FHE
Monday night we had a family night with a family in our ward.
Luzi, I love her, she is a return missionary from Portugal. Our
investigator Beatrice and her brother Tiago came. We watched two films
about Christ. I felt the spirit so strong. I felt the love that Christ
has for each one of us.
Homemade Bread and Conference
Tuesday we had apartment cleaning checks and ours passed :) Sister and
Brother Rose checked them. They were so nice and were so excited about
missionary work. They also baked us zucchini bread haha I haven't had
home baked thing in so long :)
That night we went up to Porto! It was soooo fun!!! :)! We had another
sleep over!! :) We slept over with the sisters up in Porto. There were
12 sisters and we all slept in the same apt :). Their house was huge and we
all just slept on mattresses. It was fun. All of the sisters were so
nice :) Porto is a beautiful city.
We went there because Elder Dikes came and spoke to us. He is a
member of the 70 and spoke I think last year in conference. There were
sooo many missionaries! It was so fun to see everyone :).
First Sister Fluckiger talked about obedience. She said that obedience
is what brings happiness and the spirit. She said that its our choice.
This is so true. We are choosing to be happy when we are obedient. :)
President Fluckiger talked next and he talked about the importance of
having the spirit with us when we teach and that is what brings real
conversion. He also talked about some really great scriptures of how
we should be happy :)
Sister Dikes talked next. She talked about being thankful. We have so
many blessings :). She showed us how to make these cute missionary
thank you cards!! I loved it! I am going to use it :)
Elder Dikes spoke last and he talked about how happiness is a choice.
Each day we just need to decided that today is going to be a great day
and I am going to be happy. He also talked about how we need to teach
to the needs of our investigators.
After we got subway sandwiches and went home!! :) wow it was such a
powerful meeting!!!! :) I felt the spirit so strong. I was so grateful
for that meeting.
Investigators and Members
Also this week we visited Vera who is less active and she taught us how
to make her special soup. Basically all she does is put a ton of
veggies in a pot with water and then blends it all up :).
We are going to try visit Mark Senoir Antonio and invite him to a Christmas Party
this week. He said he doesn't want to be baptized unless there are lots of people. We
have a christmas party this week in Viseu and there will be lots of
people :) I hope he gets baptized. He is such a cute old man that
always buys us a treat and is dressed nice and loves his cats hahah.
Also we had a member meal :) Leonardo and his wife Michelle fed us.
Ohh it was the best food I have since I have been in Portugal.
Michelle said that she wants to be a chef. She made us pork. It was
so amazing. I love going to members houses because there is such a
different spirit about their houses than the nonmembers we visit. Its crazy how big the difference
is. I just know that the gospel blesses families so much.
Miracle
I want to share a miracle that happened this week. We found this girl name Patrica
when we were knocking doors last week and she is 18 and super nice and
going to school here. When we came back we met her friend Jessica who
is also studying and is also really nice. We taught the first
lesson and it went so good, the spirit was so strong. Then we were
almost done with the lesson when in walks her roommate who is a
member!! Jenzi and less active, but she whipped out her
scriptures and helped us with the lesson. It was such a blessing and I
am so excited to continue teaching them. :)
Ward Party
Also this week we had a ward party! It was great. We watched the
Joseph Smith film that is longer and talks about the life of Joseph
Smith. We set it up like a theatre and had popcorn :). It is such a
powerful film. I felt the spirit so strong. I am so grateful for
Joseph Smith and all he went through so that we can have the Book of
Mormon and this church today. The members loved it and all of them had
never seen it before. We also had dinner. It was just whatever the
members brought. Hah it was so funny after the prayer there wasn't
really a line, everyone were kinda like vultures and swarmed the table
and started eating hahah. It was really great to talk to the members
and spend time with them. Also It was good for our investigators to
see.
More Food
On Sunday it was fast sunday and we fasted until 8 30 at night!!! My
comp and I were walking around like zombies we were so hungry. ha we
had to wait because thats when the member wanted us over. Jacklyn and
Susana made us bacalhua com bata, it was really good. It might have
tasted so good because i was hungry. hah but it was yummy :)!
