Monday August 15, 2011

Family:

Ok, so I only have a few minutes because it is a holiday and we lose time for that . . . I donºt understand that.

Here in Portugal there have been a ton of Arson Fires. They have been reported in areas around Porto (my area) as well as in Viseu and Viana do Castelo (my old stomping grounds) It is so sad that the kids are revolting here. We were confronted by some teenagers, and they told us that they like to rob the missionaries. So, I started a contact telling them that we were disciples of Christ and such and they left frustrated . . . they never robbed us, but they confronted another guy and I don't know exactly what was said but the guy went to punch the 2 teenagers that confronted us, missed, and the one teenager threw a bottle at the kid, breaking it and ending up his eye while the other one picked up a chair and threw it at him, and then they ran away. I don't know if his eye is ok, I think it hit a little high, but he had some bad cuts. . . . This was another example of why socialist health care is not a good idea. It took the ambulance 15 minutes or so to show up . . . I could walk to the station in less time than that, and there wasn't much traffic. It was sad. We get mail once a transfer now. Our branch president loves the maple. a bottle that size you can only really find in Porto and Lisbon and costs about €19 (which is about $25 give or take)

I had the opportunity to do another Baptismal interview and got permission to tell one of the answers of the person. I asked him Do you want to be baptized. He said yes, so I asked him why, and his response was Porque val o pena, which means, it is so worth it. It is a phrase that is hard to translate, but dad might remember it, or it might just be a portugal thing, I don't know. I thought that was cool.

We had a lesson with a member and the member told her that she didn't need to come to church . . . fun stuff!!!

Anyways we had one other thing, dad will really like it, jessica might be able to use it in Spanish, i don't know if it works in spanish or not, but it doesn't work in English.

Anyways what is a offspring of a dog ( cão (dog) cãozinho (hot dog or puppy))

offspring of cat ( gato (cat) gatinho (kitten))

offspring of god (Deus (god) deuszinho (us))

it just sort of shows our divine heritige and how we really can grow and be like our heavenly father.

got to go

Elder Hope