Chapter 13 - And it Keeps Going On (la la la) and We Really Love the Town

I don´t remember if I told you all yet, but I´m in an area called Alverca. It´s really cool, but not temperature cool, just Portuguese style awesome cool. Basically I like it.

This week I had an interview with President Tavares, I went on splits with Elder Rodrigues, one of our zone leaders, and we had Stake Conference. They were all super good. Stake Conference was especially good, because it was just like back home. Mostly. It was really cool, because in the morning, we got up and went to a bus stop, and then two members came and found us and took us to a different bus stop, and the whole ward was there, more or less. I then found out that the Alverca Ward had paid to have one bus for them all to go to Stake Confrence in together. It was super cool, and I could just feel the love the members had for each other during the whole conference, even though I didn´t understand a whole lot of what was said.

Not much else interesting happened this week. We did knock on one door, and the lady behind it yelled (in English) "Go away!" Elder Carreira and I walked about five steps away and just busted out laughing. I really don´t know why it was so funny, but it was. We left a card on her door that said, "God loves you!"

For my scriptural thought of the week, I want to go back to the Hebrew number symbolism. Back in Washington, we kind of made it a joke to count lots of different things (like birds in a flock, or tiles on a wall) and interpret the numbers. It was kind of funny, but sometimes the numbers of things really do work out to be quite cool. So, to recall, 2 is opposition, and 4 is mortality. So four twos basically refers to the opposition of mortality. So we could guess that 2 Nephi 22:2 probably has some advice for dealing with the opposition of mortality. 

2 Nephi 22:2 reads, "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also has become my salvation.

I think this is perfect for our mortal lives. We can trust and not be afraid of any of the opposition of mortality, because we know that Christ is our Lord, and that He has Redeemed us from everything and there is nothing we can´t overcome with His help. So the numbers actually worked in this case!

I don´t have my camera right now, so no pictures this week. I´ll have some next week though.

And for those of you who got the music reference in the subject:

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