Who Needs the Rules?

Hey Family,

Sorry. I can't get the computer to accept my pictures. To make things better this computer doesn't have Microsoft Word so this letter will be written without spell-check. I hope that I still remember how to type well enough in English that you guys can understand most of the message.

Beto Carrero World last week wasn't nearly as good as expected. By that I mean that I was upset I paid $30 for that experience. The main attractions of the park are shows so we expected to be free to ride the rides as much and as often as we liked. As it turns out, we never waited in a line. The problem was that none of the rides were worth going on. The Big Tower was completely overrated. The rocket at Lagoon is by far a better ride, regardless of heigth. In fact, I was technically to tall to ride the Big Tower. Rather than just sit on the side I walked in and no one said anything to me as I rode it 3 times. The roller coasters (one real and one for kids) we're both less exciting than the little red roller coaster that was at the fair a few years back. The only fear I had was hitting my head on one of the supports as the ride went along. If we had either had more money or wanted to spend more money we could have seen the shows and done some of the "Pay-to-Play" attractions. As it was, we showed up at 10:30, did everything that had potential to be cool 3 times (we even went on the Brazilian version of "It's a Small World), and we were leaiving the park to catch the bus at 1:30. Beto CArrero World would be cool for families or dates, but it's not really worth a missionaries time (money).

I don't know if I told you but last week but they moved Zone Conference to June 2nd (yesterday). It was good, but got quite a few missionaries crying because it was our last one with President Dansie. At the end both President and Sister Dansie hugged each missionary (yes, Sister Dansie hugged the Elders and President hugged the sisters) and gave us a slide show of the mission. The President and the assistants talked a lot about transitioning to the new mission president so I hope it all works out ok. The Dansie's leave when President and Sister Queiroz arrive on June 30th. President Queiroz and his wife are both native Brazilians but have spent around 2 decades living in Utah. Transfers will be June 18th, but the next transfer will only be 5 weeks long so President Queiroz will be running as soon as he gets here. It's no fun to be losing the Dansies but they made everyone promise to visit them in Utah. We're already planning some parties. At Zone Conference I got to do some good chatting with former companions Elder Wright (Concordia) and Elder C. Silva (Imbituba). Nearly every brazilian has the last name of Silva so he's now Elder Santana. Elder Wright is serving as a Zone Leader in the southern half of Joinville and Elder Santana is in Sao Bento do Sul. The elder who trained Elder Huber is now in my zone so I got some time to talk to him about life. Thanks for the letters. As always Elder BAteman and I spent a majority of the ride home reading up about BYU sports. We're both anxious for winter here to end. Not for warmer weather. Not to be closer to going home. Just because we want to start reading about cougar football again.

Dad bought shoes? I thought I told him not to. I guess the old man doesn't have any respect for elders anymore. Oh well. Ramos (a memebr here) has been askign me every week if you guys are going to send a copy of "The RM" that he can buy from me. Besides that, I'm doing fine. I've had to pay bills and do a little traveling lately so I had to use personal funds for grocery shopping today. I'm currently waiting for a refund from the mission office for mission expenses. This part is never fun.

The weather is still warm, we're back in Navegantes, and I'm fine so stop worrying about me. Annoyed at a wasted 30 dollars,
Elder Haws(mo)