So My Camera's Busted...

And I am not very happy about it. It's weird, when I go to take pictures, the screen looks fine. But then when I take the picture, it comes out white. Sometimes it takes a normal picture, but most of the time, it takes white pictures. I am kind of sad because I keep having these really cool things that I want to take pictures of and when I try to take pix, they come out white. I don't know if there is something that I am just not seeing, but for now, I have no idea what's wrong.

Other than that, things have been going quite nicely. This last week was really fun. I had several opportunities to get to know the city a little bit better. Our manager is moving to Sao Paulo next week, so he has been trying to get everything ready for the move. This makes me really sad because he is really cool. I love his family. Hopefully, the new guy will be just as fun.

So today, instead of having me go to church alone, our manager came and picked me up. I went to his ward with his family. That was really fun. And I met this kid that was in the MTC with me forever ago. He just happens to be our stake president's son. So we got to hang out a lot today and get to know each other better....since I speak Portuguese this time around. After church, we had a big feast at his house. It was seriously just like Tucanos for those of you that have had the privilege of eating there. And then I hung out at their house for a while. After a while, they all wanted to hop in the pool for a little Sunday swim. They seemed a little surprised when I didn't want to. They thought I was little overboard not wanting to swim on Sunday...needless to say, we didn't get in. But it has been very fun to get to know everyone. I love being in Brazil again.

I have chatted with Lizzy and Kirsten, and Jeff and Lauren on skype. It is fun to hear how everyone is doing. I start teaching this week in a town called Santa Maria that is about 3 1/2 hours from Porto Alegre. Garrison will get here on Wednesday while I am gone. But then after that, we should be on a pretty normal schedule finally.

Good luck to everyone.

Vaughn

Oh, and I want to see the picture of all of us that we took at the Church Office Building if anyone has that!