Week 100

Hello friends and family for the penultimate time on the mission!

I read an interesting scripture this week!

3 John 1:14-15

With love,

Elder Haws

Week 99

This week, to be honest I don't have a lot to say. We´re having a hard time finding new investigators, which means we shouldn't cut our old investigators who arent progressing at all. Since we cant really find too many new investigators, we keep working with them but they aren't progressing and so its kind of frustrating.

Tomorrow will be Mission Tour. That means we´re headed to Marília today! Goodbye p-day! haha Elder Mozart Soares, for the... 8th quorom of 70 I think, will be here. They are doing 2 different meeting for our mission. One for us here in São Paulo and another ofr all the zones that are in Paraná.

Have a great week!
Elder Haws

Week 98

Guilherme wasn't baptized, he didn't even go to church! he´s kind of fleeing a little bit. But we´ll keep after him this week.

I ended up telling everybody here that I was ending my mission a few weeks ago... maybe 5. I dunno. So yeah, everybody knows that I´m leaving for home after this transfer.

This past week was super quick, like they all have been for a while! And it was super hot..About 100 every day and super super humid, even though it hasn't rained here for a long time! The state of São Paulo is in a pretty severe drought and a lot of rivers are drying up and cities without water. Because there is no water, some dams aren't working as well and there are sometimes energy problems. This past... Tuesday, I think, we were told we wouldn't have power that day in an effort to conserve energy and give it to other places. But it was only from 8 to 1:30 which doesn't effect us at all so it didn't matter.

Well... the work is going slowly but its going(kind of).

Have a great week!

Elder Haws

Week 97

Hello!!

I´m bettter now, on Tuesday morning I woke up mostly better and by Tuesday night I was back to normal again!

What did dad get for his birthday that was steelers? And Ali, what did she get that was fun?

Sounds like you guys had a busy weekend,with pajama parties, peach days in bear lake and family parties!

This week we have a good possibility for baptism finally. His name is guilherme and he is dating a member here. He´s 15.

Umm.... it was s uper long week and we didnt get too much accomplished. we had a zone meeting in Tupã on thursday and i got to see Elder Gregory, my comp in the MTC. Also, hes the one we met in the airport in Salt Lake with his family. They live in Fielding.

Sorry that this email is so short, but i dont have much else to say. Do you guys have a few questions for me?

Much love,

Elder Haws

Week 96

Hello,

In Salmourão we ate lunch at a members house. Edimar and Lucy. She just made a meat and a potato salad and juice. but she actually took time and made it good! There is a member here who doesn't really like elders too much and so just gives us a bowl of rice and hot dog slices or something similar. She gives us lunch every Tuesday :(  but that's just part of the mission. and it made lunch in Salmourão THAT much better when we went there! the meat was cooked with cilantro and some other spices that i dunno what they are, and it was delicious!

We're teaching two families in Salmourão. One is a dad, a mom, a daughter and a son. Only the son has gone to the church. He loves it though. The dad can't stop, and doesn't want to stop, drinking coffee. The mom is great and is reading the Book of Mormon every day! But she needs to go to church! She has lots of excuses she uses to not go though.

This week we finally got a few new people at church. The problem is that 2 of them live in Salmourão and we can pretty much only go there on Saturday. So that's tough. The other lives here in the city. So we finally have some new people to work with that can actually be baptized soon.

I also stayed home sick yesterday for the first time in my mission! After church i started feeling really sick. We walked to lunch but by the time we got there I knew I shouldn't eat anything! So i didn't, I laid on their couch while Elder J. Silva ate and then we called sister Genaro. she told me that it was just cause of what I was eating (not that i doubt her but.. i don't think it was) so she said to go home and rest. It's terrible being sick on the mission!!! My first time and hopefully the last. Right at this moment my stomach still kind of hurts and my body aches but other that that I´m fine. The worst was having to throw up! I called the zone leaders to pass our districts numbers and shortly after I passed the numbers to them I went and threw up everything in my stomach! Which was luckily just water! Today for lunch I'll maybe try and eat some crackers cuz I'm starving (I haven't been able to eat since Sunday morning when I ate some crackers and chocolate milk)! 

It's a bummer being sick but it's certainly gonna help me in my competition with Cydnee haha (losing weight)!

Well I hope you all have a great week. I love you all and thank you for your support.

Com Amor

Elder Haws

Week 95

Alright, tansfers were today and I...... will tell you what happens after I tell you about the week!

Wow, I´ve qualified for a home improvement loan? but I´m without a job for 2 years already! That bank is crazy!

I saw the pictures of the Ogden temple on the church website and its look awesome! I´ll miss the open house but I´ll be able to visit it when ever I want afterwards.

This week we went and worked in a little city about 20 minutes from here. Its called Salmourão. We had a good lesson with a family there and there's a lot of potential there as far as new investigators go! The family that invited us over(memebrs) is super cool and she made a super delicious lunch!

On Saturday night there was a gincana da família, basically a family game night here in the branch. It want pretty well even though half the people who were supposed to plan activities and games didn't even show up. 

Irmã selma( sister Selma) made her part extra long to make the activity fun still. She´s a really great member!

This week I also thought I lost my glasses!! I got pretty upset cause I know how much I had to pay to get them! But two days later I was asking the branch presidents wife if she had seen them and I had accidentally left them in her house! So I got a lot happier after that conversation. 

Dad, in my hed the weather sounds perfect in logan. My body would probably think its too cold though. This area of Brazil is super hot and pretty dry. not uite as dry as Utah though. Both my comp and I are suffering bloody noses almost daily. Its about 90 every day here. and its the winter still!!!! spring is just about to start. Good thing i wont still be here in December!! 

This branch is passing through some difficult times. A few members in particular.  I think thats part of the reason president Genaro decided to leave Elder J. Silva and I here for another transfer! 

I have not been transferred.

WEll.... I hope you all have a great week!

Oh I heard that our mission will have Mission Tour this next month. So that will be pretty cool. Last time it was Elder Costa who came!

Com amor

Elder Haws

Week 94

HELLOOOO!!!!

Mom, I really liked the joke from the high council man about double spacing his talk to make it long!

I also spoke in church this Sunday! However the sacrament meeting started about 15 minutes late :( so I spoke and when I ended.... my companion only had about 4 minutes to talk!!!! haha I took up ALL the time! whoops. He´ll speak next week though with our branch mission leader who was supposed to talk but didn't show up!

This week we didn't have any success at getting people to go to church. We worked a lot on a list of less active and inactive people who he wanted us to try and reactivate but also didn't have any success. This isn't quite how i was expecting the end of my mission going, with absolutely no success! its frustrating.

This next Monday we will have transfers again. Which means I´ll be on my last transfer of them mission! It´s crazy how fast time is flying.

Oh and a few months ago I saw sister Briggs and told her that we were related, though kinda distantly. She didn't know! With her and sister Eliasson I have two not so close relatives in the mission!

The ideas are kind of working. We did a branch activity on Wednesday and got 16 people there, which in this tiny branch is really good! We´ve got another planned for this week and this time we´re GOING TO GET INVESTIGATORS to go!! I´ll go crazy if every single person we talk to rejects us once again this week!

I´m sad that dad will cut his hair before I get home, I wanted an awesome picture with him when I got back before he cut it, but oh well.

Well.. that's how my week went! Love you all and I´ll let you know next week if I´ll die (*his last area..where they send him home) here in Osvaldo Cruz or somewhere else!

Elder Haws