Mon, Mar 13

 I don't really know what to write about because I don't remember this week very well, 

we had a bunch of lunches in person which was good it was just a lot of long walks, one of them being a really long walk on a highway, but in the end we made it to lunch, it was good lunch and the members own a parrot, my comp really wanted to pet it see it outside of the cage, and the members replied that the parrot couldn't leave the cage because it bites and scares the dogs, and eats wood, then proceeds to show us all around their house where the parrot just was chomping wood down, like this bird had just eaten the crap out of tables and chairs, and cabinets, it looked like some much scarier and larger animal had been thrashing about the house, but my comp was determined, after the lunch everyone was looking at the parrot and talking to the parrot, and my comp asked the husband will he bite? the husband says yes, he will bite, personally that was a good enough warning for me, but my comp kept teasing the bird to see if it would bite him, then he got brave enough to not pull his finger back, and you know what... the bird actually did bit him, as the members told him my comp let out a little yelp, as he couldnt get his finger out then he and the member pried the bird off his finger, it reminded me a lot of when my brother got bit by our turtle, my comps finger looked so screwed up right when it got out of the parrots mouth, him and the member then ran to the bathroom to clean it, where the member continually apologized, and then my comp apologized and said it was his fault, here is some quotes from that day "when the bird bit me the first thing i thought of was when you (elder bremner) said dont do that your gonna get bit and get a disease" " some people just have to learn by experience, and need to get burned by stove to know it will burn you" "( the wife) I said it would bite you" "(my comp) i think it bit all the way down to my bone" "( my comp) I didnt yelp i was perfectly calm and removed it from my finger" "im gonna write about this in my weekly email btw" "did you not see that it eats wood?!?" "i had to show the parrot who was the alpha.. actually i think it showed you who was the alpha.. what no..." " I did NOT let out a yelp!" "i saw my brother get bit by a turtle, i dont screw with things with beaks" 

the parrot is going to bite you (sticks finger in cage). Basically the lesson is you don't need to learn everything by experience. 

we had another lunch in person, they bought a little baby puppy who loved to play with me and my shoes, it was adorable

I love how straight forward Brazilians' are, because they will tell you anything honestly, even to the point that its mean, with anything, weight, ability to speak Portuguese, my comp is getting roasted like 5 times a day for his weight, and he's not even overweight, they straight up tell him that i am speaking better Portuguese than him, and ask him why he isn't speaking like me, they roasted me for everything i say not even being related at all, they were like your head is over here over there and over there, they are like your jokes aren't funny, 

we received the area of amparo, making our area really super big now, and we received a bunch of people from another area book, who we don't know, and the branch of amparo doesnt know us yet, and its like really far away 40 minutes by car or 4 hours by bus, we had a call where we taught a man who lives in amparo and he said he wants to pick us up so we can teach him in his house so that's really awesome, it was really funny over the phone we shared with him the scripture that helped me with depression, i just didn't say it did, he then starts talking about faith, ( or the topic of the verse) and depression, and how with faith we can overcome depression, so i then told him how this verse and faith helped me overcome depression, and its super cool that he wants to drive us to his house, 

one night our awesome people we are teaching who delayed their baptism dates this week, came and gave us acaí so that was cool, they also when delivering it said my comp is fat, so that was unfortunate, they asked us to pray for them, and we asked if they needed anything else, and they said nothing, so we said are you guys sure anything you need help with we are down, then they said pray for us at 3 am jokingly, we said we would pray for them but made no promises at 3 am, anyways that night i woke up in the middle of the night surprised i was sitting upright and cross legged on the top of our bunk bed, i look at my watch and it was exactly 3 am, so i naturally prayed for them then went back to sleep confused why i woke up cross legged sitting up, 

i'm really not a fan of this new store, where my normal shopping list costs 124 reais instead of the usual 60 

this week i've been using a lot of new sayings i've learned in Portuguese and it makes the members laugh, one of them is "now i have the knife and the cheese in hand" witch means now ive got the upper hand, another one is whoever does not have a dog hunts with a cat" meaning you gotta use what you got, "the rocket doesn't go in reverse" there's no going back, i've also been using strange dialects of different Portuguese, which always gives a funny reaction, 

we realized that not only do we have a coconut tree in our little side yard thingy, but we also have a dragon fruit tree which is super cool, and dragon fruit actually tastes pretty good btw, 

one member made farofa with the food which honestly i couldn't even tell you what it is but it tastes good, its like a yellow powder thing to put on the rice, but this one was a banana farofa which i'd never tried its interesting,