News and a request from Brazil

Here's the latest from Brazil. I can't get over the place they have church! Wow... am I ever grateful for the buildings we have here. If his first comment sounds weird... well... I was a LITTLE worried when I didn't hear from him on Tuesday morning! But it's OK... I'm fine now and my heart is beating regularly again! If anyone has any ideas for Brandon's request, just email me or leave a comment. Thanks

oí família I´m alive! Everyone stay calm. President just changed p day just for this one week. We had an activity with him this morning so he changed p day to today this week. The activity was fun we just played a bunch of games and also some games of knowledge of preach my gospel and a game of who knew the bible the best. He also took us to lunch at a pretty nice resturant that can feed a bunch of people. So everything is all good and peachy. So elder camargo and i did an activity this week that went really well we had over 70 peole there. We just played a movie from the church and gave out popcorn and juice. We are also going to have a talent show this week and a movie about fasting the tuesday after and we are planing an other with all the games we played this morning and a few more for the week after that. Hey mom or anyone.... what are some cool things to do for activities that are cheap ... We want to always do activities because its way more effective and more fun that knocking doors. So that´s pretty much what we did this week, we talked to tons of people, the director at one of the shcools is about our best friend and that is really good because there are 3 sessions every weekday and 300 something people every session. so we can talk to almost a thousand people in a matter of a couple of hours and at only one school. There are tons of schools here just dotting the neighborhood and the kids pretty much attend the one that is closest to their house. ...But easter here the big to do is to get a chocolate egg. At the stores they are about 20-30 bucks depending on the type. But some members in our branch made one for everyone and everyone was happy. It was also alot cheaper. The pics are ... our church building, after we set up for the activity... Anyone have any questions for me? See you all later.Elder Lewis

Oh how lovely IS the morning!

Happy Easter Everyone! I am so enjoying this beautiful quiet sunny cool peaceful perfect Easter morning! What a time to reflect!... Today me Mike and Trent are just relaxing and waiting for Church. Yesterday however, we had our family Easter egg hunt/picnic... How did we do that in the rain?!? Well the Easter Bunny is clever and hid a buncha treat filled eggs inside Teresa and Steves house, so we still had a great egg hunt/picnic/family time and stayed nice and dry!

Eggs were everywhere!

That's a lotta eggs!

Eggs in the fridge!?!

Checking out the goodies!

There were 180 eggs and we found every one!

Mike taste testing one of the family favorites... Jello beans... very yummy and made by Kristin!

Finding eggs sure works up an appetite!

So cute... Trent, Krislin and Quentin

Time to relax!

Day off... but still working...

YAY! I have a day off!!!! .... YAY!we're working on the wood floor in the bedroom remodel.... YAY!it's coming along... but it is a LOT of work and NOT easy!!! Somehow it looks SO much easier on TV and in the how to videos! BUT we will prevail and have a LOVELY floor and save a LOT of money! Here it is so far...Moving, demo, tools, STUFF!The closet is finished, now on to the bedroom!

It's official...

We have a new eagle to add to our flock... Trent is officially an Eagle Scout! YAY!!!

Thanks to everyone who helped!

He made some shelves and a picnic table for a men's shelter

All finished!

New area in Brazil...

Here's the latest from Brazil. Brandon got transfered... I REALLY think I would like living in his house!

Oí família - I made here to anápolis safely and my comp is pretty cool and his name is elder camargo, he is brazilian from rio grande sul. We are in a branch and not a ward. Our chapel is an old wedding party place. Our area is about an hour bus ride from our house, and an hour and twenty minutes back. The pic with the little sign is the other side of the road of our area. But we live where there are plenty of stores and other stuff. Our house is connected to a bakery and there is a place in our house where we can look into the kitchen and smell all the stuff they are making. our house is pretty big too, we have two big rooms kitchen a room to study a big bathroom a room for all our clothes and a room for each companionship. we live with two other elders, elder andrus from green bay. and elder araujo from são paulo. ... But ya, our branch needs alot of help and me and elder camargo have planed activities every friday for the next 4 weeks. Right now we need to help the members out. Pretty much the whole branch is related and there are some family problems that leak in. But we had conference this week, we watched it at the church in the center. on sunday we watched it in english and the rest in portuguese. I didn´t like wathcing it in portuguese because the translatores are so boring it was hard to pay attention. I understood what they were saying but it was just monotone for two hours. But conference is always good to go to and i liked everyone´s talks. That´s about everything.... Até próxima semana Elder Lewis

Conference weekend...

I just love Conference weekends... cuz I love conference and cuz I love Spring and Fall. Maybe I would like Summer and Winter better if we had conference then too! I loved hearing our Prophet speak of course but probably my favorite talk was the one Jeffrey R Holland gave on Christ.... a perfect talk for the Easter season. On Sunday the fam came over, so along with being spiritually fed we always make sure we are physically fed too! We ended Conference with a yummy baked potato bar and then a marathon game of Phase 10. We would probably still be playing, but some of us had to go to school and work the next day! I didn't get the camera out til we started playing and getting goofy!

Update from Brazil...

Here's the latest from our missionary:

Oí família We baptized again this week! We baptized the son of Lucelena who was baptized 2 weeks ago, his name is marco. This week also i was on a division all week with elder clemens. He is an assistant to the president and it was fun being with him. He is from iowa and he has a wicked american accent when we talks in portuguese. Sometimes it makes me kringe but i don´t know how he does it because he has the second most baptisms in the mission. This week we also did something really fun. To announce the activity we had at the church we all went to some of the schools close to the church. Elder clemens and i spoke in english and elder deboer and enlder souza translated. Elder souza didn´t really translate because he doesn´t know english he just announced the activity. We acted like we just got here yesterday and we knew absolutly no portuguese. Everyone was all excited two americans were in their class and the `english´ teachers didn´t know what the crap we were saying, it was pretty funny.But we had almost 50 investigators at church this week which was awesome! Also this week something else happened..... I got transferred. Today I´m headed back to goias to a city called anâpolis. Anâpolis has the world record for number of churches in one city. I´ll be comps with another brazilian but i forgot his name right now. It will be fun, this city baptizes a ton of people every month.Thanks for all the happy birthday´s. I´m already 20... wow.I better get going I have another 7-8 hours on the bus in front of me.Até mais!Elder Lewis