week 33

 so as far as the rain we are not in a lack of it here. it rained every day this week. i dont think i had one day where i didnt end up soaking wet. haha. the funny thing is that you would think that if it was raining that more people would let you in to talk but they just look at the sky and say oh its raining today come back another day haha. i want to say um yeah i know its raining i am standing in the rain haha. i do like that it is not as hot when it rains but it is a little annoying working in the rain. one cool thing that happened this week was the we found another awesome family that whent to church with us after we taught them . we asked them the first day if they were married because this is a big problem here everyone just lives together and doesnt get married. but anyway junior is his name and he sai oh yeah basically. so we figured that they were just living together. buth then we went to their house sunday and i kept thinking ask again. and i did and they are really maried! we were so pumped because it takes a long time to get all the paper work to be married here. so we are hoping that they will be babtized here this week or the next. their names are junior and luciene. yes they feed us here haha. not like jacy but i never go hungry . That is so crazy that jade is coming home all ready. it seems like he just left. i sent you guys a letter the other day so you should be getting it here pretty soon..i am glad that you guys are all healthy i think that that is the thing that i pray the most for is that you guys are safe. so this week we learned that elder costa from the 70 is going to come here friday. i am pumped to get to listen to him talk. i sure he will tell us we arent babtizing enough but it still will be awesome. this week we have interviews with the president so hopefully i will get a letter or package at one of these things. that does make me happy that my truck is gone. how much did they say that it will be? haha so our zone leader that i live with right now Elder Pavlakos. he was serving in the salt lake mission waiting for his passport and he said that he all ways ran into friends from byu especially during conference haha. but yeah that would be way hard for me . i think it is good that i was sent to another country. really it is the best thing i have ever decided to do. i didnt prepare like i should have but the lord will make you what you need to be if you trust in him and work hard love you guys hope you have a good week. I love you and miss you. n my shirt it says 15 i dont no if that is a size or not haha. you wont belive it but i have been having growing pains in my ankles haha. yeah i was shocked too. yeah my shoes are good. one of them lost its waterproofness this week but its all good i just dont where that pair if it looks like it will rain. i love you

week 32

so i just have been getting awesome things from you this week. first wed. i got a package with DR PEPPER!!!!! i almost cried haha you have no idea. and the cheese cake. it was so awesome. then today you are telling me that i going to have a truck when i get home haha. does it get any better. haha. this week was great and bad at the same time. we worked really hard all week and had some good investigatores to go to conference with us then here they had elections and i dont know why but any excuse they can find they use to have a party and the roads were compleatly filled with drunk people and cars with giant speakers. haha there was paper with candidate people averywhere it was seriously crazy. so yeah nobody whent to conference. i was really bumbed. but conference was awesome even with the babalonia outside the spirit was so strong inside the church. conference isnt as good in portuguese but it still is amazing to hear the words of the  prophets. here in brazil the age for boys was already 18 so its not as big a deal here, except for the girl part. i liked the talk sat. where they said just ask the missionaries haha. it was like yeah it would be a lot easier if people would just ask us. and i liked jeffery r holland, he is such a champ. Do you love me? haha powerful. thats sweet that you guys finished the calf ally. we started about 2 years ago haha. but hey better late than never. really six weeks in the ctm is all anyone needs. you can only learn so much there then you have to get out in the field to learn. but yeah teach kycen how to take care of himself and respect other peoples stuff. if he acts like my comp i will fly to wherever he is and kick his butt personally. if you want to help him help him read the bok of mormon every day. really have no better way to learn about anything. i am reading it only in portuguese right now. i am in 2 nephi !!! haha. i feel like i am getting the language. i am trying to get better at writting and pronuncing things. i miss you guys and hope you have a good week. is there anything that you guys want from brazil for christmas?

