Monday November 21, 2011

Dear family:

Thanks for all the birthday wishes, the zone all called me to wish me happy birthday, some at 6:52 right before we wake up . . . it was fun though. (we sleep until 7 and go to bed at 11)

Guess what I got for my birthday…
The answer:
FLEAS!!!!!!!      
But don't worry, the promise is true I don't have any problems in the area that my garments are covering . . . I feel bad for Elder Washburn, he had a hole in his garments.

So this last week has been a week which was sort of strange, we had a drunk guy come to church again, but this time a lot of the members gave him crap and he left before sacrament meeting (last meeting) they told him he had shulei (spelling??) Which is a word that we don't have in english but basically it means stinky. it is the name of the smell of your feet, but is more of an insult than you don't smell good, so at least he came . . . I guess we told him not to come if he was drunk, but he did anyways . . . and guess what, He wants to be baptized!!!, but we haven't talked to him since the members kicked him out.

The Mission President has told us that we will NOT be celebrating Thanksgiving, because it is not a portuguese Holiday, which doesn't make any sense to me, because we don't even celebrate the Portuguese Holdiays (which are like every other week) Portugal has more holidays than any other country in Europe, because they have 3 independence days (I think) and then they have all of their Saint Days and then they have all of the seasonal ones, I am sure they would be up for thanksgiving, but hey it works out.

Yours truly,

Elder Hope