The Phone‏

Hey Family,

Thanks for all the advice and support in your emails. This week has been tough with the whole president Torgan thing but i keep telling myself and my companion that i wont worry about it. I just keep telling myself to do my best and thats seems to help alot. So thanks again.

This week was pretty crazy. Everything was almost normal until wednsday rolled around. That morning Elder Wilson woke up very happy, which is strange because we were so depressed because we didnt have a baptism. But that morning he was happy and we went about our day like normal. We caught a bus up to teach a new investigator we had found the week before and we were having trouble finding his houose so after we got off the bus we decided to check our map and call him. The only problem was my companion didn´t have the phone. He had it on the bus but after he got off it dissapeared. I told him not to worry about and we keep working thinking that we would be able to call the bus company later to get the phone back that we thought we left on the bus. After we found and taught our investigator we used his phone to call ours. Somebody answered it, then hung up and turned the phone off. Not a good sign. After we left the investigator´s house, we went to the Bus company building and asked about the phone but it didn´t turn up. At that point Elder Wilson and I decided that the guy who smelled strongly of Marijauna who sat next to Elder Wislon on the bus took the phone when it fell out of his pocket. Over the past few days we have been calling the bus company just in case but it hasn´t turned up. So, we´ve gone almsot an entire week without contact with our leaders or invetigators so you can imagine the fun we had.

In other news... My finger is still getting better! I still cant bend it all the way and make a fist but almost all the pain is gone so thats good. This week i also had a member lady cut my hair because its expensive here and i cant speak well enough to tell someone how short to cut my hair. It came out really good. Its really short but its alot better than what i had before.This week the language got better too. There were times when i understood alot of what people said and my confidence in speaking is starting to grow so i´m prayinig that this progress keeps up.

Tell dad congrats on his teaching skills! And form Jenny´s pictures it looks like Mikey rented a Trombone from somewhere and is doing ok . Thats too bad about BYU but thats ok because i´m in portugal and no one here cares. Tell Nick hey for me and keep the H* girl away from him too.

This week is transfers again. I cant believe it that time already. We have now idea whats going to happen here but its very possible that me and Wilson could both leave because we´re not baptizing. So i dont know if i´ll still be in Cascais next week but i think theres still a good chance that i might stay. With the Whole President Torgan "Baptize Portugal" plan i´ve found a new use for one of my favorite songs from last transfer. "It wont be likt this for long" is now my out look on my mission because so far time has been flying and i only have two years to serve. So i´ve decided i cant focus and President Torgan and his telling me i need to repent and have faith because if i do, i wont be positive and enjoy my mission. So as you can probably guess, i´ve been humming that song alot latly.

Well, this week has been really good even though we didn´t have a baptism but thats ok. Right now my biggest priority is learning the langauge so later on in my mission i can baptize. It sounds like everybody is doing great. Tell Jenny thanks for the pictures and everyone else for the E-mails,support, and prayers. I love you guys!

Élder Haws