Well another week sped by...and today is transfers...and...I´m staying in Mem Martins! (my fourth transfer here, and I´m going to die here!). I wasn´t sure if I wanted to stay or go, so I´m happy to be staying. But my companion was switched to Almada, and another irmã- Irmã Thayer- will be coming here. I´m glad that at least something is changing...at times it´s rough when everything stays the same. But that´s the big news of the week.

This week was pretty normal, not much to report. One of the elders in our ward goes home today, so he was wayy trunky this week! It was funny to watch him and realized that it really will end one day! But there were a few highlights or interesting stories from the week...

We had lunch with a member that is an older woman, who is extremely quirky but so sweet...she laughs in every situation, and its contagious. So, as costume, we washed our hands in the bathroom before eating, and then were helping her ge everyhing to the table and organized. She went into the back of the house, and suddenly we heard this loud, nervous laugh. We went there to see what happened, and we had flooded the bathroom! The faucet didn´t turn off all the way, and the drain was clogged, and there was a solid inch of water on the floor! We grabbed a mop and a towel, and tried to pick up all the water. She was a really good sport about, just laughing and saying she shouldn´t have bothered cleanning the bathroom. But it was a really funny experience! :P

We found a family this week from Cabo Verde that is really neat. It´s a single mom with 4 kids, and they´re incredible. When we got there for our appointment, the kids were on a sofa eating dinner together! (not normal!) We had a really good lesson with them too...it was really neat.

So on Saturday, we weren´t sure if we would have daylight savings here or not. We knew it was in America, but no one here had any idea. So we called the Zone Leaders, and after a while they called back and said that it would be. But no one here knew it, so we still weren´t sure. So we woke up an hour early, but weren´t sure if we should go pick up our investigators an hour earlier or not, because no one knew. So we tried calling the ward leaders to see if they knew, but no one answered (a common problem here!). But finally we got ahold of one who said that it was not dayight savings. Later the ZLs called and said that the secretaries (who had said it was) were wrong...So basically we lost an hour of sleep and lots of stress of not knowing when church would start. Sometimes being cut off from the world can be hard!!!

Then, during church (which we managed to get out investigator to :) ), the Primary president called me out of Relief Soceity and said that two kids that had come to church had disappeared, and they didn´t know where they were! So, we went with two members of our bishopric to the house of one that lives just 5 minutes from the church, and they were there playing PSP. !!! So we left the one at his house and took the other one back to church....I never had investigator run out of church before!!!

But yeah, other than some interesting experiences, it was just another week. I heard about the tsunami in Japan from the members here- sounds like it was a huge disaster. Just another reminder that the day to prepare ourselves is today!!!! Hope you all have a great week!!!