"It's seriously felt like a blink!"

Dallis is doing Great! He hasn't written an entry for his blog in the past two weeks but he has written us, his family, so I thought I would share some of his thoughts from his letters to us......


Haha, so Elder Judd and me were talking about slip and slides and I had to tell him about when you ran out and jumped feet first onto a downward slope and slammed your hair clip into the ground, ripping the slip and slide and cracking your skull! hahahahaha oh I'm dying just thinking about it!! I miss you guys too! Things are still going great here! Lots of new people to meet and talk to! Lots of things to still learn! But I feel I´ve come a long way! So that's such a blessing!! We don't have that long and we´ll be on the phone again hearing each other´s laughs and cries!

The language is still going... I can basically understand what's going on in every conversation. There are just some accents I cannot understand at all... haha but one day I´ll get there I guess! I cant believe it's already been 5 months!
 It´s seriously felt like a blink!

Man I miss hangin with my family!!! But Fortunately thanks to the Lords grace, I am adjusting every week, and I am ok with having to wait a little before hangin out with you guys again.

Guess what memory made me laugh this past week? I was thinking of us on the wave runner when you couldn't handle yourself!!! hahaha made me laugh!!! haha and the library one made me laugh too!!! Don't worry, I am doing my best to be obedient. I want those blessings! haha here's my quote for you,
"Don´t help you´re pregnant!"
LOVE YOU!!!
Elder Quinn

"I'm pretty sure if I got cut I'd bleed juice."

Ola! Tudo Bem? Nothing too new happened this week. We are still working for our next baptism. I think we might have found one. Laise, is 16 years old and she was sitting in her window, and seen us walk by and called to us. So we went up to her floor and talked to her. Then she came to church yesterday. I´m pretty sure she’s elect! I already have a vision of the baptism... I´ll let you know. Pray for her! The juice is still good, and our area is as huge as ever, but fortunately we have busses! But the bus driver’s here drive super crazy. You feel like your Harry Potter on that double decker bus on the Prisoner of Azkaban. It’s hot, but not too unbearable. One of the places in our area, smells like burnt cheese all day... Not sure why. I´m pretty sure if I got cut I´d bleed juice. I drink a lot of Peach nectar, Tutti Frutti, Um Bongo, and pineapple nectar... It’s too good! And I love it! Elder Judd is a pretty good cook so we are eating pretty well! Other than that, just ordinary missionary work! "We gonna find you!" (Lyrics from the bed intruder song-we are going to sing that to our next baptism) That’s it for now! Thanks for all your prayers and support! Love you all! The Lord lives and loves us!
Be Not Afraid, Only Believe.
Elder Quinn

"That's probably why I was called here" lol

This place is beautiful! (Costa Da Caparica) It´s definitely a touristy city, which makes it a little difficult to find people that actually live here and won’t be leaving in a week. But it also makes it fun to meet people from all over Europe! The weird thing about these Europeans, they move around the countries over here like their states. It must not be too hard to cross borders. I and Elder Judd have a ginormous area. We don´t really have anyone too potential right now, so we just gotta keep working hard and show the Lord we´re ready! Our house we are living at is a beach house. We wake up every morning and go to the beach for our morning jogs. At the beach I find starfish that have been washed up and I put them back in the ocean so they can survive. (That´s probably why I was called here anyway, not to save souls, but to save star fish). I would send pics, but I don´t wanna plug my camera into these computers in this cafe. I´ll get some to you soon. Hopefully you still remember what I look like! My testimony has really grown out here, and I am loving learning about my Savior every day! Portuguese is definitely getting better... but I still got a little way to go before I consider myself fluent. Love you all!! Thanks for all your support!!!
Love Elder Quinn

"It's our duty to find these people!"

Not much has changed, but it’s still been crazy. We have been living and working in a tripla (threesome). I am with Elder Judd and Elder Stratford. We have had some fun times!! Now that we got transfers and everything, Elder Judd and I are staying together and we are taking on Costa da Caparica and Monte da Caparica. It’s a huge area with huge Potential!!! It’s awesome!! We could be baptizing regularly if we work hard enough for it!!! The ward here is great, and I am very excited to help this ward keep growing!! A cool thing that happened this week: We knocked on the door of someone we were already working with and her sister answered the door. She let us come in and teach her the first lesson. She basically accepted everything and then at the end of the lesson, we knelt to say a prayer. We said the first prayer and invited her to say the second prayer and ask Heavenly Father if this was the path for her. Her dad came in before she prayed and said we must have been sent from God. He saw us somewhere else and then there we were, kneeling and praying with his daughter in his house. She prayed and got her answer right there that this was the path that she needed. It was pretty cool! The Lord is always preparing people! It’s our duty to find these people! That’s about it for this week. I will take pictures for next week, still been a crazy mess with these Emergency Transfers and moving houses twice in one week. Love you all!!!! Thanks for your prayers and support!
Love Elder Quinn

"So where can I get one of these Book of Mormons?"

