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No, not yet.

I don't speak Portuguese.  I will be learning it starting in a month and a half.  Right now, I know essentially nothing.  When people who speak Portuguese find out I'm going to Brazil...they speak to me in Portuguese.  That's cool...except I don't understand a word of it.  Sure, I could be studying it, but I just don't have time.  I have BYU classes to finish within the next couple of weeks, and then I can focus more on my now nonexistant Portuguese skills.  But for now, it's just frustrating when people try to get me to understand a language I've never studied a word of, don't understand, and don't speak.  And then I feel like a fool for not understanding, even though language skills don't come when you slit the envelope of a mission call.  I'm not a fool, I just don't understand Portuguese.  Oh, and I never took Spanish, so that doesn't even help either.

Okay?!  Okay.
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