Life on the island is going good. Yesterday was ward conference and the chapel was surprisingly full. I still don’t know everyone yet so a majority of the people could have been just stake leaders. The stake president recognized that this ward is the fastest growing ward in the stake. I looked at Elder Carvalho because we both know that this ward has only had 1 baptism in the last six months and around 4 baptisms in the last year. Then the stake president finished his “joke” by having all the pregnant members stand up. He said something like “even when investigators don’t get baptized, the ward can still grow in other ways. I’m not sure if it was a true joke, or if he was trying to drop a hint. Either way, I didn’t laugh.
It was good to hear about another shutout. Everyone had been talking about how our defense would struggle this year, but I haven’t seen any proof of that yet. Good times. I hope we can keep this up so that I can witness the big story next year. 2008: Quest for Perfection. 2009: National Championship! Go Cougars!
Today for P-Day we went to the beach. A bunch of missionaries really had fun, but I didn’t see much of a point to the trip. We traveled to the other side of the island to go to some “amazing beach” and everyone ended up talking for 2 hours. I thought it was good, but I failed to see any reason in traveling so far to sit around talking.
No package yet, but Zone Conference is on Wednesday so there’s still hope to get it this week. We are already getting the announcement that any Christmas packages must be sent directly to the mission office. Letters can go to “Caixa Postal 361”, bur any package needs to go to “Feliciano Nunes Pires 42”. I can’t promise that the second address is correct. You can look up the address in my mission papers, in the emails from last year, or I can send it next week. Either way, don’t send packages to the “Caixa Postal”!
I’m including a couple photos today. We have a family we’re teaching you decide to start living the Word of Wisdom. Since they don’t drink coffee anymore we decided to borrow it and try to brew some at home. It appears that our style was a little wrong and we ended up using all their coffee to make one batch. It didn’t appear to tasty so we ended up throwing it out. Does that make me a bad person?
Life is good, summer is coming and I’m fine so stop worrying about me.
Whipping up the newest coffee,
Elder Haws(mo)
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