Week 32

Ola Familia!

I'm missing you all a lot right now. This week was suuper long and really hot, except for the mornings are really cold. They're actually about 15 which isn't cold but I've become a whimp here. My feet are a bit better after a week with running shoes on but still hurting. I'm excited to try the insoles and hoping they're gonna work great.

Nothing much to tell about this week. We only got three people to church, even though we had about 10 who committed.We worked all through church until sacrament meeting to get them there. We had Geronimo (Jeronimo?) who is one of our new investigators there. He is addicted to cigerettes and coffee but we're helping him to stop. He's pretty committed. He already stopped drinking acohol a long time ago. He looks about 40 but we found out he's 60 as we walked to church with him.

Amanda went again and she's going to be baptized this weekend. She's planning on Sunday but we're going to talk to her tomorrow when we go there if it can be Saturday so she can be confirmed on Sunday. It's way better to do it that way, less time for stuff to happen and them end up not getting confirmed, which happens quite a bit here.

I had a picture to send but I think I left my cable here int he LAN House last week and its not here anymore so I can't connect my camera to the computer.

You should all send more letters, more often, they get here fast!!
Love you lots. Stay safe ad know how much I care about each of you.

Com Amor
Elder Haws

Week 31

Helloooo!

Glad you all had a good week. My week was a roller coaster which is upsetting. I like when everything is just fine and the week goes by normally, not having really crappy days and then good and all craziness.

We baptized gabriel! He had the bishop actually baptize him There were so many people there! Usually there's five or six people at each baptism but there was at least 20 there! Cause he's been waiting to get baptized for a long time and had already been going to church for a few months so everybody new him.

A missionary just got back here in this ward. I think he was serving in Sao Paulo so we're going to talk to him and get him to help us out we need to have a lot more lessons with members. We're lucky to get 3 in a week here and we're suppose to have 15-20!

My feet have been hurting lately so I finally called the mission doctor once I realized it wasn't just soreness and wouldn't go away. He said I've got Plantat Fisciitis, which is pretty common for missionaries to get. It's when the tendons on the bottom of your feet begin to tear from over use. So I have permission to use my tennis shoes that I brough cause they ahve better arch support and should help my feet heal as I do some different excercises and ice my feet at night. It's only been three days that I've used the shoes but it's already helped a lot.

It was raining on Sunday and so we only had two of our investigators at church which was a bummer. But we've made the 16 as a baptismal date for one of them. Her name is Amanda and she's 17 and her grandpa is a member of the ward here. His name is Natal and he really really likes to talk for a looong time haha. The only problem with teaching Amanda is that it takes an hour to walk to her house. She couldn't live further away and still be in Cambe. She lives on the last street before the nothingness that stretches until Riviera and Londrina. And since she lives so far away we can only teach 1 or 2 days per week cause it uses so much of our day to get there.


This is the coke factory that we walk past on our way to Amanda's house! Too bad we're not allowed to drink Coke...

Wendrel is our other investigator that was at churhc. We haven't marked a date with him yet because we won't go there until tonight. He lives on the opposite side of teh city from Amanda. On the other side where the nothingness stretches until I don't know what. His house is also an hour long walk from our house. We're not doing very well at working in a specific area. BUT...we're baptizing peopel so that is okay.

We also got two kids. Gabriel and Rian to stop drinking coffee and their dad Edgar too. And we're going to try and naptize them this Sunday! THe kids that is, the dad needs to actually marry his "wife" before he could be baptized. And..that's what's happening here in Cambe!

"I love you" is "Eu te amo" or "Eu amo voce"

Eu Amo Voces
Tchau

Elder Haws

More Picutres!!

These two are of the sidewalk. This is why Tyler can't ride a bike everywhere because all of the sidewalks are like this-random dips that are from a few inches to a few feet deep!

This store decided not to put a sidewalk in front of their building!

I didn't know what I had bough. It wasn't bad though. A hardboiled egg and ground beef all fried together. Sounds gross!

These are most of the youth of the ward. This is the house of Havelin, where I skyped on Mother's Day!

Pictures

A really tiny and gross bathroom in an icecream shop. I couldn't even walk through the door cause my shoulders hit the walls!

A view from the edge of the city. Those houses are built by the government and then basically given to people for free. They are called a cohab (pronounced qwabi in English). I'm not sure why they are way out there away from everything else.

