha I haven´t received one yet. L O and if your wondering why my spelling is kinda weird, the computer im using in Portugues word so it will turn some words like A N into NA. Haha Eu sei que Joseph Smith é o profeta de Deus. Eu sei que Deus nos ama e nos somos seus de Deus. Eu sei que O Livro de Mórmon é veraderio!! Eu acredito em Cristo! p.s. Mom I can´t print the pictues so if you can send some in the mail that would be great.

Love you all so much.
Elder fischer

Well I hope all is going well, I don´t have much time, but send me letters! The Mail strike ended about 5 days ago. Mail here is extremely slow.. Boa Tarde!

I'M HERE

Oi Familia! What a week! Geeze. Its been really crazy. The plane ride was certainaly long ahah. But its great to be here at the CTM. In fact, on the way down we were missing 11 Elders on our plane. 8 of them missed there flight, and 3 did not recieve Visas yet. Not only did the 8 miss there flight, but when they got on the next flight down to Sao Paulo, Brazil from Dallas, TX- they had to fly back after about 45 mins due to Mechanical problems. They showed up at the CTM around 10:30p.m. Anyways, on to the rest of the week. I love portuguese. It is difficult but very fun. Eu falo um poco di portugése! Another event that happened this week was a mail strike. haha So if you may have written me a letter and I have not written you back, its because of the strike. It is crazy. It reminds me of the garbage strike when we were in Italy. haha The CTM is beautiful. Its very very clean. They always have someone cleaning something in the building. However, it does not compare to the New Temple in Curitiba! Its beautiful. I went this morning and is sooo very nice. It was a great experience and can´t wait to go back. The weather has been off and on. Today its prefect temp and not a cloud in the sky. It seems like its not humid at all- it almost feels like Seattle. Actually, I guess its really hot in Rio according to everyone. Im so excited its so beautiful. Well I don´t have much time and i hope this makes sense, becuase my english is slowly getting worse as I´m learning portuguese. I love it we have been learning how to testify and Oração in portuguese. It has been a lot of fun. My companion is Elder Miller. He is from Arkansas. We have been getting a long pretty well. Alot of Elders are from Utah though. Its crazy. But my Braziledos companeros are way nice. There really cool. I love talking to them in portuguese- most of the time. ahha sometimes i just want to speak English to them. Eu sei que O Livro de Mormon e´ verdaderio, e Joseph Smith e um pofeta´de Deus. Eu sei que Thomas S. Monson e´nosso profeta´ hoje! Eu sei que Jesus Cristo e´meu salavador e sofreu por nossos pecados. Eu sei que

OOPS--Almost Forgot the Parents Address

Sister Fischer,

I apologize for the error. I am grateful that you were able to get the letter from Elder Maier’s mom. Your son is doing so well. He told me he absolutely loves learning the language. He comes into the mail room just to say hello and ask me how I am doing . . . in Portuguese of course. . . or he will come over to me and Elder Christopherson in the lunch room to check out the words he is trying to use with the Brazilian missionaries. I love to see him. He always has a big smile and just radiates. You have a wonderful son.

Sister Chris. . . mail room “Brasil CTM”

From: ChristophersonJT@ldschurch.org

Dear Parents,

We are happy to send the good news that your missionary has arrived safely at the Brazil MTC. What a great joy and privilege it is to greet each missionary as they come through the front door of the MTC for the first time.
They now have companions and are settled into their rooms. They are assigned to a district with capable and caring instructors for language and lesson study. The branch presidents and their wives, who are usually a senior missionary couple or mature Brazilian couple, will soon give them a second greeting. These couples are rewarded in their callings through the love they always develop as they embrace and watch over the missionaries.
The MTC has a full time live-in physician to care for their health needs. He is assisted by his able wife.
We are also happy to report that the Cafeteria food is abundant and very good.
Your missionary will be able to e-mail home on Preparation Day after a morning at the Temple. This will be either Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on individual assignments.
Important information is attached for communicating with your missionary through letters and other mail while at the MTC. Your missionary's district is 27 A and the mail box number is 34. Too many packages are arriving after the missionary has left to the field, so we ask that you send a package only in the first 4 weeks and after that send any packages to his or her mission home.
We are also parents of children who have served as missionaries. And we have been missionaries who have left family. Please know that we are mindful of you and know of your love for your missionary.
Your very important young person is about to make an eternal difference in the lives of others. We hope you will be encouraged and comforted by this quote by President Lorenzo Snow: “There is no mortal man that is so much interested in the success of an elder [sister] when he is preaching the gospel as the Lord that sent him to preach to the people who are the Lord’s children.”

Please accept our love,

President and Sister Woodward
Brazil