MARCH MADNESS!!

 Mom,

thank you so much for the pictures! im gonna baptize so many young men with those pictures!!!! game over son!!!

   i know you do stuff mom, just not the stuff i ask. ;D

  i had no idea that the Lord was sending me into a black hole! this whole entire zone of maringá is super unexcited! im sick of this! all these people are like o we didnt baptize this week, too bad. im gonna start flippin tables and castin them out of my zone from all this righteous fury im feeling these days. forget everyone else, everyman for themselves, ima put the team on my back! actually through Jesus were gonna baptize more. so im gonna throw everyone on my back and then im jumpin on Jesuss back and Hes gonna take us to the baptismal font. i showed up here thinking this was a good city cause the church is strong here. the first two weeks in cascavel i baptized more people then this whole zone entirely, 8 sets of missonaries, have baptized in the whole month! and still to this day, as we speak in the month of march elder beaudoin and i baptized more then this whole zone! this is march madness mom!!! MARCH MADNESS!!! there should be 8 year old children being baptized in this zone!!! this is the month of march, pres. tavares said he wants 200 baptisms this month, we give him 200 then! all i know is that the next time i get to speak in front of all the missionaries from this zone, the sisters are gonna have to paint on everyones eyebrows from the flames that i preach! im just gonna turn into a dragon next time i go in front of everyone and burn them all!

  you see what happens when i get frustrated, i start rambling on about random things that wont happen. next time i go in front of everyone ill probably start crying from the spirit and the dissapointment i feel. either way, this zone will start baptizing.

  my address for letters is:

                                        Elder Bennett

                                      Rua Emilio Beltrami Filho 548B

                                      Parque da Gavia

                                 87053-337              Maringá- PR

                                            Brazil

and my address for boxes is:

                                           Clarice Da Silva Oliveira/ Elder Bennett

                                            Rua Pion. José Lourenço Santos 593B

                                            Parque Da Gavia

                                  87053-335                    Maringá- PR

                                            Brazil

have fun in your life mom!

    love ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 -Elder Bennett

p.s. i loved the pics, keep them coming!!!! 

Arrives in Maringa and Sick, Sick, Sick!!

Mom,

   congrats on 33 years of marriage!

   President Tavares told the whole mission now that we can email friends of any circumstances! anybody that wants can email me and i can respond to them as well! yay! we dont have any rules against emailing anymore!! but everyone thats emailed me on my mission ive deleted it, email me again and i can respond!!!

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    so far maringá has not been nice to me. the house here is really old and made of wood. its a really big house but has lots of rain damage. theres mold and dust all over the place and the days when it rained in maringá the floors got wet cause the water leakes everywhere in this house. the house is massive though, its got three bathrooms. the house is so bad that of the three bathrooms, only one shower works, one toilet and one sink work. so if you want to use the toilet you have to go to the one downstairs, you wanna shower you have to use the one where the shower works and so on. yes, 3 bathrooms to do the job of 1. this house is killing me though. i already have really bad allyrgies and the mold and dust is killing me. if i die at 65 youll know its because this house took 15 years off my liffe in a week. everyone in the house is sick, including the brazilians. poor elder morgan, the worst first week ever. i got a sinus infection and we went to the hospital. i hate the hospital. they put some needle in my arm to give me some allyrgy boost thing and the medicine was really strong, after about 10 seconds i was throwing up and i almost blacked out. so this whole week we spent trying to move out of there. we move tomorrow morning and ive never been more excited. our new house were getting is nice though, we have a weight bench, im about to get shredded haha.

     basically we did nothing for a week, elder morgans a little confused about the mission until now, my district has two sister companionships, and im gonna turn them into cold blooded baptizers.

   kotys gonna go out july 10th, thats a good date to go. o ya i forgot i cant pass my address right now because i dont have it yet, were moving tomorrow. doesnt matter nobody rights me anymore and i dont want you to send the pictures by mail, but by EMAIL. love you mom, REMEMBER EVERYONE, YOU CAN EMAIL ME NOW!!!

  - Elder Bennett

Dad,

congrats for the 33 years on marriage, youve gone a little way into eternity!

  basically the church doesnt grow as fast in brazil as it should because the leadership in every area you pass is usually really weak and lazy. the missionaries do everything. basically in areas where theres temples is where the leadership is strong here in brazil, other then that these people dont know how to work. my new ward doesnt even have a chapel, its a building that we meet in, its not pretty. the ward is pretty strong though, full of old people though. ive been sick basically this whole entire week though so it wasnt very fun and were moving tomorrow, im really excited to move though. love you dad,

      - Elder Bennett

Opening New Area called Maringa

So a day late, but better late than never! All is well and he will be with a new companion straight from the training center. (greeny is what they call them) So he will be training and opening a new area called Maringa. 

