*note from Mikey's family - we're confused about his transfer.
I think he put Itajai two times instead of telling us
WHERE he's going. Maybe someone else can figure out where he is. :)
**update** ok - we're gussing he's on Florianopolis
Hey Family, School has already started? BYU already got a win in the books? Utah won at Michigan? That’s really going to help our rankings when we beat them in a third straight Holy War. BCS here we come.
Life here in Navegantes is good but it’s about to come to an end. Yesterday the bishopric announced that I was probably going to get transferred. It seemed as if the world was going to come to an end. A bunch of people started to cry, a few gave me their addresses and informed that if I didn’t keep in touch they would kill me, and others just continued with their lives as usual. It turns out that it times for another change of scenery, so I’m packing my bags.
The baptisms went great last Friday. Deivison is 11 and Gustavo is 8. There parents and older sister were baptized ten years ago, but have been inactive for around years. The family is almost completely active right now, and plans to stay that way now that we splashed the little boys. (Note: I didn’t mean that WE splashed the little boys, it was actually the bishop in the water with them). Gleice is 13 and is the neighbor of a really active family that lives about an hour and a half from our apartment. We are now working on teaching/baptizing her two sisters and her mother. Her mom hasn’t been to church yet, nor has she been present at a full lesson but combing the baptismal experience and our new teaching techniques it shouldn’t be too long before she “joins the club”. We had a little party after the baptism, but I’ll probably wait to send hoe a DVD of photos rather then email all of them.
For P-Day we went to a beach in Itajai with the zone and then had lunch at McDonalds and/or Subway. I’m going to have a Subway In my next area so I went to McDonalds with Elder Stephanou (Currently: Itajai Zone Leader, but on Wednesday he becomes the new Assistant to the President). I got a Big Mac combo with a shake. The burger was a little small; the fries only “looked” exactly like the original, but the shake was delicious. The entire combo cost around $10-12. When I explained to Elder Stephanou that I could have had 3 combos for the same price back home he asked if he could come live with us. Poor guy. It’ll be a good change to get home and pay the real price for fast food. The dollar menu will definitely be a pleasant surprise.
Tomorrow night I’ll be sleeping at Elder Bateman’s house in Itajai before taking the bus to Itajai. Unfortunately we’re getting separated again, but it doesn’t look like we’ll be ending up in the same zone any time soon. My new companion will be… a short Brazilian. Who would have guessed? But seriously, even the other Brazilians call him short. Should be a fun 6 weeks. It turns out that I’ll be going to take Elder Andrews’ (from my group) spot, which is also where Elder Brough (also from my group) started his mission. Good times. Let’s see how it goes.
Life is good, Morgan seems like a boy’s name, and I’m fine so stop worrying about me.
Leaving “Heaven,”
Elder Haws(mo)
PS I also tossed in a photo from our last P-day. Maiko, Elder Harmon, Elder Haws, Elder Stephanou, Elder da Rocha
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