Daily Schedule: October 30, 2012

15 October 2012 (received via USPS 30 October 2012)

The fam,

So here are some things that I didn’t put in my weekly email.  Like I said earlier, my next snail mail letter should have photos in it.  J  Yay!

I don’t worry about my wallet getting stolen because I don’t carry my wallet with me.  I taped two pass-along cards together and put my Brasil police ID with a few reals in it and that’s all I carry around in my shirt pocket!  J

You wanted to know my schedule for the field.  For a “normal” day (which doesn’t happen very often), it goes a little something like this:

6:30	wake up/work out/stretch
7:00	shower/iron shirt/get dressed/breakfast
8:00	personal study
9:00	study w/companion (in the first 12 weeks I have 2 hours of comp study instead of 1)
11:00	language study
12:00	almoço (lunch, hopefully at a member’s house); lunch is the biggest meal of the day here in Brasil)
1:00	hop on the bus
1:30	start proselyting; usually we don’t have a ton of lessons early in the day, just a lot of contacting and maybe a lesson or two
6:00	this is when we get booked with lessons all the way up until 8:15
8:15	sprint to catch the bus back; sometimes we get a little jantar (dinner) with a member but a lot of times not.  When we don’t get jantar, we eat something back at the apartment
9:00	get home, plan
9:30	(or 9:45) eat a quick, small snack, read a little bit, get ready for bed
10:30	bedtime!!

And that’s what I do pretty much every day!  It is really hard but goes by pretty quick, really.  It seems like the longest day of the week (thank goodness it feels long! J) is P-day, because we seem a little less busy and have some time to relax.

That’s all for this week.  I’m going to try and get a quick nap in today!  J

(first nap in the field)

(probably for only 15 minutes)

Lots of love! Y

Elder Eldon Ray Cummings 

 Picture from the CTM sent by Eldon's CTM companion, Elder S. (bottom right, with red tie).  Not sure who everyone is, exactly, but it is a great shot!

Another shot from the CTM courtesy of Elder S.

(and his sweet mother, who sent the pictures to me).