Over the past few weeks, we have had a wonderful influx of American students attend our little Lapa Ward on Sundays. It has taken our usual number of sacrament meeting attendance from around 15 to sometimes over 35 when you factor in other foreign vacationers who come to our ward. Many of the American students are from BYU, but there are others from other universities here for a summer semester abroad. It has been so fun to have the enthusiasm and boost in testimony and participation that they have brought with them. In honor of them and to celebrate the birth of America, we sponsored a 4th of July cookout... complete with hamburgers, chips and watermelon.
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| When there is no American Flag for sale...you have to get creative! |
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| So surprised and pleased to find sparklers!! They have no type of fireworks here, I think we found these two little boxes by accident! When we went back for more....there were none to be found. Stores saying, we don't sell them. It is funny how exciting a little box of sparklers can be! |
I think we sang the Star Spangled Banner three separate times....I must say it felt good!
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| We found a Home Depot look alike and bought this great little $20 grill to cook burgers for 25 people! It worked great and Elder Anderton felt right at home! | | |
After looking all over Lisbon- in every park we could find (and they have some nice ones) the only place that you are allowed to cook is in this park which is directly under the pillars of the Vasco da Gama Bridge. (2nd longest bridge in Europe)
It was a much appreciated day of patriotism ... love where I am but LOVE where I'm from!
2 comments:
looks like a beautiful place for a bbq!!! funny that you can't find many places to do that outdoors, but you can have a huge, sausage-cooking flame inside the church?!!
dad looked right at home cooking those burgers! 20$????? thats sweet! you guys look like your having such a GREAT time and life long memories!!!
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