Wow, another week has already flown by, and we´re in the middle of November! I arrived in my new area, Mem Martins on Monday (well, technically at 1am Tuesday morning). The executive secretaries were asked to give all the Irmãs rides to the new areas, but as all of the areas changed, it took a while for all of us to arrive. But, eventually we all arrived :)

Mem Martins is close to Sintra, which is supposedly a big tourist spot...hopefully I´ll get there on a pday soon. There´s a big castle on a mountain that we can see from where we live. It´s a lot different from Lisboa- there´s green! There aren´t as many people in the streets, which is a little sad, but I like it so far.

My companion is Irmã Reis, this is her second transfer in the mish. She´s originally from Angolda but has been in Portugal for about 10 years. She´s fun to work with and so far everything is going well!

On Sunday at church, I felt like I was in Brasil! Almost all of the members here are Brasileiro, which is a change but is neat. The ward is really strong and has a good missionary focus, so I think it will be great to work with the members here. They like to feed the missionaries..which is a bad thing for me! We have lunch almost every day of the week, and sometimes two meals in one day....yesterday we had lunch with a member after chuch, an investigator wanted to have a ´´lanche´´ (a snack or small meal), and at the end of the night another investigator gave us food to take home...aaaghh!!!

Apparently there´s no one in the ward that plays the piano, so I got to acompany the ward in Sacrament Meeting..the primary also asked me to help with the ward primary program that they´re having in two weeks...I think I´ll be playing a lot! But I really like to play, so I´m all right with having the chace to serve :) I´m grateful to be able to help.

Things are going all right with the work here. There have been a lot of recent converts, but the inctivity rate is high too, sadly. So we´re trying to bring them back while finding new people as well. We marked two women this week to be baptized in a few weeks...they´re friends, and older Portugues women, and they´re sweet. Hopefully they continue to progress!

Yeah, not really much new to say (well, everything is new, but I´m not sure what´s the most interesting). Christmas is already coming in ful force, in stores, at home...I´m excited!