New House, New Calling,....

and a New Member of the family! JUST KIDDING! hahahaha. Well, just kidding about the last part. However, we did move into a new house and both Géssica and I were released from our callings within the last 3 weeks. Our Bishop switched up quite a few callings in our wards. I am no longer the Y.M. President. I was kind of sad to be released, because I had really become attached to the boys. I got called to be the new Ward Mission Leader though. My dream calling. Pretty exciting right? One of the Elders in our area is from Holladay, Elder Christensen. He's a nice guy. The other (Elder Etchichury) just arrived in the area and is from the south of Brazil. Also, Géssica was released as the Y.W. President and might be getting a new calling this coming week. We are both a little relieved as those two callings were super time consuming, but I expect that our new callings will require as much of our time as did the last two.

On to our new house!! The circumstances that made us move were less than pleasant but overall, we are very happy that we made the move. Our new house is on a central road, much different than our last which was in an alleyway. It is on the second floor of a building; on top of a hardware store. Much safer, and a lot less mosquitoes. (I had no idea how stressful mosquitoes could be) The only bad thing is the sound of the cars, trucks, buses, and motorcycles going by (since we're on a central road, and there are no sound enforcement laws here it's kind of rough) Other than that it's nice. Here's some pics:

I am still pretty busy teaching English. There are many opportunities to teach, I'm  grateful for that. Géssica is still working hard at her job. The phone company she works for just decided to change 80 employees' hours from the morning to the evening. So starting in December she will start around 3 in the afternoon and go until 9. We aren't sure how we feel about that yet...

Well, Christmas is coming up soon, but it sure doesn't feel like it here in Fortaleza. The weather is as hot as ever and I haven't heard any Christmas music yet. We are thinking about getting a tiny artificial tree, or maybe putting up some lights, but I guess we'll see.

I think that's about all the news that we have for now. I finally have a few topics in mind to write about so I'll probably post again within the next week. Love you all.

-Andrew aka The Boss