Sister Amanda Stokes Called To Serve in the Lisbon Portugal Mission

Statue!

Luana baby Amado and Francisca (mom)

The arch and statue.

The women in the background looks like she is nervous or something. Haha

This was on the outside wall of a bank.

But it looks really cool. :)

Thought this looked cool with the bus and everything else.

thought this looked cool with all the "layers" haha. It is like a mirror effect.

But it's not. It really goes on that long! :)

This is a better look of it with Sis. Kunz

Trolley!

Me and Sis Kunz!

I think this one is less blurry than the last

We thought this building was cool. :) Plus it matches my side bag. :) Haha

Yes, that is Irmã all the way down there. Yes, I was getting distracting and taking lots of extra pictures of the statue. Haha. So she got a little far from me. :)

Weird tiny cars! haha.

cobble stone pattern

Me and Irmã

Rainbow!

My feet and the cobble stone. haha

Fabio not wanting me to take his picture ha

Me and Renato. I keep telling him to smile but he won't.

Me and Fabio

Me and Sister Brooks!

Eating at the restaurant (The one we usually go to once a week, a member pays for us to go. So nice I know!)

Columbo and the stadium. It was a pretty picture. :)

I love the colors

Family!!!!

This past week has been a great one. Ha. We marked our special friend, Joaquim. :) He is Adão's friend. (Adão is the one that has an endless supply of fruit on him, and this fruit is always given to us Sisters. haha. (meaning me and whoever my companion is at the time. haha) It is hilarious! Though, this last time he gave us a bag with stuff, instead of just handing us fruit to hold by hand, and there was a thing of honey! So we were actually excited about that one. So I made myself a peanut butter and honey sandwich the other day. (Thank you so much for sending that peanut butter! I am loving it! though it is atleast half way gone... haha. It should last me another good while.) So I got to see Sister Brooks again! She was here in Lisbon because of medical things. She is all good now though! She did lose a lot of weight. She looks good though. Ha. She wasn't complaining. :) It was really good seeing her. She went out with us for a couple hours. Oh right. So Joaquim will be baptized on Sunday! We are excited about it. Adão will have another friend. :) Though he is friends with everyone! One sunday, when he came in a little late to the gospel principles class. He went around the room and shook everyon's hand. Then he got to Edson (he teaches the class) he gave him a big gigantic bear hug!!! It was the cutest thing! (Oh, so Adão and Joaquim have special needs. But they are just the sweetest things) It was funny though. After our first lesson with him, we asked to make our next and we said thursday. Then after he asked if this was going to be for his baptism. Haha. He really wants to be baptized! I love it. :) We told him we still had a lot to teach him first. Well I am out of time. The seconds are counting down. Haha. Well Steffy I love you and you will be a fabulous missionary!!!!!!! Love you all!

Love Sister Amanda Stokes :)

That thing behind me on the floor is a lizard we found in the church... I tried saving it and catching it in a plastic tuperware... but I accidentally killed it.... It had escaped from underneath so I may have panicked and threw the tuperware and it may have conked it in the head and killed it instantly.... I felt so bad! Sis. Kunz just laughed at me and couldn't believe I threw it and killed it...

This was from the baptism as well. We are just making faces. ha