Ben's First letter home!

Hoy familia!!!!hey every one sorry it has taken so long to e mail you we have seriously been so so busy! the mtc here is absolutaly insane crazy cool! the food is pathetic they try and copy all american types of food.... lets just say i have come to love the rice and beans it is the only thing that the know how to make good ha ha but so ya alot has happened in the first week we got here and went to put our stuf in our rooms and then got right to work i got three hours of sleep in that first two days i love it :) so ya on our second day we met with our branch president and i got called to be the district leader!!! no joke i am the district leader over district 33-d it is a huge responseibility ha ha but i am loving it i cannot belive it has alredy been a week!!! so ya i am in the awkward stage beetween two languages so my spelling is totaly crazy and it is hard to sound words out but ya i am already saying all my prayers in portugese i love teh language i love talking to the brazilados they are so so funny and verry willing to teach you how to say something i use como se diz? more than any other phrase it means how do you say this? so ya you would not belive how poor the people are! and yet they are all just so so happy it is verry humbeling to see them smiling and waving at you from a box literaly they make houses out of trash i love it here i will wait to send pictures just because i think it would be to soon for mom to see where i am acctualy walking around and stuf ha ha i am going to send this right now and if you get this but not the other one i will right you next week i love you all :)

Fishing in Yellowstone 1 Week before mission

Ben and his dad went fishing a week before he left on his mission. This was a nice 2 mile hike that opened into this valley. Great fishing....but a lot of pressure on very smart smart fish.

Elder Brooksby is in the MTC

We received an e-mail from the MTC in Sao Paulo saying that Ben is there safe. That is all we have heard from now. They suggest that we write him letters. Here is his address at the mtc and the info they sent.

We Strongly discourage sending packages to the Brazil Missionary Training Center.
If you have already mailed a package to the Brazil MTC and it arrives after your missionary has left for the field, please understand that the package cannot be forwarded to his or her mission and will be returned to you.

WE Strongly eNCOURAGE sENDING HAND WRITTEN LETTERS. Please write your missionary´s first and last name and district and mail box numbers above the Brazil MTC address on all letters. Your missionary´s numbers are: District (33D) and Box (26). Record these numbers for future reference.

Example:
Full name: (i.e. Elder Jeffrey Christopherson)
Mission name: (i.e. Belém)
District (##) Box (#)
Brasil CTM
Rua Padre Antônio D’Angelo, 121
Casa Verde, São Paulo, SP
Brazil 02516-040

DO NOT SEND ANYTHING BY FEDEX, DHL, UPS, or other private carriers. We can only accept mail sent through the U.S. Postal System


We will post more when we hear more.