Well its pday again! Its crazy how fast the week flew by! This week has been pretty good. I am slowly but surely getting to my way around evora. All of the streets look the same though in most areas and its super easy to get lost! haha. We are working hard every day. I get home at night and kick off my shoes because my feet are so tired and i get to bed as fast as i can. You realize how important sleep is on your mission thats forsure!!
Eu posso entender mais e mais a língua de português cada dia. I can understand more and more portuguese every day. The thing we do most is walk around the streets and talk to everyone who walks past. basically its like olá, tudo bem? como se chama senhor? and introduce who we are and what we are doing and try to schedule an appointment at their house. As i said last week, the president made it a goal for the mission to get at least 20 street contacts like that every day. we get way over that every day haha last wednesday we hit 45. It was a super busy day. But on the weekends it seems like nobody is home or on the streets. Yesterday it was cloudy and started raining a little and it reminded me of the walking dead on the streets because nobody at all way outside. it was creepy.
we have had a rough week as far as investigators. all of the people we has been hoping would progress said we couldnt come back. We taught a girl named joanna and she accepted our message and said she would be baptized if God answered her prayer to see if this church is true. Well we went back a couple days later and her dad was like what are you trying to date my daughter? he threatened to call the cops on us!! crazy portuguese guy! so we had to give up on her.
the other night it was about 9:30 (we dont have to be back in the apartment until 9:30or 10 if we are in a lesson and we dont wake up until 7am which is nice) anyways it was night and we were walking back to our tiny house and in this alleyway theres a guy against the wall and he turns and said for us to wait.. me and my comp look at each other and we are like dude lets go hurry! and we start walking fast down the road and he runs after us and is like can you tell me about your church? i just need to talk to somebody because i want to kill myself.. anyways we talked and it was good but you could tell that guy was drunk out of his mind. i thought he was going to jump out in front of a car because he couldnt stop moving. he could barely walk haha.
then the same thing happened the next night with another drunk guy. This place is creepy at night!
we have some people who are ready for baptism but need to be married first. hopefully they get married soon so we can dunk them!!! we have a family home evening tonight with them. Sadly no golden investigators yet!
Today i think we are going to go tour this huge ancient church thing. its super old looking. Its about 75 degrees over cast right now.. man i am sure suffering in this weather!! hahaha
Serving a mission is hard and i miss you guys but its the best decision i have made in my life. I am becoming the missionary God needs me to be.
Hope you all have a great week. Always remember who you are, and never forget that God is always there for you.
love you all
com muito amor
Élder Brandon Michael Haroldsen
A Igreja De Jesus Cristo Dos Santos Dos Últimos Dias
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