in the afternoon here lol 7/29

Hey mom.
This week has been ok except the fact that it rained all week. i hate the rain. hate it hate it hate it!!. but its good lol. makes the fruit better lol. ok so i wont send my memory card with pictures i dont think. i think i will just burn them all to a dvd and send the dvd. i thnk it will work better. oh and mom i would love a recipe for bisquits i know its easy cuz i made them in school for like a cooking class or something lol. . oh and i would like my patriartical blessing too lol if you guys could send that too me. so how have you guys been. thats tight that cloe wants to serve a mish. its hard sometimes but is way worth it. me and my comp are better together now cuz i have so much PATIENCE lol. i just let him always be right lol. its going good. we are teaching and commiting. so wow i know why i was sent here there are so many people that skate. and with just the knowledge i know about skating there like totally respect me lol. cuz its all american skating with american brands and stuff lol and i know all the names of the tricks. its tight. we are ganna baptise a kid that skates. and its cook cuz i think he trusts us more cuz he knows like that i skated before the mish and that were like normal people. i showed him pictures lol. its tight. but this week has been good. it was funny i did a contact this week and it was hilarious. me and my comp stopped a guy and his wife and he was a father for the catholic church and he was like saying all this crap. so i was like. hey dont yall belive in baptising children and he was like yep. and i was like but they dont have sins right cuz they dont know right from wrong and he was like. NO cuz there parents have sins so they are born with sins. i was like how?.. so if my dad killed somone i have sins for this and he was like yep. i was like what?? ya he was like ok if your dad is poor and he has you then you are poor when you are born lol same if your rich. then we was like who do you look more like your mom or you dad? and i was like...... my grandma lol just too throw him off lol. and then i was like. ok mary gave birth to jesus right? hes like ya. then i was like. but mary and joseph didnt..... so.. jesus has a sin... lol and he was like NO! lol i had him lol. i love those contacts. so you got your car fixed thats good. well you guys keep going to church lol it will do the body good. have you sent my package yet? lol.
love ya guys.
Elder Arroyo

pioneer week! 7/22

we dont have pioneer week. but my week has kinda sucked. me and my comp dont get along very well. he is kinda lazy and i like to walk fast so we dont waste time. his ideas are totally different then mine and he is always right lol. you know those people. he says you have 5 months on the mission you dont know a thing. lol. but i~m good. i try not to fall in his hole. i follow the rules even if he doesnt. its good i try to do better when he doesnt lol. i want to be a good enough missionary to open an area here in brazil that no missionaries have been in. its happens. i just have to work hard and show pres!. so this week hmm what else happened. we marked more baptisimal dates. oh i got 2 recipe books for ya! a member gave them to me. cuz i ask everyone for recipes and stuff. but i will still ask for more lol. hmm what else. i heard harry potter wasnt all that good and transformers 2 as well. oh can i get my backpack and have you guys sent my package? stuff i wanna know. oh and i really would like a new pair of shoes. i will take a picture of my shoes for proof lol. not much else happened this week just work work work. so no i dont think we have pioneer day lol. so i dont think chris deserves to drive another car he will just keep crashing, and the reason he crashed your car is cuz hes not playing need for speed or driver! lol video games improve your thinking fast skills!. so dang justin is tall huh? sweet. how are you guys how is the ward how is everything. well i have nothing much else to say lol. work hard trust in the lord, he will do his part if you do yours! love ya guys, stay strong, Elder Arroyo

Hey Mommy! 7/15

SO you car will get fixed thats great! so jenno had her baby thats tight. , ella is a tight name too. so the work here has been going well we baptized last tuesday and confirmed this sunday and jose is a firm member. he took us to central today and i baught a really nice jacket for 45 bucks. it will last me my whole mission. so ya i will trade my skate shirts for brazillian ones and i am about to trade my hoodie for a brazillian skate brand hoody its tight. so have you sent my box yet? lol. i still have some food. but more would be great. if you havent sent my box i would love dr scholls lol. there are like magic!. and some new shoes!. that fit and dont give blisters. but only when you guys can buy em. so about my health i am way healthy i think lol. i can walk without a problom and my new comp walks slow which is annoying. but its all good. hes not my favorite but im greatfull for what i got. so ya my health is good i work out in the mornings i weigh 80 kilos however much that is lol. convert it for me please. im pretty sure its good and i~m alot stronger than before. nope no worms i think i~m to strong for that junk lol. jk curitiba is like an american city, its pretty clean. and i always drink mineral water so its all good. and when we dont have water i will always boil i dont take risks lol. my teeth are doing good they dont hurt anymore. right now everything is good. with all brasilians in the house its kinda lonely lol. but we listen to american music and elder santos who will leave in 2 months to go home has been trying hard to learn english so i talk slow in english to him and teach him alot. i like it lol. so how are you guys. hows the house and stuff. lol. here is good and i will make it better lol. well love ya guys. live life up!. your son, brother, Elder Arroyo

