May 14 -16

I am starting to feel better.  Not well, but better.  On Wed I stayed home and rested as Brooke and Claudia instructed me to do and I am sure it helped.  Wed night we had a wonderful mtg.  The singing is so loud and I plan on videoing it tomorrow.  Is that a word videoing?  So Wed was pretty uneventful.
Thurs my service partner was Linda.  I told you about her before...she and her husband special pioneered in Cape Verde.  They told the story of when the JW's were first recognized by the govt in the 1980's every religion was given the same amount of time to talk about something.  Since Cape Verde had a very young population the branch asked Ben and Linda to use the YPA bk. Ben would narrate and Linda and some others acted out the different scenarios from the book.  It gave a great witness and many listened to the truth.
Thurs aft I took the recycling down the hill to these large bins.  They are for everyone in the neighborhood.  A lg truck lifts them up and then the bottom opens and in the recycling goes.  The bins must be 4 ft across and 5 ft high, and there are 5 or 6 of them.  Then I went to the vege mkt.  Every time we go we say we will buy just a little, and then buy 3 bags.  Brought it all home so we had salad, fruit salad and barbecue chicken made in the neighborhood.  It is said to be the best in Lisbon and I think this is the 4th time we got some.
In the evening we did something that made me very excited!  We booked flights and rooms for Venice and Rome! We will fly to Venice June 16 and be there 4 nights, then take a train to Rome where we will be 5 nights.  I have always wanted to see Venice.
Today we went to a mall we heard about and it is pretty much the same as any mall in the US but with Portuguese words.  The best thing was we found a place named Guacamole,  and yes, BURRITOS!  Except for maybe some of the salmon we have eaten, the best taste yet.  Everything is good here andmom you should see my freckles!  You would think I was 12 again.  I love you all.  And so ends another beautiful day in Portugal.