Dear family and friends,
Once again, a merry christmas to yall, and have a good new year when that comes around.
My apologies, the public library was closed today, so we had to all share a tablet in the senior coupléś´home who lives close to us. Thanks to such complications, I don´t have much time to write.
(im going to stop capitalizing now, sorry, this is a little awkward keyboard. just bear with me)
so on monday, after our pday, we headed to teach our new investigator, toni. hes from sãõ˜tomé´, and is a really great guy. when we visited him the first time, it ran really well, he enjoyed the message of the restoration. we left the book of mormon with him, and invited him to read and pray. well, when we returned the next day, he had read, prayed, and just like it should be, he learned it was true for himself. he soaked up our next two visits, but hes hesitant to be baptized for the second time in his life, he understands its necessary, but hes waiting for a stonger response (dont worry, were working with him). the spirit has been very powerful in our visits with him. im excited to continue working with him.
we got to go to lisbon once more this week. there was a huge missionary christmas conference, and pratically the entire mission was united together, it was really cool. we travelled the night beforedhand and actually got to stay in the presidents house for the night. mission presidents wife fed us cake upon arrival haha. we got up the next day and enjoyed the conference. there were some talks, a big lunch together, and then a little like skit show thing for each zone. it was really funny, lots of laughs. put 140 missionaries in the same room and theyre bound to have a good time. there was a gift exchange as well. is was a 10€ limit, and i bought a little hungry hungry hippos spin off to give. in turn, i received a umbrella with kittens on it and a very small toy lightsaber haha. ya win some, ya lose some.
we returned home and got back to work. with the holiday season, it has been a bit of a challenge to make appointments with people, they are often travelling or busy, but even so, we managed to find a couple new faces, and all that jazz.
for christmas, we went to church, there was a really good turnout, most of the branch still came. it was a good meeting. afterwards, we headed to a lunch with a member who was baptized only 2 months or so ago. her name is vera, and she was super nice. she invited her mother and grandmother to visit with us as well. so, we didnt just eat, but taught the restoration and the mother agreed to come to church next week.
we then went out and knocked doors and stuff, everybody thought we were crazy haha. we then headed to a dinner with the senior missionary couple here, the roberts, and they fed us for dinner, it was a good time. afterwards, elder jan and i went to the chapel to skype to family. elder jan spoke with his family in swiss german, of course, so for all i know he was trashtalking me the entire time haha (nah). i then had the priveledge to chat with my family, quite a fun time. an hour hasnt flown so fast in the mission i think haha.
but yeah, now we arrive at today. we met up with some other missionaries in a neighboring city. they played soccer for a bit (i didnt participate, dont wanna hurt nobody, but jan had a blast). there were two teams, and the elders playing bet with them saying that if they won the two young men there playing would have to go on splits with them. so, the elders won like 10-3 or something, and we have a 24 hour split planned for this wednesday, should be fun! i played pingpong in the meantime, and afterwards, we all played a bit of ultimate frisbee. it felt good to get running around again and compete a bit. in my last area we just didnt get to do it much.
anyways, a pretty simple week. with the time i have i tried to make it decent. i hope you all enjoy. everyone enjoy the holidays!
Ciao,
Elder Ward
sorry guys, still no photos, lots of computer complications in this area.
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