Haha I wasn't sure dr pepper would get there so glad it did I will send some more for Xmas. We don't need anything. When we come I want to get some of those scripture cases like you got.  We loved that talk to about ask the missionaries ill bet some didn't haha. Could you see the video from Ryder he misses you when in the mornings and always wants to send ya videos I knew you would love that package haha  just keep praying they  will come 

Love ya mom

haha dr pépper mt dew anything haha. the best thing ever haha. every american was freaking out hahah. he has dr pepper! yeah it was funny. yeah i got it and tell him that i love it and i love him so much and that i wan thim to eat some mcdonald breakfast for me because they dont have it over here.

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Shelly Winn <shelly.winn@sevier.k12.ut.us> wrote:
K I will you will have to let me know when you transfer in three weeks how many companions and I will send a box with nothing but pop haha so do you ever get to see elder Hubbard any where?  Also what is your password to your side of the computer it is crashing and I have to reload a bunch of stuff.  You should see Labron did dad tell ya he has been heeling on him he stops so good you  will have a lot of colts to take to collage haha

haha the problem is that i have to share with them .haha yeah i see him sometimes . hey whats my blog email. and i dont remember what my password is. haha. i have been like day dreaming everyday about heeling on lebron haha.
 I don't think he wants to share haha there are just somethings you never share!

week 31

hey yeah that is right on my account you will have to remember that and ask me about it when i get home haha. i am glad you are getting some time to sit and relax haha. i miss mexican food. salsa sounds so good. here they dont even have tacos ! yeah its terrible haha . Daniel compleatly fell through i dont know really what happened he just doesnt want to talk to us anymore. he will be babtized one day just not by us . that is awesome that they had a sunday like that where the members brought people. that is one thing that i will be better at when i get home is helping the missionaries here we havent been getting a lot of help from the members lately. they all make excuses that they dont have time or something like that. but really it is more of our responsability to bring people to the gospel as it is the missionaries. we worked way hard this week and talked with so many people it seemed like nobody wanted to talk to us and we didnt find anybody good. we were murmmering a little bit because noody wanted to hear the gospel. then we read in alma aout the sons of mosiahs and we havnt been thrown in jail yet so we are doing pretty good i decided. it sounds like you needed me there to pull through for you guys at the actra finals haha. . oh and kycen can have the phone . when i get home it will be outdated any ways. and from the pictures that grandma sent it looks like he is stilling all of my clothes anyway . thay is way cool that he did good in golf. so i hope that i will get packeges tomorrow. the mail men were on strike last week for a couple of days so i think that is why it has been taking so long. every one here is so lazy they dont want to work so they just go on strike. since i have been here the police, teachers, bus drivers, mail men, and the banks have gone on strike. haha. my shorts are good. i could use some white shirts, garmets drilux everything crew cut, and some ranch mix haha. maybe some more medicine. like dayquil and stuff for stuffy nose. and emergan-c . i love you guys and hope you have a good week . i miss you and tell everyone i love them

week 30

hey so this week was good. it was so hot all week . we worked a bunch and when saterday and sunday got here i was so tired. with the sun and everything i was worn out haha today i have just sat around and been lazy all day haha. so all week we went to jose and valdacys and we didnt find them at home all week. they dont have a phone either so when sat got here we had thought that they wouldnt be babtized because the last we talked to them was the last sunday. so the assistants called the leaders of the zone that we live with and were like do whatever you guys need to do to have a babtism in the zone this week. they called everyone and jose and valdacy were the only chance that the zone had. so we thought well about the only time to talk to them would be way early in the morning so we called to get permission to go there really early and the assistants made a promis to us that if we said a prayer of faith and asked to find them in there house at 12:00 the next day they would be there. we had been passing by there all week and 12:00 would be the last time i would have ever guessed to find them. but we did what they said and whent there at 12:00 the next day. they were there and just about to leave for the day. it was a miricle haha. they were ready to be babtized and were sunday. it was so awesome they were so excited and they are so happy now. i hope that they can prepare to go to the temple in a year. i know that your prayers really helped them a lot. for sure it wouldnt have happened without your help. this week pray for daniel. he is a teenager that is awesome too.haha as far as the cleaning i did just that.i will never call president for something stupid like that but i will dix the problem myself haah. for three days the sink in the kitchen sat full of water and dirty dishes. it was so nasty. so i washed everything gave one plate one fork and a cup to everyone and threw everything els away. haha they thought it was funny until the cup of elder gomes broke and he doesnt have one now. haha. maybe he wil take better care now. i talked to jace the other day she said that she talked to you on the face. she said she understood the just of it haha. i understand kind of what you are saying haha. that is rediculose about the saddles haha. i would tell them we want a discount because of that haha. so i havnt gotten anything from cactus yet,but the other elders went to the office today so hopefully they bring me a present home haha. tell kycen his hat is ugly haha. but his horse makes up for it. i am glad that he is doing good at the golf. and it wont be the last buzzer that he hears haha. especially if he isnt practicing. i love you guys so much i hope you have a good week i miss you all and pray for you every night.

