Week 1 Cole's First Email

From: Coleton McCardell
To: Shaun McCardell
Sent: Wed Nov 26 10:01:38 2008
Subject: Mission Campinas
Hello !!! how is everything at home? its going great here. my first companion is sooo cool!! his name is Elder Dunn and he also has a girlfriend back at home waiting for him. its soo cool here !! the flight was way long and it would just never end then when we arrived in São Paulo we were all so scared to move on because we didn´t know where to go. when we arrived at the MTC they gave us these blue dots and we became smurfs or the new kids. you really do eat rice and beans for every meal. we´ve been having soo much fun here its not even funny!! Today is my first P-Day and we got to go to the São Paulo Temple. we do get to e-mail you which i was very excited about. PS if the dear elder isn´t working then you should try MISSIONARYTIES.COM? i was going to send you pics but it´s going to take a week before i can get the pics develuped and then another week to get to you, so next week im going to just send them through an e-mail. guess what? my whole district is going to campinas and theres 12 of us in it. guess who´s my district leader? my companion soo that makes me the ADL asistant district leader hahaha pretty cool ya?? i don´t get to see Justin much, but i do get to see him everyonce in awhile. you know the song Brooke sang to me on my farewell? well she gave it to me and i put it on my ipod, but i hadn´t listened to it yet. she is really good and my whole district LOVES her and wants to know her address so that they can visit her when they get home haha. my companion and i listen to it every night before going to bed because we both really like it and it reminds him of his girlfriend soo it gives us both peace when we hear it. the language is coming along well, but not as fast as i would like it to. its ok though because i know i´ll evetualy be able to speak it. the people here are soo loving and caring that i just cant wait to teach them the Gospel and show them how much there Heavenly Father loves them. well in my district we have a saying !! the saying is BELEZA!! which means beautiful or handsome soo my district is known as the BELEZA BOYS so every time someone asks us how were doing or something we say BELEZA!!!!! hahaha how funny is that? they laugh and make fun of us, but we dont care. i can´t wait to here back from you next week!! i´ve been soo excited to either recieve mail or e-mail you sence i got here. PLEASE SEND AT LEAST ONE LETTER. its really cool to open up the box and have mail. I LOVE YOU AND HOPE EVERYTHING IS GREAT !!!! TALK TO YOU SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVE ELDER MCCARDELL