Beautiful New Area of Aveiro!

Love – Missionary, Area, and People
Oh I just love being a missionary :)!!
I love reading about what everyone is doing. You are all such great
examples to me!!

New Area

Okay, so Aveiro, my new area is wonderful!! :) It is sooooo pretty here... I love it :).
Its sooo different. My other area kinda felt like I was in
Africa, but now i feel like i am Portugual, hah. It also is cleaner here.
I love my companion. She is soooo sweet! :) She is from Sandy, UT and
went to Utah State studying to be a dental hygienist. She has been out as long as
 I have been and has been in thi area for one transfer.  She is very talented at art :)
Oh and she loves to run!! :)
So my first day here we went and taught Helana. We went to a
members house and it was sooo different. Haha I wish you could have
been there. I felt like I was in the middle of a play.  Everyone there were such
interesting characters and unique. There was Helana and I think
 she might be crazy and she was talking alot. Then we have Paulo, the
member and he doesnt say a word the whole lesson and he is a little
bigger and at random moments in the lesson he wouldl get up and take
pictures of us hahahhah and he has like ten million music cds. Then we
 have his wife that speaks English in kind of a high pitch voice. Hahah
it was funny they were just so different and it just felt like i was
in a play with these super different people hahha :).

Zone Conference

We had zone conference. It was really good. We learned
about how to start teaching and how to ask inspired questions. I
always learn so much when I go to zone meetings. We had to
take two buses to get to Viseu.. Elder Wiscombe from home is in my zone!!!
Hah it was so fun to see him :).

Halloween

They don't really celebrate Halloween here. I saw maybe 20 people
dressed up. My comp and I dressed up like elders hahahha :) (attached picture) I also
made chili, because thats always what we have at home on Halloween:)

People

We are teaching Beatrice, she is the daughter of a member and she
is 12. (I think she has some problems). We tried to teach her about
God, Jesus and prophets. I would say okay God is our father...
Beatrice would respond " who is God?....Our brother?" We repeated this like 20
 times. I think we will just go super slow with her.

Haickel is 30 ish and he was in our area book and we saw that he had

gone to church, so we taught him.  He came to church
and is reading his scriptures!! :) We want to mark him for baptism.

Also there is Antonio and he has been taught everything. I think that

he is scared to be baptized. He is like 76 and so sweet haha. We are
helping him.

Ward

Our ward is kind of small and has a lot of older members. The ward members are nice. I
think this area the missionaries work a lot with members and less actives. In
relief society the women just fought the whole time and then in sunday school,
when sister Duke was giving her lesson there was this guy who talked the whole time.
It is sad, this area has not had a baptism in over 7months! I am going to help change that!! haha

But, I love this area. There are so many more people :) I love talking
 to people on the street. Everyone is so different and special. I know
that God loves us each so much. I know that if we live the gospel of Jesus
Christ we will be happy. :)  I feel so blessed to be a member of this
church.