April 13, 2015

Time Flies When Your Having Fun

Zach visits the Zoo

Hey Momma!!

haha, i feel like this week flew by!! i cant believe its already monday again!

President Fluckiger can give an Ecclesiastical Endorsment whenever, but first the other stuff needs to be done, then you just send it to him. and he's always making a big deal to make sure that you send it to the Lisbon Portugal Mission, not the Lisbon Portugal Stake. and i cant believe how fast time is flying by! Fluckiger takes off in like a month and a half! 

I've seen Elder Arnold three times since i've been in portugal haha, but the last two were more recent. i saw him last week cuz we had to do our residency to be legal here, so we got to spend a couple hours together, it was so fun! i miss him so much haha, he's so flippin funny, him and i are just hoping to stay in the same mission when the mish splits, but right now im in the south and he's in the north, so we'll see how it goes!

and i did not get the package yet, but i will keep an eye out for it this week! thank you so much! and not to keep buggin you, but can you please please send me an altitude mask! i want one super super bad!!

and yes, this coming up weekend is the weekend that Elder Bednar comes, and yes i'll take my journal haha. 

unfortunately the family from Ecuador was not baptised, they're gonna get baptised on friday, but right now its looking more like just the younger son and the mom are gonna get baptised, and hopefully the father and older son will ge baptised soon after! 

so our transfer ends not this week but next week, and im hoping that im gonna be free of being zone leader haha, i had a dream a few days ago that im gonna train again, so hopefully that dream will come true! but i want to stay here in Oeiras for a long time cuz this area is super sick. 

well im running out of time, but if this next week flies by as fast as last week did, i'll be writing you again here real soon!! i love you all(:

we went to the ZOO today for Pday!! haha, the reception was so warm-hearted and smiley

haha there were peacocks all over the zoo, so we kept feeding them chips. i played with this one for like 10 minutes, i kept making it jump for the chip and it couldnt jump at all hahahah it was so funny.

 and i brought a bag of carrots with me to the zoo to feed the animals, and when we passed the baboons they went fricken nuts for the carrots haha!! i have a couple videos but i cant send them over email. i would play tug of war with the baboons haha, they're strong little suckers!! 

the zoo has super crappy surveilance, so you can pretty much pick up or play with any animal haha, i mean c'mon, they put the turtles like 6 inches away from the little fence thingy, its just begging to be picked up haha

 SHE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!! well actually a turtle... BUT I GOT BETTAH!!

Zach quoting Monty Python!! He's so Jared's kid!!

they had this sick cart thingy that took you over the whole zoo to see everything. well its on a giant metal cable that was really really bouncy haha, so we got yelled at a  couple times for bouncing haha

haha, i was the captain of our ship (obviously) with my trusty swashbuckling, poop-deck shining Elder Cervantes riding shotgun!

this is our new pet, his name is Tyrannous and we let him go in our house to eat the bugs haha, my comp was not too happy about it, he kept freaking out all last night thinking that it was in his bed hahahaha