The Champ‏

Hey Family,

Thanks for all the emails! I had know idea there was that much sports news that could happen in a few weeks! My Lions won! Who would´ve guessed it. I feel bad for BYU but i think we´re all used to dissapointment after last season. Thank Jenny for all the photos. I´ve only been gone a few months and her kids have grown up so fast! Milo looks completly different! What happened? Ruby´s hair does look a little funny but here in a few weeks i have to get a haircut so my hair will look really funny too.

This week was good. Elder Davis still calls me on my cell phone(our area has two until tomorow) every once in a while which suprises me because he always has a half-dozen people calling him. His new house is terrible. Last week he got shocked and this week he tried to put in a new light socket and almost died. There are two wires that hang out of the ceiling that the socket connects to in the room where Elder Davis studies. There was no light in that room so he decided to put the socket and fixture back up(they had fallen off a long time ago). So, remembering the experience he had with the light switch, he stood on a chair and had his companion stand next to him with a broom. He was holding a broom because Elder Davis told him that if he started getting shocked to knock him down. So, before touching anything they flipped all the light swicths to what they thought were the "off" position.Then, just to be even more careful, Elder Davis took a screw driver and used it to connect the wires to test it like you would with jumper cables. But as soon as they connected there was an explosion that blew the fuses in the house. And the explosion was so big that it blew plastic all over Elder Davis. Luckly, he´s still alive but I´m sure that house is trying to kill him.

This week was really slow and we didn´t teach a whole lot of lessons but we have a lot of hope for this upcoming week. Its hard having low numbers but we´re hoping to have a few baptisms really soon.

In sports news, the rookie ping pong player of the year (for the Portugal,Lisbon Mission) took to the table and destroyed his companion. He beat me once but after that i killed him. I´ve also found that my backhand is getting better. Then, after that we went and played horse out back behind that church and i won both times. I also bought a new sling bag that is perfect and i feel like a girl because i love it so much.

Tomorrow we have a huge zone conference with half the zones in the mission again so that will be fun but my district from the MTC should all be there.

I think i´ve also lost some weight. A couple weeks ago i walked into a room in our house with out a shirt on and one of my companions(who took steriods before the mission) said, "Dude, you´re buff!?" So i guess all the walking in the hot sun has done me some good. I also got some shirts from Elder Davis that are size 16 and are fitted so when i where them i look GOOD.

I only have a few questions. Could you guys email me my mission plaque scripture reference? And also, in the next box you guys send(not this one)could you guys send my seminary books? They have alot of good examples that i can use in lessons. I´m not sure about the coat. There are ALOT of places to shop around here but i´m sure what it would cost to get a coat. I´ll look around today a see what i can find and i´ll let you know. I sent mike a letter so he should be getting it sometime this week our next. Make sure to tell him not to make fun of my bad portuguese too much. I might send pictures with this E-mail but i might not so dont get your hopes up.

Well, I´m doing good and I think i´m finally starting to get comfortable here in Portugal. Yesterday was stake conference and a lady got up to speak and i had an interesting experience. I could understand alot of what she was saying but she spoke really funny. I just thought she was speaking with a weird accent or maybe she just spoke really bad portuguese because she was me feel good about my portuguese. Then i realized she was speaking Spanish...she was the wife of the Madrid Temple President.

Life´s good here and Cascais. I hope everybody´s doing well because i´m doing fine. Tell everyone i love them.

Élder Haws