Ah choo!

I´m sick...I´ve been sneezing violently for the past 2 hours and it just so happened to be that I had to catch two busses and one train. Imagine how good it feels to be sick and have to travel. Now imagine those poor people that were close to me and how good you would feel if you had someone from another country sitting at your side sneezing and sniffling for even 5 minutes and then think of me in the last two hours...And now I´m using a public keyboard to write home...I´m somewhat in control right now but I still plan on getting in my house to take a pretty pill called benedryl so that I can walk the streets of São Paulo like a drunk person. Benedryl doesn´t have a very good effect on me but I´m close to desperate...

I woke up this morning and was hoping that everyone forgot that I said I would go to a park to ride a bike with them. They didn´t. I got a phone call that said get up and get over here. So 30 minutes later we were waiting and the terminal to catch a bus. They brought breakfast for us and Maracuja juice, which is a delicious fruit, that puts everybody to sleep except me and it gives me energy. So I was alright after that. Rode a bike for an hour, looked at some fish, then I headed to the Mission Office to get some letters that I was waiting for. After the office it all began and now I´m here.

Some things that I may have mentioned or may have forgotten and I will mention now. I love having a warm shower. After 2 months of showering without a water heater we finally have one that works. I am loving life in the morning now! We went to the temple and after using the toilet I looked to throw the paper in the trashcan...no trashcan...Panic!...wait, I remember now. Normally the paper gets flushed. Thank goodness for toilets with power. I´d forgotten how much I love pancakes bu thanks to the pregnant cravings of one of the Irmãs in the ward got the better of her and she invited me over to make them.

I love the mission and I love life and I love this area (the members could use a little work) but the area is incredible and even when I am sicker than snot (which I have more than I thought one person could have) I am so incredible happy right now that I could dance. But I won´t cause I´ve forgotten how...

I love you all and I hope that life is great and wonderful. I know that this work is so important. And it can´t be left for another day. If we aren´t out there talking with everyone today then we can give up tomorrow cause ten to one the JW´s already got to them and they´re afraid of you. Don´t let the opportunities pass you by.

Love you all!

Shelle