It's cold in Wyoming too!

Dear Family,

This week has been super cold... but relatively good.

Today was transfers and I will be staying in Sao Borja with Elder Marinho but it should be good. So turns out I burned a DVD with all my photos from the mission on it and now I’m having trouble getting the photos off...to burn to another cd or something....it kinda makes me mad...but I’m trying to get them off! I need to solve this photo problem...so I don't lose all my mission! (in photos)

The package sounds great...remember that you can send it flat rate...I’ll get it. Remember to laminate the covers of the Gospel Art Book too! (I’ll carry it around in my backpack so it’s gotta be sturdy)

We don’t have many investigators...we need to find new ones.

We don’t have a set list of exchanges but the members help a lot here in Passo....

I love you all and will talk to you later!

Elder Jed Breinholt

ANOTHER PAIR OF SMART WOOL SOCKS

Dear Family,

This week has been super cold…especially yesterday, super freezing. But this week was really good.

I was excited to here about dads new calling…Bishop Pai (that’s dad in Portuguese (it’s pronounced like pie)) but yeah it'll be good. Now is the chance to get the ward excited about missionary work. But first get excited as a family. Make sure you keep in contact with the missionaries. It's always a good thing when the Bishop is your friend as a missionary…it helps a lot!

I have some stuff to send home. I'll try to get a box put together. Question…can you put more hand warmers in a box? (It’s soo cold) And I’ve forgotten to tell you but you can definitely start to send stuff flat rate…its not a big deal…it sits in the office for a long time anyway…and plus you can send a lot more for the same price your paying now. Another pair of pants would be good… dark…I’ve just worn through my pants…more than a year on the mission! SEE TITLE FOR ANOTHER THING I NEED!

But yeah for Annie: GO AND HAVE FUN! And remember...do not get an efy boyfriend...NO GOOD! It should be good for you Annie, and who knows, next summer when you go up I’ll be there! Obey the rules and listen to the talks and make it one of the most spiritual weeks you’ve ever had!

But that’s about all… have fun everyone…and never forget to GIVE THE MISSIONARIES FOOD/REFERALS! That now is the Breinholt family slogan…I decided just now…I made an executive decision!

Love you all and have a good week…and send me a picture of the new chapel!

Elder Jed Breinholt

Here are a couple of pictures he sent this week. They are both from Quarai his last area.

As you can read in this post Tracy was called as the new Bishop in our ward. He will do a great job. He's overwhelmed right now but as soon as the ward is organized with callings (we lost about 1/3 of our ward to the boudary changes) he'll feel better I'm sure. This means that my time as Relief Society President will come to an end soon so a new calling for me is on the horizon.

Thumbs Up Everyone!

Dear Family...

The Baptism was great! Really special.

So this week has been good. Filled with some good experiences. It was Zone Conference this week which was a good experience. We talked a lot about faith...overall it was a very edifying conference.

Yeah thanks for the thumbs up everyone...I’m glad I could be the inspiration for your Splash Mountain picture.

I would like something else for my package...well Sister Laing wants it really...maple extract...so just throw it in. I need another pair of pants...next package...dark! Look for brown shoes for me. I couldn’t find anything I liked. Preferably like my docs. But they don’t have to be docs. I don’t use brown shoes that much.

I may have already told you this but we have microwaves now...it’s good... it speeds things up a lot.

Sunday I spoke in Sacrament Meeting. I spoke a lot about Henry B. Eyring's talk from April 2003 it’s a really good talk, and Elder Perry’s talk from last conference...read them...they will help.

But that’s about it...love you all and hope you have a good Memorial Day...

Love you all
Elder Jed Breinholt

So here's one for Jed!

Why the thumbs up and silly grin in EVERY picture?!?

The family on Splash Mountain at Disneyland!

This one's for you Jed!

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!