hey mom and dad
wow another week gone by! they fly by here in staff! so, you can tell dad he can go ahead and do that with the money, or he can try to find a ford ranger painted blue with a chevy symbol on the front .......wait that won't do, it still would be a ford. so it would still break down haha. so we will be better off just using the money for that stuff. i'm excited to get pictures of his new truck! i bet you are just like a little kid with a new toy dad haha. that's crazy about josh getting out of japan one week before the tsunami. we have been hearing a lot about it. we got to see some videos too, SO CRAZY!!!! we were informed that all the missionaries were safe. it's really a miracle that they are. the lord takes really good care of us! we have some families that are still worried cuz they have family members there and some haven't heard from them yet. so we are praying that everything is alright. that's crazy bruce is going to south africa!!! i hadn't heard about it. when does he leave? that's cool that he gets to speak english too. is aunt mara freaking out yet? haha i remember when i got my call, you and aunt valinda cried cuz i was going to brazil. i could just imagine africa! that is way cool, im excited for him. so dad is workin you to death huh mom haha. its good for you both, you guys will be in better shape than i am by the time i get home haha. things are good here. we have four baptisms this saturday that we are way excited about! we have been working like crazy! all of the people that will be baptised live in the furthest part of our area too ,so we have gotten a good work out this week. it's nice to have carnival over with so we can do stuff. this is the last week of the transfer so i will have a new comp next time i write. crazy how time flys by here. one transfer down four more left till i get to pass this job to someone eles haha. no it's not that bad, just stressful sometimes balancing missionary stuff with office stuff. but way good for me. we get to work right by president, so its way cool getting to know him better. he is super smart! he graduated from byu and harvard in chemistry and was teaching it at byu hawaii. he helps us out a lot with stuff. what ever question we have about the gospel he explains to us. its like having a seventy by your side while you are studying haha. but other than that manaus is good ole manaus. but i got to run mom and dad. i love you guys and will talk to you next week. tell everyone i love them

What new truck!!!!!!
i had no clue he was planning on getting a new truck. what did he do with his old one? that's way cool though. i might just have to give that a test run when i get home haha. that's crazy that cory is getting married! see that's what the mission and living in utah will do to a kid. that's why i better get up to reno quick hahaha. i can't believe they are engaged only dating for three weeks! but dad your right, i'm safe! that's cool that you got to see kc while you were up there. i need to write him one of these days. that's good that tanner is checking himself out in the mirrors. he deserves it. it is hard work getting buff. i mean look at me, i have been trying for years now and i'm still the same skinny little runt i have always been. how old is he now? i will get home and he will be getting ready to got on his mission. this week has been a pretty crazy/very boring one. this week was carnival here in Brazil. so guess what that means for the missionaries that live right next to the place where they have the parties? you guessed it, locked away like zoo animals. the church is the first building closest to the event center here. it has been crazy! we couldnt even sleep saturday night cuz of all the noise, that was fun sunday during church trying to stay awake haha. tonight is the last night though, so we can start leaving the office. so that explains the facebook haha. but don't worry, i am turning it over to randi to play around on for the next eight months. o we went to pick up an investigator that sunday morning. i have never seen a street so dirty in my life. i seriously almost couldn't stand walking through it. and the smell was worse than any smell i had smelled in my life! even worse than the rotten egg that ian decided to leave in a cooler for about six months after going camping. so thats saying something! but now it will go back to normal here. the transfer is almost over, so i will be on my own with all the finance stuff now. my companion will be getting transfered, he is pretty excited about that cuz he has been in here so long haha. o joy for me!!!! no, it will be good. i already got the first transfer under my belt, only four more to go haha. time flyes here too! and it's one of the top baptizing areas in the mission, so it's still good. we have a bunch of baptisms next week. we have four people marked for that saturday. one lady we taught, then she asked us for a blessing, so we gave her one. and after she pretty much bore testimony that the priesthood is real, and she knows it was restored here on the earth cuz she felt it. it was way awesome. a really big testimony builder for me and my companion and her too. her and her daughter will be baptised next week. the members are way excited too! so that's always a good thing, when you get the members excited. well i better run, but i will talk to you guys later. i love you guys. o and once again i'm glad you bought a new truck for me dad ;) haha

hey mom and dad
so this has to be short. yesterday the mission office got struck by lightning and burned all of our internet stuff up. so needless to say i have been running around since four yesterday fixing the problems and dealing with all the people that aren't getting their money on time (you know how fun that is mom). we have been working like crazy and trying to balance all of our appointments with our investigators on top of that. o life of a missionary hahaha. we have got one computer to work with internet so we are running with it haha. but we will have it fix by tomorrow so i will write you tomorrow. i love you guys

