Ola!

Olá! This week was another good one! It started off good by going bowling with our zone on Pday and hanging out in the mall! Burger King  in Portugal is super good and everyone here loves it! I was pretty impressed when I tried it lol. My comp and I started teaching this lady named Madalena this week and she is from Angola and she is the sweestest old lady you will ever meet! She makes my comp and I call her "Vovó" which means Grandma and she is always feeding me food becuase she says I’m too skinny and need to eat more 😂. She has been taught all of the lessons before by past Elders, but she has never been able to commit to getting Baptized because she has had some doubts about the church. But this week we taught her about how to trust in the Lord and that He will answer our questions and increase our faith in Him and how by making covenants with the Lord He can bless us so much! During the lesson I felt the spirit so much and I can tell she felt it too. It was a really cool expirence. She is starting to have more faith and we made a goal for her to prepare for a baptismal date in April, so hopefully she will be baptized then! Another cool expirence that I had was on Saturday when we went on exhanges with the Elders who live in Amadora, the area next to ours. I was with Elder Stoore for the day and we went to this part of the town that was pretty rough. The nick name for Amadora and our area Que Luz is, "Little Africa" becuase everyone here is either from Angola, Cabo Verde, or Brazil. We went to go check up on a member who has been sick and is a recent convert. The village she lived in was really poor.  The houses were made out of scrap metal, street signs, and concrete. I was in awe the whole time we were there because you see stuff like this on the news and magazines all the time, but actually being in a place like that was a very humbling expierence. When we met with her she was very welcoming and we read a scripture together and aksed if she would be attending church the next day. She said she would try and she was very thankful for us coming over to check up on her. It was a cool and humbling expierence being in that village and it  made me grateful for all of the little things that I take for granted. Also, we are teaching Ana-Claras friend Camila and she is making good progress and is reading The Book of Mormon and hopefully she will want to be baptized soon! Anyways, I love it here and I'm so greatful to serve these wonderful people, even though this is the hardest thing I have ever done in my life.  The mission is so rewarding and the love and happines you feel when you serve others and help them come closer to Christ makes it all worth it! Até a próxima semana valeu! 😁🤙🏼


















Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Faith and Miracles

Image
  Olá Meus Queridos!! I don't know when was the last time I've written to all of you 😅. If any of you still read these posts I just wanna say thanks for being patient with me!  A lot has changed recently in our mission... We received a new mission President and his family. A bunch of new missionaries from the states are starting to arrive. I have served most of my mission close to Lisbon and in the central part of Portugal. But this last transfer I was sent all the way up to the northern part of the country in a little town outside of Porto called São João da Maderia. It's such a cool little area with a lot of trees and a good view of the ocean. The northern part of Portugal is completely different from the central and southern part. The people are very hard to talk to and the culture is different. I was a little nervous when I got here, but I was excited to see what this new area and zone had to offer!  This last transfer I had a very special experience with one of our in
Read more

Week 5

Image
Ola todos!! I have been in the MTC for 5 weeks now! Like I said before, the time keeps on flying by super fast! This week was really good besides me having a cold lol, but I’m starting to feel better! We didn't have any new missionaries come into our zone this week, so that meant my comp and I had more TRC'S!! We have been teaching this girl named Mele and I have loved being able to teach her with my comp! She is super nice and speaks very fast BRAZILLIAN PORTUGUESE!! It's so hard to understand her lol because she pronounces everything differently than we do because we speak Continental Portuguese. I can understand half of what she says, but it still works out pretty good and she understands what we are trying to teach. We have been teaching her how important baptism is and having faith in God and how making and keeping covenants with him will bless us. We will always have the gift of the Holy Ghost if we endure to the end! The MTC is such a cool and fun place and I'm
Read more

Week 6!!!

Image
Ola!! Hope everyone is doing well! Today is my last day at the MTC and I’m soooo ready to get out and serve! To be completely honest, I did not think I would have such a good experience here at the MTC, but I'm so glad that I did! I owe it all to my Heavenly Father for putting such amazing people in my life. I have truly learned so much from everyone here at the MTC and I hope I can have the same effect on the people that I will meet in Portugal! On our last day of class with my teacher Irmao Haycock we did this really cool activity for our last day. We went to the S1 building in the MTC and in that building there is this long hallway with paintings of Christ all over the wall. Our teacher told us to walk down the hall and look at each painting of Christ and try to feel the spirit and see what each painting means to us, and once we got done looking at all of them, we would walk back down the hall and show each other which painting was our favorite and what it meant to us. This acti
Read more