sorry i lost the email i wrote and it was way long. recap shortened. card i got the 24th less then a week way cool, cereal got 24th too, way cool, way cool, way good. drank avocado juice a while back, way gross. they do that here. mcd´s monday, way good. scriptures alive in our minds, way cool. a guy on monday telling the stories like they are alive now. fé. invite lips family to wedding reception of rob, they know aubreys family and ours. send them an invitation. you already know that? got to go, sorry that i lost it. have a great week. conference coming will be great to learn and we are trying to bring investigators to it. recap next week bye
love ya
elder hicks

what up alisa, life sounds busy for you. i was wondering if jake walks yet, there is a little girl in our ward that is the same age and she was walking with my hand yesterday. but i bet jake is alot cooler, i wish i could play with him. you are building a house that is very exciting and finding new stuff for it. wow life is moving on for you. i have been here in bras cubas a long time and we have transfers on the 6th, i want to go. i took some pics here is one. the computer wont let me open the cd and i cant really try because the guys think i dont know anything, but in reality i know just as much as them. i have been around computers for a couple of years. no photo but im going to mail this cd tomorrow probably. you want it at your house? then you can see. it is a deal. well have a great week keep playing and having fun that is what we need to do. bye love ya thanks for the update.
elder hicks

hey how is life in sandy? brasil is good. i was going to write that in my ward there are some cool people but one family has a little girl, she is two her name si alyce like this i think. but she knows how to say my name it´s funny. she says elder hickkksss. like this it is cool. i got a package from grandma for easter and one from you. i got one from rhonda so tell her
thanks. dad said that ryan hicks is going to get married? shower sounded good. this week we taught some good people. it was good. we played socer today and that was fun. i always have some good things to write but then i forget. i need to write them down on a list then write it. but not too much new. have transfers on the 6th so i´ll probably be out of here. it is time for a change for me. we taught a cool lady last night. that one guy went back to his church i dont know, the language guy. we have had a hard time teaching people here lately. we seem to find cool people but then they back away. it has been raining lately here too, went into fall here. how is the weather there springy? well that is about it. how is everyone there. what is going on for spring break, not much? well love you guys and hope that you guys have a great week.
elder hicks
happy easter mom and dad and family, tell dastrups too and grandma happy easter. tell grandma thanks for the candy and for next time- here is the list of candy- skittles, starbursts, gummy candy. not too much more chocolate. i need a varitey. but you are all awesome and thanks. tell ryan dastrup i say hi and eric and zach. have a great easter with the family. could be my last sunday here in bras cubas see ya and with much love
elder hicks
tell rob on tv here they got xmen the cartoon and teeenage muitant ninja turtles, crazy huh. i just see it passing but xmen is good. bye

hey i hear jake got some shots. i dont have much time, i never have time. but i love you and have a great week with d-a-w, or that fun stuff. hey since you are a business lady, if you make me a beanie- hat, i will pay you for it, i want cool colors, like black or grey. but if not, have a great week and talk to you next week. i´ll try to find some famillies this weeek for ya and teach them, sounds good, im goin to just think about that. bye love ya
elder hicks
how is your house doin? i bet it is wonderful. happy easter- they celebrate this here too. eat some good food for me.

what up linds how is life? so i do want to be transfered, i have been here a long time a need a change in life badly. conference sat and sun. will watched it in port proabably, not sure about all teh sessions, but we are trying to get invest. to go. that would be aweseome for them. ya probably a new city, i live outside of são paulo right now. ryan dropped a note. here ill try to mail a pic.

Well along with Alisa and Kurt, Ryan and I have officially decided to build a home in Hillsboro. Hillsboro is a suberb of Portland. Ryan will be taking the MAX into downtown for work and the commute will be around 35 minutes. The home should be done by at least August 2. We are still planning on moving out the first of July (as our contract is up the end of June.) This will give us a chance to go to our ward and meet some people before Ryan starts work on August 1. We will be living with Ryan’s parents for the couple of weeks before the house is complete. We would like to extend an official invitation to anyone who is wanting to come out and visit. Our door is always open and there will always be a room for visitors. We are excited for this new change in our lives. If anyone wants to see the floorplan here is the website.
JLS Custom Homes

hey how is life? they have a fruit called maracuja and you can make mouse with it, that is way good. lots of other stuff too. having a piano would be nice and you good make some good extra money at home. they do celebrate easter here-yes called pascoá. i got your letter last week, it was good to read and think about you. hey one thing of advice dont be like brazy´s and feed your baby in front of everyone, escpecially 20 year old boys, who dont want to see that. people always seem to do this while we are teaching and i just look at the ground. also this morning we saw a lady that was so pregnant walking done the street. using the normal clothes, they like to just pull the shirt up a little and let the belly hang out. it is crazy. the donts alright. hey have a great week. see you later. best of luck love elder hicks

