ELder Lindquist 11/7

Wow this last week was busy, but awesome. Elder Craig and I were called to be the new zone leaders, so this last week has been pretty interesting. We had a new district of twelve come in on Wed. so we got to do orientation with them and give them a tour of the MTC campus. They are a good group of Elders and Sisters; we're excited to get to know them better as we have the district below us. It's crazy to think that in three weeks we'll be out of here. The oldest district left on Monday and Tuesday of this last week. It's nice that our branch is good about following the rules and getting in on time. But other missionaries like to meander around the hallways at night much later than they're supposed to, so we kind of have to baby sit people and make sure they're getting in on time. Anyway, the Portuguese is coming along. We taught the first lesson for the second time and it went ok. I can't wait to teach the second lesson next week, even though I don't know very much of the second lesson in Portuguese we learn fast. Oh I just remembered a funny story that happened on Tuesday. There is a building here where you can practice teaching people and you can sign up any day to practice. There's a thing called a "progressing investigator" where this guy that served in Lisboa pretends to be an investigator, he asks different questions with every set of missionaries that teaches him (he acts like investigators he taught.) So Tuesday was our first time teaching him and first off he had us practice a couple door approaches. The first one he just said no thanks and shut the door, the next one he pretended to be a timid old lady and cracked the door open a couple inches to look at us. When we started talking to him he just mumbled something and slowly shut the door in our face, it was pretty funny. The third time we made it into his home and started getting to know him. Before we started the lesson we asked if we could start with a prayer, he said ok and stood up. We asked him to please sit down and I said I would offer the prayer. As I started the prayer he started copying everything I said. I couldn't help it I was laughing so hard, Elder Craig started busting up too. Even the "progressing investigator" was laughing too. I said probably like two things in the prayer then closed because I was laughing so hard. I was in tears by the end of the prayer. But after that I got myself together and we continued to teach him the first lesson and it went ok. We challenged him to read the intro to the Book of Mormon and pray about it so I'll let you guys know if he's following up on his commitments. ha well I hope everyone is doing well. Thank you for your letters and prayers.ama Jordão