Hey hey hey! Who has two thumbs and
is finally out of the mission office? THIS GUY!
I've been sent an hour north (by Metro
still haha we're at the end of the red line) to Póvoa de Varzim! I'm now in the
Porto North Zone. I'm back to being a regular old district leader, which is
nice I guess. I haven't had a meeting yet and won't this week because of zone
meeting on Thursday. But on the plus side, there are only a pair of sisters in
our district, so no divisions haha! Póvoa is a really cool place...I like it
here, very tranquil. It sits right next to the ocean. My comp says the
beachside on sunny days is great for contacts. Oh my goodness, yesterday we
walked down a road alongside the beach and I saw the waves and the wind was
howling and it was cold but sunny and I loved it :)
My Companion is Elder Gomes. He's
from Lisbon and is a native Portuguese. He was born here and so were his
parents, his grandparents moved here from cape verde. He's a cool kid. Only
member of his family who's a member, and got himself on a mission against
everything that could've stopped him. Very inspiring.
We have two big cities we work in,
Póvoa de Varzim and Vila de Conde. We live at the bottom of Póvoa close to
Vila. We walk back and forth. I'd forgotten how much walking you do without a
car haha. It's been a while. But I think I've lost those couple of pounds this
week that I gained in the office haha :) It's a good kinda sore that you feel
at the end of the day. very satisfying. You feel like it was a hard day of
work. We do a lot of contacts, especially close to the beach.
We've got a special ward activity at
the end of march for Easter of 4 days that we're starting to pass out invites
this week. It's awesome. Elder Gomes always thinks big and then acts
accordingly. I really like that.
I really like this ward. They're all
so nice and excited to work with the missionaries. Our ward mission leader is
young and got back from his mission in Sep, so that's cool : )Quite a few old
ladies, two or three families. Only 2 young women for the youth, but we're
working on making it 3!
They had been teaching a young woman
named Inês before I got here. Our only problem is that
her mother will let her be taught but keeps giving excuses to not let her
be baptized. It's very sad to see. So we're still trying to help her and teach Inês.
Well there's my update for y'all :)
Have a great week!
Abraço,
Elder Buchanan
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