Monday night we had a family night with a family in our ward.
Luzi, I love her, she is a return missionary from Portugal. Our
investigator Beatrice and her brother Tiago came. We watched two films
about Christ. I felt the spirit so strong. I felt the love that Christ
has for each one of us.
Homemade Bread and Conference
Tuesday we had apartment cleaning checks and ours passed :) Sister and
Brother Rose checked them. They were so nice and were so excited about
missionary work. They also baked us zucchini bread haha I haven't had
home baked thing in so long :)
That night we went up to Porto! It was soooo fun!!! :)! We had another
sleep over!! :) We slept over with the sisters up in Porto. There were
12 sisters and we all slept in the same apt :). Their house was huge and we
all just slept on mattresses. It was fun. All of the sisters were so
nice :) Porto is a beautiful city.
We went there because Elder Dikes came and spoke to us. He is a
member of the 70 and spoke I think last year in conference. There were
sooo many missionaries! It was so fun to see everyone :).
First Sister Fluckiger talked about obedience. She said that obedience
is what brings happiness and the spirit. She said that its our choice.
This is so true. We are choosing to be happy when we are obedient. :)
President Fluckiger talked next and he talked about the importance of
having the spirit with us when we teach and that is what brings real
conversion. He also talked about some really great scriptures of how
we should be happy :)
Sister Dikes talked next. She talked about being thankful. We have so
many blessings :). She showed us how to make these cute missionary
thank you cards!! I loved it! I am going to use it :)
Elder Dikes spoke last and he talked about how happiness is a choice.
Each day we just need to decided that today is going to be a great day
and I am going to be happy. He also talked about how we need to teach
to the needs of our investigators.
After we got subway sandwiches and went home!! :) wow it was such a
powerful meeting!!!! :) I felt the spirit so strong. I was so grateful
for that meeting.
Investigators and Members
Also this week we visited Vera who is less active and she taught us how
to make her special soup. Basically all she does is put a ton of
veggies in a pot with water and then blends it all up :).
We are going to try visit Mark Senoir Antonio and invite him to a Christmas Party
this week. He said he doesn't want to be baptized unless there are lots of people. We
have a christmas party this week in Viseu and there will be lots of
people :) I hope he gets baptized. He is such a cute old man that
always buys us a treat and is dressed nice and loves his cats hahah.
Also we had a member meal :) Leonardo and his wife Michelle fed us.
Ohh it was the best food I have since I have been in Portugal.
Michelle said that she wants to be a chef. She made us pork. It was
so amazing. I love going to members houses because there is such a
different spirit about their houses than the nonmembers we visit. Its crazy how big the difference
is. I just know that the gospel blesses families so much.
Miracle
I want to share a miracle that happened this week. We found this girl name Patrica
when we were knocking doors last week and she is 18 and super nice and
going to school here. When we came back we met her friend Jessica who
is also studying and is also really nice. We taught the first
lesson and it went so good, the spirit was so strong. Then we were
almost done with the lesson when in walks her roommate who is a
member!! Jenzi and less active, but she whipped out her
scriptures and helped us with the lesson. It was such a blessing and I
am so excited to continue teaching them. :)
Ward Party
Also this week we had a ward party! It was great. We watched the
Joseph Smith film that is longer and talks about the life of Joseph
Smith. We set it up like a theatre and had popcorn :). It is such a
powerful film. I felt the spirit so strong. I am so grateful for
Joseph Smith and all he went through so that we can have the Book of
Mormon and this church today. The members loved it and all of them had
never seen it before. We also had dinner. It was just whatever the
members brought. Hah it was so funny after the prayer there wasn't
really a line, everyone were kinda like vultures and swarmed the table
and started eating hahah. It was really great to talk to the members
and spend time with them. Also It was good for our investigators to
see.
More Food
On Sunday it was fast sunday and we fasted until 8 30 at night!!! My
comp and I were walking around like zombies we were so hungry. ha we
had to wait because thats when the member wanted us over. Jacklyn and
Susana made us bacalhua com bata, it was really good. It might have
tasted so good because i was hungry. hah but it was yummy :)!
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