From Afghanistan...

Just wanted to share this picture that Dustin put on his facebook. I can't believe this is my baby in Afghanistan!

BUT... he is not holding this gun cuz he needs to go after the bad guys... luckily he mentioned that he is just going to the range! What a good looking soldier... AND you can know for SURE he knows how to use that gun!
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!

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!

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.

Leaving the apartment

Saying bye to friends

The Branch President and his wife

The bus station

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...

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

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!

from Brazil...

Here's the latest from our missionary... and ONLY a missionary would think it's cool about earthquakes and the second coming!

Hey how´s it going everyone!

This week was a good week of work, we taught a bunch of less actives trying to reactivate them. Church moved times again,now it´s in the morning like the rest of the country. The attendance was about the same, 36 people. I also conducted the meeting for the first time. This week the river flooded, a dam broke and also lots of rain. Took out a few houses but nothing big. We also went to the army barracks this week. Let´s just say i have more pride in our country´s army now. It was also really easy to get in, me and my comp(2 americans) both with briefcases with whoknowswhat inside and me with an expired visa... just walked in. It was cool. We watched a video, ate a snack, and talked with junior who is a member. Its been a long time since i´ve smelt the smell of a locker room, whoa. But the army here isn´t much of a threat to the u.s.. That´s about it for the week, just working. The earthquake didn´t effect anything here. But it´s cool to here about all the earthquakes around the worlds, the 2nd coming is just around the corner. See you all later. Elder Lewis.

on his way...

Such mixed emotions this morning as I think about  Dustin being somewhere in the air on his way to Afghanistan.

Brand new soldier

after boot camp

already a Sargeant

He'll be gone for a year but will be home in a few months for the birth of his baby. I will always have a prayer and a soft spot in my heart for all the military and their families.

Busy weekend!

We had a BUSY fun filled weekend! High Priest party on Friday, Saturday chores, shopping, missionaries for dinner, Jadon came to visit, taught RS on Sunday, then the fam came over for dinner... WHEW!... of course most of that involved FOOD!YUM! Sunday ended with everyone getting on skype to talk to Dustin and Aimee and the girls before he is deployed...

This will be great to have when Dustin is in Afghanistan.... I wish Brandon could do this... Technology is AMAZING!