week 29

haha i loved your talk. it really was awesome. i liked the story of driving in the dark. i miss all the late night drives . just crusin listening to music haha at the time it seemed like a lot of time but once you stop doing those things you realize hom much you miss them . you all ways say that you have too much stuff to do at this time of the year so i do think that you will cut anything haha its got to start to get normal after so long . as for me here i have one more transfer here with elder gomes. oh joy haha. i think i am really failing my tests if i have to retake it haha. its not to bad. we are working really hard. i do like that about him. he loves to preach the gospel. my problem is that i like to plan it like it was a rodeo weekend haha. lets go here here and here first and end here a lot closer to our house, but he likes to wait tell like 8:45 and want to knock doors in the area farthest away from our house haha. but its all good. the family wasnt babtized last sunday. the husband, joseph, got offered a job working security last sunday and they really needed the money so they remarked for this sunday, but they have been acting a little strange the last week so keep praying for them for me. their names are josé-Alberto and Valdacie. we talked to them sunday night and they still wanted to get babtized this sunday so we are really hoping for this sunday. as far as them staying in the church, that is the hard part. we babtize and then it is the job of the members to help them feel welcome. there are a lot of people that you babtize that will leave, but you got to try to help them as much as you can to stay strong after you leave. more than the members you have to help them gain a testimony of the book of mormon. if you have a testimony in theis you will not leave. i have gotten some packegs the last couple weeks. i got the one with the movies. and the pictures and the mike cervi. maybe i will get some today where it is transfers. so just so you no you were not the only one who had to talk this week. i had to talk in sacrament meeting. but i lucked out they tolk me i would be the last speaker and it would be for 20 min, but then i got there and they were like oh we changed our minds you will go first its only 5 min. haha i was like dang thanks for telling me now. for 5 min i dont even need to prepare a talk but all week i was getting ready for this haha. but it was good i talked about the book of mormon and how as members it is our responsability to share this blessing of the bom with everyone. that if it is only us missionaries that share the gospel we will lose the fight it takes every member. so this week president and sister isnpected our house. it was really funny to me that the day before president came everyone wanted to clean but anyother day its all good haha. but it was sweet they roped the cowboy toy with us and watched some of the mike cervi with us hahaha we have the coolest president in the world. its sweet because now i can watch the cervi any tuesday i want . the part that sucks is that the whole first round is scratched. but all the rest work so its still awesome. i miss you guys and love you so much. i hope you have a good week. oh i was thinking have you heard anything about my saddle for the all around lately ?

oh i forgot to tell you a really cool story about jose alberto. he was having a problem with coffe. he said that he hadnt drank it for 2 days and he had a head ache from heck haha. he wasnt sure if he would be able to not drink the last cup that he had in the house. he said too that coffe is a lot cheaper than anything els to drink in the morning. i prommised him that if he would not drink more coffe that the lord would bless him and his family with the food that they needed to live. he said how can you promis that. i said just trust in the lord. he dumped the coffe out on the ground and promissed to never drink it again. it was so awesome. i love you guys   

