How was your week? Mine was pretty good. I'm sorry Greg didn't get into BYU. I was really hoping he'd be able to go down and be part of the marching band. Here's what he's gonna have to do:
(1) Try to get straight A's, but nothing below a B.
(2) Keep playing the trombone!
(3) Around next March try to transfer down to BYU and apply to get into the marching band.
If we manage to succeed on all 3 steps Greg and I should be on the field together my senior when he gets back from France/Korea/Germany. Ready...BREAK!
One question. Was the MWC Basketball Tournament in Las Vegas again? Somebody has got to see that this set-up isn't exactly fair. If we were able to play every postseason tournament in the Marriot Center, we'd end up winning the tournament too. In fact, we might have shut-out a team like CSU in the 2nd round. No worries, we've just got to keep proving that we deserve attention so that when I get back and rejoin the Pep Band the team will be on the wayto the Final Four in 2010. We will play UCLA in Anaheim? Who's the fat man on the NCAA Tournament commitee who has no interest in his eternal salvation. Some sinner is going to miss out on the kingdom he deserves if some serious repentance doesn't start happening.
Happy Birthday Jonah! The big 3. By the time I see him, I will have been in Brazil for half of his life. When I left he didn't say more than one word at a time, but when I get back his sister will be talking, AND his new littlebrother/sister will probably be pretty close to walking. I'm not sure if this would be a compliment to me or an insult to Jonah, but everytime I show the pictures of the family people say that Jonah looks a lot like me. That is, after everyone comments on how white the nephews and neices are. Brazilians have never seen anyone like them before.
Now to explain this week's pictures. The first three come from the top of a little mountain/hill that overlooks my area. We climbed up there with a member and her friend to share a neat little message about the creation and the love that God has for us (hey dad, you should send me a copy of that poem you always read: let's face it, God's crazy about you). When we got up there we stopped for a minute to take pictures. The first two pictures show the "center" and a couple inner neighborhoods of Imbituba. The third and fourth pictures, which have some plants blocking part of the view, shows the neighborhood where we live. Our house is a 40 minute walk from the center of the city. You can't actually see our house in the picture, it would be a little above and to the right of the white apartment building that you can see in the lower left. We will be going back up there next P-day (I think) to take some better pictures. As we were walking up to the top, we used a trail that cut through some woods. Everything was going good until I felt a thick string break on my forehead. I quickly brushed off my forehead and my shoulders, looking for what I thought would be a little spider on my clothes. Luckily, I found nothing in my clothes. I casually looked to see if I could spot the culprit, but a glance to my right showed nothing. Almost too casually I looked back to my left and found "my friend". Not more than 6 inches from the tip of my nose, the largest and most colorful spider I have ever seen was staring right back at me. I tried to take a couple pictures,but I couldn't get a really good one of the pattern on his back. You can see an almost white spot on the back of his thorax. In reality, that white spot is the pattern of a skull. I was a little creeped out when I saw it, but I have fully recovered since then.
Thanks for all the love, prayers, and support. The only thing that I was thinking I might like is a talk from Elder McConkie. I found it in Portuguese in the back of the "Strengthen Your Brethren" manual. It was the manual they used in Priesthood during the early 90's with the Doctrine andCovenants. The name of the talk in English should be "Just an Elder". Elder McConkie gave it as an address in a regional representative meeting (I think) so I'm not sure just how easy it would be to find. I was reading it in Portuguese, but I think I wasn't understanding some stuff, you know,McConkie has a tendency to say things really complicated in English. Imagine translating it. Besides that, I saw another Elder get a package that looked exactly like the big flat-rate envelopes you guys sent me a couple times. Is it possible that they do the same thing with boxes so that you don't pay for the weight?
The weather is great, the work is coming along, and I'm fine so stop worrying about me.
Climbing the hills wherever I go,
Elder Haws(mo)
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