Howard, Keaton

Olá a gente! Some awesome things happened this last week. We had a mission conference, which is like a zone conference but with the entire mission, which was fun. There were a ton of missionaries there and we barely fit into the sacrament room. The main theme of this conference was the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which was awesome. It was cool to be able to dive more in depth about that.  Thursday was an interesting day. We had a lesson with our Nepali friend, but we also have an Irmã from Taiwan in our branch who loves to have us over at her house for lessons. So we went there for this lesson. During this particular lesson, we were teaching about all the commandments with our friend, which includes the word of wisdom. So as we were teaching our friend about how we should avoid things like tea, smoking, and alcoholic drinks like beer or wine, the Irmã randomly brings out tea and alcohol free beer for us to have. Both of them technically were fine to have since they followed the word...

Olá todos! The past week was a good one. I don't have much time to write, so it'll be a bit short. I'll try though.  Not too much new happened in terms of missionary work. We are still teaching our friends, and they are progressing really well. It's awesome to see them get excited and to see their love for the gospel. They all are planning to be baptized this transfer, which is awesome! On Thursday, our branch had a big churrasco or barbecue. There was a ton of meat there, and it took a few hours to cook it all, especially since we had old, small grills. We had to jerry rig on some extra parts to fit more meat. Lots of people showed up, including a few families visiting from the states. It was fun to get to know all of them. The churrasco was a success. Today for pday, we went and walked around Lisbon. We have a few extra elders that came from the islands staying with us, so they can go to the zone conference tomorrow. We went to the carmo convent church museum, which w...

Hey everyone! Sorry for not writing for a couple of weeks. We had a temple pday week, and I had no time to write one last week.  The past couple of weeks have been great, though! Our friend, Pedro, was baptized! It was really cool.  We did it after church and then had a huge branch lunch together. So there was lots of food, and we all had a ton of fun. One of my MTC teachers came to Portugal too, and will be staying for a couple of months, so he was able to come to sacrament. It was good seeing him! Last pday, we were able to go to the temple. And as always, it was awesome. I love it every time. Afterward, we went to this huge interactive children's science museum. It's probably the coolest place I have been to in a while. There are lots of fun things to do and see. I even got to ride a bicycle on a rope, which was insane, and lay on a bed of nails. They also had lots of dinosaurs, which was kinda cool, and a big STEM lab to make and build stuff. Super cool place. Saturday was...