October 19, 2015

Last Transfer

I think he drank a lot of caffeine and downed a ton of candy before writing this letter!!

Or he's just excited to come home!!

hey Momma!

first things first..... WHAT DUNES TRIP?!?!?!?! PLEEEEEEEAAAAAASE tell me thats its for AFTER im back home?!?! please oh please oh please!!! for real though, are you guys really planning a dunes trip?? and does that mean that like Brig and Mace and I are all sharing that 250?? oh my heck please say im invited to that trip!!! and man how is the RAZR?? is it like bad damaged? does it still run?? oh yea, and how is Briggy? he okay too? haha, he probably just wants to be as cool as his older brother, but hey, it takes a lot of skill to roll a car! 

okay, so off that hype, this week was pretty good, its been raining a ton, and my comp is sick. he's got like cold or a flu or something, just kinda under the weather. but yea transfers was last week and i stayed with Elder Chantre. once again i totally sucked at taking pictures this week, ive got a couple that im gonna send, maybe its i've just lost the drive to take pics cuz i feel like i've already taken pics of everything here haha, but i'll try and do better. Yea last week me and another elder in my house, we went over to Oeiras real quick to get some stuff, it was cool to go back. sweet, im totally gonna look that place up, hold on haha... man that hotel looks sick! and it'll be so sick cuz i totally know how to get around that place with a car haha, how fricken lucky is that that i served there with a car haha?!?! and hey, odd question, but do you know what kind of minivan it is?? i freakin hope its a manual haha(: 

i'm sure i'll find at least a couple people to speak portugues with! but yea, lately instead of reading the Book of Mormon in portugues, ive switched over to Spanish hahaha, i figure its a little more practical for back home haha. and yea, if you could do that about the HEFY i'd totally appreciate it! i think that'd be super cool! 

holy crap i cant believe that October is already more than half over, im honestly still wondering where summer went haha. and man, i cant believe how old the boys look. even freakin Brig has a some dang scruff!!! i can see it on his chin in one of those pics!! hahahahaha holy crap that was sooooo funny to me!! by the way, im totally growing a beard when i get home haha, and im contemplating shaving my head again.... but we'll see....

Things have been going pretty well over here. we got a new bishopric in our ward this past week, which totally rocks! now the bishop is like on of my favorite members here in this ward, he and his family are so cool and they have always done so much for this ward, it is awesome cuz now he's in a position to really make a difference, and right when the ward really needs it too. it has been raining quite a bit, but we're staying good... well i am at least, my comp is kinda sick haha, but i think its a mental thing. like Europeans and Africans are such sissy's when it comes to the rain. they're all like "holy crap! if you walk in the rain without 3 coats you're gonna get cancer!" hahahaha, not that bad, but sometimes its kinda annoying, cuz its still not really tooooo cold, so the other day it was raining and i was just in my white shirt and tie, and like everyone was looking at me like i was some rifle-toting baby seal murderer at a liberal "climate change" convention haha. but its whatever, cuz every one else psych's (haha how the frick do you spell that? its sounds like "sikes" but you know, its like when you mentally trick your self into something... ive been sitting here for like 2 minutes trying every different combination of how i can think to spell it, but none of them seem right, whatever) SIKES themselves into being sick, and i end up being the only healthy one haha.

haha i love you guys, and im really excited to see all of you(: have a gerd week!(:

oh ya know, just some of my best friends....

so i found this sick executive style chair in the road few weeks ago by a dumpster, but the chair is totally fine, so i carried it all the way home haha, now its like the comfiest thing in our house haha, i always fricken fall asleep in it, they tried taking a pic of me asleep, but i woke up right in time to pose for the pic haha
















and today for lunch we hit up like the only subway in portugal haha

October 12, 2015

October Break!

Hey Momma:)

holy crap i cant believe you guys are already on October break, i swear summer vacation just ended like a few weeks ago haha, why the heck does time seem to be going by at an exponential rate?? dang, that made me sound smart haha(;

well thats sweet, cuz i'd love to go to mexico someday haha(; those pictures looked totally awesome. im a bit nervous though about the trip here, just cuz it'll probably be cold and raining the whole time hahaha. its been raining non stop for about a week now, but i guess its supposed to clear up a bit on like thursday or something... we'll see! but im totally okay with it cuz im pretty used to it by now, you guys just better pack some rain coats haha. im gonna have to start thinking of things to do haha, i really am suuuuuuuuper excited to show you guys around here(: 

so y'all are totally gonna hate me for this, but i have taken 0 pictures this week haha, sorry! its been raining a ton, plus ive lost pretty much all my desire for taking pictures haha, cuz its like well here in a few weeks they can just see it with their own eyes! but i'll get back on my grind, i gotta get better at it... it would just be more fun if my camera didnt suck so bad!! 

haha i've kinda been thinking about what its gonna be like to be around a ton of people who dont understand portugues haha. today since it was transfers, we were in like the major train station of lisbon helping missionaries and whatnot, and there was this short older American lady who was totally lost and by herself haha. she was looking for a bus but had no idea what the heck was going on, so she saw us and realized we were mormons and spoke english, so she came and asked us for help, so me and another missionary in the house with me, we stayed with her for like half an hour getting her all her right tickets and telling her where to go, and she was just amazed at the fact that we could speak portuguese.... like i guess with so much time around missionaries i've just kinda forgotten how cool it is to realize that im actually fluent in another language. like portugues is so natural now. last night i had a dream that i was like in this zombie apocalypse (which by the way has been a really frequent topic in my dreams haha) and i was just killing zombies and trying to rally some human resistance for what felt like 4 or 5 hours, but the whole dream was in portuguese, and it felt totally normal to me. my thought process in my head is about 50% English and 50% portugues haha.... like i actually think in portugues without trying and its weird! im gonna have to find someone to speak portugues with, cuz i actually really enjoy speaking portugues with native speakers, especially brazilians, i like their accent a lot.

