WOW!!!! WHAT A WEEK!!!!

OK, So i dont even know where to start!!! . Ok so i got here right and i told you about those spiders...... well let me tell ya i thought.. ya ill just kill the spiders and done. paradise right....... WOW im killing spiders until today!!! So our house is infested the first night i couldnt sleep. I am so Paranoid!!! i sleep with my head under my sheets. so i was killing little spiders right like the size of my pinky nail and then i go in my room to sleep right and im scouting out to kill the last batch  and i go to shut the door and theres this huge mama one!!! and i scream. literally scream i got the creeps for spiders. and this spider for real was a like the size of a Qaurter (ya know american money) and dont forget these arent no daddy long legs. im talking Brown Recluses!!! but this is just the first of the problems. pretty much everyone in our area looks like a thug and is just waiting to rob me. and our back window is busted from the last time someone broke in the house, today our front door broke. and wouldnt lock i had to take the piece of junk apart and rig it to lock and now we use the back door.... but president gave us authority to rent another house and i got the hook ups with the secretaries on the mish and he looked up some stuff for me and said our house has no contract and we can move whenever. just the hardest part is finding a new house. theres nothing here in this boonies town!!!. but to top it off. when i first got here my comp was slacking off a ton. we would just chill at eternal investigators houses and stuff and then one day we were walking on the street and i just was like "hey dude lets do stuff right... and follow the rules and he was just like...... OK. and did nothing. "last saturday we had a baptism!! WHooo!!!!! 17 kid named Junior and after the baptism were comming back on the bus and theres these girls in our ward and hes just flirting it up and im just getting angry right.... so we get off the bus..... and i went off on him. he was telling me i couldnt run his mission and stuff. so we didnt talk for like 2 days. he wouldnt get up the next morning and everything. so i was pretty stressed!!! then sunday we had our first presentation cuz im in the choir right.. and it was amazing and i left all happy still not talking to my comp.. until i got home to the infested house and my joy went away!! but then on monday we had a zone meeting and the Zone leaders grabbed my comp talked to him then grabbed me and asked about him and stuff. then during the day monday my comp had read the ensign and he just apologized to me and said he wanted to change and from then on weve been great friends. he still does some stuff wrong but listens to me!. so things are getting a lot better here. but wow it was prolly the worst week in my life. i almost asked president to take me out of that area cuz i couldnt sleep, couldnt do my work, was terified that i would get robbed!!! everything. but dont worry i gave my camera to the zone leaders and they have it in there house in their safe. (one of my zone leaders is my old comp Elder Dos Santos!!)but ya and oh ya on Sunday my first day in the Branch my comp made me give the class which we teach sunday school to the girls and boys...? dunno why and then the branch president was like whoa new elder (me) one of the dudes that was ganna give a talk bailed out so you can introduce yourself and give a talk ., and i confirmed junior (kid we baptized) a member. let me tell ya my week was full of tests from the Lord and i didnt think i could survive but i think what got me through was praying. i Prayed so so so much!! and now everything is alright!! today we killed like 6 more huge brown recluses but i still have the creeps at the house but 5 more weeks until next transfer and i hope im out. but were already looking for a new house and i think i found one!!! but ya that was pretty much my week. but ya theres a ton of spiders but im just glad im not going to Belem!!!! Turantula!!!!!!! good luck Chris.!!! oh mom its almost Mothers Day!!!!!! whoo Phone call. we will talk more about it next wednesday and i will call you guys before to confirm and give you the number to call. but yall will need a phone card!!!!! love you guys!!

Love,

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Elder Arroyo

this aint no game anymore

Oh what another Great week!! So as you guys can see i got transfered! I left Vila Isabel with Elder Snowden and i have been transfered to....... São Marcos, which i believe is in São José Dos Pinhais. Right outside of Curitiba, but wow it looks like the boonies. but im already liking it here. so before Elder Snowden had went to Vila Isabel with me he was here in São Marcos right and while he was here some peeps broke into there house and stole his camera and his guitar case!!! but now im here. but we have been informed to look for a new house! So im on the Look!!! and wow this house is a mess too! like hasnt been cleaned in years!!! and Elder Snowden had told me that there were a ton of spiders here and ive already killed like 30 and i was in the house for 2 hours. and there not just any type of spider there brown recluses!!!!! Ya this aint no game anymore. but dont worry ive been cleaning the house really well and my goal is to find a new house this week!!! but ya so my comp is Elder M. Santos. Another brasilian and hes from Fortaleza, good thing too cuz me and Snowden were talking way to much English!!! but now its only Portuguese!! but elder M Santos has about 10 months on his mission and hes Junior! Whoo! im Senior here!! but ya so São Marcos is a branch... small but the Zone Leaders were telling me that it had like a frequence of 40 members but they got up to 90! so well see what i can do here! and ya he also told me that the members have a bad problom with gossiping and that theres only girls here and they flirt with the missionaires and the member talk!!!. so hes like dont let them be alone with your comp! Nuts right. I never was good with woman. But here will be a great. i have a good feeling about this place. So how was yalls week. cool that you and chris got to go back to the temple. its great to go there.  ya about the car situation. if like possible i would like an XTerra :) but ya know thats just a sugestion :) but well see more down the line!. so ya mom that picture didnt come. i was so excited then got so unexcited!. but ya thats pretty much the news around here. So i was thinking, what chris needs for his mission is really good suitcases!. 2 Good ones! cuz man it sucks when you have 2 crappy suitcases and get transfered!!!!!. talking from experiance. it sucked getting here. i had traded my bags a while ago right.. for 2 suitcases that had wheels but when i got to my last area one of the wheels broke off..  so getting here was a pain. we had to walk like forever to our house after we got off the bus. and i got this huge suitcase in my arms. and people are thinking why not roll it. with one wheel!! so ya thats important!. but im pretty sure that thats my email for this week!!!


