HAPPY NEW YEARS!

I hope everyone had a great newyears....mine was kinda...nothin special, but whatever!
heres what has been happinin lately
things here.....are great as normal. I have my new comp, elder Watkins. Hes not as bad as other missionaries have said, we get along pretty well. Hes pretty nerdy (remember, geeky is good, nerdy is bad...geeky means you like computers and stuff but still have a social life and are not obsessed with stuff like that, nerdy is you would rather play on the computer instead of go on a date. haha) but we can connect with things like that. Ive been sick the last few days (dont worry, just a cold and its already passed...and it wasnt that bad) so we had to stay in a bit, so I spent the time either sleeping or we played Magic the card game or Settlers of Zarahemla (its this game like Settlers of Katan.,.a board game, but the mormon version. He actually bought it in a popular Media (movies books cds etc) store here called FNAC, i was amazed they had it) But i beat him at both games quite a bit, more than lose...he didnt like that haha, cuz i ddint even know how to play Magic at the start but last night I beat him pretty bad (ok...now i might be getting a little nerdy...bragging about beating someone at magic...haha)
Everyone was pretty surprised at me being in church...they were like....ummm what happened....i just had to tell them that im here for another 6 weeks! haha, everyone was happy at that though.
Oh the other day, Elder Watkins and I were waiting for a bus, and there was a guy in a parked car talking to some people outside of his car, and the guy in the car had claws for hands! and not like mechanical claws cuz his hands were chopped off, his hands were litterally claws, like the shape of a crab claw and they were big. it was INSANE i think it was an alien. Im pretty sure it was, cuz i couldnt see his face, he was wearing a hood, and had claws....definately and alien.
See, there are all these cartoons on TV and you watch them and all the cartoon characters have very exaggerated features, like big noses, long necks, etc...and you think...these characters are pretty crazy, but fake. WRONG, they are crazy, but im pretty sure that everyone that has made a cartoon got their inspiration from some people here in portugal! haha. Ive seen people here with perfectly round but huge noses, weird cartoon eyes...there are tons of cartoon characters here! haha, i love it here
A few nights ago we had an appointment with a member, but it got over early so we still had about 30 minutes to do something before heading home, so we decided to knock doors. Its about 8:30 and we start on this one building....and EVERYONE in that building got mad at us, they were yelling at us through the intercom and 3 people came out the windows and were yelling at us, 1 stayed out the window and yelled at us till we left that we cant be knocking all the doors and were disturbing people etc. It was funny how everyone was so mad, at 2 well groomed, and very handsome (at least on my part :P) young men trying to talk about Jesus Christ. Its a crazy world we live in. But we kept on going untill 9:00 where we decided to head home. While we were waiting for the bus, i started talking to this one lady that was really nice and we talked at the busstop, got on the bus and talked the whole way home. It was really cool, she was really receptive and hopefully she turns into a new investigator. It was just an interestign contrast in a matter of 30 minutes.
Our investigators are doing well, weºre still working with Milton, we invited him to fast and pray about getting baptised, even if its against his mothers wishes. We told him that if he gets baptised his earthly mother might be offended, but if he doesnt, his heavenly father might get offended. That put things in perspective for him.
Weve been working with Pepi alot, taking him to lessons and stuff. hes amazing. We had a lesson with his girlfriend in Brazil via webcam. And we invited her to find the missionaries and get a book of mormon. 2 days latter we were talking with pepi and he said that his girlfriend found the church closest to her, which was all the way on the other side of her city, she walked there only to find it locked shut. she waited a little but no one came, so she wrote on a note that she wanted a book of mormon with her number and her address and then threw it behind the gate, then she was looking at the note and thought.,..hmm that will probably blow away, so she went around back, jumped the fence, got her note and slid it under the chapel door and went home. On her way home the bishop called her and said that hed send the missionaries over with the book! its really cool...hopefully she gets baptised, pepi can go home marry her, create a nice little brazilian mormon family, etc.haha
We went to a members house here and he had these gel packs..from provo, a company called Agel. it like protein supplements and energy boosters etc. The purple on I had was good...the red one was disgusting, but had 10 grams of protein. have you guys heard of these...im guessing its prolly soem piramid scheme in utah, haha.
