OLA FAM BAMMMMMM

So we didn´t have time to write yesterday because the library was closed, but since
it´s not Pday I only get 15 minutes to write today. So shoutout to all the lovely lovely emails I was diggin them all and I will try to respond next week! MUCH LOVE

This week was CRAZY CRAZY FUN! We had a zone conference on Wednesday that was really cool, the Porto zone is so great and we basically just did a million practices. I didn´t realize this at the time, but Sister Pereira and I were actually practicing with the AP the whole time. WHAT. It´s probably good I didn´t know or I would´ve freaked out. Basically the proudest moment of my whole life came when he said that I teach very well for it being my first transfer and that my Portuguese is pretty good. HECKAH YESSSSS FAM! This coming from the AP AND a Capo Verdian.... Yep, I felt pretty good about myself.
On Thursday we had this crazy amazing ward activity the other sisters and us made, where we basically just talked a little about Easter and painted eggs (the Portuguese people thought this was hilarious. I´m guessing egg-painting is a very American tradition). The best part was we had 5 PESQUISADORES and 10 MENOS ACTIVOS! Including our super cool investigator Joao, who I sent a picture of earlier. We origionally contacted him because he looks like a pirate (not pictured: his hoop earring) and he turned out to be the coolest person ever and MAKES MUSIC VIDEOS FOR STROMAE and also pretty golden. I´m excited for him!

We also MARKED CLAUDIA FOR BAPTISM THIS WEEK! I love love love this girl. 

She´s 14 and crazy cute and so fun to talk to. Commitments are very very difficult for the Portuguese people to keep and she doesn´t have a lot of family support, so please pray for this wonderful girl! We would absolutely love to see a baptism in this transfer, and Gaia hasn´t had a baptism in MONTHS. ORACAOS FAM!!

And this weekend was CONFERENCEEEEEEEEEE AND IT WAS SO AWESOME!!! I THINK!!!! We watched womens, priesthood (first time and I will ALWAYS watch it from now on, it was literally so great you men don´t even know) and the first session in English which was so very very nice! But we had pesquisadores for our other sessions so the rest were in Portuguese. I bet the Sunday morning session was REAL good, but I´ll have to wait to read it in the Ensign. Seriously though, I understood maybe a word or two the whole time. Whoops. Oh, and we weren´t even allowed to watch the last session because it was on past our bed time as missionaries. LOLZZZZZ I thought that was pretty hilarious. Missionaries not being allowed to watch conference. 

Other quick random thoughts of the week:

   - if there´s one thing Portugal has done it´s lifted my self-esteem, since the people are really blunt so they don´t mind telling you straight to your face that they think you´re beautiful. Then again, they also don´t mind telling you if they think you´re really white. I´m kind of depressed I added the word "neve" to my Portuguese vocabulary (snow) because it means I hear just how man times a day people compare my skin to snow.

   - for some reason it´s a Catholic or Portuguese or something thing to let of cannons on Páscoa?! Like real, actual cannons. From the Catholic church which is right by our house. Suffice it to say that at about 2 in the morning we all thought there was a) some sort of Revolution going on or b) the second coming

   - I just wanted to give a quick shoutout to the Portuguese bus drivers of the world for somehow managing to squeeze into very, very tight spaces and not kill the thousands of people walking on the roads even as the don´t slow down, like at all, when they see people walking. In another unrelated thought, I don´t think I ever pray as hard as I do when we´re riding the buses here.

   - We walk. And walk and walk and walk. AND I HAVE HECKA SHIN SPLINTS FAM. For real yall there´s a lot of walking going on. I hope I have nice calves when I come home.... Or at least at some point I can stop having to ice my legs every day when we come home.

Okay I´m muito out of time but I LOVE ALL OF YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH AND I MISS YOU LOTS BUT PORTUGAL IS AMAZING AND I LOVE IT AND MUCH LOVE ALL THE LOVE MUITO AMOR FAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!