Dear
Family and Friends,
Well I´ve got news for you guys! Yes, transfers came, and I have
been transfered. I will leave Faro and I will serve in Odivelas! Elder Welch,
Elder Thompson, and Elder Harker all served there already. I´ve already done a
few divisions there too. It should be great, I´ve heard so many good things
about it. I hear it has a ward with about 130 people every sunday, so it´ll be
a shocker for me. It´s basically been 4 years since I´ve gone to a sacrament
meeting with more than 70! It´s a really big area, basically a big chunk of the
city of lisbon. It´s been almost a year since I served in Lisbon, so it´ll be
an interesting change. I will be living with another companionship. I will
serve with Elder Gunnarsson, who is in the field for 6 weeks now. I will be finishing
his training.
I don´t leave until tomorrow morning. I´ll leave Elder Harker here
with another missionary from a neighboring area and then I will head up to
lisbon by train with Elder Fogg. I´ll meet up with my new companion and from
there it´s right down to business. I hope it´s colder there.
I´m actually a bit short on time this week. We´re cutting our pday
short to head to teach César for the second time, because he only has time on
monday now. We´ll get a ride from the District President, President Silva
(great guy) and we will teach with him. We hope to set a firm baptismal date
with him.
César, without fail, came to church for the 4th time in a row. He
could have already been baptized by now if he had more time to be taught!
We met a cool young brazilian couple this week, Vítor and Carla.
They aren´t married unfortunately, but are really open to learn and to try. We
will visit them tonight to see how their reading of the BoM went. They have
showed quite a bit of willingness to learn and progress. We already taught them
the Law of Chastity, so they are heavily considering marraige as a consequence
of their response about the BoM.
This week we worked hard. We made a big effort to find new people.
Sometimes the Lord really wants to test our patience, but in the end we managed
to find a couple more people who were willing to hear our message. In fact,
yesterday we talked to a mother and daughter in a park. Turns out that the
mother, Saskia, it from Holland, married to an Italian, and living in Portugal
for a few years now. The family speaks english together. They are christians,
but don´t claim to be part of a specific church. Turns out that I contacted the
daughter a few weeks back and I left her with a card. They had actually gone to
mormon.org and were curious when we talked to
them. We gave a brief explanation of the restoration, and she gladly accepted
to hear more, but didn´t want to mark anything with us until her husband and
son get back from a business trip in two weeks. She prefered to wait to
investigate the church until her whole family was together... okay, sure. It´s
darn interesting how much the Lord guides us to be right in front of the
specific people who need to talk with us.
Ivanilson and Basílio both came to church. It was a good time. I
got to say goodbye to Ivanilson, I´m sure he´ll to really well. We will
probably stop by Basílio´s house before I go too. Diego didn´t make it to
church unfortunately, he slept in... again... We went to his place and we met
with him last night to have a good chat. He says he´s been a bit discouraged
since his baptism. He was super glad that he was baptized but now doesn´t
understand what he´ll do now. We had a good conversation with him and helped
him understand his potential and his future. It was a good chat.
But yeah that´s basically all the time I have to throw out an
update. I will miss Faro a ton, it was a good 4 transfers here, but life goes
on!
Até
mais!
Elder
Ward
Pres.
Rui from loulé stopped by sunday afternoon, had to snap one with this machine
Sayonara, Aaron, President Tiago, Gary, and us
after a good lunch
Our little district
Ivanilson and Danilson
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