"Holy" Sabbath‏

Hey Family,

Hope everyone had a good Easter, and that Greg is studying for finals. Easter was kind of a joke down here. They get Friday off as a holiday, so everyone was on the beach for three days. The streets were empty, the houses were locked up… and we didn’t even see police cars on the street. Life should be returning to normal soon, just have to keep working.

I had an interesting experience last night. In order to get an investigator to church yesterday we had to pull the old trick of “if you come to our church we’ll go to yours.” As such we got two more women to church, but we had to visit one of theirs yesterday. She said it was an Evolutionist Presbyterian, but she forgot to mention the band. We basically sat through a free hour-long hard rock concert. The band was pretty good; it’s just too bad the spirit wasn’t there at all. My companion felt so bad he couldn’t walk into the “chapel/warehouse” of the church; we just stood out in the foyer. It was a fun little experience, and really helped to strengthen our testimony of the true church.

Today we’re hanging out in Joinville. We have a member who comes to Joinville a couple times a week, so if it lands on Monday we get to come and go for free. That means some easy soccer time. Last week we were here because of General Conference, this week because of a free ride, and next week we’ll have Zone Conference on Tuesday so we’ll hang out on Monday to play ball. It’s a tough life, but somebody’s got to do it.

Give Milo a hug for me. We’ll have to be getting him his BYU gear soon. We can’t run the risk of letting a Ute into the family. We’ll have him screaming Cougar and Potato at least as well as the Brazilian Primary before too long.

There’s work to be done, “winter” is on the way, and I’m fine so stop worrying about me.

Contemplating the concert,
Elder Haws(mo)