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Hey Family,

Its been a pretty good this week despite all the changes. We spent last thursday moving Elder Davis to his new area in Setúbal so that was a fun road trip. He and his new companion decided to meet half way in Lisbon so we didn´t have to take him far but it still ended up taking up a good part of our day. He´s called us a few times this week and he sounds ok. His house there is terrible and last night he called me and told me that it almost killed him. He was walking onto the bathroom to take a shower and turned on the light switch and ended up getting electricuted. Afterward he said his foot was stuck to the floor and his heart hurt. He´s alright but i dont think he´s going to be touching any light switchs any time soon.

the work this week has been pretty slow. With just two of us(and me being a greenie) we cant do as many divisions so our lessons went down a bit. Our companionship is doing good. There have been times when i have wanted to kill Elder Wislon but everything always works out. Right now we´re teaching our jovens how to teach the missionary lessons because they want to be ward missionaries. We call it our member missionary training center(MMTC). So far its been really good and we´ve already sent them a couple of times to go and teach some people.

I sent Will a letter this monday so hopefully he gets it before he goes into the MTC. He´s going in really soon. Although maybe it just seems that way because time is flying out here in Portugal. I´m in my second transfer in the field already! How crazy is that! That means i only have...15 more to go! I still dont feel good about my language skills but I try not to worry about that too much.

This week President Torgan has made more changes to the mission. P-day will no longer be on Wendsdays but will now be on mondays. This starts this week so this monday wil be P~day again.

Its still hot here in Portugal(as always) but pretty soon it will be raining everyday and i cant wait. Next week I´ll be sending pictures for sure so you guys can have a better idea of where i´m serving and i´ll also send you guys pictures of our apartment that costs 600 euros($900) a month.

Has dad been sending letters to the mission home or to my house in Cascais because I´ve been checking the mail box and I haven´t gotten any and i´m worried that the address doesn´t work. And i still haven´t sent that letter to Mike yet. I keep forgeting but hopefully i get it sent off this week. How are my Lions doing? I haven´t heard any sports news in forever. And whats Mike´s relationship status? I thought i would have recieved a wedding invatation by now. But i guess there´s still hope as long as the M*girl and and A* F* are single.

Well, I know this was probably a boring E-mail but with Elder Davis gone life here in Cascais is a little dull. Thanks for keeping me updated on everything and thanks for all the prayers. I love you guys.

Élder Haws
(People still can´t pronounce my name)