God bless america!

we hit our 6 month mark!!! we had pastels da natas (amazing!!!) that same thing that sister stevens made for us when i got my call. and we burt a pair of nylons (hate them and dont use them but speigle does) and wore our sweet zone t shirts that an elder drew. and then gypsy pants... they are super comfy and really not flattering i know. today we went to chilis w our zone and found out all of our transfers. i will be staying here in odivelas and irma nicutxi (donno how to spell it) from angola will come here to serve w me. she only has a transfer and a half left. we are both sr comps haha. im excited for this next transfer it will be awesome!

so... i dont have much time sorry speigle has to pack. but i had the most humbling week, especially (sp...i cant spell anymore) yesterday. we have 3 people that we are teaching from angola and they told us about the wars that they were in and how they fled their homes and came here to be safe. one lady had to hide her children under the bed and then watched her husband die infront of her. the other was just a kid and he watched his brothers die. the other she was little too and her house was bombed while her and her mom and little brother and sister huddled together in a cabinet. it made me feel so grateful for how i grew up and the luxuries that i had. also, we have a recently baptized family here in our ward from brasil they are AMAZING and they literally have nothing... but they are always having us over for dinner and they have a piece of junk car (becuase the husband is a machanic) and they are always giving us rides... tons of these people have nothing and yet they give so much. we taught all of these people that i just mentioned yesterday and i thought it was ironic because yesterday was the 4th of july. but seriously, it was such a humbling experience. I love these people so much and just want to help all of them to have what i had... its hard to see people you love go through difficult times but at the same time i know that they are growing and learning to rely on the Lord so much.

so funny story really fast... we were at lunch w a member family and they love america... they practially are american... but anyways... so the dad asked us if we liked portuguese food and we said yes. then he asked if we liked american food. speigle said its okay but it has a lot of perservatives... well, she was speaking portuguese and didnt know what the word was for perservatives... so like usual she just guessed and said perservativos... the kids looked up from their food and the dads face just froze. we thought oh crap what did we say...how did we offend them... so then he was like (in english) uh, yeah i wouldnt want to eat food with condoms either! haha. it was soooooooooo funny!!!! gotta love that you can put an a or o at the end and have it be a word... its even better when its a word completely wrong! hahaa

anyways, i love you all and have more to write... but that will have to be next week! haha.
have a great week!
love irmã graf