Photos: 1-Our crew. 2-The baby birds nesting
in our kitchen.
Dear
Family,
All right, so this e-mail will be
short, so I will say sorry right now....Nada muito legal.
So as you know transfers where this
week and it all went pretty smoothly. Transfers are always a bit nerve racking,
because if something goes wrong it is the Zone Leaders fault usually or at
least we take the blame…ha-ha! But thank goodness it went well! In our Zone we
received a lot of new elders. We still need to get to know them and everything,
and tomorrow we will have our Zone meeting so we will get to meet all the new
guys in the Zone.
This week we traveled almost all week
because of the Mission Council in Santa Maria. All the ZL´s have to travel to
SM, which is an 8-hour trip on bus. But the Council went very well and we
shared the subject of doing the Prayer Approach, an approach that worked very
well in the U.S. So I prayed and thought
a lot about it and felt like we should apply it in our mission as well.
President Parrela loves the idea and looks like he will study it a little more
and apply it in the mission here soon. I am super excited for it!
After the Council we had some extra
time so I was able to go with Elder Silveira and visit Sara, a recent convert
that was baptized in Santa Marta. She is doing awesome. She is staying active
in the church and trying to be a missionary too! I was glad I was able to
surprise her with a visit! :)
A cool/crazy thing that happens when
we have mission council is that all the ZLs stay in Casa Grande, which is a big
house with a bunch of beds. So we slept there 2 nights and of course we ordered
pizza and ate until we were knocked out with sleep…ha-ha! So you guys can know we did this both
nights...I think I gained my weight back that I lost. ;) Ha-ha!
When we returned home we got to work
and were able to have some great lessons. This week will be crazy too because
we will have a new chapel inaugurated (dedicated) here and we have to organize
with the bishop and stake president, so it will be a crazy busy week!
Mom, so the weather is warming up and
that means the LBS will start to drop... ;( I am super excited for Amanda and the new
baby! I will be an uncle of two!! Thanksgiving here isn´t too big. I think the
only holidays they really celebrate here are Christmas and New Years, along
with the other Brazilian celebrations. It will be cool to hear of the changes
Amy will make in the next few months as she prepares to serve a mission! She is
going to do awesome!
Dad, yes, a member here in the
mission makes the scripture covers for missionaries. They are super cool! :) So
on P-day we usually clean the house and sometimes play basketball, volleyball
or goal to goal, which is like soccer but without contact. The missionaries
here in a Brazil can´t play soccer. It is a rule. Here in Uruguaiana, there aren’t
many cool things to visit…ha-ha! The missionaries in the Zone are doing very
well. Of course there are some problems, but nothing serious. To tell you the
truth about the sisters we have here, they aren´t a distraction. They are
usually very obedient and respectful but some of them bring some drama to the
mission, ha-ha! I will finish the mission strong! No regrets, right?!
Keep Millie alive until I get home!! Thanks
for the sports update! :)
I love all of you so very much! :)
Elder Hauck
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