Okay, so I think that my skin is going to melt off... In Portugal right now it is about 115 degrees and i want to cry just a little bit haha. This week has been the hottest of the hottest and its just been awesome walking all day every day in it. Basically, as we are walking and contacting people my skin literally feels like its going to burn off! Talk about using the whole bottle of sunscreen! But at least i am now getting some sun and I'm not as white as i was when i first got here. holla! Now i get to have the best tan lines of my life! I'm now thankful that we don't have carpet or anything like that in the houses here, because wow that would be so much hotter! Every time i come in for lunch i just lay down on the tile floor and cool off. Thank goodness for tile.
Okay, besides the hot weather, we have had a pretty good week if you ask me. We got to have interviews with president and sister fluckiger and i love them so much. I am sad that they're leaving this next month. It's going to be really weird. But wow, their counsel was perfect. Also i had another division with some of the new sister training leaders and it again, was a cool experience. I went to Povoa but, this time with Sister Eusebio. She was born in Brazil but has lived in Italy for 10 years. My heck! She is so cool and it was fun with no English for 2 days. The funny/cool story with that was that night we had a mini sleepover with the other sisters in the house, whom were from Cape Verde and Brazil, so I am just laying there in my bed and it's straight portuguese! haha basically living the life. I loved every minute of it. We were all chatting añd what not and they're all amazing sistas.
Okay, another sweet thing that we got to do this week was visit a member from our branch to help them out during the day. Vanda and Jose are a blind couple and they have been baptized for about 1 year now and are just amazing. So this week they needed our help around their house, so we took a 40 min bus ride to their city. When we got to their city they said there would be waiting at the bus stop for us. When we arrived, we never saw them so we just kept on driving until we saw a sign that said "with a huge red x through it " we weren't in there city anymore! PLUS, we then were like a billion miles away at this point (maybe a little exaggeration) because the next bus stop is way far away. haha So, we ended up getting stranded in this desert looking city and fortunately we ended up getting a ride from one of the ward member's all the back haha. when we got there, they were so happy and told us " I guess its hard to take directions from 2 blind people" I couldn't stop laughing because it was so true,
( I didn't stop laughing for 5 minutes either after that sentence) but then we walked back to their home, chatted and did the laundry, picked out their church clothes and then cleaned the bathroom...When I was hanging up the shower curtain I looked up and there was about 15 spiders, yikes! (Papa, you would have DIED!) So yeah, I didn't even wanna tell them but she felt spider webs, so I couldn't do it secretly haha. I didn't want them to freak out. Afterwards we read some chapters of the book of Mormon to them and we headed back home!
That is all about I have this week! Love you all soooooo much and cant wait till next week! If you can watch a Mormon message called "Lift". So help me it was just the best. (Little does she know I JUST watched it~ it is fabulous!)
-Sister Elliott
Okay, besides the hot weather, we have had a pretty good week if you ask me. We got to have interviews with president and sister fluckiger and i love them so much. I am sad that they're leaving this next month. It's going to be really weird. But wow, their counsel was perfect. Also i had another division with some of the new sister training leaders and it again, was a cool experience. I went to Povoa but, this time with Sister Eusebio. She was born in Brazil but has lived in Italy for 10 years. My heck! She is so cool and it was fun with no English for 2 days. The funny/cool story with that was that night we had a mini sleepover with the other sisters in the house, whom were from Cape Verde and Brazil, so I am just laying there in my bed and it's straight portuguese! haha basically living the life. I loved every minute of it. We were all chatting añd what not and they're all amazing sistas.
Okay, another sweet thing that we got to do this week was visit a member from our branch to help them out during the day. Vanda and Jose are a blind couple and they have been baptized for about 1 year now and are just amazing. So this week they needed our help around their house, so we took a 40 min bus ride to their city. When we got to their city they said there would be waiting at the bus stop for us. When we arrived, we never saw them so we just kept on driving until we saw a sign that said "with a huge red x through it " we weren't in there city anymore! PLUS, we then were like a billion miles away at this point (maybe a little exaggeration) because the next bus stop is way far away. haha So, we ended up getting stranded in this desert looking city and fortunately we ended up getting a ride from one of the ward member's all the back haha. when we got there, they were so happy and told us " I guess its hard to take directions from 2 blind people" I couldn't stop laughing because it was so true,
( I didn't stop laughing for 5 minutes either after that sentence) but then we walked back to their home, chatted and did the laundry, picked out their church clothes and then cleaned the bathroom...When I was hanging up the shower curtain I looked up and there was about 15 spiders, yikes! (Papa, you would have DIED!) So yeah, I didn't even wanna tell them but she felt spider webs, so I couldn't do it secretly haha. I didn't want them to freak out. Afterwards we read some chapters of the book of Mormon to them and we headed back home!
That is all about I have this week! Love you all soooooo much and cant wait till next week! If you can watch a Mormon message called "Lift". So help me it was just the best. (Little does she know I JUST watched it~ it is fabulous!)
-Sister Elliott