It´s all Backwards!

Family,

This week has been awesome. First off...broke out my winter clothes in I don´t know how long! it was a very gratifying experience. It's been cold this week...SWEATER WEATHER! I bought a new sweater, it's pretty cool. But we've had some really good experiences...Leotina (one of our investigators)quit smoking! We had a family home evening and she invited our other investigator João Batista to be baptized on the same day as her the 23rd(this Saturday)it should be good.

The work is really going good its moving forward! But i guess it'll always be like that...moving forward. That makes me excited about the new ward! It´ll be good! It means Gillette is growing! The Stake will split soon...I'm sure of it!

This week will be Zone Conference. It should be good. But that's all I got today.
I love you all and talk to you all next week.

Elder Jed Breinholt

Sorry the post is late this week. Thanks to my "Tech Support Guy" my computer is up and running again. Also thanks to a new power supply and a faster hard drive! YEA! We are having some changes here in Gillette. Three Wards will be divided into Four Wards at a meeting next Wednesday the 27th it's exciting and sad knowing that our ward will be changing in some way. I love our ward!

Every little thing is gonna be alright now!

It was really good to talk to you all last night too!

But yeah...i don't really have a ton to write today but...
This week was good...everything went pretty good...
I'm really liking São Borja...it's going really good...
Thats not good to hear about the computer...it makes me sad :(  but it'll be alright...

(We came home to a dead computer.  I'm using Abi's Mac right now)

I really enjoyed talking to you all last night...3rd call of the mission down...now comes the last one!
Give my love to everyone in the ward and stuff.

I love you all!
Elder Jed Breinholt

We have returned home from Elisabeth's Graduation from Weber State Dental Hygiene Program and Bobby from the University of Utah in Political Science, a quick trip to Disneyland and Andy and Jessi's Wedding!  It was a great trip! 

We missed posting last week but Jed's letter was short and sweet as usual!  Our call with him yesterday was fantastic.  He sounds so happy and we are so proud of him.  He loves the new area.  He says the members are keeping them busy with referrals so he told us, "give the missionaries referrals!"  We aren't so good at that.  He won't be going into Argentina because he's American and needs a Visa.  Uruguay is very relaxed, Argentina is not.  We talked about going down to Brazil to pick him up.  He wants us to come and we want to go but it will all depend on what happens with Tracy's company in the next few months.  We also talked about BYU-I.  He is going there after he gets home.  He was so funny he asked us to see if they have an English class for RM's.  ha ha!   His English is very halting and it was difficult for him to talk to us.  He did great, he just switched things around a bit and couldn't remember English words.  When he made a mistake he knew it, but he would just start laughing and one of us would correct him while we were laughing with him!  

What a great couple of weeks!  Total payday's for Tracy and I.  Elisabeth and Bobby graduating from college and talking to Jed. He only has a little over 9 months left (has it gone fast for everyone else because I feel like the last year and a half have been going at light speed!) in the mission field.  We are so proud of all three of them.

THANK YOU ELDER LEE!

I was so excited to hear that Jed was going to Sao Borja that I e-mailed Elder Lee's Mom Lynn this morning first thing and she e-mailed Matt about Jed's new area and this is what he wrote!

It is really flat here maybe one of the flattest areas in the mission. So that is nice. We have a really nice chapel that is air conditioned. It is kind of small, but nice. The member's are kind of crazy here but I think they will really like Elder Breinholt a lot. Elder Frame said that it is really good and that it is growing pretty fast and that there is a lot of help. I think this is referring to Jed's new branch.

In São Borja, there are 3 areas. The city is kind of like a strip. You have the river Uruguay. The area closest to the river is Elder Breinholt's area. His comp is Elder Marinho. He is cool. I have been in the same district as Marinho for over half of my mission. He is a different kind of character but I really like him. My new comp is Elder Abreu. He was the comp of Elder Breinholt in São Pedro do Sul. What is cool is that all four of us were in the same district in Santa Maria.

He is assigned to Ramo Passo, which means Passo Branch. He uses the same chapel as my branch. The chapel is in my area. I'd say the chapel is 15 minutes walking from their house, which is a nice house, but their branch has a bus that picks everyone up on Sundays.

