This Blog Needs Some Pictures

Unfortunately, Elder Marx doesn't live near a post office, so we don't often get pictures. I'll have to supplement. He mentioned he's blazin hot. I think it's not hot Las Vegas style, but hot as in very humid. Here are the Belo Horizonte climate charts:

Am I reading this correct? The month of December gets 40 inches of rain in Belo? As a reference for the 702 crew, we average 4 inches IN A YEAR.

Oh how Scott will love seeing this picture when he gets back. This is The Dad changing the brakes on Jenn's car - which has been Scott's job since Jenn started driving. Scott's been changing The Mom's brakes since he was 11. It's back to being The Dad's job for the time being.

Kruger had a little procedure done and needed to wear this headpiece for a week. He wasn't happy about that. He also gets this sad look on his face when he sits and contemplates spending the next 19 months with the parental units. He misses Scotty.



Hallie, Charlie, & Drew all miss Scotty. Drew helped with the Sunbeam class sharing time by showing a picture of his uncle, and explaining he was on a mission for two years in Brazil teaching about Jesus.
G'ma: Drew, when you get older are you going on a mission like Scotty?
Drew: No. I go to school when I get older.
short-term goals...

Probably the biggest newsworthy item for the boys that Scott has missed out on was the arrival of the Bousa car.

And finally, Scott hasn't been around for the last 5 months to share funny youtube videos, we miss that part of our Sunday evenings. I am quite positive that on some of those long, hot, wet walks up and down hills, he's found a way to quote Bubb Rubb & Lil Sis, Whoo Whoo!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Hey mom, I know you look forward to my letters as much as I look forword to yours, but today was zone pday and not much time to write. But I'm alive. I love you and the family and we should have baptizm this week. The work is great.

I love you and the letter next week will be better. tchau

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

well mom,
this week has been really fun. We have been working hard and starting to see the blessings. We should have a baptism this week of jenny (40+-) she wants blessings of god and to be baptised so she went to church with us last week and wants to be baptised. we told her she has to stop smoking and she is but she will get baptized.

um... we ran into a lot of menos ativos this week (less actives) and they said they would return to church so lets see what satan will bring for them today. one of the MAs we talk to was because we walked a drunk guy back to his house. I'm really glad this guy didn't lose his cookies all over me but when we got to his house his granddauther and his son and dauther-in-law were baptised and they haven't been going to church. So I think that the Lord wants them to return to church um... we got cleber to quit, to stop smoking so he should be going to church this week and tieago is this really kool dude we talked to and he should be going to church this weeek , he know the church is true and the book is blue, we just need to get him to the church.

one thing I'm really going to change and has change while I'm out here is reading the scriptures. Like I'm reading the bom 3 different times right now. once 'cause I started before the mish (with Jenn in a competition and I'm going to win and she is so going to pay for a snowbaording trip to park city) and I want to finish. And another in Portuguese marking when it talks about Christ and names of him (messiah and redemer, etc). And another (in english) 'cause President Frei asked us to read it and mark when it talks about things in our purpose (see page one of preach my gospel). So all different copies of the book and all diferent times of the day, but I like reading in English then in Portuguese 'cause it helps me understand. So in the next little thing you send to me could you throw in some new colors for my marking pen, you can buy them at deseret book for like 1 or 2 and I'm out of yellow and running low on pink, blue, brown, orange. I have red and I have green yeah, just those colors. love you. You're the best mom ever.

October 8, 2008

I do not have a mamacita. I wash my own clothes. there is this kind of washer here like this big tube with a little plastic pice that spins at the bottom and moves the water around. I'm learning to not wash the sox before the whites cause all the lint from the sox then gets on the whites and then they're kinda itchy after that happens.

The week was just fine with the comp speakin Portuguese. He speaks and i don't understand. I speak and he doesn't understand. we have a lot of fun. I'm teaching good. I hope we have like 6 datas set for outubro but I'm thinking the Lord will bless us with our goal of 2 this month.

Thanx to the prayers of my family and friends i got to go to conference, YEAH! I only saw the second session on Saturday and the first little bit of the second on Sunday cause on Sunday the transmission cut in and out so I didn't hear the 2 speakers on Sunday from brasil and the bishopbric guy and on including the prophet. So, hey, if you could like copy and paste the talks of Dalin H. Oaks and above and the bishopbric guy and down that would be kool. But I loved Elder Bednar's talk on prayers and I loved Elder Wirthlin's talk -- and I loved them all. It's weird, never like going to conference and it has so much more meaning when you get up and take the 2 buses for an hour to see it and I probably walked half a mile in beetween. So I'm so going to make my family do that. Forget this whole byutv thing, lame comfy couch. No way. They're going to the church and they're going to take notes! Yeah, sure... : ) jk

What I heard of conference was we are heading for hard time so have faith and rely on the Lord -- which is what we should do always, keep the faith and all will work out. I do think of the business and how things are doing. Every once and a while I'll see brazilans puting in a storm drain or a backhoe on the street and turn to elder sarmento , oi eu posso fazer isso antes da missão (dont try to translate that its not corect but he knows what im saying)

I could tell you about when we were teaching this less active and heard gun shots and saw a body in the street dead. But I won't cause I love you and I know you dont want to hear about that kinda stuff.

Well I love you and until next week, tchau.