week 28

haha i am glad to hear that nothing has changed there in the fall at the winn house. haha . kycen and ryder fighting over something that is mine and you doing way to much stuff and yelling at everyone and dad, well he hasnt been bucked off in a month so he is doing pretty good. haha. quinn says he loves it and i know why. it is really really hard work and a lot of days you dont want to go anymore but when you find that one person who is prepared it is all worth it. that family whent to church last week with us and loved it. they are going to be babtized together this sunday. they two other kids that live here but they are living at their aunts house right now. i hope that after they come back to live here with their mom and dad that they will want to be babtized too. so next week are transfers i am kinda hoping for a change but then elder gomes called president and asked him if he could stay so we will see what happens i was really upset with him at first about that but then i relized that it is not about me. it is not about i want but whoever i am here with i just have to keep working and finding those people who are here waithing for me. we have been having some fun with jehova witnesses the last week we found a way to prove to them that jesus is jehova and when they still want to fight and argue we just ask them questions to get them to say that the bible is perfect or something like that and then we ask them if it is right that men take stuff out of the bible and they say no and then we show them all the scriptures their bable is missing haha. it is funny. we found one yesterday that here character compleatly changed and she wants us to come back so hopefully we can have a jw convert. haha. you think teamropers time is bad just wait tell you meat brazilians haha. like it will be 7 o clock and i will be like lets leave at 8. ok ok illl be ready. 7:30 i am getting dressed and he is reading on his bed. 7:45 dude lets go its almost 8 ok ok i just have to shower, shave, press my shirt, find my socks,do this do that. 8:10 he is sitting on the chair reading. are you ready ? ok lets go . say our prayers and i start to walk out the door and he still has to get his back pack ready haha. yeah teamropers time is a lot better trust me haha.i love you guys and miss you . i hope you have a good week and i will pray that you can have more patcience haha.

I think they gave him a companion like his brother because he is a slow learner like his mom haha

week 27

haha i am glad to hear that you caught a calf now that it is september
haha. just let gray rest in the pastur for the next year haha. dad
just goes 4 seconds on him all week and next week will be cussing him
and shoot if kycen just wants to throw the bomb just go pick up lil
wayne for the rodeos haha. it sounds like bj is killing it this summer
that is awesome. i keep telling him to remember where his blessings
come from. i havnt talked to quinn for two weeks but he said he was
really liking the ctm that is so cool that he is all ready in the
field. i got some packeges last week and one had the mike cervi in it.
i got permission to watch it today so yeah i was up at six o clock
haha. i still cant believe i broke out on the 4 steer. 6 months ago
and i am still mad about it haha. and hey tell grandma that i wash my
sheets like every week. we have a washing machine the only problem is
it is brazilian made haha. so it doesnt clean very good.  they have some 
stores that are owned by walmart that have like all the walmart brand stuff.                                                  actually we found walmart
mac and cheese the other day i am going to start buying haha. its
funny how little stuff like that is like so awesome here. so today we
went to a investigatores house because last night they told us that
they dont have the money to pay the rent . the husband found work
yesterday and so the wife didnt know what to do because he would be
working today at noon when the land lord came. i dont know if i told
you about them but she said that the day that we knocked on her door
that she had been praying for god to send some angels to help her.
then we showed up, she hadnt been reading she said she was going to
wait tell her husband got done reading to read the bom. then ladt
night she couldnt sleep and she keep having this feeling .... read the
book , read the book. so last night she read all the introduction and
the testamonies. and when we got there today she said that she got an
answer and that she knows that the book is true she said she doesnt
care if her husband decides to go to church but she will be there with
or without him. it was so amazing. i was just like wow. she said that
it calmed her. she had no idea if she would have a home tomorrow or
not but she said she was calm because of the book of mormon. they are
going to stay there they got the money to stay for one more month . i
know that god really answers our prayers sometimes though other
people.

haha yeah i was like thinking while i was wathcing the cervi. of the money that i paid to rope in that roping they could live in their house for like 4 more months . it is like i really took for granted what i had i am so grateful for the things that i have in my life. i am so happy to get the packeges but if its too much really i dont need them as often as you guys send them. i love them dont get me wrong but if it would help to get things fixed and stuff . i love you so much have a good week. good luck in your talk. who are you talking with. tell kycen and ryder that i love them.