Christmas!‏

Hey Family,

Its beggining to look a lot like Christmas here in Portimão! If i didn´t already tell you guys, which i think i did, during the winter here in Portugal it rains ALL the time. Which also means that even on the days it doesn´t rain its rare to see the sun because the sky is overcast. Its kind of depressing but at the same time i like rain so its ok.

This week the work in our area was slow. I dont know what it is but for some reason almost everything we plan falls through. At times its hard to stay positive but when that happens things normally start to pick up. Hopefully this week we´ll see some more progress. But this week is Christmas so that takes some time out of our week and also we have to go up to Lisbon for Zone conference. All in all, with all that and weekly planning, we only have two full days of work this week so we´ll see how that goes. We have a few investigators that are really close to baptism but none of them came to church yesterday, so it goes without saying but, we were frustrated. But on the brighter side we ate at two members houses this week so i cant complain TOO much.

In other news we had an earthquake here last week that recorded a 6 on the ricter scale. I´m not a scientist but that seems pretty high to me.Everybody has been talking about it because but me and Elder Jones had no idea it happened. It happened during the middle of the night so we were out cold, sleeping while people throughout the Algarve were running outside their houses for fear that their houses would colaspe. Elder Jones and Istill have a hard time believing it actually was as big as people said it was but i guess that just means we were really tired.

Also this week, while eating dinner at a members house, a member made a funny comment about our companionship. It said that we were the perfect companionship because I look like Hary Potter and Elder Jones looks like Ron Wezley. We didn´t think was all that funny but the members thought it was hilarious. So maybe if Jenny has more time she could make me and Elder Jones some wizard robes too because aparently to our members, we need them.

Now, the moment you´ve all been waiting for...THE PHONE CALL!

We still dont know where we are going to be for Christmas but that doesn´t really matter because the easiest way to do it is to just have you guys call here. THE NUMBER IS (Area Code)-**-***-****. I dont know the area code but Elder Jones says you can find it on line somewhere. I´m sorry i cant give more information on the number. The plan right now is to have you guys call at noon, that way its about 7 here. Right now i dont feel like i have much to say but i´m sure that will change when the phone rings.

Well, we only have a few hours of P-day today because Christmas is P-day too, so i have to get going. Thanks for all the love and support!

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Élder Haws