hey family-
they can’t win with out me, if garret played last year i would have won. the houses sounds really cool. mom you dont know really anything about drugs or alcohol in those high schools. it would amaze you too much to hear.
always send packages to the mission home, we have transfers on the 6 of april and i will probably go to a differnt area. we found a cool lady that went to church with just an invite. also we are teaching a few potential investigators. you never said anything about elder neilson´s wife passing away. he was here in the east part of são paulo this last sunday at a conference, but it was to far from me.
how is college b-ball. keep me updated on the end of the season. they are in the tournament now i think. also that package of
newspaper articles you sent it to the mtc, you cant use those stickers it goes straight to the ctm and not to the office, check on that. but that wasfunny. and i dont really like articles.
but here in brás cubas i love this ward. i know just about everyone. even tons of kids on the road and it is so cool. the ward is great and so nice. i hear it is one of the better wards.
wow new houses, weddings, that place is changing so much that i wont recongize it anymmore. i had some other things to tell but i forgot. im writing in the journal everyday now and im doing well, i have goals and plans in life. we all need goals and plans. i love the mission. this past week i was a little home sick but then i thought im in brasil and speaking a different language. i never pictured myself really speaking a different language, but now i cant even write in english, amazing. in acts2 it talks about penecostal a big meeting with the gift of tongues. wow. hey i need to write garret a letter how is he? well i read your lady letter too, crappy. trust in the lord. im learning alot about life here and im going to learn more. with the help of the lord and his will. trust, right. everything is changing. wow. oh today i bought this sick address book 10 reais, but it is worth it. tell dastrups im working on the letter to them.
love you mom and dad and alisa, kurt, jake, lindsey, ryan, baby, rob, aubrey and wish the best for you all have a great week. mom no more letter to the house after a few days, ill proabbaly leave. got to go
elder jeff hicks

i got an email once but i didnt open it because i thought it could be something bad. just a precausion. but that is funny. your on your own. well i´ll be in from a distance. i could do some advertsiing from here for ya. no, but really i´ll pray for ya becuase if this business does well it will help you buy a house and with bills. i think that is something i can pray for. what do you think? hey wow you bought a lot. that is way cool. you will start building when? hey with the pics i loved them maybe you could throw some in a letter to me. i really liked the one with the jordan´s i gave him, maybe you could send that to me? hint hint. he looked so cute. well that is exciting news everything, there is changing. im changing to. this last weeek i found out many things in my life and about being a missionary. to say the least im happy. finally, but really im glad to be here and happy. hey tonight im going to make some mousse called mousse de maracuja. passion fruit i think, but it is so good. i wish you could try. i will bring some home one day for you. my goal is to find something way cool for jake and baby girl here these weeks. i hope i can find something. i want to give him something from brasil. i always brag about him, but i need a new photo. okay. well you sound great and that makes me really happy. i wish the best for you. have a great week
elder hicks

hey family-
didnt lindsey give you my email last week. mail some peanut butter in a package, keep it in the jar so my companion can take it home, it will go bad in bags. it is a great present for him. also i talked about other candy-skittles, starbursts, gummy bears. i ate all the valetines candy. grandma always asks about candy. these are the candys that i want. maybe some twix or 100
grands are good too. tell grandma for me about this candy.

that is the name for your bussiness, design-a-ware right. i got those papers you sent that was nice, but with the sports i dont like to read stuff i dont have time, just like an update, one sentence is good. no more articles, i dont read them, or look at them really. with eric tell him hi. also call loralee and tell her thanks for the letter, i got it a few days ago. it was good to hear from them. i was going to write back today with the emails but i dont have time. i´ll write a letter next week, just no time. but tell her thanks, ill write back and answer her questions. also tell justin that his ward ajuricaba he was in here that there was a kid named frank azevedo and he is in my mission and my zone, i think. sister mara. i think he will know.

last week i wrote a letter to lindsey’s email but it was for the family. she sent me your email and i just repiled back to the same thing, it is faster. but it was for you. it was long. i saw some pics of jake today in alisa’s email of him in his jordan´s. i cant go to the other web site.

well yesterday we had zone conference. it was awesome, i learned so many new things that will change my mission and my life. it was so great. i learned so much and now im a different person becasue of it. amazing maybe ill write a letter to ya about it. it was a changing point in my mission to say the least. in every way. ill look at everything different now.
eu sei que jesus cristo é nosso salvador. eu sou grato pro isso. eu vou servir melhor agora por causa ele. mãe eu te amo muito. tambem tudo família. hey no time left you guys have a great week. im going to send home a package some time soon. i got a letter from brad finally. but got to go and work for the lord.
love you all elder hicks

tell loralee ill write her next week and grandma that is the candy that i want. just send peanut butter in the container, might cost a little bit more but is priceless for him. i wrote that email for you last week too. it was mixup ate mais