Random Trips And Random Dogs

Boa tarde,

This whole week's kind of been a blur, mainly because of a random trip we had to Teresina. In the middle of a day of work we got a call that we had to be to the bus station in an hour to go to Teresina because of something to do with my passport and visa. That's all the more information they gave us.

For the next 36 hours I was either on a bus, in an Uber, walking around a "shopping" (what they call a mall down here), or hanging out in the mission office waiting for a bus.

All in all, the process of going to the federal police station (which was located in the shopping) to get fingerprinted and my photo taken was about 30 minutes, but with travel time and all of the other crazy things that had to also take place, it ended up taking much longer.

It's been crazy seeing how different a Utah mission and a Brazil mission really are.

I know these emails haven't been all that descriptive, but P-Days down here go by wicked fast, as do the weeks.

While we unfortunately didn't baptize this week, we were able to bring 4 people to sacrament meeting and will hopefully be able to baptize them in the coming weeks!

Love you all! Please keep sending emails! I can't tell you how much I love them, even if I don't respond. On the tougher days they really make my day!

"For behold, angels are declaring it unto many at this time in our land; and this is for the purpose of preparing the hearts of the children of men to receive his word at the time of his coming in his glory."

Alma 13:24

Take care and have a great week!

Élder Lindsay

1. The branch president owns a restaurant where we eat most days
2. My companion burning a milk box for no reason right after saying "fogo é legal, né?"
3. I had to go to Brazil to see my first Euro

P.S. By the way, my profile picture randomly changed to a dog this week. I have no idea why this happened, but it wasn't me. Just wanted to make sure I clarified that, haha. 


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