5-0. It’s a pretty good start for my Cougars, but we can’t let a team like USU look good when the U beat them by over 40. Oh well. We’ve just got to keep our focus on the conference and everything should work out for the best.
How was General Conference for you guys? I got to watch everything except the Saturday Morning Session. Everything Saturday was just in Portuguese. President Queiroz informed us that we could only go to the Saturday sessions (except Priesthood) if we had an investigator. All of our investigators backed out at the last minute for the morning session so we had to do a little running but we made to the Saturday Afternoon Session right at the end of the first musical number with Willian. It was great… except for the talk in the Priesthood session by Elder Mamula(?). The guy translating got lost a couple times so we listened to half the talk in English. A couple people got really upset… but I didn’t mind. What can I say? I guess I’m pretty easy to get along with. And don’t worry. We got a ride home at around midnight with the Bishop. Dairy Queen doesn’t exist in Florianopolis so we had to improvise (picture enclosed). Sunday I spent the entire day in the office watching conference with Elder Wright and the rest of the Americans in the Zone. As soon as Elder Godoy mentioned Florianopolis there were loud cheers from every computer screen. Elder Wright wasn’t watching the conference live, so his cheer came when the rest of us were watching the end of his talk. It just so happens that Elder Godoy was the mission president of a member from Navegantes. Elder Godoy was baptized into the church at 17 and was a mission president when he was only 34 years old.
Thanks to everyone involved with the package. It was great. I opened it while I was on a companion exchange with Elder Burkhardt (picture enclosed). Elder Burkhardt was incredibly jealous of my package. Usually missionaries get boxes filled of either useless stuff, or candy that nobody misses. The ward and family came through strong for Elder Haws. Thanks! Oh, I think I read in a letter that the Gemar family is expecting another. Maybe it’s just me, but I think Michael Gemar has a great ring to it. What do you guys think?
I’m sorry if I’ve done anything to offend the family. I keep getting little hints to answer questions that people send me. I went back and read each of the emails I’ve gotten since mid-August and the only two questions I found were about my mission president’s last name and whether or not I get packages sooner now that I’m on the island. If you say KAY-ROSE you’ll be about 90% right. Yes, our district has meetings at the office every Tuesday.
Just to close we played ball for P-Day today. After 2 hours of humiliation, runnindg and soccer we busted out the basketball. It was Elder Huber, Elder Santana (formerly Elder C. Silva) and me versus the President and two Americans that will be home before Thanksgiving. It was a pretty close game at the beginning but ended up being an eternal 3-2 drill since Elder Santana is still learning. Unfortunately we lost 22-20, but at least I blocked the president 3 times (only 2 were big) and a couple people got ad at the 15-foot jump shot.
Life is good, summer is coming soon, and I’m fine so stop worrying about me.
Countdown to Saturday,
Elder Haws(mo)
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