Tudo bem, yall! If you didn´t find the secret hidden in the last email, it was that my visa came! I might not have worked on phones, but on a computer, the first letters of the lines in the first three paragraphs had the message. Anyway, I got my visa and was flying from 8:30 Monday morning until 9:30 Tuesday morning. That might seem like a lot, but morning happens earlier here in Portugal, so it was only about 14 hours of flying. And upon arriving in Portugal, I discovered few things that had never crossed my mind before. Never. I almost didn´t believe it. First, I don´t speak Portuguese. Who knew? I didn´t. Also, God answers prayers. I mean, I know that´s happened before, but who would have guessed that it would happen again? Just kidding, I knew both those things before. But in Washigton, when I got my visa, I prayed about my knew companion, and prayed that I would get a native Portuguese who would help me learn the language, but that he would also speak English. And I got not one, but two! I´m in a trio with Elder Carreira and Elder Braga. They´re both Portuguese, both speak English, and they are both totally crazy. In fact, all the people here are! Everyone is just kind of happy in a partially insane kind of way (especially the members) and everyone wants to help eachother and they are all super nice. We´ll knock on people´s door and say, "We´re representatives of Jesus Christ and have a message for you and your family." and they´ll say "I can´t talk right now, but you can come back tomorrow." It´s great! Oh, also, Elder Braga was visa waiting, too, and he´s going to be flying to Boston tomorrow. So my trio will be cut down to two, but Boston must need some Portugal-style joy (it´s like nothing we have in America).
Umm... I don´t really have anything to say. We walk around a lot, but I don´t have any cool stories yet, but I also don´t have any cool doctrine to share. This week has just been crazy. General Conference was good. I felt the Spirit, even though I didn´t understand much. Also, it was kind of funny becuase we sang "There is Sunshine in my Soul" for one of the hymns, and in the Portuguese Hymnal, it only has three verses, so when the fourth verse started, we just stood there awkwardly.
Anyway, I hope you all have a great week. I´m going to. I might even take pictures this week.
Amo vocês!
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