Today i'm going to the zoo! But at the moment i don't have any new pictures, so i'm hoping to get a half hour of internet at the end of the day with pictures and such.
As far as news goes, wildjoy didn't get baptized on saturday, but we marked mariazinha for baptism. She'll be baptized on the 14th, in two weeks. Elder Rodrigues and I made a goal of baptizing 10 people this transfer. President torgan basically told me that this will be pontinha's last transfer open (you never know what will happen, but he said it's likely it will close, which means it's extremely likely, since he generally doesn't talk about things like that before hand. So i'm looking at this as one last chance to do everything i should have already done in pontinha and then some more. I had a really good personal study the other day studying jacob 5 (when i was little i always looked towards that chapter with dread, because it took forever to read) And i wrote verse 71 and 72 on the front of my planner, because it applies really well to this transfer. I wrote it in portuguese, so it doesn't help much to put it here) but it's good. So i'm trying to work with 'afinco' this transfer (i guess you translate that as 'might' but i think it translates better as umph.)
Elder Rodrigues (which, by the way is roughly said "Hodreegs" not rodriguez. Not spanish.) is pretty cool. He's a lot different from elder Fernandes. As it turns out all cape verdians are not the same. He's a lot more quiet and reserved, very humble. He was baptized two years ago, and is 23ish now. I'm excited to work with him, and hopefully this time around i can learn creole. He doesn't really speak english either, but he wants to learn so i'm going to try to help him more than i helped Elder Fernandes (which is fernands, not fernandez), i was sort of lazy about last transfer.
Other news...Elder Kapische, the area president of europe, is coming to zone conference on friday, so that's exciting. I met him once before when Elder Bednar came. Christmas is also coming up quick, they're starting to put christmas stuff up, since they don't have thanksgiving here. I still could use some measuring cups and measuring spoons. There was something else i was wishing for the other day, but now i don't remember.
Anywya, i'm going to go to the zoo now, and hopefully i'll get a chance to send pictures and such from that. In anycase, have a fantastic week. I love you guys, and as christmas comes i'll probably start missing people again, but i love serving a mission, and, having cleaned our house today, living in portugal is pretty incredile.
Boa semana, abraços por todos.
Até já
Elder Ammon
