1-2-12 Happy New Year!

HELLO GOOD MORNING FAMILY! 

NEW YEARS WAS A VERY MISERABLE BUT FUN NIGHT. WE WENT TO A HOUSE ON THE PRAIA DE SUAPE AND STAYED A WHILE AT ANANDA'S (FROM PONTE DOS CARVALHOS) GRANDPARENT´S HOUSE WITH ANANDA AND HER FAM AND ALSO THE MISSIONARIES FROM PONTE DOS CARVALHOS, ELDER SCARIOT AND ELDER SKOUSEN. BUT AS MISSIONARIES WE HAD TO BE HOME AT 9:30... SO WE WENT HOME (WITH THE PONTE ELDERS TO OUR HOUSE) BUT THE LANDLORD AT OUR HOUSE WAS THROWING A BIG PARTY WITH LOUD MUSIC THAT STAYED ON UNTIL 6AM SUNDAY. SO WE PLAYED MONOPOLY THE MAJORITY OF THE NIGHT AFTER A FEW FAILED ATTEMPTS TO SLEEP. NEW YEARS DAY WAS AWFUL. ALMOST NO ONE WENT TO CHURCH AND 0 OUT THE 8 INVESTIGATORS WHO PROMISED THAT THEY WOULD BE THERE WENT. THEN THE WHOLE AFTERNOON THERE WAS NOT A LIVING SOUL WITHOUT A BEER IN HAND SO WE JUST STAYED HOME AND MOPED HAHA NOT REALLY BUT WE REALLY DIDN'T GET ANY WORK DONE.  NEXT WEEK IS TRANSFERS AND WE MIGHT CLOSE THE AREA. SEVERAL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP HERE WOULD LIKE TO GO TO THE CABO WARD ANYWAYS, AND I DON'T THINK ANY OF THE MEMBERS HAVE THE IDEA OF TURNING THE GROUP INTO A BRANCH OR WARD. TO THEM IT IS JUST A PLACE TO GO ON SUNDAY THAT IS A LITTLE CLOSER THAN THE CHAPEL IN CABO.

YESTERDAY WE ATE LUNCH WITH A MEMBER FAMILY AND ELDER LARSEN (CABO MISSIONARY) AND HIS EYE IS WAY BETTER ALTHOUGH IT IS STILL RED AND HAS A SCAR ON IT. HIS VISION IN THAT EYE IS COMING BACK. HE BORE HIS TESTIMONY AFTER LUNCH ABOUT THE POWER OF THE PRIESTHOOD.

WELL HAVE A GOOD WEEK
LOVE ELDER HOOKE