Happy New Year!!
I can´t believe it is 2012 already! I remember thinking
about how everything cool in my life would happen in the year 2012....ever
since I was little i imagined and pretended it was 2012...the year I turn 21
and can do everything I want and the year that I finish my mission and everything. I
can´t believe it is here already!! Transfers were today and my companion Elder
Hansen is going to serve in Portimão (I was there exactly 1 year ago) I will be
serving here with an Elder Searle from Shelly Idaho, I think he is from
there, I don´t know him at all. I am not super trunkie...well right now
i was because Elder Deffense went home today...that was trunkie a little bit.
So before I start on this week i want to give you some crazy
facts about the best mission in the world!! Here in Portugal as of Christmas
day we had baptized....1094 in the year. That is more than any other 2 missions
in Europe combined (a mission in England and a mission in Spain were next but
they didn´t get 1000 together). A fulfillment of a prophecy that Portugal would
be the Lighthouse of Europe! Also another crazy fact is that in Brazil there
are 27 mission and we were able to baptize more than 20 of them....so only 7
baptized more than us! Super awesome!
Anyways for this week...well we found lots of people in parties...we
found a girl named Mafalda who is 19 and lives above the church...so no excuses
for not coming to church...except when she gets super drunk and a new years
party and ends up sleeping the night at one of her friends....it happened this
week. Anyways um We also found some cool guys that work in a meat factory near
by...one named Gerson (cabe verde), Charles (brazil), Lindomar (brazil) we went
and talked to them and explained the first vision and it was great they said
they would try their best to come to church but didn´t happen...next week! I
got to do an interview this week of a girl from Burkina Faso..she is 9 and knew
the first vision better than i ever did before my mission. She was baptized on Sunday. And we had a good party with TONS of fattening foods! I am sick of
candy and other sweet things!
Wow you found out a lot about Marlies...i hope you
didn´t make it super awkward! Does Parker have a girlfriend? Does he have an
accent? Did he speak Japanese for you? I am super stoked to do that when i get
back...i am nervous to speak in church in English though...it will not come out
very smooth for sure!
I hope you guys get feeling better here soon! I am sorry
your ankle hurts...that doesn´t sound fun at all. Is dad able to move and
stretch more now? He didn´t email me this week...i thought new years was
supposed to be a time to start good things not stop them ;) Did you guys make
and new years resolutions? I was thinking about them in sacrament meeting this
week and i came up with three things i want to focus more on now but especially
when i get home...the three E´s of 2012. They are in Portuguese but it is
Expiação (atonement), Estudar (study), Evangelho (gospel) So i want to use the
atonement, study daily, and focus my life in the gospel. Basically those 3
things were what i felt would be of the most worth. I still will figure out
plans to do these things.
Haha that is super awesome that Zach and Todd are both
taking a Portuguese class! Tell them they can start practicing their
writing Portuguese to me! Umm the only problem with them taking one at UVU is
they are going to learn Brazilian Portuguese which is different...it will
still help Zach a lot but they pronounce words funny like when there is
a "de" they say "ge" which is wierd and they
don´t conjugate the verbs in the same way...they use a form of ing...like
runnING (correndo)...but in Portuguese we say "we are to run"
(Estamos a correr). It makes more sense in Brazilian but in the
MTC he will learn the Portugal Portuguese. Wow I didn´t know Tiffany
was so close to getting married as well!! Who is she marrying?
Thanks for taking care of the contacts for me mommy!! I love
you tons!!
Elder Bushnell
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