Elder Lindquist 12/17

Olá meu amigos Feliz natal e boas festas!This last week was interesting. We had our Christmas party for our branch and there were almost 50 people there! At church the next day we had almost 50 people again! It was amazing. Wherever there is food here people come. Whatever the incentive may be we were glad to see so many people there. We were able to get some investigators there and a couple less active people showed up so it was a success. We watched the Joy to the world DVD and had a play preformed by a couple of the young adults and then had a feast. There was quite a bit of food left over (which Elder Rissi and I got to take home with us) I've never seen our fridge so full. The language is coming along ok. People in my area have a strange accent, (kind of a red-neck version of Portuguese) so it's hard to understand people sometimes but it will come eventually I guess. Today we are in Setubal, a large city across the Teigo River from Lisbon. We did divisions with our zone leaders here yesterday; divisions are always interesting I love them. Last night a man told us if we knock on his door one more time he will hit us in the head as he shook his fist at us. So we are spending our p-day here today and we have our annual Christmas conference tomorrow in Mira Teigo and then we will head back to Beja. I'm excited to see my MTC district tomorrow we had a good time at zone conference a week or so ago talking about our first areas. We also had training from one of the first presidency from the seventy. I can't remember his name but he's from France and he spoke in conference back in October. It was a good training. Well that’s about all I can remember from this last week. We have a few potential baptisms so I'll let you all know how things go with that. I love being a missionary I couldn’t ask for a better opportunity than I have to serve here in Portugal and to see the work here progress. This place will eventually be baptizing at the rate Brazil is, it may be another 20 years but it will happen. I'm excited to see that day. I hope you all have a great Christmas holiday and remember the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. -Love, Elder Lindquist