I Finally got sick

For two months I’ve been wandering around in the amazon jungle without any kind of problems. I guess I was kind of asking for it. Just some extreme stomach pain sometimes in the bathroom.

More strange things here:

-There's something in the water that makes twins really common. There are three sets of twins in our 90 person ward.

-People say sabe to mean "you know?" but it just sounds like Jack Sparrow’s, "Savvy?"

-The energy grid here is very fragile and everything will shut down for a few minutes every other day or so.

-Everyone wants to speak English.

-An Xbox 360 costs over $600.

So there's a lot of rioting in the major cities of Brazil right now. It was lit off by a large hike in the bus fare but now everyone is saying it's about corruption. They are principally upset about the fact that all this new revenue is being spent on stadiums for the world cup next year. They are hosting the fifa confederations cup right now, world cup next year, and the Olympics in 2016. They will be broke well before that I think, especially if the citizens continue to destroy public property. There was even a little riot in our town with 300 people or so, no damage though.

Everyone is coming to church and getting baptized. We have plans to visit a faraway land that is still in our zone where no missionary has gone before because everyone gets stabbed if they stay out past 6.

It’s getting better all the time and I am even enjoying the sun sometimes.

Hope all is well,

Elder Willard