Dear Family and Friends,
We have had a nice week here in Portugal. We spend most of our week-day time in the church office building here with close to 20 people who have different church assignments. We think that we are the only ones who are not paid employees. They have all been very kind and helpful, especially Regianaldo. He is such a pleasant and helpful young married man and we enjoy him very much. We work on the second floor. This week it has been really quiet (except for the construction work) because most of the employees went to the temple for the week. Our main boss is one of them and he will be gone next week too. The timing isn’t great because we are still learning and could use his assistance. We have been able to get a few things accomplished, though.
On Wednesday we had to go to the mission office to get ourselves registered in the country. There we met the new mission president and his wife and they also accompanied us and the office Elders to do the same thing. It is quite hilarious trying to find the mission office, even with our GPS. We knew it would be difficult, so we made a practice run on Tuesday night and thought we would never find the place. We had actually driven right past it without knowing it before finding it later. There are lots of narrow streets here and people park so you can barely make it down some of them.
We had a zone meeting on Thursday and since it was right next door in our chapel (Half of our building is our office, the other half a chapel.) we attended for part of the day. It was very enjoyable to be trained by the new mission president and to mingle with the young missionaries.
Today was our P-Day and we drove around a little to see some new sights and also found a wonderful 3-story mall where we bought a few things we needed and ate some Kentucky Fried Chicken.
We are enjoying the wonderful weather here. Haven’t had to use our fan since the first few days we arrived. We are on the 6th floor of our apartment bldg. so we are happy to have an elevator.
We know the gospel is true and we are happy to be here to serve in any way that we can. Write to us! We love you.
Mom and Dad, Elder & Sister Henry
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