Gotcha!

Sounds like everything is crazy as usual back home. I wanted to tell you about my companion and our week so I'll get right into it! Well my companion is Elder David Stevenson from Orem, Utah!! You know that Stevenson Genealogy right next to Provo high? Its his Dad! Crazy crazy. He loves Lacrosse and music and we share our two favourite bands, Muse and Weezer. He is great and has been out 6 months so we've got some crazy adventures ahead of us! I decided that I haven't been doing as many pranks as I should so I planned a great big one for Elder Stevenson. One of the members we eat with is from Portugal and there are always loads of people at her house. She and all of them speak Portuguese to each other and English to us so I came up with a plan. I told everyone that was going to be there to pretend like they didn't speak any English! So we get to the appointment and everyone there (including the little kids) are going off in Portuguese the whole time! I was busting up especially because Elder Stevenson was trying to speak what little Spanish he knows the them! It was also fun because I could say whatever I wanted about the members in English and they had to pretend they didn't know what I was saying!! I was telling Elder Stevenson all sorts about their cooking and their house and their family and all they could do was stand there and pretend they had no idea what I was saying (I got an earful for it later though!). So we all sit down to eat and the mum gestures that she will say the prayer and prays in perfect English!! I was dying. We all look at Elder Stevenson after the prayer and yell, "Gotcha!!" It was perfect. He took it really well too. So that was one of the funny things that happened so far but we've also had some crazy miracles. We'd prayed that a member would bring someone to church for us cause we were having a hard time getting anyone there and we walk in on Sunday and the ward missionaries had brought there friend Susanne. She loved church and is so prepared for the gospel, she really wants to take things slow though so we'll see how that's going. It was a crazy miracle though! Also Tamara is getting baptised on Saturday!!!!! I'm stoked and it has been a long time coming but we're so excited! That was about it for the week, I'll have more stories and pictures next week! That makes me really happy to hear about Sam and I hope she visits often!! Well love you mum, better crack on with our p-day though. Ingat (take care in Cebuano!)

Elder Rowley