With Love, but Without Location‏

Hey Family,

I guess you guys will love and support me no matter where I am... as long as you know where that is. But oh well. You guys might not have told me anything about your lives, but I’ll do my best to throw a little bit in about mine. In a minute.

I love the photos that Jenny sent me from Spencer’s house. Fences up everywhere, kids screaming, good times. I appreciate that the boys are all wearing BYU sweatshirts. They’ve still got to support my boys (and girls) in blue. I just want to know: Where’s Ruby’s? Does she not get the opportunity to wear merchandise from the true church’s real school? Or has she already rebeled against the truth and gone her apostate ways? Wo be unto those who resist the Cougar Blue, for I, Hawsmo, will return after 16 months and exact my vengeance upon the heathen.

Anyways. I will give you a hint. I was transfered. I’m sure that is a surprise to everyone, but you’ll just have to relax to find out where I am now. The letter I mailed SHOULD get there by the end of the week. I hope. Maybe not until Monday/Tuesday of next week. Either way just name where I am and I will give you the rest of the details. I was unfortunate in the sense that I went to a slow area. I showed up and learned that we currently had 0 (zero) investigators and that the current plan was knock doors and pray We’ve been doing that and have found a few nice people who will probably tag aloing with the missionaries for a few months, but it won’t be until they are re-discovered in 3-5 years that they’ll actually progress towards making the church a part of their lives. We are still praying and doing everything we can. We are at the stage that we are trusting in the Lord to either guide us to someone that’s ready, or to guide them to us. Either way, we’re hanging in there because there is salvation on the line.

Just one last little note. Renato, the guy that we spent Christmas and New Years with, decided that he wants to talk to Greg. Renato loves Final Fantasy and any other video game, so when I mentioned that Greg is probably playing #12 right now he wanted to meet him. GREG: Renato’s email is sephirot_sud@hotmail.com. Obviously, he likes FF7. SUD is Portuguese for LDS. You NEED to send him an email (assuming you have an email account) and you can write anything you want in English. He can understand written English better then Dad. Feel free to talk to him about anything. He loves any practice he can get with English.

I’m still typing without Spell Check so forgive me if you can’t understand something.

The work is coming along, Brazil is REALLY hot, and I’m fine so stop worrying about me.

Hoping that you get the letter,
Elder Haws(mo)

PS Thank you REVELATION. I was about to click send on my email when I thought that maybe I should refresh my inbox. I found Mom’s email. Unfortuantely she didn’t want to say too much to me either. Is everyone really mad at me about this whole transfer thing? Relax. Elder Brough from my MTC district is in my district now. I’m doing great. It’s awesome to get to see a familiar face every week. No word from BYU about Greg? I’ll keep him in my prayers. If nothing else, sometimes they will let you in if you offer to do Summer Semester before Fall. It’s only 6 weeks long, and it cuts out time to work, but it gets you in. Best Wishes little Bro!