April 21st, 2008 I MADE IT!!!

hey family!!! i am here!! so i arrvied by plane, went to some house theygave me a meal and a pillow and put me on a bus and now i am here in myarea...it happened way to fast! anyway i got called to serve in GAMA CENTRO!cool uh? anyway its way differnt down here. i have already had my first weekgo by and it was tuff i wont lie, but i got through it. it was hard gettingused to everything. its way different then the ctm. its not a poor area butits not a rich area so its not too bad. its not the hottest area so i luckedout. anyway my new companion is elder leite which is milk in port. so i amserving with elder milk. its so crzy down here, they just do everythingdifferent. but lucky me they got wachers and sandwhich makers for all theareas in the mission so ya i like that. they dont have dryers however, noone does, they just dont believe in them i guess but ya so i eat a lot ofsandwhichs in the moring and at night. my first breakfast i had a hamburgerand it was pretty good. and for lunch we have it in a members home everydayso we always eat alot then. lunch here is a big deal....a really big deal.and its always rice and beans, but out here its way good. the ctm rice andbeans wasnt so good but anway my first sunday was yesterday and wow is itdiffernt. no one can play the piano and i guess most of the american eldersthat have gone through here can so everyone was aking the white boy if hecould play but i can so i was siinging acapella with a bunch of tone deafbrazilans....they really are tone deaf, so you can only imagen, but itscool. and we had our first baptism!!! it was cool. a little 12 year oldgirl. my mission pres said that if we work hard we will baptise everyweek inthe mission, how cool is that! so my pdays are on mondays now, they mightchange when we get a new mission pres but maybe not. we will see. but fornow they are on mondays and about letters the american missionaris said thatthey just have there mail sent to the mission home cuz its easier that waybut then i would only get it every six weeks on transfers but because youare using mr. cheneys it might work. they just say that it takes so long toget down here that when they leave an area mail is still arriving for awhile and they have to wait till transfers to get it anyway so what ever youwant to do it is up to you, you can stop using mr cheneys and just mail tothe mission home or you can mail to my house what ever you want, and alsowith my bank card. i have been using it. i used it 4 times. 2 times at a atmand 2 times a store. what are the fees, cuz i dont konw i hope they weret tomuch. i wont be using it anymore because now i will be using my missionallowance now that i am here and everything so i might use it in anemergency but other then that i wont be using it. but i wondering about thefees if i did have to use it. so let me know. also have you checked on myamercan first account... is it still good and everything? oh and when i gotthe the mission home last week they had me give them your email address andthey sent a letter home to you from me, they also asked for dads email but ikinda forgot it...so if they sent you something by email send it to him. butya its awesome here! it is completely differnt, its really hard to explainbut i am getting the hang of this whole thing. i hope everything is goingwell with you guys. i try to keep my mind off it but how is the carcoming....? emails will definitly be faster so defintily need to email. ikonw mail in brazil from another brazilian city is pretty fast but ya youcan do whatever you want with the letters. use mr chenys dont use mr cheneyswhatever but if you do my address here is..elder benjamin davisQuadra: 14 conjunto ccasa 7 setor centralGama - DFBrazil cep- 72405-140
it will be that till my next tranfer, or i might stay here you never know,but transers are every 6 weeks so just fyi. i have met some american eldershere and there and talkin to them really helped with everything. oh and momif you havent sent that package....send me some peanut butter...they donthave it down here...none....so you can just put it in a plastic bag andsecure it and stuff but ya. anyway i have a lot to tell you but so much isgoing through my mind its hard to think of stuff to say. so i will writethem down for next week. i love you guys so much. you are the best! everysingle one of you. i hope things are going well! school is coming to an endsoon so lucky you...jake and erin... i am just starting on the real thingdown here. i love you guys so much, i can really feel your prayers all theway down here. i love you guys your awesome!
elder davis
ps they all think my name is elder dieves....even though it is right infront of them on my tag, anyway i love you!!!