Lunch with President Oppe and his family! He was the mission president while I served in the mission office (for 11 months) so I got to be really close with him and his family! We spent 2 days with them in Sao Paulo.
This was possibly the ultimate highlight of our entire trip Iguacu Falls! We spent 1 day on the Brazil side of the falls and 1 day on the Argentine side. It is almost 3 times larger than Niagara Falls. While there we did a jungle tour and saw toucan's, monkeys, lots of birds, an iguana, and 2 alligators. During this part of our trip we spent 4 out of 8 nights sleeping on a bus!
The huge waterfall again! This angle shows the largest possible portion of the waterfall, but it still doesn't get close to the whole falls.
This is part of the falls you can't see in the previous picture.
Alligator
Iguana
Curitiba Temple with one of my great companions and his wife!
Absolutely amazing photo of Rio de Janeiro from the Christ Statue.
At the famous Cristo Redentor overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro.
This is where we stayed for 3 nights on an island off the coast of Brazil. There was no electricity at night, so we almost died of heat but, it was just so beautiful we couldn't leave!
We spent a full day on this beach, it was about an hour hike from our Bed and Breakfast. It's called Lopez Mendez beach, it was recently voted on of the world's top 7 beaches. We left early to get to the beach, so for the first hour we were the only people there!
I meet a really nice guy who happened to have an extra fishing pole so one evening I went fishing with him. All we had was a bamboo pole, 10 feet of line and some fish guts but we caught a lot of fish!
we did a hike to this amazing jungle waterfall. We spent about an hour swimming under it and resting on the rocks!
The perfect breakfast Acai (my favorite food in the whole world. It's a fruit that grows only in the Amazon its served frozen blending with strawberries, mango, and guarana), Pao de Quijo (cheese bread) and Suco de Caju (cashew juice)
Your guessed it! More Acai!
This was taken from the patio of one of the big mall's in Rio. Pao de Acucar is in the background.
cute little monkey we saw.
more monkey's :)
This shows some of how beautiful Rio de Janeiro really is! This is taken from the top of Pao de Acucar (sugarloaf mountain) Everything you can see was my area during some point of my mission. You can just see the Christ Statue in the upper right corner of the picture.
Sunset from Pao de Acucar.
Another view from Pao de Acucar. We stayed up there for about an hour watching the sunset!
We rented bikes and rode around the lake.
Kara took this picture while we were on our bike ride.
This is Lucienne one of my favorite people in the whole world. She was one of those people just waiting for the gospel! It was great to go back to Brazil and see that she is still firm in the church and very happy! We had dinner with her and her family and it was great!
Lucienne and I again with all the delicious food she prepared!
The desert that Lucienne made for us fresh mango, pineapple, strawberries, and papaya with pineapple and chocolate ice cream! YUM!!!
This is the whole family who we had dinner with!
This is Lucienne's niece her and Kara had a great time. She didn't care at all that Kara doesn't speak Portuguese she would just talk and talk.
This is Kara on the famous Copacabana beach! While I was on my mission the Rolling Stones came to concert and there were 1.5 million people packed on this beach to watch the show all right in my area!
These are some friends that were staying at the same Bed and Breakfast, he is from England and she is from Ireland. We took them out to get some Acai!
Lunch with President Oppe and his family! He was the mission president while I served in the mission office (for 11 months) so I got to be really close with him and his family! We spent 2 days with them in Sao Paulo.
This was possibly the ultimate highlight of our entire trip Iguacu Falls! We spent 1 day on the Brazil side of the falls and 1 day on the Argentine side. It is almost 3 times larger than Niagara Falls. While there we did a jungle tour and saw toucan's, monkeys, lots of birds, an iguana, and 2 alligators. During this part of our trip we spent 4 out of 8 nights sleeping on a bus!
The huge waterfall again! This angle shows the largest possible portion of the waterfall, but it still doesn't get close to the whole falls.
This is part of the falls you can't see in the previous picture.
Alligator
Iguana
Curitiba Temple with one of my great companions and his wife! 
At the famous Cristo Redentor overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro.
This is where we stayed for 3 nights on an island off the coast of Brazil. There was no electricity at night, so we almost died of heat but, it was just so beautiful we couldn't leave!
We spent a full day on this beach, it was about an hour hike from our Bed and Breakfast. It's called Lopez Mendez beach, it was recently voted on of the world's top 7 beaches. We left early to get to the beach, so for the first hour we were the only people there!
I meet a really nice guy who happened to have an extra fishing pole so one evening I went fishing with him. All we had was a bamboo pole, 10 feet of line and some fish guts but we caught a lot of fish!
we did a hike to this amazing jungle waterfall. We spent about an hour swimming under it and resting on the rocks!
The perfect breakfast Acai (my favorite food in the whole world. It's a fruit that grows only in the Amazon its served frozen blending with strawberries, mango, and guarana), Pao de Quijo (cheese bread) and Suco de Caju (cashew juice)
Your guessed it! More Acai!
This was taken from the patio of one of the big mall's in Rio. Pao de Acucar is in the background.
cute little monkey we saw.
more monkey's :)
This shows some of how beautiful Rio de Janeiro really is! This is taken from the top of Pao de Acucar (sugarloaf mountain) Everything you can see was my area during some point of my mission. You can just see the Christ Statue in the upper right corner of the picture.
Sunset from Pao de Acucar.
Another view from Pao de Acucar. We stayed up there for about an hour watching the sunset!
We rented bikes and rode around the lake.
Kara took this picture while we were on our bike ride.
This is Lucienne one of my favorite people in the whole world. She was one of those people just waiting for the gospel! It was great to go back to Brazil and see that she is still firm in the church and very happy! We had dinner with her and her family and it was great!
Lucienne and I again with all the delicious food she prepared!
The desert that Lucienne made for us fresh mango, pineapple, strawberries, and papaya with pineapple and chocolate ice cream! YUM!!!
This is the whole family who we had dinner with!
This is Lucienne's niece her and Kara had a great time. She didn't care at all that Kara doesn't speak Portuguese she would just talk and talk.
This is Kara on the famous Copacabana beach! While I was on my mission the Rolling Stones came to concert and there were 1.5 million people packed on this beach to watch the show all right in my area!
These are some friends that were staying at the same Bed and Breakfast, he is from England and she is from Ireland. We took them out to get some Acai!
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