hey mom and dad
tell jamie hulse thank you for me haha. a sympathy package sounds great to me. things are going good here though. we are working really hard and i'm learning a lot. we still work just like normal missionaries but we just don't leave until four in the afternoon. the lord helps us a lot with the people though, we have two baptisms on the 5 of march. two men too, the men are the hardest ones to find. you should have seen it on sunday. one of the men came to church for the first time, from one of the little cities here, and at the end asked us, "so how does getting me baptized work?" haha. we were blown away. we went and taught him that day and marked his baptism date. he is way smart, he pretty much taught the whole first lesson to us, haha, all we had to teach was about the restoration. he was is way excited. his fiance is a member too, so she was there with us when we taught him. they are both way excited. then our other man, that will be baptized, is super intelligent! we have been teaching the plan of salvation to him for two days now cuz we get so detailed in it. he wants to know everything. we were teaching about our purpose here on this earth and about receiving the gospel in our lives then he was like "I'm in now aren't i? this is my chance that God is giving me to receive the restored gospel in my life." we were blown away with that comment. we marked his date yesterday and his response was as if he just won a prize (which really is) it was way cool. but i am learning a lot about dealing with this finance stuff. its nice too cuz the mission building is on the church ground so i pretty much live at the church. i do have to say the air conditioning is way nice, the first time i have ever been cold on the mission. but our rooms where we sleep don't have air just fans. but its nice cuz the only thing we do there is sleep haha. i think i am gonna like it here. the only thing is that i will be here for a long time. when i get out i will only have two transfers left on the mission. but it will be cool cuz i will set up you guys coming to get me, and i will get to talk to you guys on skype for mother's day where you can see me and its for free. so that will be way nice. and mom you would be proud, i am actually learning how to type other than just typing with two fingers hahaha. it will be a really good learning experience here. but i got to run we have to go pay some bills. that's a bad thing, we have to work on p days hahahaha. love you guys.

bem vindos a manaus
haha i got transfered back to manaus. and guess where i got transfered to....... finacial secretary. haha. that's right mom, i get to do exacty what you do for the hospital for the mission manaus. i am a little blown away right now haha. i'm not sure if i'm excited about it or not. what i will do is work in the office (with air conditioning!!!!!!) until four then go work in my area for the rest of the night. i think i will like it, but i will just have to get used to it. it's gonna be a lot of work i think. i have to do all the missions expences like rents and bills and the missionarys allowance every two weeks. it will be a learning experiece for sure cuz you know how good i am with computers and stuff haha ;) i will be trained for five weeks then my companion will be transfered and i will have to do it all by my self. the only down fall to it is that i will be in here for about seven months. then i will only have, i think, one more area before i go home. but it's cool i get to go to other areas to talk with land lords and stuff. so it won't be just locked away here. i was way bummed to be leaving porto velho though. that couple that we were working with is getting baptized next week, and i wanted to be there with them. but at least they are getting the important stuff done, but i just wish i could be there to see it. the missionaries have been working with them for four years now. they are a very special family. as soon as i found out i was being transfered we pretty much lived at their house haha. we made better than family home evening cake and played all sorts of games. it was alot of fun. but anyways, about those motorcycle magazines mom...... you should probably send those this way. we missionaries need stuff to keep us sane haha. i am not that trunky yet ;) hahaha i don't think i am needing anything else here though. i got back to manaus so i have my other shoes, and they wont get quite so hammered in thes area. my garmentss are holding up good. i had bought like four extra pairs in the mtc, so i think i am set. but you could send that shirt. porto velho did a number on my shirts haha. i still have good pants, and those socks from the missionary mall are pretty much undestructable. i have come to find out they are still like new. crazy two pairs or shoes and not one hole in a sock. you can throw some visine eye drops in there too. i am out of the stuff i brought with me. but other than that i am pretty good here. i will see how much i am gonna like new area thing i got going on, but i think it will be fine. i will talk to you guys later though. i love you guys.

WOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so there won't only be painted faced, streakin kids in vegas but brazil too haha. that's awesome! i can't believe i missed it! waited all these years to see them win one and they finally do when i'm on the mission. what kind of deal is this? haha. i'm sad i mssed the party too haha. i would kill for some hot chicken wings right now. me and my companion were dying all day cuz we knew it was the superbowl haha. we are probaby gonna have to go play some football one of these days now. but, by next superbowl i will be home, so they will just have to do it next year too. but anyways, haha. that's cool that you heard from chase. it has been so long since i have seen him. it's gonna be crazy to see where everyone is at when i get home. it's gonna be way weird too to see all the little kids all grown up haha. i am getting old mom, i am almost 21 years old! my companion said something about that the other day and i almost didnt beleive it! that's cool that bruce is going on a mission! is him and his mom butting heads like we did when we were doing my papers? haha. o i remember those days. the mission will be really good for him. tell him if he gets to go to the states he won the lotery haha; cars, bikes, hot water, no worms hahaha. that would be the life. no, brazil is cool, just tough. they have a saying here in brazil "só o forte servir no norte" only the tough serve in the north of brazil. things are going good here though. this is the last week of the transfer, so we are just waiting to see were everyone will go. we have more than twenty kids going home this transfer, so there will be lots of changes. i think me and my companion will stay together another transfer in this area though. i'm alright with that too cuz i want to be here for this next wedding and baptism that we are gonna have. this huge area is takin its toll though. i think if i dont go back to manaus this transfer i will have to buy new shoes. but it's ok. they are cheap here. mine are hammered though haha. i will send pics here in a bit. these dirt roads do some work on black dress shoes. but i am feeling good and we are working good. it's nice to have someone that's alot like me as my companion. we have a lot of fun and get work done too. next transfer will be a short one too, only five weeks, so thats why i think we will stay together one more. crazy cuz after this one is my last call to home!!!! way crazy. when does chauncy come home again? but i got to run mom and dad i love you guys and will talk to you next week.