This is how I get my protein!! I don't do this often.

I didn't actually buy this watch...but it's a cool clock!

This is the cockroach and the rusty knige I used to get rid of it!

Week 30

Hello Family!
I love you sooo much!
This week was super short. It was the end of the transfer and today starts my fifth already!! Looks like Elder Abreu and I will be staying here in Cambe for another transfer together! Which I'm really happy about cause it's hard to switch to a new area. Plus we already have a baptism scheduled for Saturday! His name is Gabriel and his uncle is a member. I don't remember if I already told you about him. He didn't want to be baptized until his uncle got back. And...now I remember that I already said this! So ya, he'll be baptized on Saturday and then confirmed on Sunday! Also that girl Kauane still hasn't been baptized because she wants her friend from here in Cambe to be there and other friends and it is hard for them all to schedule a time when everybody can be there. I'm pretty sure everything will be figured out this week though!

Well, I already have 7 months on the mission! That's crazy. Time is going by so quickly!
I killed my first...wait for it...cockroach! Actually it wasn't the first I have killed but it was the first I killed inside my own house. They are super gross and I'm glad it happened last night because this morning we cleaned the house. I felt like the house was super gross after I found and killed it. But it's not too big of a deal, I mean it wasn't in a place I considered sanitary...just the fridge!! I have no idea how it got in there.
I bought a watch that I was talking about...I'll send a picture of it (kind of)!

This week I've been trying really hard to pay attention to the spirit and understand it. It's hard. I've read a lot of conference talks about prayer and revelation and inspiration and once somebody get's really good at recognizing and recieving help, it seems like they'll basically have a super power! Able to detect things before they happen because they are so in tune to be protected both spiritually and physically.

It's always great to hear from you guys. Love you!!

Elder Haws

Week 29

Hellooo!
Wow this week went really...slow and kind of crappy because of a baptism *lack there of). Our baptism that we have been working with for the whole transfer was all ready to be baptized and everything was scheduled. But then we found out that because of where she lived she had to be baptized in a different ward. So we gave all the information to the Elders there. She ended up not being baptized because of all the confusion of the other elders and she had to work part of the day. She'll still be baptized though, just next week or perhaps sometime during this week. I'm sad that we don't get to be there or anything but she is going to come here sometime and we're going to take pictures as if we had been the ones to actually perform the ordinance! She's a really cool girl named Kauane; I have no idea if that is spelled right though. The important thing is that she is getting baptized though!!

Also on Sunday, we confirmed Augusto! It was really cool. He already recieved the priesthood and has a calling! The secretary of the young men, cause he's 18.

Also, I gave a talk on Sunday the bishop's councelor saw us in the street on Saturday night and stopped us and then asked me to give a talk. It went alright I guess. I still have a really strong English accent but I know people can understand me. I gave it on obedience and shared a bunch of examples of the Savior's obedience. He didn't give me a topic so I chose something that I wanted to study a little more. I also blessed the sacrament for the first time in Portuguese on Sunday! I messed up one time, though I was trying to say the right word they thought it was wrong because of my accent! I'm not really sure that I believe my sister, that says I have an accent when I speak English too!

We did have a miracle in Cambe on Sunday too! A kid named gabriel finally decided to be baptized! His brother is swerving a mission right now and he's been waiting for him to get back before bein baptized but apparently his brother told him he needed to be baptized now and not keep waiting for him! So we will work hard to make that happen this week!

Have a great week!

Week 28

Hello Everyone-

Yesterday we got to Skype with Tyler for Mother's Day. He sent a very short email that mostly commented to family members so I'm not going to post it this week.

Tyler is doing very well. As he was talking to us he was drinking an avacado smoothie. He said that they eat the avacado before it gets all shrively like the ones we have--so it is sweeter. They mixed it with milk and something else. So that was interesting.

He's trying not to eat chocolate since he's gained about 15 lbs and doesn't want to go running because it is so hot. That was funny to hear him talk about.

He had a little bit of a hard time talking in English because he's been talking in Portugues only. He has an accent when he talks-which was really cool to hear.

Tyler is doing great!! Take some time and write to him--you can send emails or handwritten letters. The info is in the right side of the screen.

Thanks for all the support for Tyler.

Love,
His family!