From Brazil...

Here's the latest from Brazil... I'm going to try to get his taco recipe for our recipe blog!

Hello every one!


Thanks for the happy birthday! My birthday present this year was a baptism!!! Yeah!! His name is luan and he is a great kid, he turns 18 next week. He already has lots of friends in the church and everything. We had interviews with president this week too, he just showed up at our district meeting and said he was going to interview us. It was all good, it was funny because president is trunky. Trunky is when you think of home and after the mission and stuff like that. He only has till the end of june to be our mission president. But this week was a week of alot of work and only 2 investigators went to church. But i´m really excited to watch conference this week it should be awesome! How´s everything at home? Things are going good here, it´s just been raining alot.See you all alter í´ll probably have more things to talk about next week. see you all later. Elder Lewis


This week we had a baptism his name is luan and we also made tacos. The tacos were soooo good you don´t even know.

Home again home again jiggity jig...

I don't know why I titled this post Home again home again jiggity jig... but it's just one of those things that just popped into my mind...

So... anyway... Mike and I hopped on a jet plane after work on Monday and headed to Utah...

Here we are somewhere over Nevada... Flights to Salt Lake were crazy so we had to fly to Vegas then to Salt Lake...

I got bored and took a buch of pics of Me and Mike on the plane... he said I couldn't put any on the blog!

So... the next morning I headed to the tabernacle...

and it was decorated with beautiful flowers...

And this is the reason for this trip... Relief Society training... AND... see who is sitting there before it started... that is Sister Thompson... AND I shook her hand afterwards!

AND I sat on the second row and saw and heard everything up close. I wasn't going to come all this way and squint through this. I wanted to see them up close. It was SOOOOO good. I am so amazed by these ladies!

The training was 2 1/2 hours... plus I got there an hour early... so right after it was over I ran over to the visitors center to use the necessary room... and on the way out I snapped this pic... always a favorite to see!

The flowers on temple square were just beginning to bloom

Oh... and did I mention how cold and WINDY it was... just look at those flags!

Then Mike joined me and we went to the Relief Society building

This is a most amazing lady... I want to be like HER!

One of my new favorite quotes!

I probably have a bazillion pictures of the Salt Lake temple... but how can ya walk by with a camera and not take a picture. We saw the history of how they built this and I am still amazed!

Then we went to the Joseph Smith Memorial building... isn't the ceiling cool?!?

AND... as we walked in the lobby the lady at the piano was playing Canon in D... that's what was playing at the beginning of our wedding.... AND why was this such an amazing coincidence you might ask!?! well... this day was our anniversary! Yep... Mike and I spent the day doing Relief Society stuff!! He is such a sweetie!

here's my man in front of the Assembly Hall

Here is the view out the window of our eighth floor hotel room... notice all the clouds...

Mike just relaxin before dinner

We met with my brother and went to Gateway Mall... It's very cool and has a LOT of stores.

We didn't preplan this... but we ended up eating dinner at a Brazillian restaurant.

Dan is drinking Brazillian lemonade which is kinda like a creamy limeade and very yummy

They had this big salad bar/hot cold food buffet

AND then the waiter guys walked around with all kinds of meat/fish/pineapple and sliced them right off the skewers... it was way different and way yummy... we stuffed ourselves!

AND because it was our anniversary they sang something in Portuguese to us.Don't know what they said but it was fun.

Did I say we were stuffed?!? well... we somehow managed to eat the best cheesecake I have ever had and slathered in the best raspberry sauce I have ever tasted!

Remember the cloudy picture from our window?!? we woke up Wednesday morning to SNOW... and I guess it is still snowing today!

So then we were off to the airport to get on an airplane so big... then home again home again jiggity jig!

I couldn't resist... the rhyming thing is just in me!

Happy Birthday again!

Happy birthday again! This time it is for Trent! Brandon and Trent are two years and one day apart! We celebrated Trent's birthday a day early this year cuz Mike and I are leaving on a jet plane tonight! So here are the highlights from Trent's celebration... Happy Birthday Trent We love ya!

When I asked Trent what kind of cake he wanted he chose cupcakes in ice cream cones. He loves those things! I'll post the recipe on our recipe blog later this week.

Happy Birthday!

                 Happy Birthday today to Brandon! I can't believe he is 21!!!!!!

We can't be with you to celebrate...

So here is a BIG Happy Birthday from your family!!

From Brazil

Hey everyone!


No pics this week because this week we have just been looking for baptisms. We arrived here with 0 investigators, so this week we found a bunch of people to teach. We did a ton of contacts on the street, it actually worked out pretty good. We are trying to work close to our house and the chapel because the ward is almost ready to divide into 2 wards but just needs a few more men that live in the area of the chapel. We are working really hard to divide the ward. It was wierd to go to district meeting this week, it was weird to see a bunch of missionaries and listen to a training. I didn´t have district meeting for 2 months and i got into the routine without district meeting. It was good, i didn´t feel forgotton like when i was in Barra do Garças. I also found out this week that Elder Nelson is going to be here april 21st! Tranfers are on the 6th so i hope i don´t get tranfered so i can see elder nelson. Our mission must be poor or something because only the missionaries close to goiania get to go to these things. Elder cook already came here but i didnt get to see him because i was in a city far away from goiania at the time. But everything is going good here just working alot. Living with 4 missionaries is really annoying because my comp doesn´t get along with one of the others. Last time i was in 4 the same thing happened. Just about everyday there´s something to argue about. It´s amazing because we are only together for about 6 hours a day. ... Oh well. see you all later. Elder Lewis

This and that on Thursday...

On Thursday I had to give a book review at work...

Yes... I am dressed like a chicken with a sombrero..

My book was about customer service... It was about the Yum! company that owns KFC (the chicken costume) Taco Bell (the sombrero) and other restuarants. The book was about a lot of fun ideas that this company does, so I wanted to incorporate that in my review... AND... I did NOT want my presentation to be boring! So I dressed up, gave everyone toy harmonicas...

AND gave my boss the "floppy chicken award" which I think she got a kick out of....

So now you have a little insight to my job! 

While I was at work... Trent was getting his shots! I thought it was so cute that they gave this big tuff guy Garfield bandaids!

THEN... Trent brought home this HUGE bag of neckties that he got at a thrift store.

Trent already got the ties he wanted out of it so Mike dug through it and found some good ones too.... so be looking for some sharp dressed men on Sunday!

 Well... that's that for this and that on Thursday!

Check it out..

Hey family and friends... Check out our new recipe blog... just click on the Blinkie over there. It's called Rainy Day Cooking and we don't have a ton of reicpes yet but we (mostly me...) are adding recipes as fast as we can. I'm trying to add a little history/background/personal stories to the recipes I post so even if ya don't cook (or you are bored) it might be interesting reading. AND.. I have to give a BIG thanks to Kristin for getting this going for us... I always wanted to do a recipe book/blog/something for the family... did a lot of talking about it but never actually got around to doing it... so there it is finally... enjoy!