March 19, 2012 - Hello

Hey family,

Thanks for the emails! Sounds like everybody is doing great!

A couple of questions:
-How will it be for me to sign up for classes? Will you have to do that? I have thought about some classes I would like to take.
-How is the housing contract going?
-Do you know anything about an All Sports Pass?

Just so you know I am NOT trunky haha. Just wanting to know.

So this last week was tough. We definitely could have done a lot better. Im just glad to be able to start a new week and look to do better. What a blessing the Atonement and the Sacrament are in our lives. I couldnt keep going without them.

Question? Did that fireside with the mission president ever happen? If so, how did it go?

So this week we had a wedding! haha It was a cool experience and great to see this family get married. Patricia should be baptized on Sunday! We are also continuing to teach Luiz Fernando. He is a great funny guy. But he is super committed to what he says he will do. He is preparing to be baptized on Sunday as well. We are also teaching Vitor. He is 17 and he lives with his Aunt and Uncle who are members. His little sister Thais was baptized recently and he is just awesome. We can only teach him on the weekends though. But he has a strong desire to learn and has been to church three times now. So we have some awesome people that we are teaching. But this week we are going to focus on finding more famlies.

We started our english class haha. 2 people showed up. Both members. One was a 9 year old kid haha. So we have changed tactics. São Carlos has 3 colleges, all of which are in OUR area. So we made tons of flyers and handouts saying "Free English Class taught by 2 American Missionaries" haha. The Elders Quorum Pres in our ward (he's 23) said that they did this on his mission and they filled up the sacrament meeting room. So thats our goal! We are stoked! Its going to be a great week!

Pictures:
-A blury picture of a crazy storm that rolled in.
-Some pictures of the wedding of Daniel and Patricia. Everyone says that their little boy, Daniel Jr, looks just like me ahah.

I love you family. Thanks for all you do! The gospel is true!

Elder Hawkley