Thursday, March 11, 2010

from Brazil...

Here's the latest from our missionary... and ONLY a missionary would think it's cool about earthquakes and the second coming!

Hey how´s it going everyone!

This week was a good week of work, we taught a bunch of less actives trying to reactivate them. Church moved times again,now it´s in the morning like the rest of the country. The attendance was about the same, 36 people. I also conducted the meeting for the first time. This week the river flooded, a dam broke and also lots of rain. Took out a few houses but nothing big. We also went to the army barracks this week. Let´s just say i have more pride in our country´s army now. It was also really easy to get in, me and my comp(2 americans) both with briefcases with whoknowswhat inside and me with an expired visa... just walked in. It was cool. We watched a video, ate a snack, and talked with junior who is a member. Its been a long time since i´ve smelt the smell of a locker room, whoa. But the army here isn´t much of a threat to the u.s.. That´s about it for the week, just working. The earthquake didn´t effect anything here. But it´s cool to here about all the earthquakes around the worlds, the 2nd coming is just around the corner. See you all later. Elder Lewis.


Wednesday, March 10, 2010

on his way...

Such mixed emotions this morning as I think about  Dustin being somewhere in the air on his way to Afghanistan.
Brand new soldier
after boot camp
already a Sargeant

He'll be gone for a year but will be home in a few months for the birth of his baby. I will always have a prayer and a soft spot in my heart for all the military and their families.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Busy weekend!

We had a BUSY fun filled weekend! High Priest party on Friday, Saturday chores, shopping, missionaries for dinner, Jadon came to visit, taught RS on Sunday, then the fam came over for dinner... WHEW!... of course most of that involved FOOD!YUM! Sunday ended with everyone getting on skype to talk to Dustin and Aimee and the girls before he is deployed...

This will be great to have when Dustin is in Afghanistan.... I wish Brandon could do this... Technology is AMAZING!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

from Brazil...

Here's the latest from Brazil... the picture at the medical facility worries me...

Oi famíla.


This week we had a baptism and it was great. This week an elder who already finished his mission passed by with his parents to see all the waterfalls and the cool stuff here. It was so wierd talking in english, i have to think really hard to say phrases and complete thoughts. Cool mom and mike got to go to kentucky, here never gets cold. Everything is going good here, the branch is moving along. The secretary is coming to church now and is making life easier. We had 43 people at church this week which is way good and 6 investigators. Cool trent´s skin is going to be on the news, now he is going to be famous.Not much really exciting happened here, just rain the past few days. Say bye to dustin for me becaue he´ll be gone before next next tuesday. ... This week the letter is going to be short because this computer sucks. Any other questions for me? It´s about time dustin is gonna have a boy, if it was a girl it would just be easier to adopt a boy. See you all later. Elder Lewis.tchau!


here´s a pic of when i went to the doctor, there´s a video too which is better but it is too big to attach. I´m all better now! I got a shot and took some drugs and a few days later i was back to 100%. But it sure sucked while i was sick.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

QUICK trip...

Mike and I made a QUICK trip to Kentucky...

We got up early Friday morning and flew to Nashville... rented a car and drove to Kentucky!
We went cuz this good lookin guy is heading to Afghanistan AGAIN!!!  and of course MOM needed to give him a HUG before he went.

Because our trip was short we mainly just chit chated and ATE FOOD!!! When Mike and I landed in Nashville we had some BarBQue for lunch... THEN after we went to Kentucky we all went to MY favorite place, The Woodshed! I had one of my most favorite meals there... fried catfish and hush puppies! I topped off my meal with pecan pie... sorry no pic of that... I ate it too fast!

Saturday morning we just talked and relaxed some more ... we had yummy bacon and eggs for breakfast and we had to top that off with my very MOST favorite donuts EVER...

Whistle Stop Donuts!

OH MY GOODNESS!!! They are so FRESH and GOOD... I wish I had another one right now!
The weather was beautiful there but it was COLD... Luckily I dressed warm and wore my gloves to bed and I was just fine!

Saturday afternoon we had to say goodbye to this cute family...

then get into our lovely green rental car... and then stop for lunch at a buffet...

and then hit the road again back to the airport... while were on a stop in Houston we had even MORE food... we had the best Strombolis we've ever eaten... well they were the ONLY Strombolis we've ever eaten... but they were SO good!

I can't believe we even ate a bunch of airplane snacks!

It's always fun to go somewhere and it's always fun to be with family... it was even fun to get up early Sunday morning for 8 O'CLOCK church AND give a talk in Sacrament meeting! WOW... life is just GOOD!

Thursday, February 25, 2010

mole story continues...

I think that moles... whether in the ground or on your body... are NOT good things! Trent went to the doctor yesterday, got some stitches out, got some more news, has to get another re incision, but not as big this time, then... he had to go back to the doctor a couple hours later cuz one of his incisions popped open! OUCH!!! We ARE going to overcome these moles... they will NOT get us down!!!

AND... by the way... is everyone getting their moles checked?!?!?

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

More from Brazil...

Here's the latest from Brazil... This is the first time he mentioned he was sick so I immediately googled dangue which is actually dengue fever which is contracted in the tropics and sounds really YUK! I hope he is completely healed and of course I will ask him more about it next week!

Hello everyone,
This week was a good week because we had a baptism and what else is better than that. This week was transfers but elder wride and i stayed the same. Elders who come to this area usually stay here for a while. This week we were contacting all of the less active members and we came across this sweet statue. Most of the people have moved away though. This week i also got a little sick, but i´m better now. I got dangue but we got it all taken care of. I also gave a talk on sunday with nothing prepared but it wasn´t too bad, i talked for 12 minutes about missionary work and following the spirit. I don´t like giving talks but in this branch the missionaries talk at least one time a month. Last time mom gave a talk was way before my mission so good luck to her this sunday. The pics of trent shooting were really cool, i can´t wait to go shooting again. That´s about it for this week. We´ll have a baptism next week and another on the 7th. We found a member who has a son that hasn´t been baptized yet and he´ll be baptized on the 7th. My reponsability in the branch mostly is to take care of the tithing. But we also have to organize all the meetings that haven´t been happening so that we can have a little more organization here. We still eat with the members like normal missionaries. Any other questions? See you all later.



We had a baptism this week!!! Wanderson has been waiting 4 years to be baptized and president finally let him get baptized this month. We also found a huge statue of some catholic dude. This thing is like twice the size of the christ on top of the mountain! Elder Wride passed his 6 month aniversary this week so we ate pizza to celebrate. The girl in the pizza pic is gonna to be baptized this week. She has also been waiting a long time to be baptized. She met the missionaries when she was almost 14 but her mom never let her baptize, she turned 18 this week and now she can make her own decisions.

About Me

My photo
Hi there everyone! I've noticed that a lot of people have a little life story on their blogs. So, always wanting to keep up with the latest BLOG trends, I've decided to put on a little blurb about my life for anyone that's interested. BUT, so no one is bored or has heard it all, I've put MY LIFE in ORIGINAL story form... Once upon a time there was a brown eyed girl, born of goodly parents, who set out on a journey. She traveled for a very VERY long time, through desert, mountains and forests and along the way she brought with her 6 wonderful treasures. But, alas, there were dark times, battles and dragons along the way, but she kept on going, with her treasures giving her strength and direction. Then in the desert, she met a blue eyed handsome prince, who had also been on a long long journey, and he had 2 treasures. So as you might have already guessed the ending.... the brown eyed girl and the blue eyed prince along with their treasures and a bunch more treasures, lived very happily ever after! Life is GOOD! It's party time now!