This is our apartment from the outside. It is on the second floor (but they call it the first). That is our car in front. It is a tiny cobblestone street. Paula is standing outside the living room and the other door is the bedroom. We have two bedrooms, one bathroom, a kitchen, and a living room. It is small and only takes about two minutes to sweep!

This is our girlie bedroom.  We also have one that has more dark wood and looks more normal!  The doors open and there is a heavy-duty blind system that really blocks out the light.  With the blinds up and the doors open we get a good breeze that cools things down.  There are hardly any insects here at all, so we have no worries or problems with flies, mosquitos,spiders, etc.  They must all live in Utah!

This is our church.  It is on a very narrow cobblestone street in the old part of Beja....thousands of year old!  The inside is very modern and comfortable and looks like a lot of our chapels except for marble floors throughout.  We love the members.  They are so welcoming and are patient with our Portuguese.

This is the first baptism that we witnessed. We were able to be with her on her last two discussions. Because she is related to the Branch President (who baptized her) Larry was able to conduct her baptismal interview. It was a great experience and the first real push to speak and understand Portugese. Her name is Rosalina. She has a wonderful spirit and her fiancee hopefully will follow.
These are the missionaries that taught her. They are the only two here in Beja. They are great and have really helped us a lot to get settled in. Larry has been on splits with them four times now in one week. Paula bore her testimony in Portugese in Rose's (she actualy goes by Rose) last discussion. It was very simple but they seemed to understand. Whew! The elders have another family of investigators so we hope for more baptisms in the near future.



This is one of the narrow cobblestone streets close to our chapel.  There are hundreds of them and they weave and wind all over the place.  It is a maze.  We are surprised we still have mirrors on both sides of the car! This is the old part of the city and the roads were built long before there were cars.  They fit a donkey and a cart and two walking missionaries, and that's about it.