You have been called...

The first thing Trent has done after work this week is to check the mailbox....

FINALLY... on Friday...

It's here!!!!

He wanted to open it right away so we called the family and friends...

You have been called to serve as a missionary...

You have been assigned to labor in the Brazil Sao Paulo East mission!!!!!

It's official!!!

This is one excited guy!!!

EVERYONE is excited!!

This call is EXTRA special... When we talked to Brandon on Mother's Day he said that Trent needs to get called to Brazil so they can talk Potuguese together! I wish I could see Brandon's reaction when he reads Trent's email!!! They have been so close all their life and did everything together... how cool is this that they will have this extra bond of having served in the same country! AND ... what fun they are going to have at all our family parties when they can talk about all of us in their own language!!

AND... I don't have to change my missionary dude... he gets to continue being excited to serve in Brazil.

Great times... great life!

Trent on the news again!

Trent was on the news again! You had to get up early for this one... it was on ABC 15 news on the 6:00 AM show this morning. I'll post the video as soon as we have it, but here are some pics:

Nice closeups... cute dimples.

This shows Trent talking to his doctor...looks serious... but I watched them film this... There's no audio to this part and what Trent and his doctor were really talking about during filming was Trent's trip to Conference! Pretty funny!

They showed Trent's scars several times... he has some gruesome looking scars on him as a result of the mole surgeries... the scars are real! Trent has quite a sense of humor and I'm sure he has some great stories all ready to tell on how he got these scars... fight with a bear, sword fight etc... and of course he won all the battles!

And his battle with moles are over.... for now... but we will have to keep a watchful eye on the little ones that are left ... SO EVERYONE...go get your moles checked!

From Brazil...

Hello everyone!


It was cool to talk to you all again. It´s crazy that it was my last call home. It´s crazy that president is going home after this transfer. Time sure does fly by when you´re having fun. We also had a zone conference this week which was way good. We talked alot about the plan of salvation and it was excellent. It´s been a long time since we had a conference like that. Other than that the week was normal. Nothing much happened. I hope trent´s call gets in soon. That´s about it. I´m still eating and healthy. See you all later.

This is the smoke i was talking about and there is tons of it. We also killed a mouse and the blood to prove it. there is one more mouse we have to kill but we haven´t seen it in a while.

(YUK! I didn't put on the picture of the dead mouse!)

Here´s the house we ate lunch at on sunday. It´s on a farm. It´s really far away from everything. Also a cool sunset and me talking to you guys an the phone.

Mother's Day/The Phone Call

Sunday was Mother's/Mom/Mama/Mommy Day. Mike gave me some of my favorite fruit... chocolate covered cherries and chocolate covered raisins and this pretty flower!

Later in the afternoon I got "the phone call"!!

Everyone was excited!

Lots of us got to talk to Brandon...

He is doing great, his mission is great, lots of baptisms, his apartment is nice...

he likes all his companions, he is staying healthy and eating good...

and of course we filled him in everything going on here!

Then we ATE!!!

and ate!!

Then I got some cool presents... A Wii fit!!! I don't need a gym membership!!! I will get in shape in my sloppy clothes in my own house and no one will see me!!(Wii update... I tried it tonight and I only lasted 5 minutes!... I thought it would be easy LOL!!!)

I always love getting new decor!

Very fun day... Life is good!

Camping!

We all took a couple days off work and went CAMPING!!!

Me, Mike, Trent, Quentin, and our friends Paul and Ann went to Dead Horse Ranch in Cottonwood.

The weather was warm and windy but nice and cool at night.

We played a lot...

I brought a new game called Farkle! It was VERY fun... Trent doesn't look too excited about it in this pic... but it really was fun!

What would camping be without a game of Phase 10?!?

We also went to an antique store, went out to eat and the boys went golfing! And when it got warm in the afternoon we turned on the air conditioning in the trailer! We sure were roughing it!

One evening after sitting around the campfire we walked in and found the boys doing their scripture study... they are going to make great missionaries!

Camp decor! My traditional camping centerpiece!

My favorite part of camping... cooking....

AND eating! We had LOTS of yummy meals like London broil, chicken, corn bread, ham and eggs, biscuits and gravy, Smores and dutch oven cobbler!

There were some fun trails I wanted to explore... so the boys were good sports and went on a walk with me.

I took some pictures of nature...

and I didn't want to leave without a picture of a quail! They were everywhere and didn't like to get their picture taken! This is as good as I could get!

As we were getting ready to leave Saturday morning I got my Mother's Day phone call from Dustin. Technology is great!

I had a great time and I can't wait for the next trip!!

The Golfers

I just thought this was a cute pic... Trent and Quentin are off to conquer another golf course!

From Brazil

Hello everyone!


This week was a good week, nothing bad happened. There has just been a ton of fires around the neighborhood and smoke everywhere. People love fire here, any empty lot is fair game, and there is no law against starting fires. So we´ve been breathing alot of smoke this week. We also killed a mouse in the house this week. There were two of them running around and a few days ago we got one but the other is a bit smarter and faster. But we´ll get him. For mother´s day i don´t think i will call you guys, it will distance my mind from the work of the lord. JK, I´ll call you guys at 7 o clock goiania time. You can see what time it will be there and mark with the rest of the fam. This will be my last phone call!! Wow has the mission been going by fast. Hopefully you´ll get trent´s call before sunday and you can tell me on sunday but if not oh well. We have zone conference with president tomorrow. He always chooses the days when we have the best lunch and we have to cancel it and eat crap food at the conference. But the conference should be great. This week has been hot as normal and i´m sure arizona is heating up by now. I´m still healthy and everyone in the house gets along. This is the best house i´ve been in on the mission. Everyone is cool and we all joke around and have a good time. It makes life so much better. That´s about it. Just to remind you, 7 o clock goiania time i´ll call mom´s cell phone. See you all later.