Week of March 17!! I'm a Little Behind

Belina is Baptised!!

This is Belina, she was baptized on saturday!!!!!!!!!!! WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!! and i got to baptize her!!!!   when i went to dunk her she pretty much jumped backwards, and i sort of ended up catching her and then dunking her haha, she was just super excited about getting baptized!(; she's so funny, i told her my first name, which in português is Zacharias, and she says it all the time like how the mexicans i worked with over the summer said it, in a high voice really fast like 3 or 4 times haha, she's awesome.(: and then these are some ward members who were at the baptism(:

Elder Dayton and Elder O'malley are working hard in Tomar!!

aw im sorry momma:( ill be sure to include that in my prayers haha, which are getting longer every night! haha, sometimes i wonder if He ever gets annoyed of me yappin in His ears so much haha, but then i realize that if he did i probably would've already been hit by lightning or something haha(; (told him some of us had been sick the past week)

and yea i got the package!!! haha i love all the pictures, thank you so much!!!! haha(: and thank you for the letters too!! im hoping ill have more time this week to write back, this past weekend was crazy!! i already explained most of it, be we had a huge competition throughout then entire mission of Portugal to see which zone could get the most references, and we won baby!!!!!!!!! MARCH MADNESS CHAMPS RIGHT HERE!!!!! hahaha, O'Malley and i were freakin buzzing around like rabid bees, and also cuz we wanted to get on the Cartão do Presidente (the weekly standards of the Mission are 1 baptism, 6 investigators in church, 21 lessons, and 10 new investigators) and Tomar hasnt been on the Cartão in months (cartão means like card or letter) and since we had a baptism this past weekend, we figured this past week was our chance! haha, but by sunday night we had fallen behind schedule of all the crap we needed to do, so we were freakin busting our nuggets to get it done!! by sunday night (which is when the weekly numbers are due) we had 1 baptism, 5 in church, 21 lessons, and 13 news, and usually Presidente slacks a little on the standards if the companionship was really close, and we made it baby!!!!!!!!!! Tomar's name was on the Cartão do Presidente for this week!!! SWEEEEEEEEET, SWEEEEEEEEEET, SWEET VICTORY, YEA!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha, it was so awesome to finally see our area up there!

and of that 20kg (45lbs) bag of taters, we're almost halfway done with them!! haha, since we bought it at a farmers market it was about the same price as a weeks worth of taters from the store, but its lookin like it will last us almost a month haha! im excited to see pics of the boys!! haha, im hoping to see some more pics of mowhacks (or how ever you spell mow-hawk haha) like our last cali trip!(; haha

and saturday night O'malley and i found a freakin gnarly family! they're a black family from Angola, and its a mother, and three sons and two daughters! (the father is still working in angola) the oldest son is 21, then an 18 year old son, a 17 year old daughter, a 14 year old daughter, and a 10 year old son! they're all super cool, and we just knocked on their door, and they ended up letting us in to talk with them! three of the older kids came to the door, and there was music playing and at first i thought we had just knocked on the door of like a house party or something haha, but they let us in and we talked for a while. we got to know them and stuff, and we actually laughed quite a bit, which is nice cuz its been a while since ive laughed hard with other people (not including my comp and other missionaries, i freakin love every single one of them and its always a riot) but im starting to get to the point with the language where i can understand jokes and subtle senses of humor and stuff, and we actually just spent a while making fun of each other and our selves haha. anyways..... on sunday the mother and the three middle kids all came to church! and later tonight we're gonna go see them again! this family has huge potential and im freakin stoked try to get them to see the light of the gospel! so pray for them please!(:

crap, i guess the place we'er in right now is closing, so i gotta run haha!(: but i love you guys all so much, and ill talk to y'all again real soon!!(:

if you get a chance read D&C 109, its long, but its one of the best!! love you guys!!

Zach cleaning the font before Belina's baptism.










Belina and Zach- So proud of him!