Thanks Lynn!

A New Area!!

Dear Family,

Today will be kinda short. (Aren't they all lately! grrrr)

Today is transfers and I'll be going to a town called Sao Borja. It is up on the border with Argentina.

My new compainon will be Elder Marinho. This will be good because he got in the mission with me!

It'll be cool. I don't have a lot of time to write...have to pack.

It's been a good run here in Quarai.

But I gotta eat, pack and stuff...

Love you all!
Elder Jed Breinholt

This is the new chapel in Sao Borja.

Thanks to Elder Lee's website I was able to get these pictures. Elder Lee has been in Sao Borja for awhile now. I met his Mom, Lynn on a missionary mom e-mail group.

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Dear Family... that I love so much...

Today I am writing you all from Santa Maria.

I had to renew my visa, so I had to come here just for today. Speaking of that, last night at 11:00 pm we left Quarai and we got here at 4:00 am. So I’m pretty tired, if this e-mail doesn’t make a lot of sense you’ll know why. What’s worse is that we have to leave 7:30pm tonight to get their 1:15 am tomorrow, super tiring!

I got the package everything was great thanks.

Because I’m in Santa Maria it will be a little short. Transfers are next week, so the next e-mail you get will tell you all where I’m going...or staying.

Things with the companion are this: like I said in another e-mail...he gets really stressed...so I have to calm him down...but things are good and will always get better.

So that’s my life! This week was good with zone conference and all. You know the times they are a changin’! And it’s getting better all the time!

Anyway it’s kinda short but I’ll have more news next week!

Love you all

Elder Jed Breinholt

Family...

Dear Family
This week has been good I guess.

Turns out I’ve become super peaceful and passive on the mission especially with this companion.

The baptisms were good the water was cold. The pump for the water to heat the font was broken. Every baptism I have had in the mission there’s always a problem with the heat.

Sorry that this e-mail will be a little short but I'm kind of tired and I have to write president.

But I love you all and will write more next week.

Elder Jed Breinholt

Hello Family!

Today was really awesome because we played soccer with the Uruguay Missionaries International P-days are AWESOME! So I'm sending you some pictures of that! Maybe you'll find someone that somebody will know. But let me tell you how this International P-day got started and yes it does have to do with conference:

So Saturday we got all ready for Conference and went to our lunch appointment and then we went to the chapel to watch conference when we got there we found out that the satellite translator broke and there wasn't going to be any conference it was pretty sad. So we missed the first session but decided to call president and see if we could go to Uruguay to watch it. He said yes, so we went there for the afternoon session. There we had some pretty interesting experiences trying to get the T.V. to work to watch it in English but finally we got it. Anyway so we were over there with the Uruguayan missionaries and we all decided to play soccer together. That's what we did today it was really fun! Saturday night we didn't watch the Priesthood session for two factors 1. It started at 9:00pm 2. We didn't know that the satellite got fixed.

But about Conference: I only watched 3 sessions so bear with me.. My favorite talk was Elder Hollands I think it was really powerful and moving I also liked Elder Scotts about going to the temple even when its close. Remember in June when I wrote you guys about the dedication talks of the Curitiba Temple and how someone talked about the same thing while he was talking I was remembering that talk too it was really good!

Zone Conference is coming up on the 16th so I'll get your package then. A little bit more about Gaspar, Carla, Francielle, and Sindi. Francielle and Sindi are not little girls One is 15 the other is 17 but Sindi doesn't live with them she lives with her husband (they're not married) 17 years old and lost in the world. We were trying to help her but you know how it is. Francielle will be baptized with her Mom on Saturday, completing the family except Sindi. It'll be great. But the Baptism was really good!

Anyway I'm doing good and it's getting better all the time but I want you all to know I love you and pray for your strength every day. Stay firm because this is the way it is. The gospel is true and we can be together forever! I love you and appreciate your support.

Was it long enough?

Love

Elder Jed Breinholt

I'll post the pictures next week. I'm in Utah with Ben and Annie for Spring Break!