My birthday passed this year, last Saturday, and I was pleasantly surprised to have a great family/friends dinner at Tucanos, my favorite Brazilian Barbeque restaurant. Marlene invited friends and family to come and celebrate in a surprise dinner. Brandon and Dayna Cahoon came and it was great to see them. My mom came and she helped around the house for several hours. And Spencer, Jonene, and girls all came to dinner. It was great. We enjoyed the meat, rice, beans, farofa, guarana, and fried pineapple. I love brazilian food. It is absolutely amazing. I could eat rice and beans and farofa daily.

Join Tucanos Birthday Club – You get a free meal once a year in the month of your birthday. It is amazing. There are several locations in Provo, Salt Lake City, and Albequrque, NM.

Thus, it was a great day. I also received calls, cards, and messages from JP and MaryAnn, Nate and Nicole, Seth and Shayla, Amie and Mat, and many websites that I’ve signed up with over the years. Many that I haven’t used in many, many years.

Thanks, Marlene. You are the best.

Hope the househunting will end soon. We did a home inspection of a house we are interested and we’re still debating our decision on what we want to do. We’re waiting for the official report and how to proceed from there.

[stage6 width="400" height="225"]http://www.stage6.com/user/pimplywimp/video/2122907/Parade-Trailer[/stage6]

I got an email tonight from one of my best friends, Brandon Cahoon. He let me know that the trailer (preview) of Parade is complete and available for your viewing pleasure. Please check it out at www.paradethemovie.com. It is great. This is the movie that I’ve been telling you about for months now. It is about complete. Cahoon submitted it to a few festivals and we are waiting to hear back about it. It looks awesome. Thanks for all the hard work, Brandon. I know you spent many hours and nights tediously going over the movie.

When I typed in “Parade the movie” in my google browser, this was the fifth link. Pretty great for Brandon’s debut film. I also like the version that is playing on Youtube. Click here to see it.

I have found a site that has several LDS Portuguese Hymns. I would love to find something that contains all the Brazilian Portuguese hymns for Latter-Day Saints. It brings back strong and good memories of my mission in the Brazil, Londrina Mission. What a wonderful time of life? Striving to do what is right and bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to others.

If anyone has any information on a better website for Portuguese LDS hymns – I just need the words not the music. I would also be interested in this for additional languages as well, mainly Spanish and Swedish.

Scan5030
Originally uploaded by Bob Milner.

This reminds me of a window that was shattered on a bus in Brazil during my mission. We all dropped to the floor and stayed while additional rocks kept getting thrown at the bus. We were grateful that no one got hurt and that the driver kept going. We thought that it was just kids having fun but it sure scared everyone on the bus.

I have sent this image from a cool new program that I downloaded from google called Google Earth. A description and link are provided. Check it out. I enjoyed the city of Cambe and Londrina Brazil. I was in the areas for about 6 months of my mission.

(http://earth.google.com).

Google Earth streams the world over wired and wireless networks
enabling users to virtually go anywhere on the planet and see places
in photographic detail. This is not like any map you have ever seen.
This is a 3D model of the real world, based on real satellite images
combined with maps, guides to restaurants, hotels, entertainment,
businesses and more. You can zoom from space to street level
instantly and then pan or jump from place to place, city to city, even
country to country.

Get Google Earth. Put the world in perspective.

earth.google.com