When I asked Trent what kind of cake he wanted he chose cupcakes in ice cream cones. He loves those things! I'll post the recipe on our recipe blog later this week.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Happy Birthday again!
Happy birthday again! This time it is for Trent! Brandon and Trent are two years and one day apart! We celebrated Trent's birthday a day early this year cuz Mike and I are leaving on a jet plane tonight! So here are the highlights from Trent's celebration... Happy Birthday Trent We love ya!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday today to Brandon! I can't believe he is 21!!!!!!
We can't be with you to celebrate...
So here is a BIG Happy Birthday from your family!!
Friday, March 26, 2010
From Brazil
Hey everyone!
No pics this week because this week we have just been looking for baptisms. We arrived here with 0 investigators, so this week we found a bunch of people to teach. We did a ton of contacts on the street, it actually worked out pretty good. We are trying to work close to our house and the chapel because the ward is almost ready to divide into 2 wards but just needs a few more men that live in the area of the chapel. We are working really hard to divide the ward. It was wierd to go to district meeting this week, it was weird to see a bunch of missionaries and listen to a training. I didn´t have district meeting for 2 months and i got into the routine without district meeting. It was good, i didn´t feel forgotton like when i was in Barra do Garças. I also found out this week that Elder Nelson is going to be here april 21st! Tranfers are on the 6th so i hope i don´t get tranfered so i can see elder nelson. Our mission must be poor or something because only the missionaries close to goiania get to go to these things. Elder cook already came here but i didnt get to see him because i was in a city far away from goiania at the time. But everything is going good here just working alot. Living with 4 missionaries is really annoying because my comp doesn´t get along with one of the others. Last time i was in 4 the same thing happened. Just about everyday there´s something to argue about. It´s amazing because we are only together for about 6 hours a day. ... Oh well. see you all later. Elder Lewis
No pics this week because this week we have just been looking for baptisms. We arrived here with 0 investigators, so this week we found a bunch of people to teach. We did a ton of contacts on the street, it actually worked out pretty good. We are trying to work close to our house and the chapel because the ward is almost ready to divide into 2 wards but just needs a few more men that live in the area of the chapel. We are working really hard to divide the ward. It was wierd to go to district meeting this week, it was weird to see a bunch of missionaries and listen to a training. I didn´t have district meeting for 2 months and i got into the routine without district meeting. It was good, i didn´t feel forgotton like when i was in Barra do Garças. I also found out this week that Elder Nelson is going to be here april 21st! Tranfers are on the 6th so i hope i don´t get tranfered so i can see elder nelson. Our mission must be poor or something because only the missionaries close to goiania get to go to these things. Elder cook already came here but i didnt get to see him because i was in a city far away from goiania at the time. But everything is going good here just working alot. Living with 4 missionaries is really annoying because my comp doesn´t get along with one of the others. Last time i was in 4 the same thing happened. Just about everyday there´s something to argue about. It´s amazing because we are only together for about 6 hours a day. ... Oh well. see you all later. Elder Lewis
This and that on Thursday...
On Thursday I had to give a book review at work...
Yes... I am dressed like a chicken with a sombrero..
My book was about customer service... It was about the Yum! company that owns KFC (the chicken costume) Taco Bell (the sombrero) and other restuarants. The book was about a lot of fun ideas that this company does, so I wanted to incorporate that in my review... AND... I did NOT want my presentation to be boring! So I dressed up, gave everyone toy harmonicas...
AND gave my boss the "floppy chicken award" which I think she got a kick out of....
So now you have a little insight to my job!
While I was at work... Trent was getting his shots! I thought it was so cute that they gave this big tuff guy Garfield bandaids!
THEN... Trent brought home this HUGE bag of neckties that he got at a thrift store.
Trent already got the ties he wanted out of it so Mike dug through it and found some good ones too.... so be looking for some sharp dressed men on Sunday!
Well... that's that for this and that on Thursday!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Check it out..