Mom,

   im in londrina right now, ya i know there showed up a ton of americans, im training one...

  im going to some city called maringa, i dont know much about it and im gonna open the area with a greeny, his name is elder morgan, hes from murrieta, cali. all the sudden i was in cascavel and next thing i knew i was in londrina getting my new comp, londrina has so many missionaries spending the night here theres not enough mattresses in the houses, looks like ill be sleeping on the ground. i just hung out with elder carrell, petersen, zioli and delgadillo all day, it was awesome. elder petersen and elder zioli got called to be the new assistants, remember elder zioli he was my comp a long time ago in arapongas, i love both those guys! looks like im training an american again. the assistents were telling me about this one area that pres. tavares opened up, i guess he said its the most fertile land in the mission for baptisms, i had to remind them that the most fertile land in the mission for baptisms is where my feet tread!

   i got the package in cascavel. DONT SEND ANYTHING TO CASCAVEL ANYMORE! im not there.

  i dont know what happens in maringa but ill be sure to baptize there!! my district has 3 companionships of sisters there haha, my whole district is basically sisters should be fun!

   funny story, i was at the church and sister tavares knew that i didnt get to use email yet so she let me use her iphone haha when i opened up my email she was right next to me with an email from bret mortimer, i had to delete it on the spot, sister tavares saw and probably thinks im a fubeca (slacker) now and that ive been emailing people other then my family. tell her that as of now, i can only recieve hand written letters from people other then my family. also ask addison for help on girls pictures you should send me, but seriously i have a box to send out to you all with jareds presents, the pictures and everything but i will never send it to you til i get at least 12 pics sent to me by email. peace out! love you all!!!

    - Elder Bennett

The Falls and Poopy Pants!!!

We did not receive a letter from Parker on the normal Monday morning. Waited all day and nothing, then we received it on Tuesday afternnoon. Love this boy, and Monday just wasn't quite the same. But so relieved to know that he is doing great and had an enjoyable day at the water falls yesterday and got to re-unite with his old companion Elder Delgadillio. Warning***Parker tells it like it is, but I thought it was quite funny myself, so if you can't handle his uncensored version, probably shouldn't read!

Mom,

ya we know who the new mission president is but i forgot his name, he comes in july, pres. tavares told us that foz and cascavel will stay in our mission still, he recieved wrong info, on july first our mission will get a new pres. hes from sao paulo and is the stake president there right now, thats all i remember. his name will be in the next ensign or the july ensign or something. pres tavares is crazy right now though cause he knows hes in his last days.

   i said i got the other package but this one with the wart burner i still havent recieved yet. it should probably come this week.

   nobodys gotten there visas yet, theyll all probably show up after im gone or towards the end of my mission.

  i dont know what day i return, they buy our plane ticket for us about 6 months before we go home so wait 3 more months and you should know.

  thanks for all the words of encouragement. its cool to hear what everyones doing, i didnt know that cambria was dancing or i just forgot but thats awesome that shes involved in something! love that girl!

   so this week was pretty exciting, sunday after sacrament meeting we baptized this 15 year old girl that is the daughter of a man that is inactive in the church. she does modeling and she is basically what everyone thinks that brazilian girls look like. i finally baptized a pretty girl, one of my goals!!! then after the baptism we went to the west city bus station and we were sitting on the bench looking at the pics from the baptism when all the sudden out of nowhere i pooped my pants. i didnt have to fart or poop and all the sudden everything was released. badly. i immediately ran to the bathroom which is terribly kept. i found that there was no toilet paper in the bathroom entirely so elder beaudoin and the other elders had to round together what they had to help me. they brought me napkins and lens wipers. ya know what youd use for glasses to clean the prints and grime off. i cleaned myself up but it was still really bad because it had seaped through and my but was wet and i smelled really bad. so elder beaudoin had to walk behind me the whole time so people couldnt see my backside. then we took the bus and ate lunch in a members home cause lunch is the big meal in brazil and i had a poopy but the whole time but thankfully we ate outside so nobody smelled anything. then i asked her to give me a ride home because i was sick so she gave us all a ride and i destroyed my pants and my underwear. i remember when elder carrell was telling me that everyone that serves in south american missions poops themselves. he truly is a prophetic elder huh haha

  but in the midst of all this madness we got a call from the zone leaders that president tavares was going to take the foz do iguaçu and cascavel zones to go and see the IGUAÇU  waterfalls for p-day!!! so pres. tavares took us to the waterfalls and theyre awesome! there so massive and powerful! elder delgadillo is in foz so i got to just hang out with him all day, its been six months since ive seen his shining face! i got a ton of photos and videos! so basically the last 3 days have been the best ever, baptism and the waterfalls all in two days, nothing better!!! haha on the way here elder beaudoin was making fun of this elder in our mission and how he used to walk so he started to immitate this one elders walk and right when he took the first step his foot got caught in this hole and he tripped and ate it right in the middle of central! it was so funny hahahaha i love this elder! he looked like he just passed out all the sudden o man it was rich!

   i have two pin drives now of a ton of photos and videos! one of the last six months of my mission that is super good and one of the waterfalls and you all are not getting any of them until i get the photos of young woman that i asked for. im sick of this, i ask and i ask but it takes so long to give me what i want the most. all i want is an email full of photos of young woman that i used to know. when i get that email, (at least 12 photos) then ill send one of the pin drives, second, i want to write heather dockstader, but i dont have her mission address in alabama, and when i get that then ill send the other hard drive, but until then ye shall recieve nothing! and thats the way its gonna be! love you all!

       - Elder Bennett

love you too dad, i dont have time either these last couple days have been really fun and hectic, have fun at work, i have my tri monthly interview with president tavares in about an hour so cant stay long, love ya!

           - Elder Bennett