Elder Tangrens 1st baptism

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He said they were roasting marshmellows in the corner. 

Week 49

haha yeah but we wouldnt play it with beach balls. that takes away the purpose. besides i am the worse one because brazilians and argintinans only know how to breath ant play soccer so we dont break stuff hahah. yeah Hubbard only has 12 more weeks left. i think the 6 week program will start this year and he whent into the ctm in december. it would suck he passed christmas in the ctm. and there you cant call home. it gets dark here at like 6 630 . it was so crazy hot this week. it was 124 degrees two days this week. it is so hot. like you cant even go outside during the afternoon. haha i remember martins cove. it was way fun i still remember all the crazy stuff we did. but we still learned so much. yeah i never whent sking with them. i all ways had ball. that cool you guys had fun though. i think i would have given anything to see dad try to ice skate hahaha, you guys are ice skating and i could cook an egg on the sidewalk where i am. hahah. yeah me and Tangren have a lot in common. we get along good. he is a good missionary. he is a different from me though because he has problems talking to people. he speaks portugese good for not much time but he just doesnt like talking to strangers. so you know me i make him start talking to everyone, and yesterday i made him bare his testamony in church haha. this week michele wasnt babtized but for sure will be this week. she has so much faith. she was smoking 10 cigaretts a day. we taught her the word of wisdom thursday, and hast touched one since. it is so amazing to me how some people can trust in us and in the Lord so much. i think about how i would react if i wasnt a member and the missionaries taught me the comandments and i think i wouldnt accept them as easy as some people. like michele. we have still been sick a little this week. hopefully we get better soon. we are going to have at least 3 babtisms in the next two weeks. we are going to have a wedding next week and then they are going to be babtized. i am so excited. it will be my first wedding . i love you guys have a good week.

week 48

hey so this week was good. it was a long one. with the trip to salvador and everything. then to make it all worse we all got sick the last two days. we are getting better now though. Really one thing that i have learned is it is not about what you know now. its about what you are going to learn today.  just focus on learning them better today. Elder Tangren he stayed 9 weeks in the ctm so he speakes a little more than i did when i got here but i still think that 6 weeks is better because when i had 9 weeks i think i spoke more. It is funny some times to think that i was like that at one time. babling off not making much sense, but somehow people still understand what you are trying to say. i know that this is the Lords work or there would be noway that two Americans with less than a year studying a new language could preach and baptize people. we have one person that might be baptized this week. her name is Michele . make sure you guys pray for her so that everything will go right.
yeah i gooffed off with my rope but didnt rope anything . sharom told me that next time we go he will let a goat out to see if i can catch it. i was hoping to get to go there today but i think it wont be tell next week. it is mostly a fruit farm but they have a lot of animals too. i got to try a lot of fruits that you have never even heard of haha. yeah they were the elders that i lived with . . That is so terrible about Kortney . i didnt see it until today. i will be sure to pray for her. tell her i said hi. and that i mis her. i hope she gets better. so they banned soccer on our mission. it really sucks but you no me, we made up a new game that we can still play. in our house we still have a hammock in the middle of the room. so we clear out all the stuff and we play foot vollybal haha. it gets a little crazy sometimes. i will have to video it some day its pretty funny to watch. i love you guys i hope you have a good week.

Taylor Trainer

We knew he'd find a way to ride a horse  well close enough

week 47

hey this week was good. we did a lot of awesome things. first of all i think my emails are long just because i have to answer all of your questions hahaha. actually there are a lot of scriptures even in the bible that talk about God having a Dad or us becoming Gods if you  look you can find them. That is so cool though that you are learning and you are helping your girls. it is so cool when you see a change in people. so this week we went to the farm of one of the members here. it was so cool. they had so many fruits there and animals, even you favorite.... snakes hahaha. we had a bet who could catch the most fish. the whites vs the blacks. ... the whites one. . we caught a stick and some leafs. lucky for us the blacks didnt catch anything. hahah. so monday a had to go to salvador. we had transfers i am now training a new elder. so i had to ride the bus all night monday sat in salvador and rode the bus all night last night. it has been a long last couple of days. my new companions name is Elder Tangen. He is from moab. he seems pretty cool. he doesnt speak hardly any portugese. i remember when i was in his shoes and didnt know anything that was going on. yeah the first time that i did ab ripper x i couldnt walk straight the next day hhaha. i need to get working out more hahah. i do good for a week then i get lazy haha. i got three packages yesterday. i got the one you sent with shorts, and one from aunt lisa and one from teigan. it was so cool. it was like christmas here. we have so much candy and food now haha.i am doing good. i am excited to put my new companion to work and show him how it is here on the mission. It is going to be really hard but fun. it will be frustrating i think because i will be the only one that people understand. i am sure i will have some good stories for you next week. i hope you guys have a good week. i love you

Week 46

why are there panguins in richfield? A teacher brought these to school and put them outside they are like real stuffed penguins it was hilarious and they look so real it is scary.  I told Taylor its colder here than where they live. haha

hey we had a good week. my neck is feeling better. i need those p90x cuz it makes you have to do the work. when i exercize without a video i do a little then lay on the floor haha 630 is still too early for me haha. i know that i will stay here there is a lot of work to do here. i think that i will get a new companion though. yeah this transfer was hard because of christmas and new years then we were sick. this was the first week where we were able to work all week long. actually from our count i will be home in less than a year. when we did the count i could actually be home by christmas! it all depends though. but usually you loose 2 weeks from 2 years so that would be in january when i come home, i dont know the date exactly though. when do you need to buy your tickets? i think that i will be home before jan 13 even without going home early. i read the book of mormon in portuguese just like it was englich now. there are some words that i dont know that i have to look up but hey there are words in english that i dont understand in the bom haha. i have talked to both of them. i will send you her email. so this week i did a split with jonas, the guy who served in the states, we found this lady named Nivea. she is so awesome. she told us that she was having problems in her family and that she was needing our message that day. it is so cool when you find the people who are waiting for you. this area is kinda hard to find people. most of our area, and the closest part to the church, is downtown. so its really hard to teach people there. then where there are lots of houses its really far away and they dont want to go to church haha. the good part is jonas really likes me so he has been helping us a lot. we have been doing a lot of splits. this week we have interviews with president so i will get letters and packages! how are things going there? what is new? when is grandpa going to sell me his truck? i dont remember if i told you but i got an email from the ustrc and the wrangler ropings like the end of the year and i made the us open finals and the top 20 in the wrangler. i thought it was cool because i was only there for two months haha. i love you guys have a good week. why are there panguins in richfield?