hey, so i talked with sister Tavares today, she said that she wanted to send you an email haha, i have no idea what she wanted to say to you, but she said that she's gonna send it in portugues, and you can just put it into google translator and it'll pop out in english haha. but when she writes you, could you forward what she sent to me pretty please? but forward the portuguese version pretty please haha(:

yippee.... Idaho...... weeeee.... hahaha i would say "screw that!", but im not gonna cuz thats not very nice...... hahahaha im so funny(; like yea, i guess its cool that i got accepted, but for me theres really mucho poco chance that i would ever to go to Idaho. i have been thinking a lot about college (in my free time of course(; haha) 

well lucky punks have fun in san diego! oh p.s. -- i really wanna go wake boarding when i get home haha, like i know its gonna be november, but i really wanna go, would uncle michael let us borrow his boat? haha(: okay i gotta run, i love you guys!! ill talk to you next week!! your only gonna get 5 more emails from me, then im coming home haha, how weird is that?!?!

No Pictures this week :(

October 5, 2015

General Conference

Zach sent me two emails separately and after I got the first I thought is was a bad joke...

Hey Momma!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Second email...

haha whoops, i didnt mean to just send that by its self haha, anyways...

first off happy birthday and i love you so much(: second off, holy crap i cant believe you lucky dogs down there in mexico! haha for real that place looks so pretty! tell Gavin to save me a piece of that corn! save me a piece of that corn for later! you know whats funny, you guys probably arent too far away from Bronson haha, he's in Mexico City.... thats a funny thought. 

yea conference was awesome! especially the sunday morning session, i thought all the talks were super good. but holy crap during Monson's talk Sunday Morning i thought he was gonna die at the podium! he was baring testimony at the end of his talk, and he starting having to support himself with his arms on the podium and starting sinking a little bit, then he kinda started slurring his words and repeating words, it was dang scary. I straight thought he was gonna say Amen, then just die right there. But he finished, then Uchtdorf stood up to help him back to his chair, it was nuts! I still havent seen the sunday afternoon session because of the time difference, so im gonna have to figure out a time when i can watch it, cuz i really wanna see it. 

Well i guess winter is getting here, its been raining like crazy all night last night and all day today haha, good thing i just love the cold, windy rain..... haha(; i hope the rain holds off for like another week and a bit, cuz i come home in 51 days, so if it waits and starts raining when i have 40 days left, then i hope it keeps raining until i leave with out stopping, then it would be like noah hahahaha, but instead of me finding dry ground after, i just fly back to az! that would be funny haha. 

Elder Holland gave a talk that i know will make you cry haha, but in a good way.... now that im thinking about it, i bet it will make dad cry even more haha, it was a really good talk. and the testimonies of the 3 new apostles were all awesome, i really really like the testimony of the 3rd... you'll have to check it out!(;

so we write an email to our mish pres every week, and he responds every week. well this week he wrote me a letter that im gonna share with you even though i dont want to, haha cuz i hate tooting my own horn, but i figure if i was a parent i would love to read this about my kid(; haha, he wrote it because right now im in a tri-panioship with 2 comps who both wanted to go home, but now both of them are doing great and neither want to go home which totally rocks. but anways here is what he wrote to me:

Grato a você Elder, quero ver como vou fazer para recuperar meus Missionários com problemas depois que você terminar a Missão. Realmente você tem um dom e sabe usá-lo, apenas não aja por impulso. Pode não acreditar, mas a Sister e eu sentiremos muito a tua falta.

haha i just copy and pasted his email in portugues then realized that im gonna have to translate it to english haha, hold on, this is what it says it english:

Thanks Elder, i need to figure out what im gonna do to fix my missionaries with problems after you end your mission. you truly have a gift and you know how to use it, just dont act soley on impulses. You may not believe it, but Sister (his wife) and i will greatly miss you. 

hahaha, that last part about impulses is funny, me and sister Tavares (my mish pres's wife) have a great relationship, she's super funny, but she treats me exactly like a mom cuz she says im still such a child inside, but she says it in a good way haha. the other day she smacked my head cuz i was taking selfies on her ipad hahahaha, but then she couldnt even grab the ipad after cuz she was laughing so hard hahaha. im so excited for you guys to get to meet them, they're so cool(: 

well i gotta run, but you guys better be living it up in freaking Mexico!! arriba!!! and happy happy birthday momma! i love you so much, im gonna be sending something in the mail soon!! its not huge cuz im poor haha, but be on the lookout for something!! love you!!(:

got to go back and visit my old area Oeiras, this is Elder Yancey, we're in the same house right now and he also served here, so we went back together, it was weird going back haha but it was cool

this is Elder Jiminez, one of my 2 companions right now, super sick guy from Costa Rica. we have such a riot together, hes trying to get my to go back and live with him in costa rica haha. and the others are some members from my old area Amadora, its awesome seeing old friends