Third transfer

This week was great, we didnt baptize or anything, but I´ve made some great progress. We have a transfer tomorrow and I will stay in Abrantes but Elder B. Costa is leaving to another area. We really wanted to get to the mission goal of 100 boas conversas and I did most of them this week to achieve the goal, my portuguese is really improving. I can converse pretty well now. Hopefully I can speak well enough to converse well with my new companion, Elder Barros who apparently doesnt speak any english, so I´m excited for hat to see how I will do. I´ve loved having Elder B. Costa with me in Abrantes, we´ve had some good memories and I look forward to making more. Elder B. Costa is doing fine other than being sad of having to leave Abrantes; I know he will do good work wherever he goes because he is a fantastic missionary and I´m glad to have been trained by him, he is truly the model missionary and follows all the rules to the dot. At first I was annoyed at how rule stickler he was, even the little things, But then I decided to try to follow all the rules exactly with "exact obedience" and you really can see the difference! The day that I started doing this my portuguese improved tenfold with speaking and understanding, its amazing, plus we encountered more poeple that were willing to recieve us. So there is something to be said about EXACT obedience, and I hope you all realize this with the commandments of God and council of church leaders because they truly for out benefit.

It rained briefly (some roads flooded because they dont city plan well) and we had "arco-iris" or "rainbow" so I took a picture. Also we made coxinhas for seminary. We recieved candied ginipop from a member, ginipop is a fruit that smells terrible and the candy isnt much better 😅. We made goiaba juice and ate bananas with it and we submitted the picture for the mission journal because they asked for pictures of our breakfasts for fun. The fruit in the picture with our nametages called Jamelão which is really good and is like a semi-tart grape and it was addicting to eat. And lastly is Elder B. Costa and I with our last selfie😫   Oh, and also I took a picture of all the book of mormons of all the languages that we have in our house; there is english, portuguese, Italian, spanish, german, and japanese. The Italian and Japanese books are Elder B. Costa´s and the spanish and german are for some people we are going to visit and we have portuguese of course and an extra english in case we run into someone who speaks (which we have twice already).

Also very notable, we were recieving R$130 every 15 days (so twice a month) which is like $40 US which I think is amazing; and this week the church bumbed it up to R$180 which is like $60-ish US I think. I just thought it was so amazing we are living on so little but not going without or anything. Maybe move to Brazil and be rich after mission? lol probably not.

I think that is it for this week, so... amo vocês! 😎󾓦

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Elder Benjamin Barton