What are Brazil Nuts called in Brazil? Snail Mail! dated 9/28

The first part is all in Portugese, which I will do my Spanish best to translate. He does finally write in English though, so just skip down to that if you want. I can tell he was writing quickly and I can't tell what some of his letters are ...

Oí Família!
Tudo Bem? Como voces estao? Coisas sao muito bom aqui no Brasil : ) Decidi eu escreveria um ponco de minna carta no Portugues para voces, para que possam desfruitar a idioma como eu desfruto.
Espero que mae va poder entender a maioria das palavras, mas se nao, voces pudem usar o internet para ajudar, neh?
E a comeca do meu terceiro semana aqui no Conselheiro Paulino, e Elder Morries e ue somos acustomado desta área agora. Os membros sao muito bons -- eles querem ajudar o mais que eles podem. E uma bencao quando os membros querem ajudar -- normalmente isto nao acontece. Sou grato por nossos membros. A ala (ward) e um poulo pequeno agora, mas sei com a ajuda dos membros, va crescer bastante. Nao temos uma capela (quando es uso "capela" quero dizer um edifício por si mesmo)-- igreja acontece num edifício encima de uma lojade som )pelos carros) na rua grande (Main Street). Mas, sei que quando a ala vá crescer, uma capela real será construido.

Translation attempt:
How's everything? How are you all doing? Things are great here in Brazil. I decided to write a little of my letter in Portuguese for you. So you can enjoy the lenguage as I do. I hope Mom can understand most of the words, more or less. You can use the internet to help you, yeah?
I've started my third week here in Conselheiro Paulino, and Elder Morris and I are used to the area now. The members are great - they want to help as much as they can. It's a blessing when the members want to help - usually that's not how it goes.
I'm grateful for our members. The ward is quite small now, but I know with the help of the members it will grow a lot. We have a chapel (when I use "chapel" I mean to say the entire building). church happens to be a building on top of a???, not a main street. But I konw when the ward grows, a dedicated chapel will be built.

So there you go. Portuguese. And much better than what I wrote my third week in the CTM, mind you. Although I'm sure there are still plenty of mistakes in there, ha.
So Elise, I finally found out what Brazil Nuts are called : ) They're called Castanha-do-Pará. Pará is the part of the country where they grow. So the world calls them Brazil nuts, Brazil calls them Pará nuts -- I wonder if Pará has another name for them? : )
I got an email from Aunt Linda a while back, so you might already know, but "Linda" in Portuguese means 'Beautiful.' So I wrote her back and addressed it to "Aunt Beautiful." Ha, I'm hoping she got a kick out of it.
So let's see... I'm listening to my iPod right now. Which, btw Mom, thanks for the Conference talks -- I listen to them in the morning while exercising and showering and eating, before Personal Study. I think Elder Makiama (first companion - Brazilian) got a little annoyed after a while, because he couldn't understand. But what's he gonna say -- "Hey Elder, stop listening to the words of the Profet! [yes, that's how he spelled it -- side note here that those who've gone to a foreign language mission already know - his English spelling and grammar will get worse over time : ) ] It's getting on my nerves!" Ha.
Yeah, so I'm kinda outa stuff to write about. Curse being able to write an email to you guys every week... : )
I love you guys. Hope everything is well at home.
Com amor,
Elder Trenton McGregor

Conferéncia General, Street Contacting, and commitment

oí família!
So we're trying a new LAN house today, and I must say, I'm really not a fan. The teclado (keyboard) I'm using is terrible (sticky keys), and I've been logged off twice for reasons unknown. Blah. Anyway, all is well.
Conferéncia General was fantastic. We attended all five sessions, which for us were in Portuguese. We tried to get English to work, but no such luck. Can I just say that I never realized all the big words Elder Holland uses until now?
We had 3 investigators attend respective sessions. One will not be baptized due to a personal "stumbling block," but the other two, Maria Luiza and her daughter Victoria will be baptized this week =] Very exciting. We're hoping to have at least one baptism next week as well.
We also have three investigators that are ready to be baptized but are waiting to get married, or divorced then married. So those will be a while, but they're more than ready and willing to be baptized (yay =])
So this week we really need to work on getting more investigators. Which either means getting references from the members or doing street contacts. The former, obviously, is better. I despise street contacts, because one, not only are they not very effective, but teaching someone who doesn't know any of the members, where the church is located etc. means it's pretty tough to get them to visit church. We invited at least 12 different people to attend general conference, but only 3 came--two of which already agreed to be baptized. So I think that this is one of the hardest parts of the work here--getting people to do their commitments. Oh woe is me. I'm sure all the missionaries from other countries are wanting to smack me right now for my "challenges," haha.
So yeah, not much else to report. I wrote you guys snail mail last week, and I'll send one again this week as well.
Love love love,
Elder McGregor