Howard, Keaton

Olá everyone! I once again apologize for skipping a week. Again. It just sometimes flies completely over my head. I'll try to be better from now on. The past two weeks have been a bit of a blur, but I'll give a few quick highlights. Our last pday, we decided to go to Sintra, which is a cool little town in our area. I'm sure I've already talked about it, but it's got an awesome colorful palace on top of a hill there. For lunch, we met up with the other elders in the district, and went to this massive Chinese buffet. They converted a huge warehouse into this restaurant, só you almost got vertigo walking in. And for only 10€ we ate mountains of food and dessert. It was the greatest moment of my life.  Last Wednesday we had the opportunity to have a mission tour with Elder Godoy. He was super cool, and he spoke Portuguese which was even cooler. We learned a lot of amazing things about the Atonement of Jesus Christ, and how we can better and more effectively use it in ou...

Olá everyone! Sorry I missed last week, I ran out of time. Lots has happened in the past two weeks, though. Last week was the last of the transfer, so not a whole ton happened. Just lots of final preparations and stuff to do. I did get to go to that really nice Japanese restaurant with Elder On, which was delicious. So it was a fun last week up in Chaves.  I got transferred down to Mem Martins! It's a part of Lisbon, so I will probably get to finish out my mission in the same few square miles I have for most of my mission. But I love Lisbon a ton, so I'm actually pretty happy about it. I am finishing the training of Elder Saibel, which is where "stepdad" comes from. So that is going to be fun. I do miss Chaves more than I thought I would, though. I was pretty anxious to leave, but looking back, it was definitely one of the biggest experiences of my mission. We did lots of fun things there. For pday today, we went as a district to Cabo da Roca, which is a famous lighth...