Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Pictures of Portugal #12

The following pictures are of our "branch" (church) Christmas party.  The women planned it in about 10 minutes at church.  It turned out great and we had a terrific time.  Things really don't have to be stressful to be fun!!




The start of our party - GOOD FOOD!!
The man in front is Luis, he's our 2nd Counselor in the branch Presidency. 




Members of our branch.  This girl in the background is Isabella - she's a live wire with some major spunk.  She is not one bit shy and teaches us lots of Portuguese.









We had more people come than we had expected - so we had to open up the room divider.  Notice we are eating in the chapel. 
Elder Duarte (Devan's black brother) is our Branch President & Elder Walter (the one who towers over us) is the 1st Counselor.  The other man is Julio.  We have become very good friends with his family- I'll tell you more about them later.






Julio led us in a game called "Cat and the Rat".  I think I told you about that in an earlier blog.  Very fun game. 





Kaylie playing "Cat and the Rat".  She almost got caught.  She actually did get caught later on.





This is Julio's son, Paulo, sitting between the Elder's.  He has a HUGE crush on Kaylie.  He kept taking pictures of her the whole evening, thinking she didn't notice - until we started taking them of him.











Picture of Paulo.  Pretty cute kid.











I know this video is terrible and sideways, but I just thought it was too funny not to put on my blog.  Rick and I made Elder Walter sing a Christmas carol (which he couldn't remember the words to at all) while he did some break dancing, in order to get his nametag back.  It was very funny.  He was quite the sport.

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