Thursday, March 9, 2006

“Hey, do you want to eat some really bad rodizio pizza with us for only R$5,00?” Who could pass up an offer like that? After a long day at the SRE office, Dave and I went to a buffet (rodizio) pizza restaurant with a few kids from the ward. Well… actually we got there and there was a long line outside and I told them that it wasn’t worth waiting to eat bad pizza (they were pretty confident the pizza there was bad, but it was cheap, so they couldn’t pass it up). So everyone who knows I’m cheap will be happy to know I passed up the R$5,00 pizza buffet. When Dave came home later that night he confirmed it was pretty bad. Ha…

Most of the day was spent with the Cossios; they’re such a cute couple and it’s fun to see them try so hard at their new callings. They may not speak much Portuguese, have computer skills, or teaching experience, but they sure try. We spent most of today making follow-up calls with last year’s CASP participants. Sister Cossio, with her sweet, happy, half Spanish / half Portuguese phrases was very brave, as today was her first day calling..

When I wasn’t making phone calls I was typing more detailed instructions how to use the computer. This is where Elder Cossio keeps himself busy. Tadinhos (poor guys), computers are not their strong points.

Since the information from the phone calls had to be sent to Porto Alegre by Friday, I was making calls until about 7:30 and as I was typing up the information, some of the kids from seminary stopped by. They invited Dave and I to go out to pizza w/ them, so I called Dave at the hotel and he met us at the front of the church. After waiting for 20 minutes for someone to come w/ a key to lock up (we only have a key to the back door), we were off.

Oh, the Photo-editor of the Daily Universe (BYU newspaper) offered me a position as a photographer for Spring/summer/fall terms!