Mummies And Mike And Ike's

Olá everyone!


This last half of a week since my last email was great. Since my companion is leaving for Angola, lots of the members in our branch had us over for lunch and dinner. I don't think I've had more food in a whole week. It was crazy.


For pday this week, we got to go back to Lisbon for transfers so we could drop my companion off at the airport. We got to go to the Colombo mall, which is one of the biggest malls in Portugal. Apparently Toys R Us still exists here, so that was fun to see. We also got to go to a store called the Liberty store, and they have a ton of american foods and drinks, so that was fun to buy some food there we don't have, like Mike and Ikes, and root beer.


We decided to do some more sightseeing in Lisbon, so we went to the Praça do Comércio, a big square in the city with a cool gate and status and stuff Inside. We also went to the Igreja do Carmo, a really old cathedral that had a huge part of its roof collapse in the earthquake of 1755. There was a ton of cool stuff in there, like old sarcophaguses, catacombs, artwork, and sculptures, and they even had Egyptian mummies there too. So that was fun to see. 


I wish I could write more, but I don't have much time left in the day. 


Tchau!


Elder Howard


Pictures:
- Praça do Comércio 
- All the stuff in the old cathedral. There's a picture of a model of what it looked like before it collapsed, 
- Toys R Us 










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