First PDAY letter!

Querida familia, Ola! We FINALLY have P-day. After 10 days, we really needed one. And I am glad I can finally actually write a real letter instead of just sending lists of things I need you to send me. When you dropped me off, they sent us to all these buildings, and gave me my nametag with its beautiful orange dot.
 
 My companion is Sister Carroll. She is pretty great; we get along well, which is a blessing because I was worried about being stuck with someone 24/7. But now, if we get accidentally separated in a hallway or something, I get really anxious. Also the second day here, we accidentally matched.
 
 Katy asked me about our daily routine here "SPECIFICALLY": Wake up at 6:30, go to class, sit there all day... that's really all. We have class or study time in our classroom all day long, except for meals, and if we're lucky we have an hour of gym time. The first few days were really hard, but I'm feeling pretty good now. Portuguese is actually not as hard as I thought it would be. I can already pray, and bear my testimony. Sister Carroll and I have already taught three lessons in Portuguese to an "investigator", too. (The teachers like, act as investigators... it's hard to explain but it's fake but it feels real). We taught our first lesson on Thursday and it was really awful. We were in there maybe 10 minutes and didn't know how to say we had to leave at the end... BUT in our last lesson with him yesterday, we asked him to be baptized and he said YES! We were so excited, even though it's fake. The reason he said yes is because we had him pray with us right there to know if the Book of Mormon and the Church was true... It was really great. I was so happy. I can't imagine how amazing it will be when it's a real investigator. Mail is like the biggest deal of anything ever here so PLEASE keep writing me :) "MIssionaries were not made for P-day, but P-day for missionaries". We got to go to the temple today. It was really great.
 
 That picture is the sisters in my district. Sisters Brand, Sandholtz, Duke, Miles, me, and Carroll. I can bear my testimunho in Portuguese (but the spelling may be wrong): Eu sei que Jesus Cristo e' nosso Salvador. Eu sei que a Igreja e' verdadeira. O Livro de M'ormon e' a palavra de Deus. Jose Smith foi um profeta, e Thomas S Monson e' o profeta de Deus hoje. En nome de Jesus Cristo, Amen. Voces amo muito muito. I miss you all and love you. Choose the right, and "write". Love, Sister Gidney