Hey Family,
Long time no see. Have to wish Jonah a happy birthday one more time. I’m glad to hear that he’s already learning to economize his money. Stop spending and start saving. You’ll thank yourself later. I didn’t get to open up the pictures Jenny sent because we’re in Videira today and the lan house is pretty bad. I’m starting to miss Joaçaba already. The lan house we use there is in the mall, and in addition to renting computer time, they also have a couple Playstation 3’s that you can pay to play. Naturally, I can’t (even if the guys who work there offer us free time on the systems) but it’s fun to watch the different people come in and play. These days I normally finish emailing about 15-20 minutes before Elder Cook so that gives me a nice little while to watch some soccer. I’ve seen everyone from 8 year- olds to 45 year-olds come in to play. It’s a twist to the week that you don’t get everywhere.
We gathered the troops for a Super P-Day today. Well. It was going to be. Then the two elders from Caçador decided to stay home. We still had 8 elders and some investigators playing ball together in Ipomeia. When I say “ball” I mean soccer because the basketball that is usually in Videira is currently in Caçador and they didn’t come play. I spent most the morning playing goalie because no Brazilian ever wants to. Brazilians are naturally good at soccer, but also only want to score goals, occasionally pulling out the fun tricks to make fools out of people. For the most part just my companion and I were the two goalies, but we did a pretty solid job of closing the nets. Since we play on a basketball court, the goals are smaller. As such, I take up almost the entire goal. Fortunately no one figured out that the easiest way to score is kicking the ball on the ground since I’m horrible with my feet. They’re all used to kick the ball in the air into the corners of the goal, but never seemed to realize that I am not only enormous, but I have decent hands. As such, I got my own chance to talk a little trash. I realize that’s not a good thing for Elders to do, but sometimes I can’t help myself.
The work is coming along pretty well here. We’ve got a couple families that just need to get married and we’ll be filling up the font. Fortunately, even though the members aren’t giving referrals, these investigator families have begun telling their friends about us. We met these families and decided we would be more than pleased to help them find the truth that they didn’t know they were looking for. To tell you the truth, we have one family in the branch that is preparing 3 other families for us, but we haven’t had much to do their yet. Sure enough they’ll be ready for the water as soon as we get them; we just have to be patient.
Conference was awesome last week. After the trainings, the burnings, and practicing the lessons, I got the chance to just sit and chat with Elder Huber for close to 2 hours. Reliving old times from BYU, swapping mission experiences and him informing me on what the rest of the group is up to. He keeps saying that he’s ready for me to go home, just so that he can be sure he only has 3 more months. I can’t believe it’s already happening.
Life is going good, the sun is REALLY hot, and I’m fine so stop worrying about me.
Holding down the fort(goal),
Elder Haws(mo)
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