"Blind-Sided"‏

Hey family,

This week we didn´t see much change in our area but it was still a pretty good week.

On Monday we played basketball with a kid from Bulgaria who doesn´t speak any portuguese. He´s an investigator who we found in our first week here and found out he likes basketball, which is good because our church just happens to have basketball courts. We found his family knocking doors and at first thought they were from bolivia, because the daughter in the family is the only one that spoke to us and she only speaks a little portuguese. She speaks alot of spanish though because she lived ion spain for 10 years. But like i said, we thought they were form bolivia because they spoke spanish and when we asked them where they were from they said bulgaria but not very clearly. I thought they said bulgaria but Elder Dalton was sure they said bolivia so we went with that. Last week we actually taught his family with a member who speaks spanish and who just went to California to live there for the rest of his life so know we have to find someone else to go with us. We can communicate "mais ou menos" but we dont think they understand very well. We´ll just have to see what happens.

Then on Tuesday, the "Highlight" of the week happened. Normally on tuesday nights the bishop meets with the ward mission leader and his counselor and some other people and they go over the stuff that we have been doing and other ward business. The last dupla of missionaries never really went to that meeting but they like us to show up anyway. We´ve only been to two of these meetings however because last week our ward missiona leader didnt tell us to show up...so we didnt. But this week he told us to be there so we showed up, but we werent ready for what happened.

The meeting started well. We went down the list of people they gave us and talked about what we had done with each person. Some of the people having been running from us and others have proven to be hard to get a hold of, so i Bishop called a few people for us and the ones that gave us excuses, gave him excuses. Then, after talking about everyone, the council seemed to be satisfied with the work two young, white washing missionaires had done. But, we were wrong.

After discussing the "To Do List" the bishop asked us if we had found anyone new yet. We then started to talk about the Brazilian lady that we found. Then, right in the middle of our explanation the bishop interjected and preceded to go on a rant of how we weren´t working inteliigently and how we needed to us our heads. He went off for about 15 minutes and torn into us for a bit before we were saved by the fact we had to go talk to someone to mark an appointment with an investigator. We think he was trying to give us advice but the way he gave us the advice didnt sound so nice. We kind of left with a bad taste in our mouth but we´re over it now. Besides, the bishop was extra nice to us yesterday so i think we´re good now.

I dont have much time so on to the phone call.

Our number is: *** *** ***

It would be best if you called at 9.

Sorry i got to go. I´m out of time. I love you guys!

Élder Haws