Love you guys
Love,
Elder Arroyo

Trip to the Curitiba Temple

Ya I Got My Flu Shot!!! IMMUNED!!!!!! (4/14)

This last week was slow and got Colder!!! i love the cold! so ya i wrote a huge email to dad! so your ganna have to get some stuff from him cuz it was huge. but ya thats way cool that chris went to the temple!. i bet it was exciting. ya here ever 3 months i go to the temple! its close to here! when you in an apartment you can see the temple sometimes. not my apartment but some members apartments. thats cool that rachael and nick are good to. Going to Church? and i cant wait to get back and see everyone. got to be growing up. 10 More Months!!! Time flys by so fast. So next week is Transfers well have to see how that goes. i think ill get transfered but i dunno. if i get transferd out of curitiba into the boonies i cant sing in the choir anymore!!! My Dream!! but wherever the Lord Wants!. so this week was pretty normal but one story i sent dad was this...


We went to a zone conference and learned to trust more in the Lord Praying. so they asked us (me and my comp) to each pray about 7 streets in our area. so i came up with 7 and my comp did too. Then together we prayed together and picked 3 streets out of our 14 we had. Then with the 3 streets we went to the Bishop and explained how he has the keys to our area and asked him and his counslers to pray about the 3 streets and give us 1 street that was the elect street to work on. so a couple days later we called him to get it and i guess he didnt take it as seriously as we wanted but he said "Elder we dont have it yet but i think the street Ana Tosin is a good one" so we went with it and we knocked the whole street and nothing! i was down.  i was like what an activity right?. but then thinking another day i said to my comp dude thats knock one of those other streets so we went to the Pinhiero Guimãraes street (which when picking the streets that one came clearly to my head) and we started knocking.... knocking... knocking and its a long road. we knocked for about an 1 and a half. door to door and nothing. i was getting un-excited too. then we came to one house and the lady came to the window and was like wait one sec my husband will talk with yall.. im like great... then he comes to the door with a huge smile and greets us nicely and accepts to hear our lesson. we taught a legit first lesson with pictures, scriptures and everything. they answered our questions right and understood well. there are the perfect family. you can tell the dad is really interested in what were saying. and if he goes than the family goes. and the way he is and talks and stuff just sounds like a bishop! it was wonderfull. but i learned that we need to put everything in the hands of the Lord. We prayed about our streets and did our part. i was certain one of those 14 streets was elect. but the bishopric didnt pray and just handed a street he thought was best. without the lords help we will fail. its like that quote i heard somewhere. "When we think we dont need the lords help he will let us work without him...... and we will fail!"

ya but thats my spiritual story of the week. How is everyone and mom dont be afraid to send me pics once in a while. Until next week!

P.S. What car will i be driving when i get back? Just a question?!?!?!?!
Love,
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Elder Arroyo
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(to Dad)

So chris likes the new shoes! sweet! dont be afraid to send some my way. the soles sound cool too. so other things i need!!! i dont like asking but its hard not to.  i need to buy like 1 more pair of pants. but i can buy that here for like 15 dollars. but another thing i want to buy is a sweater. i have that one that mom got me but like cuz of the sun and stuff its faded and is red. a sweater here is like 20-25 dollars. i have a jacket but a sweater is good cuz sometimes its not way cold but its chilly and in a jacket you sweat and i can use it under my suit to church too. but ya i thought you said i have 48 dollars on my card cuz when i went to the bank it said 48 but when i go to take it out 12 Reais it subtracts that from the 48 dollars so i went back in and it said like 36 and i was like??? so did i have 48 dollars or Reais. but ya so thats way cool that chris got to go to the temple. and thats funny that hes preaching to you guys. The Temple is Great!. ya i was writing in my journel for like 2 months than i stopped.. dunno why time i guess. lazyness too. but i will try to start again!.

but i gots to write mom now. love ya dad have a great week and the stomach is good just i ate top ramen last night and it makes me sick here (weird huh?) but i was dumb and hungry and ate it anyway and my stomach hurts lol. the runs!! but ill be fine! love ya Tchau!


your son
Elder Arroyo

just remember the Church is TRUE! :)

WHOOOO!!!!! P-DAY!!!!!!!!


Yes! Another Loving P-Day! So how are you guys! Wasnt Conference so great! My favorite talk was Elder Hollands talk about Lust! Man Elder Holland is good! He doesnt beat around the bush he just goes in and gets down on peeps! The best talks are when people get burned. im trying to learn how to teach based on elder holland. the seriousness yet with love!. well see how that works out. so ya ive been in this zone for like 7 months now but this area only have 4 months. but ya thats funny how you look forward to P-Day on sunday im already looking forward to it on Thursday. but ya about conference i watched it in English!!! Of course thats my Language. imagine watching it in portuguese with some other dude talking in another language and when the prophet is crying or somthing you just here this dude talking without emotion. Ya... I watched it in english with the emotional effect and all!. so ya about the SUDs i didnt do that service project it had to have been in another place in brazil. i used the jersey one time and it stayed in the mission houses! So the members here are doing good. we were getting references but that stopped. but helping them we try to help in every way we can! just no one excepts. my area is kinda rich though. So thats cool that chris will go to the Temple.
Ya so my week went well! i hope yall have a great week too! and its getting cold!!!


Love,

Elder Arroyo