Sort of a slow week, but a good one

This week was really good, we had quite an interesting experience. (But don’t worry it’s not April Fools anymore) We were teaching our little Chinese people again and we were teaching them the 2nd lesson and when we got to the spirit world part, the guy just stopped us and was like, “whoa, no, no when we die, we are dead. That’s it!” It hit me like a ton of bricks! How would you like to live your life thinking that once you die you are dead. And that is it. It was just so weird to me. He wouldn’t budge on it either. But he listened to us and we extended some reading for him to do. I just really hope he reads then prays with a soft heart and with real intent so he can come to find the truths.

Oh so this week and the next, well like 3 weeks, we are doing service week in our district and came up with point system for all our stuff we do and one of them is clean someone’s dog. Well, we did it! We cleaned a dog! He was not very happy about it though, that was for sure. It was really funny. He just whined the whole time! BUT he was so clean after and actually smelled good! That’s not common here for a dog to smell even half-way decent. It was pretty awesome!

We also taught the 2nd lesson to Elizabete and her boyfriend with a little story example thing we came up with and they really liked it a lot. Her boyfriend usually doesn’t listen to us but he really liked it and now we have a return appt with him! I’m so stoked! Elizabete wants to be baptized but can’t because she lives with him. So we need to get them married!! But marriage here to these people is like pointless. Their attitude is, “Why get married when you can just live together?” Arrgh! So frustrating!

So last week we went to Sintra, very beautiful place, try looking it up on the Internet, see what you can see if there is much, it is just amazing! There is so much cool stuff there. I took tons and tons of pics there, so it will be fun for you to get my next picture card. I take lots of videos too.

Conference was this week as you all know. It was SO good! We watched only the Saturday morning session on Saturday night here, then watched ALL the rest on Sunday. LONG DAY, but a good one for sure. The talks were all so good! I love conference; you can get so, so much out of it if you just try! Don’t sleep! I wish I could go back in time and watch all the past conferences they are so awesome! If you slept, shame on you! But I’m not one to talk too much because I wasn’t real good before my mission. But you are all adults now so listen carefully: Take notes! I know it’s over by now, but if you slept I would invite you to go back and read them when they come out in the Ensign and pay attention this time.

Well that’s about it for now. Was a good week, not a real ton happened though. I hope you all have a wonderful week! LOVE YOU!!

Elder Gray