Hey family and friends... Check out our new recipe blog... just click on the Blinkie over there. It's called Rainy Day Cooking and we don't have a ton of reicpes yet but we (mostly me...) are adding recipes as fast as we can. I'm trying to add a little history/background/personal stories to the recipes I post so even if ya don't cook (or you are bored) it might be interesting reading. AND.. I have to give a BIG thanks to Kristin for getting this going for us... I always wanted to do a recipe book/blog/something for the family... did a lot of talking about it but never actually got around to doing it... so there it is finally... enjoy!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
From Afghanistan...
Just wanted to share this picture that Dustin put on his facebook. I can't believe this is my baby in Afghanistan!
And this picture is real... he's not dressed up like that to go shoot a few rounds... this is life in Afghanistan... So sleep well tonight America... this is why we are safe!
Friday, March 19, 2010
Green celebration!
We had our annual family eating of the green food for St. Patrick's Day.... corned beef and cabbage, green jello, green kool aid etc...
we're all ready!
Everyone is wearing green
Someone found the pot of gold
Hmmm....
Kiwi wore green
yep... everyone was festive
I'm hungry!
Yum...
Yum
Wow... Erin is happy... Erin go bragh... whatever that means!
After our tummies were full, we played a wii dance game that the Jarvis brought
It was way fun
and required great coordination!
This is also the week of Ty's birthday!
presents!
playing with the guys.
we had a great time... I hope everyone had a wonderful green day!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
From Brazil...
Hey everyone!
This week i´m not the happiest missionary in the world. We were transferred from barra do garças!!!!! Thursday night they called us at 9 at night and said we were getting tranferred and we were closing the area and we were going to leave at 10 30 friday morning. We had to cean the house really good, de ice the freezer, throw away a bunch of crap that the elders leave in the house, and leave the house empty. Wow was i mad because there was absolutly no reason to close the area, and if the area was closing, why not wait till the end of the transfer?! The members don´t know where our investigators live and we had no time to tell them or tell our investigators that we wouldn´t be coming back. But now we´re in aparecida de goiania again. I´m not too far from the last area i was at. Our area is in the center but there is nothing in the center, it´s really the outskirts of aparecida de goiania. Our house is nice, we live with two other missionaries. One is brazilian and the other american, elder nacimento and elder watts. Elder watts has only 1 month here in brasil. he had problems with his visa too but worse, he had to go to georgia for a while to do a temporary mission then came here, he never went to the são paulo ctm. it´s been a while since i´ve lived with other missionaries, it´s a bit different. I´m mad but i´ll get over it. looks like everythng is good at home see you all later. Elder Lewis.
This week i´m not the happiest missionary in the world. We were transferred from barra do garças!!!!! Thursday night they called us at 9 at night and said we were getting tranferred and we were closing the area and we were going to leave at 10 30 friday morning. We had to cean the house really good, de ice the freezer, throw away a bunch of crap that the elders leave in the house, and leave the house empty. Wow was i mad because there was absolutly no reason to close the area, and if the area was closing, why not wait till the end of the transfer?! The members don´t know where our investigators live and we had no time to tell them or tell our investigators that we wouldn´t be coming back. But now we´re in aparecida de goiania again. I´m not too far from the last area i was at. Our area is in the center but there is nothing in the center, it´s really the outskirts of aparecida de goiania. Our house is nice, we live with two other missionaries. One is brazilian and the other american, elder nacimento and elder watts. Elder watts has only 1 month here in brasil. he had problems with his visa too but worse, he had to go to georgia for a while to do a temporary mission then came here, he never went to the são paulo ctm. it´s been a while since i´ve lived with other missionaries, it´s a bit different. I´m mad but i´ll get over it. looks like everythng is good at home see you all later. Elder Lewis.
Leaving the apartment
Saying bye to friends
The Branch President and his wife
The bus station
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Huzzah!!
Huzzah m'lords and m'ladies!! Mike and I decided we have had enough work work WORK... and took a little R&R out at the Renaissance Festival...
We had a GREAT time... It's always fun to be with my best buddy Mike and it's always fun to take a day off!
The weather was BEAUTIFUL!!
The first thing I did was get a much anticipated turkey leg... YUM!!
The Ded Bob Sho...
Some pretty cool jugglers
Some of the animals in the petting farm
A whipcracker guy..
One of the best shows was the bird of Prey show
What's behind Mike's head?
The star of the show
Three guys and a bunch of drums
Mother Goose and Mike
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