Trent's interview for the news

Well... today was interesting... Trent called me at work and said he got a phone call from the PR lady that interviewed him a few weeks ago and a news channel is ready to interview him. How all this came to be , I'm not too sure.... but the doctor referred Trent because of his mole saga. So I wasn't going to sit at work.... I needed pictures of THIS for the blog.

So we pull up in the parking lot and I see this... wow... I guess they are serious about this!

The interview went really well and everyone was very nice.

The guy in the black is Trent's doctor.

They interviewed Trent and his doctor for about half an hour... AND they said it would be on TV TODAY!! So we watched it at home. It was a nice little segment and it was just over a minute long!

So here is an official pic of Trent on TV and his one minute of fame! I posted the actual segment below.

Trent on the news...

Guy craft day...

This post is a little late... don't know HOW that happened... but a couple weeks ago Mike taught Trent and Quentin how to reload ammo.... I called it guy craft day and thought that was cute... I think they ignored me!

It takes all kinds of little equipment and stuff and Mike showed them all the steps... It's really kind of interesting, but I'll stand back and watch and let them have all the fun!

They are on their own now...

Scarey!

It was windy that day so they couldn't do all the steps in the garage... they put the gun powder in the shells in the house... I wasn't home so I was OK with that!

After a few hours this is what you end up with.... pretty cool... but definitely a guy thing! The REALLY good news is that they went shooting yesterday and used the ammo they made and it worked!! But now this means they have to reload all that ammo again and again and again.....

Latest from Brazil

Hey everyone!


This week was tranfers again but i stayed in the area. This was the most porrly organized transfer I have ever seen on the mission. Last night everything was all good, but this morning President moved just about everyone without notice. Just about half our zone got moved without notice. It´s hard to describe but no one has the comp they thought they were going to have and the missionaries coming into the zone all went to other cities, right now i don´t know if i´m in the right spot or not! But my comp right now is Elder L. França, he is brazilian from Belém, Pará. He is new on the mission he only has 2 months. Every companion i´ve had since i´ve been senior have all had les than 6 months on the mission. This is the second i´m pratically training. But this week we watched conference and it was awesome! All the talks were good and yes i do remember the forrest family. We didn´t do much for easter, just watched conference. Trent better pay more attention so he can reconize when he´s talking to an apostle. Speaking of the ,Elder Russell M. Nelson is going to be here on the 21st. I was scared to get tranfered to a city far away and not be able to see him but i wasn´t so i´m happy. That´s cool you went to a brazilian restaurant, looks like the same food we eat here: rice and beans. It´s also the same here, almost every bbq place has dudes running around cutting meat for the people. The lemonade is just about the same as in the u.s. but with milk. I have to make some stuff for you guys when i get back, there is a bunch of good food here i don´t know how i´m not gaining a bunch of weight. But that´s about it for this week, see you all later. Elder Lewis.

Pic of our district and a huge spider we found on the road. We also found a giant ant carrying a cigarret bud but i didn´t have my camera, i was mad because it would have been a funny picture.

Happy Easter!

We had our Easter celebration last week while everyone was still in town. Of course we started out with lots of yummy food!

After everyone's tummies were full we did our annual Easter egg hunt.

Here are the egg accountants... we had to make sure all 186 eggs were found and accounted for.. This is the first year every egg was found on the first round! The Easter Bunny is gonna have to hid them a little harder next year!

From Brazil...

Here's the latest from Brazil... I'm going to try to get his taco recipe for our recipe blog!

Hello every one!


Thanks for the happy birthday! My birthday present this year was a baptism!!! Yeah!! His name is luan and he is a great kid, he turns 18 next week. He already has lots of friends in the church and everything. We had interviews with president this week too, he just showed up at our district meeting and said he was going to interview us. It was all good, it was funny because president is trunky. Trunky is when you think of home and after the mission and stuff like that. He only has till the end of june to be our mission president. But this week was a week of alot of work and only 2 investigators went to church. But i´m really excited to watch conference this week it should be awesome! How´s everything at home? Things are going good here, it´s just been raining alot.See you all alter í´ll probably have more things to talk about next week. see you all later. Elder Lewis


This week we had a baptism his name is luan and we also made tacos. The tacos were soooo good you don´t even know.

Home again home again jiggity jig...

I don't know why I titled this post Home again home again jiggity jig... but it's just one of those things that just popped into my mind...

So... anyway... Mike and I hopped on a jet plane after work on Monday and headed to Utah...

Here we are somewhere over Nevada... Flights to Salt Lake were crazy so we had to fly to Vegas then to Salt Lake...

I got bored and took a buch of pics of Me and Mike on the plane... he said I couldn't put any on the blog!

So... the next morning I headed to the tabernacle...

and it was decorated with beautiful flowers...

And this is the reason for this trip... Relief Society training... AND... see who is sitting there before it started... that is Sister Thompson... AND I shook her hand afterwards!

AND I sat on the second row and saw and heard everything up close. I wasn't going to come all this way and squint through this. I wanted to see them up close. It was SOOOOO good. I am so amazed by these ladies!

The training was 2 1/2 hours... plus I got there an hour early... so right after it was over I ran over to the visitors center to use the necessary room... and on the way out I snapped this pic... always a favorite to see!

The flowers on temple square were just beginning to bloom

Oh... and did I mention how cold and WINDY it was... just look at those flags!

Then Mike joined me and we went to the Relief Society building

This is a most amazing lady... I want to be like HER!

One of my new favorite quotes!

I probably have a bazillion pictures of the Salt Lake temple... but how can ya walk by with a camera and not take a picture. We saw the history of how they built this and I am still amazed!

Then we went to the Joseph Smith Memorial building... isn't the ceiling cool?!?

AND... as we walked in the lobby the lady at the piano was playing Canon in D... that's what was playing at the beginning of our wedding.... AND why was this such an amazing coincidence you might ask!?! well... this day was our anniversary! Yep... Mike and I spent the day doing Relief Society stuff!! He is such a sweetie!

here's my man in front of the Assembly Hall

Here is the view out the window of our eighth floor hotel room... notice all the clouds...

Mike just relaxin before dinner

We met with my brother and went to Gateway Mall... It's very cool and has a LOT of stores.

We didn't preplan this... but we ended up eating dinner at a Brazillian restaurant.

Dan is drinking Brazillian lemonade which is kinda like a creamy limeade and very yummy

They had this big salad bar/hot cold food buffet

AND then the waiter guys walked around with all kinds of meat/fish/pineapple and sliced them right off the skewers... it was way different and way yummy... we stuffed ourselves!

AND because it was our anniversary they sang something in Portuguese to us.Don't know what they said but it was fun.

Did I say we were stuffed?!? well... we somehow managed to eat the best cheesecake I have ever had and slathered in the best raspberry sauce I have ever tasted!

Remember the cloudy picture from our window?!? we woke up Wednesday morning to SNOW... and I guess it is still snowing today!

So then we were off to the airport to get on an airplane so big... then home again home again jiggity jig!

I couldn't resist... the rhyming thing is just in me!