Forest Donkeys And Mysterious Signs

Olá everyone!


Hope you are all doing well. This past week was a good one. Not a whole ton happened, but we are making progress here in Chaves. We were finally able to meet with some members outside of sacrament meeting which was awesome. It's hard because they all work so much, but we were able to meet with 3 of the 4 members in the group. One of them has a son who has a ton of friends that would love to meet with us who are around our age. So we are hoping to set something up with them. They like to play a lot of basketball, so hopefully we can do that with them. 


There are a lot of random forests and groves around town, so sometimes we take the paths through them to get places. One day, as we were walking through one of them, we found a random donkey just munching away at grass in the forest. Can't find that in Lisbon. It was awesome. Then, sometimes, we run into random stray dogs. They're all super nice, and sometimes they'll just follow us all the way across town. 


For pday today, we walked all around town. We went to a few stores and shops and ate McDonald's again. It was fun. As we were walking around, we saw this weird sign that had a weird yellow symbol on it. Like lines radiating out from a single point, and then an arrow pointing somewhere. We thought they were really weird since there was no context or words on any of them. So we decided to follow them to see where they led to. We were thinking it was like a secret club or organization thing. We walked for almost 2 hours following them before having to turn around to go back home. It's a good thing too, because we found out if we went to the end we would end up all the way in northern Spain. 


Anyways, I hope you all have a great week! 


Tchau!


Elder Howard


Pictures 
- Forest donkey
- This cat decided to follow and climb all over us
- Mysterious sign. They were everywhere around Chaves
- From a certain point in town, you can see Spain just past one of the mountains



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