Arrival in Brazil January 12th

Crazy feeling to finally arrive in Brazil!  Funny thing is that instead of feeling foreign it felt like I was coming home.  It was good to see everyone around me speak Portuguese again.  We eventually  met up with our manager (Osvaldo Bassi) and as we started talking Anders and I both realized how really off our Portuguese was.  (I'm sure we sounded like two gringos who just stepped off the plane from the United States :)   Afterwards  he dropped us off at our apartments, which I was surprised to find out is right next to the temple here in Sao Paulo!  so if you ever visit the Sao Paulo temple drop by and say hi!  Our places are super nice apartments, never had any better on the mission.  I mean they even have a dryer and hot showers!

As soon as we got there the first thing we did was get the beds made and nap for the next 8 hours.  Seriously , airplanes aren't made for people to sleep on.  I mean that's probably why they installed movies in the first place.  And I don't know about Anders but I definitely couldn't sleep on the plane, not when there were so many good movies to watch!   As soon as we got there the young single adults took us under their wing and the same night we went to the mall and watched in Portuguese Detona Ralph (Wreck it Ralph).  It must have been the lack of sleep and the combination of not understanding the majority of the small jokes, but I dozed off a couple of times during the movie.  As we left the mall the rain started to pour, and it did so for the next couple of days.  I guess it was Brazil's way of a warm welcome to two guys from Washington! Either way it's good to be back!