Lunch...

It's always fun to go out to lunch with the fam! So we met at Serrano's on Kristin's birthday!

There's no better way to spend my lunch hour!! Thanks for having a birthday Kristin!!!

4th of July

I know.... my blog is WAY behind and I'm sure you are wondering just WHAT has this family been up to?!?!? Well wonder no more...

We had a 4th of July/July birthday gathering

Oh so patriotic! I got us matching shirts, but I spared Trent the embarrassment of matching us and got him a different one!

Some of the grandkids

We played another one of my silly family games. This time everyone had to vote on family members that looked the most like someone or something patriotic... like George Washington, fireworks, Statue of Liberty, etc... After the votes were tallied by our accounting firm of K Jarvis... the winners received their very own George Washingtons.... one dollar bills!

Of course we had food!... GOOD food... she's NOT gagging but pointing to her mouth (or maybe about to bite her finger... I'm really not quite sure what she's doing!)

4 July birthdays!!! July 5, 6, 7 and 19! Happy Birthday everyone!!

Presents!!!! WooHoo... they are old enough to enjoy getting gift cards now!!

after the party...

just chillin!

After our fun family time and everyone left did Mike and I go watch fireworks?!?!?!?

Golly no!!!.... we were being official OLD people and we watched the fireworks on TV (another thing in life that I said I would NEVER do!!) on a comfy couch in our sloppy clothes and in the AIR CONDITIONING!!!!!

I hope everyone had a great 4th!!!

Bye bye background...

Hmmmm.... I have a little note in the corner of my blog that says my background is gonna disappear this Friday.... Way sad about that.... I loved this background... it went perfect with summer and the Beauty and the Bees music!...I guess the search is on for new graphics! 

from Brazil...

WOW... Am I ever behind..... here is two weeks of stuff from our missionary in Brazil!

Here are some pics. Brasil won again and everyone is happy. A pic of a family and us, my comp is the one in the back without glasses. His name is elder nunes da silva. His name is really big. On the trip here i found out where all the rice comes from. We drove for over two hours with never ending rice on both sides of the highway. We also had 70 investigators at church this week!! It filled up the chapel. What you see in the pic is the whole chapel. Behand the pulpit is the baptism font, bathrooms, and the branch president´s office.

The rice fields

The chapel

If any one has wathced family guy, the chubby guy on the left is an exact replica of peter griffen with the same voice and everything. This is the little girl who got baptized on sunday with her mom and dad you can cut out the two guys on the right they are leaders of the district. They are why we had 70 investigators, they invited everyone to their daughter´s baptism and a bunch of people came. There was lunch afterwards too.The last pic is us with the branch mission leader with the star of the day and her dad.

I don´t think i sent you these pics. President tobias´ coffin, our zone in aparecida de goiania, our zone with president and sister, and we recieved our `envelope´ that we can´t open until we are on the airplane.

A cool bridge in aparecida de goiania, and me and the ward mission leader in aparecida de goiania.

hey everyone

This week we worked alot to try to baptize the people who went to church last week. It was good, the only bad part is that everyone is going on vacation this week. But today me and my comp went to get to know the city today we went to the statue of christ and also a fishing pond. We fished for a while but we didn´t get anything. The fish there were huge but the water was still a bit cold and they weren´t hungry. The statue of christ is just like the one in barra do garças but i think it is a little bit bigger. This week we´ll have are first zone conference with president prieto, it will be interesting to see how he is like. It feels wierd the president tobias left. But it will be fun to get to know another mission president. But everything is going good here in jataí and i am still healthy. I even gained 1 kilo since i´ve been here. I need to gain more. See you all later. Elder Lewis.

Nashville in a day...

I've done this before and I did it again... Nashville in a day! Last week (yeah.... my blog is a bit behind!) I flew on an early morning flight to Nashville....

I had a while to wait... so I sat in the food court, plugged in the laptop... AND... played on the computer! Actually it was kinda fun! But the scenery wasn't the best!

Then Aimee and the girls got to the airport. they were on their way to AZ so I flew out to help them make the trip back here! AND there was a play area right by our gate!!!

So I'm back on the plane home but this time with some cute company! and THAT was my Nashville in a day trip!

Busy in Brazil...

Woo Hoo...We got two emails this week!!

Hello,


Hi everyone i dont have much time today because i was transfered. I´m going to Jataí. I´m going there to be district leader. It will just be me, my comp, and two other missionaries. Just us four for 50,000 people. Jataí is a small city and it will probably be my last area. Next wed. president prieto gets here. I better go i have a 6 hour bus ride ahead of me. I´ll tell you about the week next week. See you later. Elder Lewis
 
 
Hey whats up.


I didn´t use up all my time yesterday because of the transfers. So i have some time to write to you guys today. This week we got our `secret envelope´ from president and we can´t open it until we are on the airplane. Brasil also won this week and everyone went crazy. On sunday NOTHING was open because of the game. ONLY and i mean only the 24 hr liquour stores were open. During 3:30 and 5:30pm there was no police, firemen, public transportation, hospital, pharmacy, nothing. It was funny walking down the streets because it was really easy to know when brasil made a goal. Everyone would start screaming and launch fireworks. We arrived in our house yesterday a little before midnight. It was a fun trip to jataí. It is just a small city, a really cool place i´ll have lots of picture to send you. My comp is elder nunes da silva. He is from campinas, são paulo. Bro spencer served his mission there. He´s only been on the mission for 2 months. Since last november i have only been comps with missionaries with less than 6 months on the mission, 4 with less than 3 months. I have pretty much been training since november. But i´m really excited to start working here and being district leader here is awesome too, it´s just me, my comp, and two other missionaries. We´ll have our district meetings in our house and it´ll be great. Speaking about our house, our house is freaking huge. It´s probably 3 times bigger than than the house i was at in aparecida de goiania. We have to tidy up a bit but it´s nice to have some space to walk around. See you later Elder Lewis

Father's Day...

We got together on Sunday to celebrate the dad's in our family! We had a yummy (and manly) Barbeque!

And Kristin made these yummy and manly (cute) cupcakes for dessert to go along with our Barbeque theme!

Most of the pictures we took are CRAZY... everyone is fighting for a position to be on the bathroom wall (see Just a buncha stuff post for that story!) so now I will have to add more frames cuz I have a lot more pics to choose from. But we did manage to get in a nice family picture! I hope everyone had a great Father's day!