Trip time...

It's trip time for me... first thing in the morning I'm flying to Nashville/Kentucky.... THEN... a 1600 mile road trip back home! Not really a vacation... just driving from there to here with Aimee and the girls ...BUT I'm sure there will be some fun and great sights along the way. Of course I'll post about it when I get back... hopefully Sunday night! Have a great weekend everyone!

from Brazil...

Here's the weekly news from Brazil...

Oí família - Everything is going good here and good to hear that the demolition is almost done. The furniture looks nice and the airplane pics are cool. My companion is crazy about airplanes, He took a piloting course before the mission. This week we conferred Bruno and Suelen who were baptized last week and I did one of the confirmations! It was my first one and i was a bit nervous but it was all good. The remodeling is supposed to start soon and they are going to enclose the chapel because tons of dust and crap comes in every week and it takes forever to clean.We are also going to get some classrooms and everything is going to get painted nice and it should be an actual chapel when its all done. When they start it will be about 30-45 days until we can meet there again so we will probably have church at someone´s house for a while. But it´s all good. We should baptize again this saturday when we get Luan´s mom to sign the baptism papers. That´s about it for the week. We are going to have a zone conference tomorrow with the president and those are always good. You always learn something in a zone conference. I didn´t take any pictures this week so i don´t have anything exciting to send to you guys... I´ll see you all later then. Tchau Elder Lewis

The weekend...

This past weekend was MORE demo of course... but it is ALMOST over!

LOTS and LOTS of demo.... and what I didn't really realize was how MUCH

DUST there would be!!!! My WHOLE house looks like this!!! BUT.... I went to the store and bought every kind of cleaner for every kind of surface... so eventually it will be back to normal. When we sit down to eat then get up we have to do a bum check to make sure we don't go out of the house with dusty bums! THAT would be embarrassing!

But the fun news is my last piece to the bedroom set came and I went shopping...

... I bought a couple of buffet lamps for our nightstands. So besides making sure Mike had cold drinks (like fresh lemonade), getting my nails done (I did black toes... first time... no pic, I don't do feet pics), cooking (did a new yummy 30 minute roll recipe), cleaning (some dust), grocery shopping (great coupon savings), laundry(should have done more... still have some), church (was wonderful),sleep (didn't have to get up at 4!), a quick dip in the pool (it's one way to get the dust off), and going through one of my tubs (I'm saving that for another post) that was pretty much my exciting weekend!

Trent takes flight!

This story starts a LONG time ago when Brother Brummett promised to take Trent flying when he got his eagle. Trent DID get his eagle (we seem to have the tradition of boys getting their eagles right before they turn 18) so the BIG day for flying was last Saturday (just got the pics). They flew to Casa Grande and back and even gave Trent a little flying instruction. Trent had a GREAT time (if ya get the chance ask him about his experience especially as the plane did a dip...) Thanks so much Brother Brummett and Brother Hansen!

Saturday surprise...

I know this post is a little late, but I had quite a surprise last Saturday... I was doing the usual Saturday stuff... like going to the grocery store.. and when I got home my bedroom was full of new furniture! We've had so much car expense lately (just ask our new best friend, Scott at MIDAS !) ... I just put the thought of new stuff aside til all the vehicles are up to par. So WHY did we get new furniture you might ask?!!?.... Well.... when we moved the old furniture(Mike's 20 year old bachelor stuff) out to do the remodeling... we knew it was NOT going to be going back in. But in the meantime we've been sleeping on a mattress on the floor and living out of boxes. The last piece is getting delivered tomorrow and the whole set is BEAUTIFUL! Thanks Mike (and Furniture Plus) for the wonderful surprise. You ARE the best!.... now I have to go shopping.... it's time to decorate!

remodeling update...

Our demolition/remodeling/dust storm (DUST is EVERYWHERE) is still going on... but MUCH faster now... thanks to Mike's new handy dandy manly roto hammer! It takes the old tile/grout/cement off like butter... but boy is it noisy! So it won't be much longer til all the demo is finished and then on to the FUN stuff! Thanks Mike!

Brazil/Brasil news...

Here's the latest excerpts from Brazil/Brasil (American spelling/Brasil spelling... my new tidbit of knowledge from Brandon!)

Oí família Here´s the pics of the baptism!!! We had two baptisms and their names are Bruno and he´s 14 and Suelen and she´s his cousin and she´s 14 too. Brother Antônio baptized them. He´s been a member for 17 years and countless missionaries have passed through here and no one has ever asked him if he would like to baptize anyone. So, we gave him the opprotunity and he was so excited. It was hilarious because he was smiling the whole day and he doesn´t have front teeth and it was just funny. We also had investigators at the baptism and we should baptize more next week. Also in one picture is our branch president, Marcos. That was the excitment for the week. Also this week, we came across something pretty cool. We met a guy from Tarragona Spain. He said it´s about 100km from Barcelona. He´s pretty cool, he hasn´t been in brazil for very long and he doesn´t know portuguese so he talked in spanish. My comp knows spanish so we taugt the first lesson in portuguese AND spanish. Spanish isn´t really too different from portuguese but the accent is WAY different and if i talked as fast as he does I would get tired. That dude talked insanely fast and it was weird to hear the rolling r sound. .... Congrats to Trent on the grauation. Now mom must feel old that everyone is graduated.jk. The rain was just a curse on trent for not graduating from mesa high and keeping the family blood pure. ...That´s about it for this week, the weather has been great this past week. It´s cooled down a couple degrees and in the morning and in the evening the weather is PERFECT and is really refreshing. Well, see you all later. Any questions, just ask.....tchau. Elder Lewis