Elder Haroldsen Takes On Lisbon, Portugal!: Almost Four Months Out!

Meus amigos!!!

Tudo fixe? Como estão todos?

How is everyone? Did you have a good halloween? Its already November!!! Thats crazy!!

This week went by reallyyyyy fast.. again. We had zone conference this week in a city called Barreiro and we had to take a couple different trains to get there. We had to wake up at 5:30 to catch the first bus to take us to the train and that was rough! It was a really good conference though. President Tavares is such a wonderful mission president!!! I love that guy.

Halloween is way different here than in the states. There was literally only like 5 kids trick or treating. I was like what the heck!? I bet people thought we were supposed to be dressed up as missionaries haha...

Then this sunday Sister Tavares wanted to try something new for "O Dia Dos Almas"

So we went to the local cemetary because thats the day all the Portuguese go there to spend some time with desceased loved ones. Well we had no idea how to get to the cemetary because we had to go to one outside our area and the Elders in that area were still in a lesson after church. So basically we had to wait for them then walk like 3 miles until we finally got there and by that time it was 4:30 and the place closed at 5. All the people were walking out already.. so we didnt get to do much sadly. But their cemetaries are way different!!! They have a ton of dirt mounds so i dont know if they actually bury the people deep down or not. It was really creepy lol

We found a new kid this week named Leonardo. His mom is portuguese and his dad lives in England so he speaks english better but speaks really British. It feels so weird teaching in english!!! I feel like its not as easy/simple. Anyways, hes 14 years old and he is super nice. He has a lot of potential I think and we are going back to visit with him this week. So we shall see! We have a couple others too that we are going to pass by this week. Hopefully we can get some marked for baptism soon!

Today was a super legit pday. We went to columbo which is across the bay from where we serve. We all went as a district to go the the hugeee mall they have there and then to go bowling! It was so much fun! I always feel like im back in the US when i do fun things like that. We were jammin out to music they played over the speakers and it was an awesome time. Then we ate some burger king and came back to the church to email.

Looking back on the past feels like a blink of an eye and looking forward to the future seems like I got forever to go on my mission, but Its honestly going super fast! I hit 4 months this month! I cant believe that haha But i totally love my mission. I love Lisbon and being by the ocean. Im super grateful for everyone who writes me every week!!

Hope you all have a great week. Love and miss you all!!!