December 26, 2011

I loved talking to you all. I hope you guys had a great christmas. Mine was a good one! After I got done talking to you we ate at a members house. She gave us dinner with the rest of her familiy. It was great! It reminded me of home. I am going to send you some photos that I took this week. We have a new member of the family. Rosie haha that is very exciting.

So we went to Manaus monday. We left at about 6 it took about 14 hours to get to Manaus. We arrived in Manaus a little bit late. This place is called Ciggs- it's a zoo / military base. So we arrived and they had already started. They had this big room where president spoke and the rest all of the zones in Manaus sang a couple of Christmas songs or did a musical type thing. After we ate lunch, then walked around and checked out all of the animals. It was a regular zoo I took some pictures, but they didn't turn out very good because the fence was in the way. After that we talked a little bit more and we went straight to the bus station to return to Boa Vista. Yeah, almost three days with out taking a bath and there was 12 of us, luckly the bus had a pretty powerful  air condicioner.

The visit to Manaus was very quick. I was hoping we would see the temple, but it was good to see all of the missionaries. 

This year is a new year time to make new goals. President has made some goals for the mission now that we are preparing for the temple dedication. It will be good to see what this new year will bring. 

I was so glad that I got to see you guys 

love you all 

elder ontiveros 

Decemeber 18, 2011

Hey,
This is just going to be a quick email. We are getting ready to go to manaus, just have to go get a couple of more things after this. I bought new shoes. I don't know how much they will be in dollars. I think around fifty dollars or so.. oh, thanks, for the gift I will look for it. 

The traditions in Brazil are a little bit different. Sat. night at midnight they will have a party until 3 am(we will be home by 10:30 pm or so) and Christmas Day is a big lunch. They have this cake that is really good that only comes out at this time. haha I'm not really sure what they are going to do that is just what they said. It's my first Christmas here in Brazil. It is weird seeing all of these Christmas decorations in heat, but it will be fun! 


Sunday we have church for one hour and a member who has a son on the mission will be giving us lunch. I think anyone who has a son on the mission will treat the missionaries in their ward like their own. And after lunch we will be going to another persons house so that I can call you guys. It is 2 o clock right now so I'm thinking I will be giving you guys a call around 1 or 3 on Skype. Just keep your email open on Sunday and I will let you know if there will be any problems. 


I cant wait to talk to you all I am very excited. We are leaving at six and we arrive in Manaus at 8 tomorrow. I still don't have my charger, so we will see how many pictures I can take.

amo voces 

elder ontiveros    
ps is I'm glad you had a great performance. I liked the picture. Thanks for the quote mom- 
until Sunday 

December 8, 2011

Dear Fam,

My campanion is learning English, so it was good practice for him to write that email. This next week we will be returning to Manaus for our annual Christmas party. I was hoping that we will go by plane. It is a lot faster. One hour and we are there. It will be good to see all of my recent companions and missionaries that were in my district. We are going to a place in manaus that has all sorts of different animals. This place is apparently world known. It will be cool. I´ll make sure that I take pictures!

This week was a good week. I had to speak again. I spent most of the night preparing for my talk and I was supposed to give a ten minute talk, I got up there thinking all that I had prepared would be more than 10 minutes, but it was for only six. We got out of church a little bit earlier.

Yesterday´s lunch was a little bit different we had duck instead of chicken and it wasn't bad at all. It almost has the same taste as chicken. The familia that gave us lunch yesterday the dad is a fisherman and he also hunts crocodile. He said that once he gets one he will make it for lunch. I have been wanting to try crocodile and turtle soup and monkey. A lot of people have said they have eaten these things, but it isn’t very common.  We will see. Here in Boa Vista a lot of people eat a lot of fish so for the majority of our lunches we have been eating fish. Fried fish is the best!

Yesterday we walked an hour and a half to a meeting with a lady who has a coworker that is a member. Besides the walk, it was a good meeting, she really had a lot of questions and interests about our church. I´m feeling pretty confident that she will be baptized, she said she would read and go to church with us this week and she is married! That is a blessing not very many people get married here. They have a fear that things will go wrong and they will have to divorce.  

Well that was pretty much my week. I can call through skype. We have to find someone who has good internet.  What is the band’s name that iz played for?  I would like to see pictures. I have got some good ones that I will send next week.

Love you all

Elder ontiveros

Iz I want to hear about your performance

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December 5, 2011

I am your son's companion Elder Rainho . 
I want let you know that Elder Ontiveros is traveling to Manaus on the bus and he won't be able to write you guys until later .
He shares his love and hopes that you guys had a great week .
Com amor