Elder Lindquist 6/11/09

Hey all how's it going? This week was sick! We were so busy oh my goodness, sometimes the things I miss most is just a nap or simply just hanging out at the house, ha the simple days. So we had a good week even though we've got fleas in our apartment now. But we will destroy those suckers. So the reason I didn't send an email yesterday was because we had an activity with our stake called "day of the youth" all the youth got together with their friends at the stake center in oeiras and first they had them rotate from classroom to classroom while us missionaries taught a short lesson. Then we had lunch (which sat horribly in my stomach and I ended up spending half the talent show in the bathroom later that day). Then after lunch they had a talent show of the missionaries! Elder Peterson, Elder Marriot, Elder Oliveira, and I played "Island in the sun" by Weezer, foi boeia de fixe! We opened the show and the crowd loved it. I sang, Elder P and Elder M played guitars and Elder Oliveira played the scissors. Yes, the scissors and danced around. We were messing around in their house the night before and we decided to have him play that so it was pretty funny. There was also a bunch of magic tricks preformed by a native missionary that is from Portugal, he is 28 and was a professional magician before the mission. Then later all the missionaries preformed the Hakka (the Tongan war cry dance) for everyone, then Elder Peterson taught the crowd how to do it. Then we had dinner and took off. It was a way fun day. Then we stayed with the zone leaders again last night because we had interviews with president today, (our last one with President Terry). So we'll finally make it back to our area after we do Internet here today. So yeah we took P-day on Tuesday, and then had the activity on Wednesday and interviews today. It has been a crazy week oh I forgot to mention that for p-day on Tuesday we went to the huge mall in Lisbon, (Columbo) and ate at a Brazilian resturante and went bowling.. It has been forever since I've Bowled but I still managed to win one of the three games we played. Too bad it wasn't the game that we bet a sundae on. Well the work is going good in Torres, the baptisms didn't go through on Saturday due to complications with the marriage, but we have patience and Maria de Graça has incredible faith so her and her daughter will get baptized eventually. Paulo disappeared for a while but we found him the other day. His life is pretty complicated but I have faith that he'll be able to overcome the difficulties he's facing so he can get baptized. Ate já, ficam bem!-Elder Lindquist