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

Week 93

This area is being really difficult! nobody wants to be reactivated and no investigators want to go to church! We had 0 people at church AGAIN this week!

The coldest its been for me has been about 70! the coldest!

Dad, you said you liked my house and thought it would be easy to maintain because we dont have any grass. well you didnt see the backyard to our house! its a huge field that we play soccer on during our p-days!

I´ll send photos today of it!

Elder J. Silva and I are friends, we´re having a rough time here in Osvaldo Cruz but we´re trying hard. He´s a pretty picky eater. He wont eat any vegetable except lettuce. Sometimes. even lettuce he won't eat some times. He doesn't like feijoada (a super famous food here) and won't eat it at all EVER. He also can't eat pork (this one is cause of a health issue and so is okay to not eat). And then after all this he sometimes complains about lunch. Not a lot but just occasionally. I don't really feel bad for him going hungry though because he doesn't eat half the stuff cause he doesn't like it... He buys a lot of crackers to always have somehting to eat at home after a lunch that he doesn't like!

Anyways, this week I´ve got a lot of different ideas that we´re going to try and help this branch strengthen and grow!

Until next week!

Elder Haws

Week 91 & 92

Week 91:

HELLLOOO!

Mom, No. there's no shade in the whole city!

Dad, the weather here was really hot when we first got here cause it hadn't rained in a long time! but now its been rainy almost every day for a week! and in the mornings its freezing!! One day it even got down to 15 degrees Celsius... which i know isn't that cold,but I'm used to Brazil heat now so I´m using my sweater in the mornings, and sometimes for the whole day, and I´m sleeping with 2 blankets!

Elder J. Silva is from Maceio Alagoas. In the Northwest of Brasil. He´s 20. He´s brown haha He has 2 sisters, one who will go on a mission soon and the other has 11 years only so won't be able to go for a while.... His dad works with sugar cane and he did for a little before the mission as well. He wants to be an engineer.

(wow i just realized that as i asked Elder j. silva info about him, i wrote in Portuglish..... i´ll just leave it like that though and i think you´ll still understand)

The branch president is a really cool guy. He´s funny and likes to talk about deep doctrine with us sometimes. His wife is cool too. 

We´ve had a little bit of trouble getting people go to church here in Osvaldo Cruz. We had 6 people for this Sunday and nobody went! Just one lady who said she wasn't a member but turns out that she is so... we at least are helping reactivate her!

We´re working a lot here and just waiting for the results to start showing up. The branch president leaves with us a lot and is always encouraging others to do the same! Its a great bracch here.

I love you and hope you all have a great week!

Week 92:

Alright so this week we had district conference. When all of the branches went to the city called Tupã! President Genaro was there and spoke. He´s great at giving talks!

We aren't the first elders to come to Osvaldo Cruz. There were elders a few months ago and then they got taken out and sisters got put here. After about 3 months, they were taken out as well and now me and my comp are here. The branch has about 40 people that go each week and maybe 100 people in the city are baptized.

We haven't had too much success in getting people to church :( the transfer is already half over too! but the members are great and we´re working with them. I just wish we were seeing results for our work as well!

Im sorry that my email is really short this week! 

I love you and will talk to you all next week! Time is flying by too fast just like mom said!

Elder Haws