In A Barbie World

Olá everyone! 


Sorry, this one might be a shorter one, I don't have much time to write. The past week was pretty good. Our friend Morgan has stopped smoking and will be baptized this Saturday, which is awesome because we’ve been helping him with this for a couple of months now. So we're super excited about that!


I also turned 21 this last Friday, which is cool, I guess. Don't know how I feel about it yet, haha. But it was a good day. We got to go out and eat lunch with our branch president and get cake, which was fun.


We had zone conference too, which was awesome. It's always awesome to see the other missionaries and hear from President and Sister Barcellos. They're both absolute machines. 


For p-day today, we cleaned the apartment pretty well and then went to the Colombo mall again. I was going to buy some new shoes, but apparently my shoe size doesn't even exist anywhere here in Portugal, so that stinks. Since there was a movie theater there, almost everyone was wearing pink for the new Barbie movie. It was insane. Almost every store had lots of pink it it too. I almost got a headache from all the hot pink burning holes in my eyes. 


Scripture of the week: Alma 36:18-20
Now, as my mind caught hold upon this thought, I cried within my heart: O Jesus, thou Son of God, have mercy on me, who am in the gall of bitterness, and am encircled about by the everlasting chains of death. And now, behold, when I thought this, I could remember my pains no more; yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more. And oh, what joy, and what marvelous light I did behold; yea, my soul was filled with joy as exceeding as was my pain!


Até próximo 


Elder Howard




- Pday at Colombo 
- Found a sick monkey lamp
- Lunch with Pres
- Random pond



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