Today's email is going to be a little bit shorter, for now at least, we're going to sintra and have to leave in about 20 minutes to get there, so i'm hoping to write some more after.
This last week was good, and the weeks are starting to pick up, as they do. Elder Fernandes and I are working together well, and we're about as busy as i have ever been in my mission. We talk mostly portuguese, which is sometimes frustrating for me, because there are a lot of little things i don't say very well in portuguese (things like, "it's not good to pour oil down the sink because it will get clogged and hurt the environment") but we get by. His english isn't great, but he's practicing, and we teach English class twice a week, so he's learning pretty well. He went to the MTC in Brasil, where he stayed just 3.5 weeks. He also got to know Telma, who was in my old area before she went on a mission. It's funny how things like that happen.
Creole is pretty close to portuguese, but the pronounes are different (I, you, We) ect, and they don't complicate their verbs as much as portuguese does (it's absurd really) so i'm catching on pretty quick.
So yeah, the week was good, nothing too intense happened, I did my first District Meeting as District leader and did a division with Elder Velasquez and we went to the most ghetto place i've seen in my life. It was actually beyond ghetto, and more like midtown Baghdad or something.
About my house, it's starting to grow on me. But the problems are that its very dark, damp, and there's a sewer line running through it that stinks from time to time, but we've been cleaning stuff up and moving stuff around, and it's getting a lot better. It's stays really cool, because it's mostly underground, and i'm hoping it's stays warm in the winter. It has a dryer, which is really handy, and the landlords are really nice. One is spanish and runs marathons (he had a time of 3:46 in one of his pictures, you'll have to ask the marathon runners in the family if that's a good time, but i think it's pretty good) the other is portuguese and worry's a lot. So we have a bunch of little rules that are sort of frustrating, like not leaving the washing machine on when we leave the house, and things of that sort. But it's not a terrible house, and we're only there a couple hours a day anyway, so it's cool.
Anyway, i'm headed out to Sintra, so you guys have a great week, and i'll try to add on some stuff after i get back with pictures and such.
Abraços
Ammon
