I hope everyone is doing well back home. Joinville is still an interesting city. We had a relatively dry week up until Saturday. Saturday was the official Dedication Day of our new chapel here in the Itaum Ward. Temperatures were around 100 Fahrenheit, but with good old fashioned humidity. Yesterday the rain came back down and everything came back to normal. Shoes are wet, clothes don’t dry, but at least no one is dying of dehydration. We got the opportunity to work giving tours at the open house for the chapel this last weekend. Not as many people showed up as we might have hoped, but it was still a great experience.
Last week we had the great honor of receiving a member of the area presidency. The zone conference was awesome. We laughed, we felt the spirit, we left uplifted. I don’t believe anybody cried, but I’m not too worried about it. The most eventful part of the week was the actual preparation for the conference. A couple days before the conference an assistant gave us a call and told us that Elder Ellis “might” be coming to visit our house. We all suddenly had a great urge to clean house. We always clean up our own messes and don’t let anything get horrible, but when “the prophet’s eyes” are coming to town cleaning must be done. The greatest task I personally encountered was scrubbing the bathroom. It was a very humbling experience, especially knowing that no one had seriously performed such a task in a very long time. And when I say long time, I mean before Homely’s mission. I was on my hands and knees for a couple hours on two different days scrubbing every tile. My certainly didn’t thank me the next morning, but the approving thumbs up from President and Sister Queiroz almost made it worth it. Our new task is keeping the house spotless. Elder Ellis said the only thing wrong with our house was the fact that the mattresses are a little old and too thin. We have received authorization to go price shopping for new mattresses. That would be great… if we had time to do price shopping. With a brand new chapel we are now feeling the obligation of wearing out the new baptismal font.
Just to make matters more interesting, we got a surprise visit the night before the conference. Everything was spotless and ready for the cleaning inspection when a few more elders showed up to sleep at our house. Our house is definitely the closest to the bus station, but that’s still no excuse for 10 extra missionaries to sleep in a freshly cleaned house the night before a general authority visit. More work, stress, and hurrying to throw everyone out of the house early to clean up and be to conference on time. It just so happens that 6 of those elders missed their buses home the next day so we had to go pick them up the next night at the bus station to let them sleep at our house again. Oh well. It worked out in the end and BYU still won.
It’s the last week of the transfer. I’m sending home photos of my two companions this transfer. I worked with Elder Rocha for 12 days in Rio Tavares before coming to work with Elder Hill in Joinville for the rest of the transfer. Time to finish strong!
Contemplating the Maximum Duration of Rainstorm,
Elder Haws(mo)
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