Portuguese and Hair Clippers

This past week has been as tough as the first but I'm more adjusted to it now. The temple last Wednesday was incredible! I hardly understood anything but it was great haha. The temple in Campinas in really beautiful, its on a hill next to the city so we could see the whole city and another one in the distance. I'll send pics once I'm out of the CTM! We've had devotionals recently by Elder Bednar, Christofferson, President Ballard, and Soares. They haven't been in person but they've been great. I'm so glad to have the true priesthood authority on the earth today and hear so easily from those incredible men. 

Portuguese is coming along... I can teach lessons with my companion with a 3x5 cards worth of notes and hold a small talk conversation fairly easily. Everyone in my district can also pray in Portuguese without any notes. It's really cool. The language is tough but it's coming along and every small improvement is great. I've set a goal to memorize 50 words and 10 phrases a day and be functionally fluent 2 months from now (lessons without notes and can small talk well).

This past Sunday night I went to cut my hair but my power converter wasn't working so I used my companions but it just converted the outlet, not power so my hair cutters got super hot and started smoking after a minute... luckily I wasn't too far into my haircut hahaha. Hopefully they sell power converters here or have hair cutters I can buy here for cheap. The CTM is tough but great. I love you all! esta igreja e a verdade e eu sei que Deus ama todos pessoas da terra. eu acredito que o livro de mormon e a verdade e ajuda voces vida. tchau! (Translation by Scott: This church is the truth and I know that God loves all people on the earth. I believe that The Book of Mormon is true and can help your life. Bye!)
-Elder Anderson

These pictures were sent to me (Tyler's mom) by another missionary mom on FB. Her son is in Tyler's district and has a wifi camera so the pictures download instantly to her computer. Tyler has a regular camera and they can't sent pictures from the Brazil MTC (called CTM in Portuguese). Anyway, these are the first and only pictures I have of Tyler so far! He looks great!