August 24th

I got an email from Richard today. Here's what it said:

I had to get up and talk on my first sunday here and bear my testamony that was cool. Besides that no I haven't really had to do anything else for chruch. And my Portuguese is coming along alright I can understand a lot and Im still working on talking but Im getting better.
Thats weird that your already going back to rexburb but Im sure when you get there time will fly by a lot faster for you. Time already flys by pretty fast for me I can't belive I've been in portugal for over a month now.
O yea Im staying here they called and said Im going to be here for awhile longer so at least another 6 weeks so you can send that package here anytime you want. O and for that they told me if or when they ask you whats inside just say missionarie supplies.
Well this week not to much has been going on here we are just getting ready for are one investagators baptizem on saturday.
And I've been having a pretty good week with a lot of fun things and yea... I love this place its really nice but I sweat a ton.
And Im learning a lot of cool things all the time.
But thanks for everything :)

Elder Richard Haun

First Post

So Richard has been in Portugal for a month already in a town called Leiria. It is right by the coast and in between Lisbon and Porto. Go here to see a map

His trainer's name is Elder Zabriskie and he is from Idaho. He likes the same things that Richard does, like anime and video games and stuff like that. The members there are really cool and a lot of them speak english too. He said that he eats alot of fish there and is learning to like it :)

Here is a spiritual experience that he told me the other day: "I was listening to the music my comp. has on almost all the time and it was on shuffle and played a part from JS histroy or something like that and it was talking about the night that people came into his house and tried to kill him but ended up only seriously wounding him with tar and JS still went and preached the next day all bloody and scared. And because of that he actually ended up converting some of the men who attacked him. It just really showed me what kind of man he was and even thou all that happened to him he still went on and preached the gospel of Jesus Christ. So i know I had to work harder and better. Because these people here have the right to hear about how the true Gospel was brought back to the earth."

Here is his day by day schedule: "My normal day is like this I wake up, eat breakfast, study for 3 hours, eat lunch, then at that time its usally 12:30 and we leave the house go contacting or to an appointment or to the bus station (we are there a lot because we have to bus to three other towns that are in are area) and we come home at about 8:30pm and eat dinner and prepare for bed at around 10:30pm and go to sleep at 11. Thats pretty much what I do everyday."

For his P-day he went to a castle! Here are some pics.