week 65

Hey that is so cool that BJ had his baby, but is really sad that he is not doing to well. Honestly this is the best time that the missionaries could have to go there. We are all ways looking for people who have had big changes in their lives, like for example a new baby. I am proud of you its good to hear that you are winning. That's cool that you guys had a decent first weekend.  This week was about the same as the others.  Lots and lots of stuff to take care of.  It is hard sometimes you just want to be in your area, but you can't. Yesterday we had 12 Elders that tried to take out money and the ATM didn't give them their money, but took it out of their account.  Talk about problems.  I had to figure out what to do, and how to fix it.  Then I had to tell everyone for the third time that you can't use that bank because it has that problem sometime.  I was a little irritate with some of the Elders hahaha.  I still love them.  Tell Ryder that I didn't fall off my bike, but its a 15k bike trail and about 10K into the ride my pedal broke and I had to push my bike like a scooter the last 5k. hahaha.  It was way cool. i will get the pictures from Elder Lund, and I will send them to you guys.  One thing I have noticed this week is that it's so amazing to me how things work out for the church.  Like if it weren't true there would be no way that it would work.  Everything that we do just works.  Like I have never had any experience in accounting and here I am doing all the stuff for the Mission.  I had no idea about Brazilian laws, but I have all ready made 3 house contacts.  It just blows my mind.  I love you guys and miss you all.  Remember what it says in James if we know good and don't do it we are still with sin. Always look to help people and do good. Never stop sharing the gospel.

week 64

Hey Family, My week was ok. Being transfers it was a lot of stuff to do. Monday we had to prepare everything. I had to buy some last min. tickets. Then Tuesday we had to go,and take all the letters and packages to the bus station. I had to give out all the tickets to everyone. Then we went to presidents house to give the training to the new Elders. i think that is one of my favorite things to do as the secretary. Its way fun to be with the new missionaries, and watch them get their first companions. This week almost doesnt exist for us in the field. Thursday was the first day in the week that we left the office early enough to go to our area and work. We are still teaching Vitoria, Marcos, Filipe and Josenice. Its kinda frustrating not being able to follow up with them like you really want to. I havnt gotten anything in the mail yet I am still waiting. I wanted to see if you could send me some more dayquill. Don´t feel to bad we are going to have an audit here this next month too. I am not really looking forward to that to much. Especially since the Sec. changes so often that we will probably be docted for something that an Elder that isnt even here anymore did. Did you find anything out on the college thing? Let me know as soon as you do so that I can talk to President Hart. I love you guys have a good week.

Week 63

How do you brake out at a high school rodeo? hahah just kiddin. It was cool at Lucias. She is way cool. Elder Tangren never has been in Salvador so i think no on the arguing thing. This week was about the same. It flew by, and we were way busy. I am stoked to see you guys tomorrow, and get to talk to you. What is this about Kycen saying he wont be there to talk to me because he is moving out? I am planning on getting on line at about 7 or 8 our time still. I am not going to write much today cuz I will get to talk to you tomorrow. Just want you to know that I love you. Hope you have a good day. see you tomorrow haha I see. yeah i know i am so excited. Today I got permission to go on facebook and see who was my sister haha. thats still wierd to me that i have a sister. I wrote her a message and gave her my email so I guess we will see. She said she would email me. Did I tell you we went to the zoo today? It was pretty cool.  Kennadee said she learned last year and thats why she added me on facebook, so we will see huh.

more pictures

Pictures Yeah

 Knocking outside one of the churches

Taylor and Benegas in Elder Tangrens pants(Taylors companion) from when he first got here he has lost 50 lbs.

Monument in Petrolina the "Teebow pose"

This is a musuem they have a mini cathidral. the actual cathidral was in my area there but i thought it would be funny if i could do a godzilla on the abonable church hahaha

Us making a barbeque behind our house.

week 62

Hey,  My week here was good. The weeks fly by here. especially where my pday is on Saturday. We had a lot of work to do here this week. It is Transfers not this week, but the week after, so we are all really busy. Also we had a leadership meeting so I had to go to the store with the food lady to buy all the food. We only got to work in the field two days this week until now. That being so I have still had one of the better weeks on my mission. We had so many spiritual experiences this week. For the first time on my mission I saw a person that was compleatly changed, like recieved an answer in the min. and said he wanted to be babtized, It was so special I don´t want to go into to much detail, but it was just one more testimony to me that the church is true. God loves us and answers our prayers. That is cool that kycen is winning. I told him all he had to do was focus and practice. You guys better watch out if he keeps this up he will make nationals. I think that we will use skype at presidents house. I tried to call him just now but didn´t answer so I will plan everything this weeknd, and Monday or Tuesday I will write you an email telling you what time and everything. This time i will have to plan better, because our church is from 3 to 6 in the afternoon here. which would be like 11 or 12 there huh? I would bet that it will be after church at like 7 or so our time. I have been so busy this week we havn´t even sat down to plan it out this week, but today or tomorrow i will talk with all six of us in the house to see what everyone is doing. yeah i probably do need my info again i kinda forgot. Love you have a good week.

Week 61

hey I am glad that the package got there i was really worried because the guy sent it like without any protection or value hahaha. I will see what i can do on some more shirts for kycen. i will have to get saving some money while i am here in the staff where i get a bigger allowance. So cool story, last Sunday a member from Jomafa came to our ward. i was talking to him and i don't know if you remember Antonia the second lady that i baptized. Like almost all of her family is baptized there. When i was there we started teaching her husband a little bit, but he was an old drunk. Like one time we talked to him while he was on his horse and i don't know how he was managing to stay on. Like i was impressed haha, but anyways one of the Elder that i am living with now came from there and they baptized him like a month ago. When i had left he had started to take the lessons. it was so cool to hear that he had completely changed like that. That is so funny about Ryder and the calf. Its the Heart of a Champion hahaha. No i didn´t loose my camera. actually i bought another one for fifty bucks and i think i got a kid who is going to buy it for 100.. remind you of Zack? hahaha. i will try to get some pictures sent to you guys this week. it just gets so crazy that sometimes i run out of time to hook my camera up. So today we were watching my rodeo video and you know the part where me and Quinn are being interviewed. Well you guys should go back and watch it and focus on Ryder it is so funny. He is such a champ. We have found some really good people this week. we are teaching Paulo, Dinalva, and Josenice that i hope we can  baptize next week and i hope we can baptize another Bruno this week. please pray for these people that Satan will not be able to temp them. i love you guys have a good week. cant wait to talk to you in two weeks.