Hello people of the real world!! How is everything going?! This week has been full of miracles here in Setúbal, Portugal. We had two baptisms thanks to the help of the Lord. It was an awesome service, and I had the opportunity to baptize both of them! Their names are Horacio Rocha, and Arnaldo Caldeira (both of them have 2 or 3 middle names that I can’t remember...) but I did the baptismal prayers flawlessly! My companion says I gave them both a pretty good dunk though... Ha-ha, Horacio came up out of the water and coughed because I think water got up his nose and he spit the water at the window (where the little kids look in).... all in all it was a great day - full of miracles. We had 3 of our very potential investigators attend the baptisms which was awesome. After the baptisms, we had lots of cake, pastels...and OF COURSE JUICE!!! ha-ha and Elder Harris and me picked up McDonalds on the way home to celebrate! Yesterday, Elder Harris and I received a call from President Fluckiger. He is shutting down an area and bringing one of the elders from there to be with Elder Harris and I am getting transferred. My new area is called Costa da Caparica. I am headed there right now actually. I am in the Mission Office writing while I wait for my ride. It´s hard to leave my area where I´ve grown to love the Members and my very recent converts and it’s scary to get thrown into one of these middle of the transfer transfers and to be getting a new companion/trainer. But the Lord has something in store. More Baptisms, and hopefully Juice!!! I now will have 3 dads (Trainers) here; I have not met my new dad (Elder Judd) but I will in a couple of hours. I will let you know how it all turns out next week. OH YAH!!! Funny thing my companion and I were laughing at. There’s an episode of SpongeBob where Patrick and SpongeBob are selling chocolates and this crazy guy is stalking them all day screaming, "CHOCOLATE!!!" and in the end he just tells them, "Finally I´ve been looking for you guys all day, now that I’ve got you right where I want you..... I just wanted to buy all your chocolate!" and then SpongeBob and Patrick drop all the chocolate they have in their hands and chocolate bars just start pouring out of their pants because they can’t believe it. So... we met this guy on the street and asked him if we could come in and he said yes. We go into his house, mark him the first lesson for baptism, and at the end of the lesson he says, "So where can I get one of these Book of Mormons?" (Elder Harris and I weren’t planning on leaving one with him until the next one lesson) so when people ask us something like that... We feel like SpongeBob and Patrick.... just drop everything were holding in disbelief... I don´t know if that makes sense... but ha-ha. We die laughing about it. But anyway, time for a new area and new adventure! This is a picture of our baptism. Don’t worry... They don’t appear it, but they were happy to be baptized... ha-ha. The other pictures are of the streets here in Setubal. It's soooo cool how they decorate the streets! Love you Guys!!!
-Elder Quinn

"I just wanna get baptized!"

Good Day everyone, not a lot new here in the big Setúbal Portugal. Nothing new except the HEAT!!!! Holy Goodness. It is soooo hot. Haha it reached 41 Celsius this week... which is over 100 degrees if our phone’s calculator is working correctly!!! It is sooo hot!!! Elder Harris and I have a mountain to climb every day in our area and basically all we can do is laugh because when we are walking we can feel the heat beating on us. When we get to our destination and actually stop, we just start dripping with sweat. Completely soaked!! Then we just use some napkins or our arms to sop the sweat off our faces. It´s not unbearable though, so thats good. It´s amazing how hot it really is though! Never felt heat like this before, but on the plus side, I am getting way tan. So that´s good. We have another baptism planned for this weekend! Actually 2! The Lord is blessing us so much! We are trying to find every opportunity to change ourselves and behaviors to be more obedient to unleash the miracles of heavens here. Everybody and their dog here smokes, so one of the people we have marked for baptism is trying to get over his addiction. As of now, he is still doing well. Our other Baptism is firm. We asked him, "Who do you want to baptize you?" and he said, "No me-importa! só quero ser batizado!" (It doesn’t matter! I just wanna get baptized!). So that’s pretty cool to see more fruits of our efforts. The World Cup has started and today is Portugal VS Germany, so everybody here has their flags hung and is ready for the big game! Portuguese is getting better for me, at least on my part... I am starting to speak more grammatically correct. I still don’t always know what the people here are saying (99% of the time), but one day I will know what they´re sayin! Love you all!
Love Elder Quinn

Just call me Sister Mary Clarence

So this past week the Rapazes (tone deaf young men) in our ward, needed some help with their song they were going to perform in Sacrament Meeting. So their leader asked the elders to help out. So I pulled a "Sister Act" and did my best to make them sound better. Basically it just ended up that the elders ended up singing with them and I just sang my loudest to try to help the ward members hear a little of what the melody should be like. We are teaching English classes at the chapel every Thursday night. It´s kind of hard to teach Portuguese people English when you can´t even speak Portuguese... but It seems to be going alright. A weird thing Elder Harris and I saw this past week, were some people on the basketball court in wheelchairs. They were practicing rugby.... Never knew rugby could be played in wheelchairs... don´t know how they tackle each other... Anyway, this week we were talking with a lady in the street and her daughter dropped a balloon on the ground that she was blowing up and playing with. The little girl picked it up and put it right back in her mouth.... ha-ha. Hopefully I don´t make faces when I see these types of things. Portuguese is still Portuguese.... ha-ha. I can understand my companion completely when he is talking in Portuguese, but then we go to these people’s houses and I cannot pick out more than 4 words per conversation! Ha-ha ok it’s not that bad, but it´s still a little difficult. My Portuguese I feel, is getting better so that’s good!! Elder Harris and I are trying to do everything to be exactly obedient. We are doing pretty well actually. We are seeing the miracles every day. We have some people lined up for baptism. We just have to rely on the Lord to continue to bless and prepare them. All is well here in Portugal, Today we are going to eat choco frito! Its fried cuddle fish!!! Should be delicious!!! Loving it here! Fica Bem!!!
-Elder Quinn