Saturday p-day

Hello Family,

I guess you guys forgot about my Saturday p-day... (uhh...well no we didn't you told us it changed back to Monday!) That's alright. I'm sorry my e-mails have been so short lately, it's been real hectic and the internet just hasn't been doing what I want it to.

This week was kinda hard. We knocked a whole lot of doors and didn't have much success. I talked to President and he said we should try other things...so we are.

We went to some English schools to volunteer, which went really good. We will be starting to go there on Tuesdays. Should be fun and we should get some new investigators that way.

Things are going good. Elder Hill is the man! No, but seriously he's a really cool kid.

My life is super full. Working 3 days a week in the office and the other two finding new investigators. It's fun!

My mission is coming to an end and I can feel myself fighting against just giving up. But I'm praying and working and feeling happy. I really love my life as a missionary. I'm trying to be more and more obedient everyday.

I know its short. Things are great!

I would like some egg nog...one thing that I really miss. Send chocolate chips too. I would like to make chocolate chip pancakes. (I found some mix that you just add to milk for egg nog. I hope he'll like it.)

I love you all and would like to wish you all a Happy Halloween, because next p-day is Halloween. Don't forget to write or I'lll be sad.

Love you all

Elder Jed Breinholt

BURRO EU SOU!

BURRO EU SOU! This is a reference in Brazil to being stupid! It translates to "Donkey I Am"! ha ha!

Dear Family,

I am having the worst luck...The server times out and if I don't copy and paste my e-mail it gets deleted. I knew that the server got timed out but I tried to send it anyway...bad idea

So summarizing...

My companions name is Elder Cody Hill...from Orem, Utah. Swine flu cancelled church for a few weeks down here...the city did that...QUARANTINE! I'm praying for you guys to come down but I know it will be the Lords will...if you don't.

Sister Quist went home a week ago and I have seen Elder Sam Ball...good times.

I don't really need anything special for Christmas seeing that right after...I'll be home.

Pray for the people to be more receptive to the truth. That's about it. Sorry that I got the other one deleted.

And turns out I want to play wii. (Ben got Beatles Rock Band for the wii for his birthday and he wrote Jed and told him all about it.)

Love you all,
Elder Jed Breinholt

Done in by the e-mail system!!

So today as the day went on and we didn't get an e-mail I got curious. I had not checked Jed's myldsmail.net account since Monday late afternoon so I checked it again and in his sent folder was the following e-mail that he sent last Monday 10/12.

My thoughts were right about him training one of the new missionaries. We should hear from him again on Monday.

It's short but I have been without time today

October 12, 2009

Dear Family,

So I didn’t write Saturday because I have been in São Borja for the past week helping out a missionary whose companion went home. I haven’t been in the same area but in the center of São Borja. Transfers came today and I found out that I’ll be training in the same area in Santa Maria… it should be good. I love you all and I’ll write you more next Monday. I'm back to Monday P-days…YAY!!!!

THUMBS UP FOR ALL YOU GUYS!

Elder Jed Breinholt

hmmm....no e-mail today

No e-mail from Jed today so I'll update you all on our plans to go to Brazil in February to pick him up. We have received two very nice e-mails from President and Sister Myrrha. They have given us their approval and blessing to come and pick up Jed. We now have to climb the Visa mountain. Right now (as of September 1) the Brazilian Consulate in Los Angeles is requiring everyone who wants a Tourist Visa to appear personally. They are changing over computer systems. That may be different in December when we actually need to apply for our Visas but it's anyone's guess at this point. The kicker is that we need to get air travel arranged pretty soon. We have American Flyer Miles we want to use. So as of right now it looks as if we won't be traveling to Brazil. I did find out his release date this week it is February 16, 2010. It is a little early because he has to be out of Brazil by the 26th which is when his Visa expires.

So that is the latest. I hope we will hear from him next week. I'm almost wondering because he was in the office in a threesome, after his companion went home sick, that he might have gone back out this past week and so p-day changes back to Monday. They did get a lot of new missionaries this past week. We shall see!

Sem Tempo (Translated is...Without Time!)

Wrote an e-mail but it got erased.

I don't have a lot of time this week, seeing as how I happen to be writing this e-mail from Presidents house. We are going to eat lunch here and we're going to go to Conference with him. It should be good.

I had to help them out a bit with their computer seeing as how I am the office tech. Totally just kidding but yeah I really am. Yesterday somebody asked me if I was an assistant and I said, "I was the Assistants to the Assistants and Secretary to the Secretaries." it was funny!

Ben is tall and uses saggy pants, silly Ben. (In response to a picture of Ben receiving his 1st class rank advancement in Scouts. And yes his pants looked a bit saggy! Bad Ben!!)

But anyway I love you all and hope you have an awesome Conference.

Elder Jed Breinholt

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