Boas Festas!
So, last week i was sort of frustrated, but now i'm over it and excited again. We're about to go to the zoo again, so i'm happy, since last time we didn't get a chance to see everything, i'm not going to write all that much before, but i'll try to get some time afterwards to say more. I still don't know what's happening here, but anythings possible, i could stay, i could leave, or pontinha could close, etc. Basically the only thing that won't happen is stay here but move to a different house, but even that's sort of possible. Anyway, the mission is losing 15 missionaries and we're only getting one sister missionary, so a bunch of areas are closing, we'll see how it goes. Anyway, this week was good (this keyboard is not good, so if a few letters are missing, you can assume it's because of the keyboard, not because i'm forgetting enlish). We found some cool new investigators, and S., this investigator that we dropped 6 weeks ago, called us and wanted to meet up. It turned out that he had run into a joseph smith pamphel from the 70's in the garbage, and wanted to give it to us. It's a cool little 'relic' ,as he called it (he speaks english... roughly, but understandably) and it turned out to be useful in teaching a lesson later that day.
This week was fast sunday. Fast sundays are my favorite sundays, not so much because of the fasting (athough that's good) but because everyone bears their testimony. Everbody thinks missionaries live for the baptism, but i've always found a lot more fulfilling the times after baptism. And recent converts bearing testimonies are some of the best times you get in the mission. So it was cool.
It's cool to hear about the baptisms there in biloxi. I'd like to baptize members' friends, but i haven't been able to do that. One of the things Elder Capische talked about was the importance of being independent of members, basically if members don't bring friends to church, bring people to church yourself and help them make friends with members. In that way it works out the same way.
Portugal is getting very christmassy, they've put lights all over the place, and today we're planning on going down into lisbon to take a picture infront of the biggest christmas tree is europe. So that should be interesting. Right next to me, there's a nun buying a cellphone, it's seems strange for some reason.
I'll do my best to buy cool christmas presents for myself, i have a couple things in mind, but basically the only thing i can use right now are socks. Oh, the package came already, and it's great. Eating peanut butter while wearing slippers is really really good. I don't know how i've gone twenty years without slippers.
Anyway, that's about all the time i have. We're going to go rock the Zoo one more time, just incase i get sent far away or something. I'll try to get pictures and transfer updates out before the end of the day, so have a great day, and place your bets.
My guess, is pontinha is closing, and i'm going to Mossimá (not quite sure how to spell that). I don't want pontinha to close, but that's my guess. We'll see how it goes.
Até já,
Ammon
So the zoo was sweet. I'll send some pics and such, but here's the deal with transfers. I'm staying! My guess was way way off, but i'm happy. I'm excited to be here for christmas and such. It does sort of change my plans, i had been planning to leave, now i need to do groceries, but that's cool.
Elder R. is leaving, he's going to Vasco da Gama which is just on the other side of the river. I'm going to be serving with Elder B., who i know sort of, he was in the MTC with me for three weeks, he seems nice. My district is staying about the same, except there are going to be three executive secretaries, so Elder C. (who was in the MTC with me also) is coming in. Anyway, you'll probably only interested in the fact that i'm staying, so i'll leave it there.
So yeah, i'm excited to go one more here, i'm going to try to make it really good, i learned a lot this transfer, so hopefully i'll be able to apply it. So, that's the news, i'm going to send a bunch of pictures now. Have a great week, stay safe, and write lots.
Abraços,
Elder Ammon
