If you give a girl a cookie...🍪

Hey y'all! Is everyone enjoying the cold? I have actually been having absolutely perfect days of 75-80 degrees with a nice breeze, so HA to everyone who thought I was going to suffer (it really has been a blessing directly from God and I am so grateful).

This week was a little hard for me because I got sick, but it wasn't bad enough for me to want to stay home and rest, so I just had to work through it. The good thing about that is I received a ton of blessings for working through my trials! I am all better now, and super excited to continue teaching this week. 

This week was the 1-year anniversary of when my companion came into the mission so we ate a ton of food and bought balloons. It was really fun and the next morning I completely covered him in more than 40 balloons. Sometimes it's nice for you guys to realize that we are still teenage boys haha. I sent a picture and video for you guys to see. I thought I was pretty funny.

My spiritual thought is about a little girl I saw on Sunday. She was probably 4 and taught me a super valuable lesson. So we're in sacrament meeting listening to the talks and I look over and see this 4-year old that was given a cookie by another mom. I expected her to just gobble it up and ask for another, but no. She proceeded to offer the cookie to another kid and another mom before finally taking one bite. AND THEN SHE OFFERED IT AGAIN! My golly, if we could all be like this little girl, could you imagine how much better this world would be? So, my invitation for everyone this week is to share. It's not just a principle for kids, it's a concept for humankind and when we share the things that mean so much to us (for adults: TIME, energy, knowledge, etc. it doesn't have to be money or temporal things) we receive so many blessings for it! 

With love from Brazil,

Elder Colton McOmber

More landscape pictures, Patos is super pretty!

Random shenanigans with balloons haha

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We have no clue what this bird was attempting to do...

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This is almost a daily occurrence where we kinda just accept the fact that we are about to die. It's pretty fun lol.

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This bird flew into our house and scared me to death when we walked back into the house. We barely got it out of the house because it was so scared of us even though we were trying to help it. Fun times as a missionary!

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