From Brazil...

Here's the latest from our missionary. I think the first sentence says something about Teresa having having a baby boy or girl.

Hello everyone!!


PARABENS TERESA VOCÊ TERÁ MAIS UM FILHINHO (OU FILHINA)!!!! Wow this week was a week of news. Trent was on the news, teresa´s pregnant, and we have a new toilet. This week as i was getting to know my comp i found out that his dad has already been a mission president and a seventy. His dad said that an elder lewis served in his mission and he was from gilbert. I don´t think it was anyone from our family. This week we found a bunch of good families the only hard part in this area is to bring them to church. We´ll try our hardest to bring them to church so we can baptize them. Today we also had an interesting lunch. We ate lunch with a member from bolivia and her family. I´m definantly going to study spanish because it´s practically the same thing as portuguese. I could understand most of it and i was able to speak with her a little. It was fun. But it was not fun talking with her son. He speaks portuguese but is a die hard adventist of the seventh day ( or something like that in english). We ate lunch a little bible bash and then we left. We´re all getting ready for elder nelson next week, i can´t wait to meet him. Looks like everything is going good at home and everything is going good here too. This week has also been abnormaly cold. It´s like 70 degrees and i´m freezing my butt off. It´s weird but it´s flippin cold, i´ve turned into a brazilian. It also doesn´t help that my showers now feel like there is ice in the water. Our little electric shower head doesn´t heat up the water very much. Hot water heaters are a great blessing. We also have to fix the drain to our sink today because it cloged and water is leaking on the floor now. President Toias said that there will probably be some surprise inpections by elder nelson´s wife and elder r.m.costa´s wife too. But that´s about it, we´re just working hard. see you all later. Elder Lewis

First moles... now gophers!

It hasn't been long since we could quit talking about Trent's scarey moles... then Yesterday Erin sends me a picture of this:

A scarey gopher!

Thanks to Oscar the dog. He sniffed this guy out while Erin was working in her yard. Erin captured the thing ... had mercy on it and Mr. Gopher was relocated to an undisclosed location!

Trent's new throne...

I haven't posted any of our remodel stuff for awhile... yes it is still a work in progess. Lately Mike has been working on the boys bathroom... Trent has been anxiously awaiting the day. So when Trent went out of town a few days Mike got busy...

Mike had to take out the old potty, fix the wall and finish the tile...

all ready for the new "throne" which we have had stored in the garage for months!

Oooohhhh.... AAAhhhhh... Shiny... I really like this one cuz it is a smooth solid surface on the sides and not all those nooks and crannies that are hard to clean. Trent said he likes it cuz it can handle anything he throws at it... I read his remark on Facebook!

When we were at Utah last week I noticed that the shower in the hotel had a rounded shower curtain rod... I asked Mike why it was like that and he said so you have more arm room... sounded good to me so we got a rounded one for the shower... it's something different from the normal straight kind.
So there ya have it... up to date remodel news... Now I just have to go shopping and get some new towels and stuff!

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.