Ola boa tarde! Guess what: it is so hot and we sweat so much that we are losing weight! It´s been around 100º for like two weeks, and since nowhere has A/C, we are pretty much constantly sweating. We have a nickname for it; sworpo- sweaty corpo (body). To keep cheerful Sister Cutler and I always ask each other: How´s your sworpo? Also we always tell each other that "it´s not sweat, it´s the glow of the gospel".
This week was really great. On Monday night we had a ward noite familiar ( FHE). We tried to make a cake for it, but.. well we didn´t have the right ingredients, and then we cooked it really weird, and for too long... so it was really gross. But we left it in the kitchen and I think the other Sisters ate some of it, so maybe it wasn´t too bad. Hopefully.
On Tuesday we went to get bus passes so we can go to Santa Maria da Feira more. Turns out you have to have a picture, so we went by a white wall, took a picture, went across the street and printed it, and came back. The poor guy at the counter is so sick of us (we go all the time asking about buses and trains and things), so when we came back to pick them up and saw that they spelled my name wrong, he just said it was fine. So now I have a bus pass for Sister "Oridney". (Maybe I should work on my handwriting).
Wednesday we had ZONE CONFERENCE! That means MAIL! I had a few letters waiting for me... So that was great. There is only one brand-new missionary in our zone (a lot of people are new to the zone but not to Portugal). Álso some of the missioanries told me I speak really well, especially for it only being my second transfer, so that was nice. After zone conference we came back to São João and tried to go to a lesson with Renata (a ward missionary). But turns out every city has the same street names... so we were in the wrong city. We started walking and Renata was praying for a taxi, when one drove up! So we took a taxi to our compromisso. It was only like 3 minutes driving. So now I´ve been in a taxi. We had our lesson with André.. he is ELECT. We stopped him by the bus stop on our way home one night and he was like "Yeah come teach me". Also he speaks perfect English and is a doctor. And rock climbs so that´s cool. But we called him on Saturday to ask about reading and give him the address for the capela in Porto (a lot of weekends he gives conferences to nurses there and said he would like to go to church even if he was there). He had read the chapter we left, and started at the beginning of the Book of MOrmon and was in 2 nephi 13 already! And he said he could come to church here! Sister C and I were so happy we just like screamed and hugged each other.
Also on Wednesday we marked Mario for baptism at the end of July :) He is this little old man we met with a pitchfork. He can´t really read. He quit smoking in two days and is always so happy. But we are not sure how much he actually understands of our lessons (sometimes he seems to get it and other times he is really distracted) so we want to have a few weeks to make sure he is ready).
Independence day! We sung the national anthem during companion study... Also on Tuesday after English class we had a piece of watermelon to celebrate. But that´s all. It is super weird that July 4th isn´t a thing here. Besides being a normal day. Umm also on Thursdaywhen we went to get our bus passes we went to wash our hands in the bathroom... we accidentally went into the men´s. Sister Cutler went around corner and was suddenly pushing me out "OH NOPE THIS IS THE MEN´S". So that was awkward.
On Saturday we had to go back to Porto for a stake missionary conference thing... We got some pastries on the way (i´ll send a picture ... My face is shiny with sweat). But they asked all the missionaries there to sing Called to Serve... In the chorus after the second line (Cumprir fiel missão) in zone conference we shout "Portugal Portugal!" and then keep singing. So when we got to that line, we all cut off on "missão".. And you could tell we all almost screamed it. So let´s hope I don´t do that in sacrament meeting sometime.
So church is really weird for people. Yesterday I was sitting next to a pesquisador in sacrament meeting. He was watching really intently, obviously because it was so new. They passed the bread and it was fine. But when they were passing the water to the people on the stand, he leaned over and said quietly "Okay now I´m really worried about breaking these tiny glasses". I almost laughed but manage to just say "Don´t worry they´re plasitc". But I am still laughing about it on the inside.
Yesterday evening we walked to a town called Escapães. We saw the most beautiful sunset over the ocean. It was a nice way to end the week.
Yep that´s about all. This week we have another zone meeting and we´ll have splits again, so it´s looking to be a great week :)
I hope everything is well with you all. I love you tons!
Love, Sister Gidney (Oridney)
:)
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