Transfer day is here!

Hello everybody! I am emailing a little bit later today because today starts the first day of my second transfer.. and I got transferred to the Lisbon area!! Its called Costa de Caprica and its across the bay from Lisbon. I was really nervous to find out where I was going last night and all this morning because I had no idea what it was going to be like... but it is BEAUTIFUL!!! I took the two hour bus ride with Elder Lee to meet up with my new trainer and Elder Fletcher. Fletch is getting trained in Évora now!! I got to see him and it was so awesome!

My new companion is named Elder Brett Hilton.. hes a Utah boy and this is his 6th transfer on the mish so hes not far in either. This guy is so awesome though. Hes super hilarious and I can tell we are going to have a great time together.

This new area is huge!!! We took a 35 min bus ride from one side to the other just now. We have to get a bus pass as we will be using it alot. way different than evora!!We are at the church right now and this church i guess used to be a mansion house that the church bought. its two stories and its hugeeeee!!!! Its so different from the U.S.

I just got done dropping my bags off at the apartment and my comp was like... you want to see the beach? we walk out, walk to the back of the house, up a hill and bam its the beach... its like a 10 second walk!!! The beach reminds me of pismo beach. Its super pretty. We then walked 10 min down the beach to get to church to email. The weather is perfect.. I am in paradise!!!

This past week has been stormy weather and back in Évora last monday Elder Lee and I got caught in the biggest rainstorm of my life!!! We were like 2 miles from our house and it starts sprinkling and we were like oh its fine, we can go visit this lady really quick.. then the drops started getting bigger and falling faster. Next thing you know we were stuck in the rain with nowhere to go. The wind picked up and the streets were flooding super fast. We were soaked to the bone!!! We ran to a ladys hopuse in water up to my ankles just to find she wasnt home, just her 13yr old daughter... i felt like i was standing in the shower with all my clothes!! haha it was a rough day. 

This week we got moved from the Hobbit house that was 500 years old with no lights to a brand new apartment. It was super nice having places to sit to study and not having to study on a stool with no table to eat or study. now we got our own study desk each and a huge table for all 4 of us. It was super nice and i unpacked just to repack lol

Hawerth dissapeared again. It was sad. But we planted a seed. He really felt the spirit but he just never accepted to follow the promptings. Hopefully he gets baptized there soon!!!

We shall see how this week goes. Ill keep you all posted next week.

Once again, thank you for all your love, support, and prayers. I am having the time of my life here on the Lord's errand. 

Fica fixe amigos

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Elder Brandon Michael Haroldsen

A Igreja De Jesus Cristo Dos Santos Dos Ultimos Dias