Mar 22-25

Claudia and I took Emily and Amanda to see Cascais.  It is only a 45 min train ride.  The weather was beautiful!  In the shade it was a little chilly but mostly warm and sunny.  We had lunch at an Italian restaurant and then Claudia  and I  came home. The girls continued to explore for the afternoon.
On Memorial day Amanda and I went in the ministry  with Kate and Becca.  They are visiting from England.  I met 2 Nepali in the territory.  One was a young woman working in a shop. Her name is Luki. I was àble to show the video on the memorial and I am anxious to return.
At Memorial we had 154 total attendance....121 English-speaking, 26 Nepali with 7 Skype in from farms in the south. We had, I think 37 nationalities in attendance.  Truly a worldwide brotherhood.
We went to our 1st Nepali class here at Cassio's house.  There were about  15 there.  It was a bit chaotic but I learned something new about verbs, but afterwards Sonja (who is very good) tells me "yes, but, we never use them!". So maybe I will forget those. I am to make flash cards for our next class about "jobs"....can you think of 20 jobs a Nepali  might work at?
Last night we had dinner at a Nepali restaurant that I love.  Momo chicken! Amanda made some delicious soup this week, too!
All in all another beautiful day in Portugal.

Mar

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March 22-25

Claudia and I took Emily and Amanda to see Cascais.  It is only a 45 min train ride.  The weather was beautiful!  In the shade it was a little chilly but mostly warm and sunny.  We had lunch at an Italian restaurant and then Claudia  and I  came home. The girls continued to explore for the afternoon.
On Memorial day Amanda and I went in the ministry  with Kate and Becca.  They are visiting from England.  I met 2 Nepali in the territory.  One was a young woman working in a shop. Her name is Luki. I was àble to show the video on the memorial and I am anxious to return.
At Memorial we had 154 total attendance....121 English-speaking, 26 Nepali with 7 Skype in from farms in the south. We had, I think 37 nationalities in attendance.  Truly a worldwide brotherhood.
We went to our 1st Nepali class here at Cassio's house.  There were about  15 there.  It was a bit chaotic but I learned something new about verbs, but afterwards Sonja (who is very good) tells me "yes, but, we never use them!". So maybe I will forget those. I am to make flash cards for our next class about "jobs"....can you think of 20 jobs a Nepali  might work at?
Last night we had dinner at a Nepali restaurant that I love.  Momo chicken! Amanda made some delicious soup this week, too!
All in all another beautiful day in Portugal.

Nepali Meeting

So today I went in the ministry with Claudia and Daniel.  When we spoke to Bengali, Claudia offered the invite...Nepali, I spoke....English, Daniel had it coverèd!  I spoke to a really nice Nepali couple in the metro and invited them to memorial but I got no contact info on them.  Her sister is a JW in Tele Viv.  I hope they come so I can make contact.
Last night Amanda and I fixed dinner for Claudia, Emily, Manu and we added Cassio in because he had invited us for tea at 3 o'clock.  He said never in his life had someone invited him to dinner at 5!  We had a nice visit with all.  I made pasta and Amanda did salad and bread.  We picked up a chicken at the local barbecue place.
Tonight we have the mtg ànd have been assigned an answer for the Nepali bible study.
I hope I do not shame my teacher Tony!  I will let you know .
Àmanda is working with Sonja this afternoon in the Nepali field and I think they will work until mtg.  It is really raining so I hope they don't get too wet!
For some reason I can not add pictures so I will have to get that figured out...so I will share those on instagram.
All in all another beautiful day in Portugal!

Weary Travelers

So, we left Portland about 4 on Monday and arrived Lisbon about 4 on Tuesday!  Leaving Portland we were on this little prop plane with propellers whirling!  It was a bumpy ride with alot of turbulance, but we made it!  The flight fom Vancouver to London was 9 hrs. so I was stir crazy by the time we landed!  I tried doing some stretches on the plane but not much room foe that! Amanda managed to sleep pretty well on the plane and I didn't sleep at all. That was bad for me at the time, but Tuesday night I slept very well and Amanda has her sleep schedule kind of confused.  Hopefully tonight she will be back in sync.   Everything went well until we arrived in Lisbon and discovered one of Amanda's suitcases did not.  No problem, they would deliver it the next day....the downstairs bell rang so I unlocked the front door and went to the hallway to direct him up.  We did not think and both ended up in the hallway and as the door slammed we panicked. ..no key, no contact info with us on that side of the door!  We were thankful that the landlord had mentioned that his mother had a medical clinic in the building.  So, we found that and thankfully they had a key!  Not even 24 hours in Portugal!
Today, Claudia and her visitor, Emily, and Amanda and I went to Alfalma.  We walked for about 4 miles, wandering  the little narrow streets...much of it uphill of course!  We had lunch on the street..salmon steaks. Delicious!  We should sleep well tonight.  I will add some pictures so you can see our wanderings..
Tomorrow we plan on our 1st day of service so will tell about that later...all in all another beautiful day in Portugal.