Friday, March 1, 2013

2-29-13 ltr with a note from Elder Maiava



Aloha!

I only say that because I am sitting right next to Elder Maiava and he is from Hawaii, he is in the Areal ward as well.

Our week was great! Very wet...but great! It rained a ton this last week!! Half of our area was all flooded and we could not visit several people. But it is all dry now and it is much much better. And it is good to get drenched every once in a while.

So this week is transfers, tomorrow, but Elder Lindsey and I are going to stay 6 more weeks together :) President told us last Thursday or something like that so that was cool. I am so excited!!! Elder Lindsey is a great companion and we are going to do very well. 
Oh and yes, I was washing the dishes!! We always wash dishes after lunch and everything! 

I have not received the package that you all sent, but I am sure it will arrive. We received some info on packages today. If the stated merchandise and the cost to send the package added up exceeds 50 dollars they will most likely open it and tax it.

Oh and it looks like Daniel will be serving his mission here in less time than we thought :)

Well I will be getting a plane on Wednesday, May 15th, and then who knows when I will get there.

Wow!! Thanks for the statistics and everything about the missionary work dad!! That is way exciting!! 58 new missions is a ton! I want to be able to stay on the mission and see everything that happens here until December. What do you think mom, I’ll try to be home for Christmas ;)

Tell Rhett congrats!!!! When does he leave for his mission???

Last week Elder Lindsey and I were making pastels! But I was getting into the Mexican food mode and started rolling them up, it was pastel of beef and some ingredients, we made sweet pastel too, with caramel and banana, way good!!

I am not sure what drink you are talking about but we have been making juice, and I like to make an avocado smoothie...I know what you are thinking, gross, but it is really good! ha. Just wait. That yellow stuff is cuscus, that steamed corn stuff with sausage and onion. I found a special pan to make cuscus so I am making a lot! It is known to give someone energy to work and is very good. You can make cuscus with anything. We usually eat bologna sandwiches in the morning with toast with honey on top or something. But we always eat oats with chocolate milk and banana. If we don’t have lunch or something like that we usually make a "carreteiro", which is a mix of rice with meat, green pepper, onion, tomato, and whatever else you want. When we get home we usually just snack on whatever we have got around the house, haha.

Claudio and Caia have accepted to be baptized on the 9th of March!! We are very excited :) This will be an excellent couple. Claudio is very, very funny and I really like him.

Kaué is another young man, 16 years old, who is going great! When we taught him about the Priesthood and how he could be able to baptize his family one day he got super excited! I really need to take a picture of all of these people for you all. I will take pics this week. I was already going to send pics but it turns out that Elder Maiava thought he was taking the picture, but didn’t take it.

Elder Maiava wants to say something.... 

ALOHA Mrs. Dawson! Elder Maiava here, I just wanted to say congrats for having raised such a good son in Bradley, or Elder Dawson! He is my faixa!! We are working here in the same ward and we have lots of fun together. He is working hard, and helping other people come unto Christ and be baptized. Whenever your family finds itself in Hawaii you gotta stop by the house and say hi!!!! TCHAU! Elder Maiava

Haha, Elder Maiava likes to joke around trying to make me trunky. haha. 

Well, I am very well and happy. I love you all and thank you for all of the support.
This is the church of Christ and He is in charge of this work.

Elder Dawson

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