Transfers!! 7/7

OK so today Elder huber my old comp got transfered! and my new comp is Elder Parente and yes! he is a brasillian and the other american that was in my house got transfered and replaced with a brasillian! so its only portuguese from here now! crazy but its not to hard to speak i can get around lol. oh so this week we found out we have a mouse in our house. we named him francisco lol and i feed him but i am going to kill him dont worry lol. so yesterday we had a Baptism!! we baptized "Senor José"! it was an epic event in my life lol and my comp baptized him cuz he was the first encountered him and it was his last day here. it was tight. hmm so what else happened this week. we have some good investigators that we are teaching . oh paintball last week was way fun. i will send pictures next week i forgot my camera. but i wasted some of the other elders lol. i played very well i thought. we played 4 games but everyone only had 100 paintballs. it was wack but way fun. this week was good. that sucks that your duck died lol. you will have to kill that dog! jk lol so 4th of july sounds like it was fun for you guys. we didnt do anything. well we ate pizza and just worked lol. so about the mission changes ya the outer parts of our mission got put in the londrina mission. i dont remember why but they did. but naw im still in curitiba. and mom my address is,... i have no idea. my street is off of manual ribas close to the pizzaria "da costa" and supermarcado "condor" lol so you can try to find my street. house number 200 and its like a set of apartments lol. well i got to hit the streets and buy some food. love ya
Elder Arroyo

Oi Tudo Bem Mãe 7/1 (Oi All Well Mother)

Ya destinee told me that yall went to the temple how was it. sweet i would imagine lol maybe oneday you will experiance temples in brazil! loll. they are way amazing. so ya i heard the BIG michael the king of pop died lol. we had an investigator and the whole world tell us lol. but we were teaching our investigator the plan of salvation and she was like what kingdom will michael jackson go to lol. were like uhh were not the judge of that loll. it was funny. so wow that one elder gave up sweets crazy. i eat as much sweets as i can. i need that sugar high to keep me walking. so what do i NEED. well i need deodorant cuz theres here does suck and some toothpaste cuz that sucks here as well lol. i would like recipes lol on paper oh i would love dryer sheets lol cuz we have a washing machine here but we dry our close on the line and they dont smell that good so dryer sheets to rub on my clothes lol. i would like to know how to make donuts from scratch and my cake that i love that you make for my birthday. oh and either you or dad asked me if i would like for you guys to come and pick me up from brazil after my mission. and i think no. i wanna have a big party in the airport lol. but then like 2 or 3 months after i wwould wanna visit brazil with you guys that would be tight. what do you think. oh so mom i want you to know that out here when were walking on the streets if i have to pee and were in the middle of nowhere i just pee on the side of the road lol learned this as a kid! lol oh but back to my package ya just sweets to fill it and get as many people to write me as possible lol. or draw a picture. oh and i would love tons of pictures from home remembe.r like of the house what mississippi looks like the family friends. KRISTEN! everything would be tight. but ya. so about this week. we walked alot i can never remember the things i wanna tell you guys lol. hmm well we have some really good investigators right now and i think that we can meet our goal of 5 baptisms this month. but my comp is ganna get transtered next week. WE GOT TRANSFERS. hes been in this area for 6 months. so hes gone. maybe i~ll get a brazillian! they say you get like 2 brasillian comps. OH we had a zone goal for each companionship to get 10 references from investigators for families to teach and if everyone got it then we would play paintball! and we all got it! so we are going today at 2:00 i will take pictures! its ganna be sweet. but hmm what else happened oh US played Brazil in Futbol (Soccer) and lost but i could care less lol. but this week has been good. oh i dont know if i told you guys but last week i learned japenese we have a japenese investigator that speaks portuguese!, but its rained a good bit lol. so how is home? how is summer? how is chris lol bored out his mind!. well tell everyone hello. i love you guys. dont forget! Read the Scriptures!, Go To Church!, and Pray! lol
Your Son,
Elder Arroyo