Winter?

So we are now in Brazil´s ´winter´. It is very interesting that winter here in Mato Grosso has a temperature of 95*--120*! What a cold winter! How sad that I didn´t bring my thermals! ;)
Life is good here in Cuiabá. Last week Sister Sena was transferred. Now it´s just me and Sister Rosa. We are having a lot of fun together. We reorganized our apartment and it´s a lot nicer to live in now. It is so much nicer to only have to focus on training one person rather than two. What a relief! :)
This week, we have been working on preparing a man for baptism. He´s 84 yrs. old! He loves to talk. The other day, he was telling us a story about how he used to work all day and all night without eating lunch. He´s quite a trooper--still has great health and walks all over the place--even in this cold climate! ;) It was really funny when he was telling the story. I remembered all the jokes my brothers always told of the old man telling the story of his life--walking to school uphill (both ways), etc. Hahaha!
This is now the third time I am trying to send this email. We went to the lan house this morning and it didn´t send 2 times. Now it´s at the end of the day and we just finished some visits and stopped by to send a line so y´all don´t worry (and to send our report to President). Gotta love technology!
I wanted to say happy birthday to: Becky and Matt (a little late), and to Darrell, Rob, and Kelly coming up. I am so grateful to have y´all in my life. Hope y´all have great birthdays--and many more in the future.
For future reference, the mission requested mail and packages to be sent to the p.o. box.
Sister Rachel Ellis
Missão Brasil Cuiabá
Caixa Postal 10264
78050-975 Cuiabá--MT
Thanks!
Love you all!
Sister Ellis
P.S. Mom and/or Joy--I´d love the recipe of those peanut butter chocolate chip cookies too when you get a minute...:) Thanks!