things here.....are great as normal. I have my new comp, elder Watkins. Hes not as bad as other missionaries have said, we get along pretty well. Hes pretty nerdy (remember, geeky is good, nerdy is bad...geeky means you like computers and stuff but still have a social life and are not obsessed with stuff like that, nerdy is you would rather play on the computer instead of go on a date. haha) but we can connect with things like that. Ive been sick the last few days (dont worry, just a cold and its already passed...and it wasnt that bad) so we had to stay in a bit, so I spent the time either sleeping or we played Magic the card game or Settlers of Zarahemla (its this game like Settlers of Katan.,.a board game, but the mormon version. He actually bought it in a popular Media (movies books cds etc) store here called FNAC, i was amazed they had it) But i beat him at both games quite a bit, more than lose...he didnt like that haha, cuz i ddint even know how to play Magic at the start but last night I beat him pretty bad (ok...now i might be getting a little nerdy...bragging about beating someone at magic...haha)
Everyone was pretty surprised at me being in church...they were like....ummm what happened....i just had to tell them that im here for another 6 weeks! haha, everyone was happy at that though.
Oh the other day, Elder Watkins and I were waiting for a bus, and there was a guy in a parked car talking to some people outside of his car, and the guy in the car had claws for hands! and not like mechanical claws cuz his hands were chopped off, his hands were litterally claws, like the shape of a crab claw and they were big. it was INSANE i think it was an alien. Im pretty sure it was, cuz i couldnt see his face, he was wearing a hood, and had claws....definately and alien.
See, there are all these cartoons on TV and you watch them and all the cartoon characters have very exaggerated features, like big noses, long necks, etc...and you think...these characters are pretty crazy, but fake. WRONG, they are crazy, but im pretty sure that everyone that has made a cartoon got their inspiration from some people here in portugal! haha. Ive seen people here with perfectly round but huge noses, weird cartoon eyes...there are tons of cartoon characters here! haha, i love it here
A few nights ago we had an appointment with a member, but it got over early so we still had about 30 minutes to do something before heading home, so we decided to knock doors. Its about 8:30 and we start on this one building....and EVERYONE in that building got mad at us, they were yelling at us through the intercom and 3 people came out the windows and were yelling at us, 1 stayed out the window and yelled at us till we left that we cant be knocking all the doors and were disturbing people etc. It was funny how everyone was so mad, at 2 well groomed, and very handsome (at least on my part :P) young men trying to talk about Jesus Christ. Its a crazy world we live in. But we kept on going untill 9:00 where we decided to head home. While we were waiting for the bus, i started talking to this one lady that was really nice and we talked at the busstop, got on the bus and talked the whole way home. It was really cool, she was really receptive and hopefully she turns into a new investigator. It was just an interestign contrast in a matter of 30 minutes.
Our investigators are doing well, weºre still working with Milton, we invited him to fast and pray about getting baptised, even if its against his mothers wishes. We told him that if he gets baptised his earthly mother might be offended, but if he doesnt, his heavenly father might get offended. That put things in perspective for him.
Weve been working with Pepi alot, taking him to lessons and stuff. hes amazing. We had a lesson with his girlfriend in Brazil via webcam. And we invited her to find the missionaries and get a book of mormon. 2 days latter we were talking with pepi and he said that his girlfriend found the church closest to her, which was all the way on the other side of her city, she walked there only to find it locked shut. she waited a little but no one came, so she wrote on a note that she wanted a book of mormon with her number and her address and then threw it behind the gate, then she was looking at the note and thought.,..hmm that will probably blow away, so she went around back, jumped the fence, got her note and slid it under the chapel door and went home. On her way home the bishop called her and said that hed send the missionaries over with the book! its really cool...hopefully she gets baptised, pepi can go home marry her, create a nice little brazilian mormon family, etc.haha
We went to a members house here and he had these gel packs..from provo, a company called Agel. it like protein supplements and energy boosters etc. The purple on I had was good...the red one was disgusting, but had 10 grams of protein. have you guys heard of these...im guessing its prolly soem pyramid scheme in utah, haha.
And thats about it! have an amazing week everyone!
-Elder Rhett "Dark Dungeon Ice Master" Hildebrandt! :P