Elder Lindquist 2/15/10

Wow what a week! It was fun and went by pretty dang fast. Allow me to fill you in on a few happenings from this last week. We were able to mark Adonis, (a caboverdian investigator of ours) for this coming weekend. He is such a stud; he came to church in a suit and tie yesterday. Actually he was dressed better than we were, I will explain. Saturday we left at about 10 in the morning to start teaching and E. Bezerra locked the door, we didn't get back until 10 at night and when we tried to unlock it the door would not open. We tried for quite a while then finally we had to call the assistants and they came and picked us up and we slept in Lisbon with them. Oh the joys of the mission! It wasn't fun wearing the same clothes for 48 hours with my beard growing out of control but Sunday actually turned out to be really good. We finally got a ward mission leader called!
I was thinking that we'd only have like 8 investigators in church since we didn't have an opportunity to talk to a lot of them on Saturday but we were extremely blessed and had 13 investigators there! (The most I've had in my whole mission) Elder Bezerra and I call it the miracle of the multiplication of the investigators. After church we went to the house and had to call a key place to come and open the door which cost 70 euros :((about 95 U.S. dollars) but the rest of the day went really well. That family I told you about are doing really well they are so awesome! Yesterday was fast and testimony meeting because of stake conference last week and in the middle of the meeting the mom tapped me on the shoulder and was like can I go up there? I was like of course I'll go with you. She bore her testimony the second week in church and told the story of how we found her family and how she has received an answer about the truthfulness of the church and everything it was amazing. But yeah things are going really good I feel extremely blessed to be here right now! I think that tomorrow we might be going to Beja to participate in a district meeting that is held by one of our districts in that chapel. If I can I'll swing by Paula Cristina! Today is the holiday of Carnival and the weather isn't very good for people to be partying outside so I think all the commotion will be held indoors. But I think we're going to play ping pong with the youth today, should be fun. Keep up the good work and enjoy yourselves there in America and I'll do the same in Portugal ok.
-Elder