Where in the World is Elder Haws(mo)?

Hey Family,

It appears by your emails that everyone is a little stressed. Everyone seems to be wondering where I am, what I’m doing, and why I didn’t email yesterday. Good times. I can’t believe that BYU lost so bad to TCU. It had seemed to be the second hardest game of the year, but still. One of the assistants to the president called me Friday to tell me BYU got blown out. I nearly cried, and it wasn’t even because of the spirit of the lesson. I was pleased to find out that I’m so well known around the mision for being a BYU fan. Even the AP’s will take 10 minutes out of their “busy days” to call up and talk trash to Elder Haws.

I feel as if we are setting a record down here. I’ve been tracting in the rain for around a month now. In the last month we’ve had around 8 days of sunshine, and the rest was umbrella weather. Luckily the sun was out this morning so my shoes could finally start to dry. It would definately be a time for rejoicing if we could get some snow to fall instead of this dreadful rain.

Now to answer some questions. I got transferred from the Agronomica Ward to the Rio Tavares Ward. Rio Tavarez is the ward that covers the southern half of the island of Florianopolis. Next week I’ll try to email a map showing the distance I moved. No, the president didn’t transfer me because I blocked him a couple times (jsut to make sure I blocked his shot once yesterday), in fact, he spent that same week bragging to every missionary in the zone that his team still beat mine. Onme of this P-Days I’m going to havbe to lay down the law with the president. My new companion is Elder Rocha who is from Olinda, Pernambuco. Interesting, because my second companion in Navegantes was Elder da Rocha from Recife, Pernambuco. Recife and Olinda are neighboring cities in the northeastern corner of the country. I’m emailing today because we couldn’t yesterday. Ourr “allowance” got delayed a couple days so I had to wait for my companion to recieve funds to email. Don’t worry. President Queiroz cleared everything.

Since today isn’t P-day I’m going to have to fun real quick. Sorry for the quick email. I’ll send photos next week.

The sun is back, my clothes are drying, and I’m fine so stop worrying about me.

Roaming the Island,
Elder Haws(mo)

P.S. Forgive me for typing errors, this computer doesn’t have spell check in English.