from Brazil...

Here's the latest from our missionary. In a few days he will have been out 18 months!! Time has gone by quickly!

Oi família,


Congrats on all the good news. Trent´s papers are in aimee´s having a boy, and nothing bad happened to teresa. The meeting we had with elder Nelson was awesome. We talked alot about baptizing families and focus more on the temple. President Claudio Costa was also really good, he used to be a mission president and he has a bunch of cool stories. When we were asking questions for elder Nelson to answer it was crazy. Someone would ask a question and he would close his eyes for a second and then we would say a scripture that would answer the question perfectly. It was amazing to see. The meeting was really spiritual and we learned alot. We took pics with them but they on on president tobias´ camera. Maybe he will send them to you. We also had a good week of work and we found an excellent family. They have to get married but we will probably baptize their kids this week. Other than that it has been a regular week. Oh no i lied, sunday was pretty funny at church. The young womens president talked and i don´t know what was wrong with her but she just burned all the young women and their moms. I´m sure a few people went inactive because of her. The girls don´t even do anything bad in our ward almost all of them go to seminary and do all the stuff that the church has to offer. Her talk was almost the entire hour and the dude from the stake had to say his talk really fast. Other than that church was normal. Thats about it for this week. See you all later and i hope trent´s papers come in soon.

Some more pics of the house, my comp, and the road we had to take to go to lunch. Our lunch was almost at the end of that road.

Exciting!

After waiting and learning a little patience during the "mole" experience.... Trent's mission papers went in today!!! We are soo excited... now we just have to WAIT for the white envelope!

So far today...

I love Saturdays and this Saturday started early! Teresa told me the first 200 customers at Old Navy this morning are going to win stuff like a $500 shopping spree...

So early this morning I was off to Old Navy...

But I had to stop at Dunkin Donuts on the way...

So we are waiting...

then Sharon joined us... and we are waiting...

Then things livened up a little and we were entertained by a fluffy drink cup... kinda looked like a Spongebob relative!

So while we were WAITING I talked Sharon into letting me take this picture... it's not everyday that you can get your picture taken with a fluffy drink cup that looks like Spongebob!

So we waited 3 hours and all we got was a lousy T-shirt!... But it was fun and I'm sure we would do it again!

So then after that excitement... I ran home and Mike and I went to....

The Gunshow!!!

It was very fun and there was a LOT of stuff to see...

But ya can't go to one of these things and not eat FAIR FOOD!!! YUM!!! Then we walked and walked and walked... bought a few things and put a few things on the ol wish list.

So now we are home again... Trent is in Safford at the Temple open house... and Mike and I are headed to taco night at the Gunnells!!! WOW... what a fun Saturday!

From Brazil

I can't wait for Brandon's email next week. He has been so excited for Elder Nelson to come!

This week we have been doing a bunch of preparations for elder nelson. Our baptism fell through for this week which was a real bummer but she should baptized in a week or two. The cold streak has passed and now it is hot again. I´m so excited that elder nelson is here, we have a meeting with him tommorrow and it will be awesome. This week we taught a bunch of people, the people here are really lazy so we had to find a ton of people and teach alot just to bring a few to church. We are going to burn the members this week because they don´t give referrals and we are doing everything by ourselves. We need to animate the members to do missionary work here. How´s the missionary work in our ward? Are people being baptized? We are doing our best to find the elects. Nothing out of the norm happened this week. Just battling against the heat now. Elder L França is a cool guy he is laid back and gets along with people. I´ll send a pic of him i also have some pics of the house, we have a pretty nice house. That´s about it , i´ll have lots to say next week about elder nelson and the other authorities that will be here tomorrow.

Relay for life

Last night was beautiful weather and I spent a few hours at the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. It's a fund raising event and lasts all night into the morning. There are teams and the team members take turns walking around the track non stop. My work had a team so I volunteered to participate. I have never been to this kind of event before so I didn't know what to expect. When I got there it was OK... a nice thing to go to... but later in the evening they had a speaker and she had an amazing story on being a cancer survivor. I liked it because she included Heavenly Father and faith in her talk... very uplifting... but as I walked around the track there were luminarias with names of people on them... many that have survived and many that have not. That part was way sad.

I didn't realize how many of these events are scheduled around the valley.

This is our team's shirt

I have to say I didn't walk too many laps... but they did have a special part where we walked a few laps in silence in the dark while nice music played... they had luminarias that spelled out HOPE and then changed into CURE while we were walking.

This is why there are events like this one...

Interviewed again!

Can ya believe it?!?! Trent was interviewed again! This time it was by ABC 15!

Getting the light just right so Trent will look GOOD!

Moving to another room

Just talking

Trying to just be a patient and doctor talking!

Again... it was a really interesting experience and the news lady was very nice. This segment will air sometime in May during cancer awareness month. Of course we will let everyone know when it is... you don't want to miss a few more seconds of Trent on TV!!

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