Tudo Bem

what a week!!

so ill start off explaining the pictures.
I got a Hammock!!! o my goodness im so exited!! i have slept in it the last three nights :) i love it. its like a forest green, like Brazil. (well not my current area, im in a desert), idk i love it. the other picture of it is my companion and I. it cost R$40, so like 25 to 30  US dollars. not bad right? it rock. by the way, every house i have been to in Brazil has hooks in the walls of at least 1 room for a hammock. everyone has one. but mine is the coolest!
the next pic is a Cockroach. they are so big!! nasty hu? never really know what food of yours he has gotten to. the next is a Gecko in my room. on the ceiling. cool hu? there are lots of them, these are white. i tried to catch it but only caught the tail.... they fall off easy.. who knew? but they grow back. nasty.
the last pic is something i have never seen and neither has my comp. Escolar means school. its a School Boat... weird hu? not sure why they have them. but i thought it was cool. the school buses here are different too, there is a few different types and the have the most annoying horns! they pull up to your house and honk so you can come out and catch the bus. but the horns are... terrible. haha
well thats it for the pictures this week. i got my hammock at a "feira" its Portuguese for market, or something like that. they have clothes, food... everything. also, no one cares about copy right here so they have all the new movies and music. a dvd cost R$2  so like $1.50 soooo cheep. they have all the newest movies, Captain America, Transformers, Harry Potter everything! things that are not out yet. and u can get them in English too. guess who cant watch them? so close, yet so far. haha no big deal. but im debating weather i want to get all the new ones so i have them when i get home. haha by then no one will use dvds.   next thing on my shopping list is a big machete!! super cool. lots of places have them too.
So some things that happened this week.
last night my comp and i went to a members house to talk with a 19 year old about serving a mission. trying to encourage him. while we were there he had us go out back to pick some Coconuts off their short palm tree, there ended up being lots of ants guarding their sacred coconuts and we got bit pretty bad. they were tiny but it stung so bad. but we didnt give up! we are missionaries!! we got our coconuts. haha but truthfully i dont even like coconut water. the Brazilians do. im getting to like it more and more. then it was like 8:30 pm and the mom decided to feed us, she gave us each the biggest plate of rice and beans i have ever seen!! in brazil they eat rice and beans with every lunch and dinner. but their meals are different, they eat a tiny breakfast and dinner and a big lunch. so for the last 2 months i havent eaten a lot, no one eats a lot. so she gave us that for dinner, there was no possible way we could finish it. i felt so bad. but i couldn't do it! my comp too. kind of embarrassing but what could we do? they were really poor too. normally they give the leftovers to the kids and they finish it. hope so..
also, when i left the mtc they made a big deal about the water, they gave us a water bottle with a filter in it and said to just use that. well, i used it once... it tasted gross and i couldn't get it to taste better so i just put it in my bag. the water here really isnt that good, but... you have to drink. so i just dont think about it. but sometimes, (two days ago) you go to a members house to ask for some water and they give you water out of old 2 litter soda bottle, i think its not polite to give people water out of the tap because it could have stuff in it. but they just fill the bottles with the tap, anyway, a couple days ago, the water in the bottle was nasty! i could see like dust in it.. gross. but its so hot! and we walked sooooooooo much! that what the water looks like isn't such a big deal. haha
This last Tuesday something crazy happened. i was at the computer house "Lan House" where we do E-mail, and i had my card in the comp to in port pictures, then i left and went to the apartment just down the street, then i remembered my card! i went back and it was gone! the owner of the place said she would look on the camera and we said we would be back in an hour. when i got back to the apartment i prayed hard, cuz all my mission pictures are on that card!!! so i said, i know you can do anything lord, through you i can make miracles happen. so when i go back to the lan house, i want my card to be there. i know that through my faith it is possible. so i went back. with complete confidence it would be there, and it was!! the owner looked on the cameras and saw who it was. then 20 mins letter the person came back! and the owner said give me the card or i'll call the police, because the person denied having it. then he handed it over. :) cool eh?
well, thats all i got this week i think. so be sure to send me more pictures! im putting together a cool album. thanks 

i hope everyone is doing good!
Com Amo
Elder Cluff  (the Brazilians say, Cloofy) hehe