well the weeks just keep flying by.. this past week was awesome. I really tried to take advantage of my down time and study the scriptures and preach my gospel. So awesome! Me and my distrcit have been getting into some deeep doctrine.. its soo cool! We have a huge signs of the second coming card its INSANEE. read ezekiel 1, holy cow! I am having nightmares of those things.. haha. speaking of waking up at night, yesterday was the first night I did NOT wake up sometime during the night. There is always fireworks going off, loud people outside, gunshots (haha the other night there was 16 gunshots!! sheesh) AND there is this 1 bird.. everytime I (for some reason I was the only one to wake up and hear it everynight) would wake up it would fly away! I tried to leave out my camera so I could record the noise it makes, but it ALWAYS flys away. Everyone thought I was crazy so one night I woke EVERYONE up and made them listen. Now they know about the crazy bird. I will try to record its call because its sooo wierd! I cant even explain it. We went to campinas temple today and tomorrow we are going to the police station to register and get a brazillian id.
Nothing much has changed.. its hard to write in my journal every night because every day is almost the same! My teacher irmão gonçalves is so cool. he is the most spiritual/wise 22 year old I know. Every day he leaves us with a crazy thing to think about. YEsterday he pretended to be an investigator and said luke 16:16 says there cannot be any prophets after john. We figured out the law was the law of moses and the prophets is all the books in the bible from isaiah to the end. It was sweet haha. OH! i almost forgot. We went proselyting on friday it was SO cool! at first I was pretty scared but then I just went for it. I started talking to everyone, and developed a liking for old guys. I just liked talking to them! haha I handed out everything they give youy (3 books of mormon and 17 passalong cards) plus at the end I took a huge stack from my teachers pocket and gave all those away. I didnt have any really good stories but my companion did. He gave this one guy a book of mormon and the guy was so excited! people are amazed when you give them  a free book its hilarious. They all think you are trying to sell them something till you say  “de graça”! so we saw this guy walk past us again an hour later and he was really reading it! it was so awesome. I am doing really well with portuguese and was able to pick up most of what they were saying. Well time to go buy some food. They have really good cookies in these rolled up packagaes.. sooo good.
have a good week! send me letters and candy! thanks for all the letters mom and dad. I love you all.

Elder Boyack

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