A new week has already come and gone, and the Cougars are back on a winning streak. That’s what I like to see.
Last P-day we were in Irani (one of the 3 other cities in our proselyting area) to spend P-Day with the Sisters for Elder Martin last P-day out here. We had a member who lives there take us down a forest trail down the side of a mountain to a neat waterfall. It was fun. I am including of few of the pictures. Our group had a little bit of trouble winding our way through the trees and the vines in the pouring rain. Everybody slipped at least once, nearly losing their life. There was one treacherous decline that we had to traverse that caused me a little trouble. I was leading with my right foot going down when I tried to secure my weight on stone that ending up being loose. As my right foot was already on its way down I dropped to a baseball slide and rode out the last ten feet. At the bottom I hopped right to my feet, the only harm being the mud all over my jeans. After that we got to climb back out of the gorge and up to the member’s house for the lunch. Shortly thereafter I grabbed a couple quick photos of the surrounding country side. Then it was back to Concordia so Elder Martin could say some teary-eyed good-byes.
We went to Chapeco Tuesday so that Elder Martin could catch the bus to Florianopolis with Elder Burke. Elder Burke had been serving in Chapeco for 6 months, since he entered the field. On my few trips to Chapeco we got to do some talking and got to be good friends. Naturally, he got transferred away so I snapped a photo with him. It was right in the middle of the airport so it technically might have been against the rules. If it was, I’ll probably repent later. I’m not sure if I already explained Zone Conference to you so I will now. We have three Zone Conferences. One Conference for the Zones Florianopolis, Sao Jose, Sao Jose North (right across the bridge from Floripa) and Tubarao (down south) that takes place in Florianopolis. Another for the Northern Zones: Itajai (where Elder Martin is now and my new companion was before) Joinville North and Joinville. The last is in Lages for Lages, Ipomeia, and Chapeco. Right now Elder Bateman and I are in the Western portion but the other 4 Elders from our MTC district, Elder Pereira (my Brazilian brother) and now Elder Burke will all attend the Florianopolis Zone Conference. That’s not fair at all.
After a day of proselyting in Chapeco, in the mud, with an Elder who only has one transfer in the field, Elder Wright arrived at 2AM. We caught a 10 AM bus and were back in Concordia by 1 in the afternoon on Thursday. These first few days have been raining so no one has been in the streets, and a holiday on Friday created a “travel-worthy” 3-day weekend so no one was in their houses. Be that as it may, we persevered and met 8 of the nine mission goals. The only thing we didn’t have was sufficient investigators at Church, which was understandable. Yesterday was District Conference in Chapeco. We had a bus that left the church at 7 AM to take everyone there. The problem: Day Light Savings time started so it turned out to be 6AM. All is well though. Elder Wright is from Salt Lake City, specifically: Holiday. He has 11 months in the mission, 8 and a half in the field. He has spent time one the island in Florianopolis and then went to a little city named Picarras where he stayed for three transferred, and trained last transfer. He speaks the language really well, is a fairly tall guy (6’1”) and is a lot of fun to be around. The problem is that people don’t like giving there addresses to 2 tall Americans. The Lord placed us here, the Lord is going to prepare way though. It looks like we could be having a couple more baptisms this transfer. Wish us luck.
Thanks for all the letters and the packages. I just want to make sure that I will be getting a football (American football) for Christmas. Please. Anytime someone wants to send me a jar of Peanut Butter they are more than welcome to. The only recipe I thought of this last week that I would want is a simple recipe for pancakes. We have a bunch of flour and eggs are cheap.
I love you all, the work is coming along, the rain is always falling, and I’m fine so stop worrying about.
Terrorizing Western Santa Catarina with another white boy at my side,
Elder Haws(mo)
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