Hey thanks for the weekly emails it's always a great hour to read and hear from you guys. Holy smokes this transfer is going by fast. We only have like one more week its crazy. Elder Peterson says he has a feeling he's leaving but I want him to stay, ele é realmente boeia de fixe! So it has been pretty hot here recently and we've been doing a lot of finding in little towns outside our area so we've been doing a lot of walking. The past two days I feel like I've been hit by a train. We're pretty tired but we're working hard and loving Torres Vedras. I have a pretty funny tan line. A collar line on my neck, (which with a regular shirt on looks ridiculous) a farmers tan at my elbow and then a long sleeve shirt line. So we've been battling the little devils in our house that have been biting the poop out of us, (which are not fleas but another type of small bug that we got from one of our investigators houses.) I've only been able to catch one and it was a wrestle, they're sneaky little buggers. I taped him in my journal, ha!So this last week we had a huge number of investigators, we beat our district goal. Now it's just a manner of getting those people to "stick" and actually progress. But I've seen that when someone has stopped in their progress that was doing fairly well and you drop them the Lord makes up for it and you're able to find new people to teach. We found a great Brazilian family on Sunday and they are really nice and a family that has a son that's a member who lives in England and they have a really good view of the church because it "saved" their son/brother from the path he was on so we're excited to continue visiting with them. Ha the other day we stopped by the Igreja Maná (we wanted to see the miracles they do where the people pay the pastor like 50 bucks and he beats them in the head and they're supposedly healed) but unfortunately we only had time to stay for the music at the beginning. It was pretty funny Elder Peterson and I was grooving out dancing around and one part of the song the lady singer was like raise up your bible! This is your tool your weapon, use it against the enemies of God! I look over and Elder Peterson is holding up the Book of Mormon, ha it was classic. I know without a doubt that this is the true church of Christ, he is the head of this church and there is a living prophet called by him on the earth today. I see daily, how lost people are. It is so plain in my eyes the truthfulness of this message. I know of with conviction that this church is true. And even though we don't have thousands of baptisms in this part of the world as it says in 1 Corinthians chapter one I was called of God not to baptize, but to preach the gospel. That is my greatest desire right now and it's a pretty awesome privilege to have a name tag on my chest that also includes the name of the Savior. So today we're kicking back for P-day after tons of crazy ones this last transfer we're just going to chill and play tennis. I hope you all have a great week,Com muito amor..-Elder Lindquist
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