Who's singing that great love song on my blog?!? Why it's one of my favorite couples... Kermit and Miss Piggy!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
This weekend...
This weekend started off with a fun visit from Corrine and Mike's niece Heather.
AND on Saturday we went to the Maricopa County Home Show (no pictures) ... WAY fun.... We started off by eating LOTS of food... Navajo taco, roasted corn, fresh squeezed lemonade, nutty bar and we HAD to bring home some kettle corn! But besides the yummy food, we went to a seminar and looked at TONS of booths. We learned a new term... "photo infused" ... in in other words... it's fake stuff made to look like REAL stuff, like granite, travertine etc... pretty sneaky, but kinda cool lookin. The good news is we didn't get sucked in to buying any mops or wonder cloths... but it looks like there may be a few home projects in the future!Catching up ... AGAIN...
We've had a lot going on the past few weeks... Cleaning up after the holidays.... yep... THAT'S always fun... we had a tamale day, Dalin was blessed... and lots of basketball (see post below).
We had to eat SOMETHING while the tamales were being made! so the McDonald's fairy came!
Looks yummy!
Tamale makers
Dalin on his blessing day!
Isn't this a cool picture! Now these are MANLY men!
The cute family!
We had to eat SOMETHING while the tamales were being made! so the McDonald's fairy came!
Looks yummy!
Tamale makers
Dalin on his blessing day!
Isn't this a cool picture! Now these are MANLY men!
The cute family!Friday, January 16, 2009
Brazil news
I'm still trying to catch up on life and here is the latest news from Brazil. The long awaited letter is here! Brandon is a REAL missionary now and in his first area! As you read or skim through notice two of his roomates are from this area. Amazing! Some excerpts:
Hi family,I made it to goiânia and i met presidente Tobias! We then dropped our stuff off at a hotel down the street from the mission office. Then we had a meeting with sis. Tobias and then Presidente. Then we went back to the hotel and slept and then had dinner at Presidentes house. He has a really nice house, it is an entire floor of a building, and the food was really good. Then we talked for a while and with the missionaries that were going home the next day. Then back to the hotel. The next day, back to the office and talked with Pres. Tobias for a while so he can get to know us a little better, and then a while later we got our areas.I´m not in goiania, but in the next state over in a city called Uberlãndia. It´s a good size city but we are in the outskirts, our area ends where the houses end and then there is nothing but open. Some people still use horses to get around. It´s cool, and my companion is Elder Jason Wardrop. He went to highland his fresh., somph., and junior year. .. So ya, i´m here and it´s fun. The members give us lunch everyday and everytime it has been pretty good. I help out with the lessons but its coming. We also don´t have any brasilians at our house, just 4 americans... Also, another elder in my house is also from mesa, i forget his first name but DeBoer is his last and he went to Desert Ridge.The other one is Elder Christianson and he is from Idaho. The people here are really nice, we can get in to almost anyone´s house if they are home. But the problem is to get them to do stuff. No baptismos this week, but hopefully soon, we are teaching some people that seem like they will keep commitments. This area is pretty cool and sometimes we see wild parrots fly by and some other cool birds. There are also a million dogs here wonder around and bark at everything. Our house is actually not that bad, just before i got here the elders bought a new house and it is not bad. Its hot and humid here but not too horrible. So thats about it, qualquer perguntas? (any questions?) Oh ya, the bus ride here was 7hrs and it had no airconditioning, when we were going fast it was fine but when we were stoped it was really stuffy. ... Talk to you later.Elder Lewis
Hi family,I made it to goiânia and i met presidente Tobias! We then dropped our stuff off at a hotel down the street from the mission office. Then we had a meeting with sis. Tobias and then Presidente. Then we went back to the hotel and slept and then had dinner at Presidentes house. He has a really nice house, it is an entire floor of a building, and the food was really good. Then we talked for a while and with the missionaries that were going home the next day. Then back to the hotel. The next day, back to the office and talked with Pres. Tobias for a while so he can get to know us a little better, and then a while later we got our areas.I´m not in goiania, but in the next state over in a city called Uberlãndia. It´s a good size city but we are in the outskirts, our area ends where the houses end and then there is nothing but open. Some people still use horses to get around. It´s cool, and my companion is Elder Jason Wardrop. He went to highland his fresh., somph., and junior year. .. So ya, i´m here and it´s fun. The members give us lunch everyday and everytime it has been pretty good. I help out with the lessons but its coming. We also don´t have any brasilians at our house, just 4 americans... Also, another elder in my house is also from mesa, i forget his first name but DeBoer is his last and he went to Desert Ridge.The other one is Elder Christianson and he is from Idaho. The people here are really nice, we can get in to almost anyone´s house if they are home. But the problem is to get them to do stuff. No baptismos this week, but hopefully soon, we are teaching some people that seem like they will keep commitments. This area is pretty cool and sometimes we see wild parrots fly by and some other cool birds. There are also a million dogs here wonder around and bark at everything. Our house is actually not that bad, just before i got here the elders bought a new house and it is not bad. Its hot and humid here but not too horrible. So thats about it, qualquer perguntas? (any questions?) Oh ya, the bus ride here was 7hrs and it had no airconditioning, when we were going fast it was fine but when we were stoped it was really stuffy. ... Talk to you later.Elder Lewis
Thursday, January 15, 2009
More Basketball
Catch up time... In the past two weeks, we've had three more basketball games... Won two, lost one... not too bad! Here are some highlights from the games:
Watch out Trent!
Cute fans
Trent
Flying Andrew!
Go Tau!
Go Trent!
more cute fans
The Monterey crowd!
Andrew
Tau
Chandler
Trent's fan club
Tau
Trent
Watch out Trent!
Cute fans
Trent
Flying Andrew!
Go Tau!
Go Trent!
more cute fans
The Monterey crowd!
Andrew
Tau
Chandler
Trent's fan club
Tau
TrentSunday, January 4, 2009
The Latest from Brazil
Here's excerpts from the latest news from Brazil:
Oi familia, Christmas was like i said in my last letter. We did some activities and i just chilled with my district. And for new years we aren´t doing anything special but tonight we get to watch Os dez mandamentos ( the ten commandments). Jan 6 is the day i´m leaving to Goiânia! We got our passports and flight times today, i leave at 8:20 in the morning and get there just before ten. There are four other elders and one sister going to goiania with me. So we are just reviewing now and its coming fast. ... its still hot here and i´m getting a pretty good tan. I got a picture with my companion from provo and he developed it and i look mexican and he is as white as you can get. So yep, nothing much happened this week. ...It´s great to here from everyone and you don´t have to condense your emails because i don´t have a time limit here like in provo. Have fun this week and i´ll be in goiânia next time you here from me.Tchau.Elder Lewis
Oi familia, Christmas was like i said in my last letter. We did some activities and i just chilled with my district. And for new years we aren´t doing anything special but tonight we get to watch Os dez mandamentos ( the ten commandments). Jan 6 is the day i´m leaving to Goiânia! We got our passports and flight times today, i leave at 8:20 in the morning and get there just before ten. There are four other elders and one sister going to goiania with me. So we are just reviewing now and its coming fast. ... its still hot here and i´m getting a pretty good tan. I got a picture with my companion from provo and he developed it and i look mexican and he is as white as you can get. So yep, nothing much happened this week. ...It´s great to here from everyone and you don´t have to condense your emails because i don´t have a time limit here like in provo. Have fun this week and i´ll be in goiânia next time you here from me.Tchau.Elder Lewis
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! We spent a quiet new year's eve curled up on the couch watching movies. We actually made it to midnite! I hope everyone has a great New Year! YAY 2009!
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