We´re still alive here in Brazil

13 August 2010

Dear Family, Friends et al.,

There will be pictures to follow soon!

Until now Jerry has been the chief of our blogging efforts. However since we returned to Brazil, she has had more to do than she had during the first two years we were here (some of it is at her own choice) and I have a little less to do than before. Currently she is going through the grammar part of a new district's curriculum in the classroom with them for two to three hours a day.

She is supervising the rehersals of the MTC choir for their perfomances at a new LDS chapel "open house" not far from here. We are now in the middle of perforamces every night this week. We are just there at the open house for a half hour, but getting almost a hundred missionaries up the hill to the chapel and then back to the MTC each evening is a major task in itself. And it has been more of an adjustment to a new mission president and wife than anticipated.

She also is doing an hour of exercise, an hour of companion study with me, and two hours of individual study a day. (She truly is not happy unless she is over scheduled). I, therefore, have assumed her duty as the official blogger in this companionship. The drawback here is that my typing skills are not nearly as good as hers. But I'm going to give it my best shot and we'll post news items of interest and photos on a regular basis.

Repentance is a wonderful principle and with some help from Jerry we want to get back into the routine of posting the things that will be of interest to all of you. Thanks for all of your encouragement to do so. We appreciate all of you very much.

Abraços (hugs) to all.

Vernon and Jerry