Elder Lindquist 5/20/09

Hey all tudo bem? This last week has been crazy and flown by so I'll try and remember everything it's been a pretty awesome week. Any news about the gender of the Nordlund baby? Last week we went to Sintra and hit up the quinta de reguleira which was sick! and we went with the missionaries/senior couple missionaries from caldes de reinha and on our way back the senior Elder said you guys should pass by this inactive member that lives in this little neighborhood over by this store, (he used to drive the sisters over there back in the day when Torres was part of their area) so a couple days later we passed by and it was amazing what happened.
She is the sweetest old lady that lives in the smallest oldest house I've ever seen and she was so excited to see us. Her cousin was there and we were able to teach them a lesson, the next day we had a big BBQ at the chapel so we invited them to come and anyone else who wanted to that they knew. The next day she, her sister, her sister’s husband, and her cousin were at the BBQ. Along with a Brazilian investigator we found over in São Pedro, (where our chapel is). The next day we had almost all of those people and more investigators in church! It was amazing. This last Sunday was the first time in ten years the sweet old lady (Maria dos santos) got to renew her covenants. She is so humble and was so excited to go back to church, the lack of transportation and distance of the chapel after the church left ten years ago made it impossible for her to go to church but this last Sunday she came and happily said the closing prayer in gospel principles class, that made me really happy.
So yeah things are going good our branch has two more baptisms this Saturday and maybe three if we can arrange the marriage/baptismal interview for Paulo, but it's getting down to the wire so I think we might have to push it back to June 6th when Maria de Graça and her daughter are marked.
Ha the other day we had a lesson with our Russian investigator ilhá and I brought my pictures to show him and he saw the picture of Mom and Dad and me sitting in front of the temple and he said that dad looks like Bruce Willis with his shaved head. Ha he's a cool kid he got an answer to his prayer about the Book of Mormon so we're trying to help him quit some bad habits and I have faith that he'll eventually be a missionary! My favorite thing to do with him is take cigarettes out of his mouth and tear them up.
Today will be fun the Elders from Mofra are coming up to play tennis with us and then Elder Peterson has to go to cacem for some meetings and the other Elders and I will go to the chapel to teach gospel principles and I'll be teaching an English class, we're just starting it this week so we'll see how it goes. I'm going to teach them how to pray in English! Well have a good week everyone I'll let you know how the baptisms and everything go next week.