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.

from Brazil...

Here's the latest from our missionary. In a few days he will have been out 18 months!! Time has gone by quickly!

Oi família,


Congrats on all the good news. Trent´s papers are in aimee´s having a boy, and nothing bad happened to teresa. The meeting we had with elder Nelson was awesome. We talked alot about baptizing families and focus more on the temple. President Claudio Costa was also really good, he used to be a mission president and he has a bunch of cool stories. When we were asking questions for elder Nelson to answer it was crazy. Someone would ask a question and he would close his eyes for a second and then we would say a scripture that would answer the question perfectly. It was amazing to see. The meeting was really spiritual and we learned alot. We took pics with them but they on on president tobias´ camera. Maybe he will send them to you. We also had a good week of work and we found an excellent family. They have to get married but we will probably baptize their kids this week. Other than that it has been a regular week. Oh no i lied, sunday was pretty funny at church. The young womens president talked and i don´t know what was wrong with her but she just burned all the young women and their moms. I´m sure a few people went inactive because of her. The girls don´t even do anything bad in our ward almost all of them go to seminary and do all the stuff that the church has to offer. Her talk was almost the entire hour and the dude from the stake had to say his talk really fast. Other than that church was normal. Thats about it for this week. See you all later and i hope trent´s papers come in soon.

Some more pics of the house, my comp, and the road we had to take to go to lunch. Our lunch was almost at the end of that road.

Exciting!

After waiting and learning a little patience during the "mole" experience.... Trent's mission papers went in today!!! We are soo excited... now we just have to WAIT for the white envelope!

So far today...

I love Saturdays and this Saturday started early! Teresa told me the first 200 customers at Old Navy this morning are going to win stuff like a $500 shopping spree...

So early this morning I was off to Old Navy...

But I had to stop at Dunkin Donuts on the way...

So we are waiting...

then Sharon joined us... and we are waiting...

Then things livened up a little and we were entertained by a fluffy drink cup... kinda looked like a Spongebob relative!

So while we were WAITING I talked Sharon into letting me take this picture... it's not everyday that you can get your picture taken with a fluffy drink cup that looks like Spongebob!

So we waited 3 hours and all we got was a lousy T-shirt!... But it was fun and I'm sure we would do it again!

So then after that excitement... I ran home and Mike and I went to....

The Gunshow!!!

It was very fun and there was a LOT of stuff to see...

But ya can't go to one of these things and not eat FAIR FOOD!!! YUM!!! Then we walked and walked and walked... bought a few things and put a few things on the ol wish list.

So now we are home again... Trent is in Safford at the Temple open house... and Mike and I are headed to taco night at the Gunnells!!! WOW... what a fun Saturday!

From Brazil

I can't wait for Brandon's email next week. He has been so excited for Elder Nelson to come!

This week we have been doing a bunch of preparations for elder nelson. Our baptism fell through for this week which was a real bummer but she should baptized in a week or two. The cold streak has passed and now it is hot again. I´m so excited that elder nelson is here, we have a meeting with him tommorrow and it will be awesome. This week we taught a bunch of people, the people here are really lazy so we had to find a ton of people and teach alot just to bring a few to church. We are going to burn the members this week because they don´t give referrals and we are doing everything by ourselves. We need to animate the members to do missionary work here. How´s the missionary work in our ward? Are people being baptized? We are doing our best to find the elects. Nothing out of the norm happened this week. Just battling against the heat now. Elder L França is a cool guy he is laid back and gets along with people. I´ll send a pic of him i also have some pics of the house, we have a pretty nice house. That´s about it , i´ll have lots to say next week about elder nelson and the other authorities that will be here tomorrow.

Relay for life

Last night was beautiful weather and I spent a few hours at the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. It's a fund raising event and lasts all night into the morning. There are teams and the team members take turns walking around the track non stop. My work had a team so I volunteered to participate. I have never been to this kind of event before so I didn't know what to expect. When I got there it was OK... a nice thing to go to... but later in the evening they had a speaker and she had an amazing story on being a cancer survivor. I liked it because she included Heavenly Father and faith in her talk... very uplifting... but as I walked around the track there were luminarias with names of people on them... many that have survived and many that have not. That part was way sad.

I didn't realize how many of these events are scheduled around the valley.

This is our team's shirt

I have to say I didn't walk too many laps... but they did have a special part where we walked a few laps in silence in the dark while nice music played... they had luminarias that spelled out HOPE and then changed into CURE while we were walking.

This is why there are events like this one...