5-9 inches of snow? Greg had a solo in the concert? Mom is adding text-messaging to the cell phone plan? Greg had 2 solos? Ruby already turned 1? Greg is seriously applying to BYU? The BYU Women’s Basketball team beat UCLA? Greg is talking to girls? What have you people done with my little brother? That is awesome. Now we just have to make sure Greg gets dates for Senior Ball and Homecoming, and then sends an audition tape into the BYU Marching Band. Heck, maybe when he comes back from France/Africa/Korea he might even play intramurals at BYU with me and the rest of the boys.
I’ve officially made my predictions for the Las Vegas Bowl in a letter I wrote this morning. I will try to recreate it here but I don’t have the written documentation with me so I might have a few errors. BYU 31- UCLA 22. Harvey Unga will rush for 117 yards and a touchdown. Manase Tonga will also have a rushing touchdown. Max Hall will go 22-40 with 209 yards, 2 TDs and 2 INTs. Austin Collie will catch 6 passes for 106 yards and a TD. The other TD Pass will be to Dennis Pitta who will finish with 3 catches for 25 yards. On the defensive side: Jan Jorgensen and Bryan Kehl will each get a turn knocking Ben Olson (or whoever else is stupid enough to take a snap with Jan Jorgensen on the opposite side of the line), Poppinga will have 12 tackles, and Ben Criddle will get an INT in his last game of College Football. I don’t think that’s exactly what my predictions were but its close enough to get the point across. All that really matters is that we will be walking away with another trophy. Go Cougars!
Zone Conference was a success yesterday. I spent a LOT of time on a bus, but that’s part of serving out west. At the Zone Conference I got to see Elder Huber for the first time since I left BYU in April. He is doing good and speaking great Portuguese. He speaks better than some of the Americans who are senior companions here in the mission. What’s not fair is that his Zone (Lages) is having a Super P-day today. All the Elders are coming together in Lages to play soccer and basketball. I am jealous. SO jealous. Another little piece of startling news came to my attention Sunday night. Elder Guimaraes is serving in Pato Branco now that Elder Bateman left. He brought out his album of photos to show me and I encountered a couple of surprises. His first picture was of him with 4 missionaries. The 2 that baptized him and the other two that served in that ward. The American in the photo that didn’t baptize him was Jacob Michaelis. I played little league baseball against, and had a number of classes in Junior High with his brother, Andrew Michaelis. Jacob was friends with the seniors I knew in band as a sophomore. The Michaelis family moved to Montana after my freshman year at Gale. It turns out that Elder Guimaraes’s companion, Elder Peterson, also knew Jacob from back home. I then turned about 10 pages in the photo album before coming across a bunch of photos of the Elder who taught Elder Guimaraes the new member lessons about a year and a half ago. You know who it was? Any guesses? Elder Rucks. Elder JARED RUCKS. I could not believe it. Everyone I knew from Idaho Falls who went on a mission to Brazil knows this Elder Guimaraes. Its absurd. I took a picture with him to email to you guys. I’m sorry. I look like an idiot in all my photos. Especially these. Since it was our Christmas Conference everyone was taking pictures of everyone. We always had three or four cameras going and it turns out that I was always looking the other way or making a stupid face when someone took a picture with my camera. I never have liked pictures.
The other two pictures I’m sending are:
(1) a picture of my Christmas package, all that good stuff just waiting to get opened.
(2) a picture of the White Elephant gift I received. It’s a bunch of pieces of metal welded together to make a violin player. I guess the coil is supposed to serve as a pen holder or something. Merry Christmas to me.
I think that’s everything to report form Concordia this week. We will have a baptism on Saturday. We’ll spend New Year’s Eve and Day in Chapeco and I will most likely be catching a bus from Chapeco to Florianopolis (or anywhere else in the mission) on January 2. My P-days the next two weeks will be Christmas and New Years so you won’t be getting any emails. Next week I’ll talk to you on the phone and I’ll write you a letter on New Year’s Day telling you about transfers. I might not include transfers information in the next few emails just so that you have to wait a little.
Patiently Waiting for a Green, Green, Green Christmas,
Elder Haws(mo)
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