Elder Devon Tomlinson

Hey mom :)

i got the box! thank you so much :) and i got a letter from Eli Emms!!!!!! By the way please send  me letters. I only get to read my emails on saturday (p-day) but i can read and send letters any day of the week. Letters are such a pick me up. :) AND GUESS WHAT????? i beat the record for the mile run. I was 5:12 and i ran a 4:57. My name is on the wall now. Its a big deal :) Its getting harder and harder here. I feel more stressed out. Dont worry, its just me getting ocd about the language and cleaning everything and making everything perfect. They are having us do full teaching investigators and door approaches in full portuguese its crazy. I am kinda forgetting how to say my prayers in english because i have said them a hundred times in Portuguese. Our last investigator we invited to baptism and she accepted. i know it wasnt real but we put so much effort into our lessons that i just wanted to go crazy when she said yes. The spirit is so strong when we are teaching. More than half the time when we have the spirit you can understand every word that they are saying and then you have the gift of tongues and then you leave and you have no idea what just happened. Its so incredible.

 so about the pictures.....

The first one is of me and my companion playing a nerf war. we dont goof off like that all the time only on pday. im serious when i say we have no time to rest. they have the whole day booked everyday. the second picture is me eating a cricket that a elder in my district's girlfriend sent him from her mission in japan. so we all ate crickets. the third picture is of my companion (elder Beardall) and the two roommates (Elder Apo) (the one next to me) and (Elder Shupe) (the far one). We are all in front of the temple :) we go every pday and its so amazing :)