ELder Lindquist 2/25/09

So this last week was good. It was a different experience getting a new companion it feels weird without Elder Rissi around to make most of the decisions but it's my turn to be in the driver’s seat. Elder Hansen is cool; he's 23 and has been a convert for three years this week. Speaking of dates I left for the MTC exactly five months ago yesterday. Scary huh. I'm freaking out because the time is going by so fast and it scares me. But I'm still in my first area so I've got plenty of adventures ahead of me. The language is coming still. Yesterday a lady standing next to me in the grocery store line complimented my Portuguese! I felt awesome after that. We started talking about our church while we waited in line and I was pretty pumped about that. Now that I don't have that safety net of my trainer I have to be more self reliant with my language and I think this has helped me a lot. When people hear your accent that sounds different they either ask if you’re from Porto or Brazil haha that's where the other Portuguese is. So the other day Paula Cristina told us that her daughter in law is messing around with some witches in Beja so we might give her grandson a blessing. He is a crazy little kid and she thinks he has a demon in him or something. Oh and we can't find her records in the church so we might have to baptize her again. She was baptized 20 years ago and we can't find her records on the computer so her getting baptized again will be complicated because she's married under gypsy law but not legally. So we'll so what we need to do about that. Well I hope all is well with everyone back home and with the ward and everything. Spencer got his call to West Africa? Is he going to be speaking Portuguese? Well fica bem tudo mundo espero que tudo vai correr bem esta semana para vocÊs. Elder Lindquist