New Pictures (scroll down) and a note 4/15

Queridos Missionários,

Novamente, sejam bem-vindos a Missão Curitiba, uma missão de batismos, trabalho duro, obediência e fogo nos ossos!
Estamos felizes com a sua chegada e oramos pelo seu sucesso aqui no campo missionário.

Segue em anexo algumas fotos de sua chegada.

Lembrem-se de escrever ao presidente todas as semanas.

Um abraço com fogo nos ossos!

Translation:
Wanted Missionaries, Again, they are welcome the Mission Curitiba, a mission of baptisms, hard work, obedience and fire in the bones! We are happy with its arrival and pray for its success here in the field missionary. It follows in annex some photos of its arrival. They remember to write the president every week. One I hug with fire in the bones!

My Address

Elder Arroyo
Praço Joseph Smith,
15 Portão
80610-210
Curitiba-PR

1st Week In The Field

Hey mom hows it holding.~i~m in my first area now and it is called ~jardin italia~ it is pretty sweet. my new companion is Elder huber! he is way cool and a very good trainer. i got him yesterday at like 3 0 clock we ended up getting to our house at like 7 we have a house wih 2 other elders. one i knew from the mtc. our house is pretty big. its sweet. so last night when we got to the house we left right after cuz we had 2 appointments. he had neve met the people so we were ganna go get to know them and maybe teach the first lesson. but we walked there it took like 20-30 min to walk and none of the appointments fell through.. but its cool. we did contacts to people on the way and i got 1 address from somone!.. we went to the church and i met some of the youth. they were skating and wanted me to skate. but i dont wanna get hurt. so what missionary knew me from provo? i need names. thats cool about chris. does he go out with the missionaries alot. tell him to start learning the lessons. it will make a big differenece. i~m ganna be teachig the restourating to a real investgator tonight ! crazy. i weigh like 177lbs. well mom i got to hit the road. i love ya. dont forget me!
elder arroyo

your welcome. ya i just figure if i do my best then i will be ok. oh ya i forgot to tell ya. there are dogs everywhere lol. in like everygate. i thought i was ganna get bit last night! crazy. i hate dogs

Dad's email from Jimmy 4/8

i only have a few min. minha profesora é comprendo nos sucós! lol my teacher is buying us juice for our last pday here. there juice down the street is so good. i cant wait to leave this place though lol. but ya conference was amzing i took so many notes. i liked the talks mainly about future stuff that i am going to need lol. family stuff marriage you know lol. my next steps in life. ya elder hollands talk was good too. i am so tired. i just played basketball for an hour. oh i can dunk a volleyball againl. im down to 180lbs and my pants / suit are to big. well i need to hit the juice place. see ya. love ya lots. tell chris to emial me. ! bye

2 Emails from 4/1

ya mom the food aint bad. im just getting used to it. i found out at lunch you can go up to the lady and be like. i want an omlette lol. there way good. but i just eat rolls and butter. or ill put the meat in the roll and sandwich it up lol. i cant wait to get those pictrues of justins baptism lol. way sweet. oh and problom. i accidently threw away my 1gb memory card. it was my extra one. i still have the 2gb with all my photos. sorry i got clusmy. cuz it was in an envelope and i was cleaning. sorry. well this week was good. i~m speaking portuguese better. love ya mom i will send pictures some time later

ya we go to the temple every pday. and ya the one in the picture is the sao paulo temple which is the closest one. its way beautiful on the inside. tonz of stained glass. sweet i cant wait to get that package it will be way cool. just put some random stuff in there too it will be funny. lollove ya.... elder arroyo