week 36

haha do i have to send a letter? i dont like writting letters haha. it is wierd writting things knowing that when it gets to where i want it there will be a lot more things in it that have all ready changed. if my gun is not in my room in my closet or downstairs then it is still in quinns trailer, but i am pretty sure that i took it inside. my companions name is Elder D. Trindade. yeah just so you know i have never wanted to tell any of my companions that they were compleat idiots (haha maybe part idiot but not compleatly) until now haha. yeah i am needing to learn a lot more about being patient. this week was tough but i think things are getting better. it really helps a lot that i live with two other americans so if i get really annoyed i can just talk about it in english with them. i bought a new camera last saterday. it is pretty good. cameras here a lot more expensive but my companion said it was a good price for here. tell kycen i said to suck it up and be a man. haha. he will do great and could play JV if he decides to work hard. i am going to try to get a package for you guys in the mail this week i am trying to get a few more things this week before i send it though. so yes jose and valdecy were the family that i all ready babtized and i they moved. Junior and Luciane are the family who we are teaching right now. yeah luciane is pregnent. Lucia is awesome but i dont think she could send here kid to yeah... besides do you really want two kycens in the house. tell kycen and ryder that i love them. i am so greatful for you guys. thank you for everything that you do for me. i love you have a good week.

Elder Madsen Taylor's second transfer is now there new zone leader and living with him.  He is way excited about that and since his mom couldn't teach him patience (Lord knows hers are short lol) the Lord will teach him. Or maybe he wants Taylor to learn to talk less and listen more ???? hum not sure that can happen. But we have great faith in him that he will be able to help this Elder become the great man he can.

week 35

haha yeah i am glad that your week got better. The only good part about mine was that we found a really awesome investigator, named Monaliza. junior and luciene are still doing good. i hope they will be babtized this week. Jose and valdecy moved to another area. i didnt get transfered i will stay here in barbalho one more transfer. i now know how dad always felt when he got the problem child in his class. my new companion is the problem child of the mission. Basically i was told that i am his last chance. if i cant help him change he has to go home. i hope i can help him but it isnt going to be easy haha. do you think Heavenly father is trying to teach me patcience ? so when can i go buy a new camera? i am so tierd this week. we have been working so hard. i know the lord will bless us with more babtisms if we keep working hard. this week will be stake conference here. there will be an area 70 here so that will be cool. i hope that we can keep finding good people, and have a good transfer here. so i need to take a picture and send to you of Lucia she is my titia ( aunt) she is so awesome. she has a kid that is 11 that is exactly like kycen. she wants to know if you want to take him in because you all ready know how to handle it. haha she reminds me a lot like jenny!i will send you guys a package here in a couple weeks for christmas. christmas will be so wierd without snow haha. i love you guys and hope you have a good week. i will try my best to have a better week this week haha.


perfect i will buy one this week then and i can send you pictures of me and my new comp and all our babtism that i will have. i love you oh i will forward you this story that joseph sent me
Story from Joseph Kimball,
Hey elder! I hope you are baptizing the pure in heart!!! I am sure that's what you are doing..I am roping and doing teeth and shoeing horses.
I recently went to a ranch In New Mexico. There I bought a Painthorse and went on a ride on the ride I learned that my friend I bought the Painthorse from would get up every morning Saddle a Horse Milk 2 cows and ride 6 miles to the bus stop. The bus stop was 6 miles from his house. The 6 miles included a canyon and some pretty rocky terrain. He would get to the bus stop unsaddle put him in a Corrall get on the bus and ride the bus 17 miles to school. He did that for three years in high school. By the way he would ride  the bus 17 miles home Saddle is horse ride 6 miles in the canyon get home unsaddle his horse milk two cows eat dinner and go to bed.
I was amazed at the sacrifice he made to go to high school. Later in life he started to tiedown rope. I mean after high school and started rodeo when I asked him what events he participated in and he said if they had an event I entered it. So I asked what was your best event. He answered Bull Riding.

After a long discussion about Lots of things He told me a story about match roping a Pro this was in 1970s he matched a pro Calf Roper $20,000.10 head match. He won the match and the man who put up the money gave him $8000.
This man married a member of the church and raised a family. He was not a member of his children went on missions and married. Two of them are sealed in the temple they live in a remote area in New Mexico.

They live in the boundaries of a small branch and his oldest son got called to be the branch president. He called his dad one night and said dad I need a favor his dad said anything son. He said I need you to teach Gospel doctrine every Sunday for me. Remember he was not a member of the church.

He said okay son I'll do it. He taught gospel doctrine for two years. One Sunday they had Branch conference the stake president brought a regional representative. After the branch conference on the way back to the stake presidents home the stake president asked the regional representative have you ever been taught gospel doctrine by a nonmember. The regional representative said I don't think so the stake president said today you have.

The regional representative said I don't believe that man will not be a member much longer. The man was baptized two weeks later in the stock tank on the ranch it was February.

When I came in to that families life the man who was baptized in the stock tank and taught gospel doctrine for two years while he was not a member was the branch president!!

He has taught me much about horses and life I wanted to share his story with you so that you can do what Pres. Monson asked us to do he said, we must see people as they may become and not as they are. While you were on a mission you are looking for the next branch President.
You must see men as they may become and not as they are and then believe in them and God will help them be who they should be.

I'm sure you are a great missionary and that the Lord is proud of you !continue to please him it will bring you great happiness.

I apologize for taking so long to email you!
 your brother Joseph

week 34

haha yeah even with all your problems there i still have you beat here haha. my week was a week of problem after problem and it is still going into this week. so first we taught junior and luceaine all week long and they are so awesome. they have a testimony about the book of mormon and everything, but they didnt want to be babtized yet. one she is pregnant so she got sick and couldnt go to church last week and they just dont feel ready yet. so all week we were working hard hard then they didnt even go to church, but they will be babtized for sure. i just dont know when now. but sunday is when the problems came. first jose alberto and valdecy got in a bad situation. the boss of jose. ran out on the job he was working on. so he didnt get paid for the last month of work. their land lord came and told them that he has to have the house and he wants them out. the bad part is the didnt make a contract with him so if he shows up with a pistol they have no choice they will be on the streets. so the church decided to help they so we have been in the middle of them helping them find another house and everything. the good part is that the reliefe society president here is awesome so she has helped a lot. the worst part of the week is the part were you are going to kill me. ...... i was robbed. .... in the church!!!!!! yeah i cant believe it either. i took my camera with me to church because i thought that we were going to have the babtism of junior then after church the president of the reliefe society called us into a meeting  and i set my bag in the sacrament room. then we left and i didnt even look to see if it was there. when i got home i didnt have it any more. so the last two days i have been running around like a crazy person interigating everyone. ... one thing i must have really changed all ready because i havnt swared or kicked anything yet. i havnt thrown anything. everyone is like how are you so calm and i really dont have any idea how. i am almost sad for whoever stole it because i know they will have to pay for it in the end. imagine when you have to watch the video of your life with God and he askes you ok what were you thinking here. robbing from a representative of Jesus Christ inside the church. ... the end of the world is comming haha. but yeah so i know what i need for my birthday and chrismas.... a new camera. .. i think it will be easier and cheeper if i just buy one here. so i want to hear how the rest of the roping go. yeah i am missing it haha. i cant believe its all ready been a yeah since we were there last year. i cant wait tell i get to go back and redeem myself from how bad i roped last year. so yeah what do you want me to do about a camera? let me know how it goes. tell everyone i say hi. tell tj i want to know how he didn't win the open and to email me.  i love you have a good week.

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.