Erica is in Brazil

beleza! (this is slang that i learned from my bff hermana marshmellow that left last week. i may or may not have cried when she got on the bus:( but we still email!) it's my last week at the ctm! ive loved it so much. my district is the best and my comp is awesome. portugues is hard but it's crazy how much we have learned in these six weeks. last week our night teacher got switched out and the new guy, irmao vianna, seriously knows more english than us. which is both scary and good ha. \he's from rio, grew up catholic and was converted to the church when he was 23, then served a mission in england so his accent is soo cool. also he's a whistling machine!. he's so smart with both the language and the gospel so his classes fly by even though they're three hours at the end of theday. our other teacher stayed the same though! we looove irma demasio. she loves doctor pimple popper mom so i;'m in good hands ha. she keeps us updated on the pizza and hamburge...

bom dia!! ive made it another week! now is when it gets crazy with portugues bc weve gotta memorize about 80 words a day and 12 phrases. heres something cool! if you didn't know, the sisters in brazil have always been called 'sister tovey' etc bc the nuns are known as the irmas. but starting last week, we will also be called irmas! which is so funny bc all the brazilian people think of nuns when we get called irma lol. but we get our new nametags in the field so that means that my district will be the last people to be called sister if that makes sense! pretty cool.  portuguese is good. someone give senora swartz a hug for me because my spanish is so helpful!!!! im with the sisters in my district all day every day because we also all share a room (which isn't normal) but we are best friends and we have so much fun.  the church is true!

hi all!!! bom dia!  thank you all so much for the emails and sorry about responding and my typing skills right now but we don~t have much time and theyre very strict in the ctm ha! but i loooove it here. there are people from all around the world learning portuguese. everyone is so nice. im feeling good! we have lots of portuguese to learn but i honestly am fine with that. my favorite part of the day is trying to talk with the brazilians at meals. we go all day every day and i love my district so much. we are all in the same room as well so we~ve been together literally for a week straight which is so crazy. i feel like ive been here for three weeks at least:) love you and miss you all!!