Easter in Portugal

Sick Companion                          

This week sister Cawldwell was sick. She had the same exact flu that I

had like two weeks ago. So we have been in our house all week. I

made her chicken noodle soup and she had lots of Vitamin C, just like

I did. Sister Cawldwell is great! She loves to talk and she is nice

and a great missionary! :)

Christina                    

But we also finally contacted this reference that we got from the

elders. Her name is Christana and she is soooo sweet and so amazing.

We taught her the first lesson and it went great. She prayed about the

Book of Mormon and feels like it is true. She came to church and loved

it. She is so ready.

Easter

In Portugal they do not really do anything special to celebrate

Easter. They just eat chocolate covered almonds, they

dont color eggs or have easter egg hunts.   On Easter Sunday

it was wonderful to go to church. I am just so

grateful for our Savior and that we will all have the opportunity to

live again.

Nilda and Divisions

Divisions

This week we had divisions and it was a great division. I went with

sister Swasey. She is so cute and speaks the language so well!! It was

fun to have the sisters over and I felt like we got alot done that day

:)! This week we also had to get sister Parkers residency and that took a while.

Nilda

We also have been working alot with Nilda. We had a great lesson with

her and her family. Oooooh I just love them sooo much!! So we taught

them what a testimony is and the steps to gaining a testimony and then

had a mini testimony meeting. The spirit was there so strong. It was

so great to have Nildas mom and sisters bear testimony to her. You

could just tell how much her mom loves Nilda. Nilda was like balling

and she also bore her testimony and it was just great! :)

Also this week Sister Parkers grandma came to church and I think that

she liked it. I love her family too :). We spent sis Parkers last

night in their house. Her grandma taught us how to make some

Portuguese food :).

PMG Christlike Characteristics Test

This week I took the Christ like attribute test in pmg and it was

great. I am so grateful for the example of Christ and that everyday we

can work to be more like him! You all should take that test its great.

:) I love you all so much! I know that this is the one and only true

church.

Balls, Pancakes, and Conferences Galore!

Zone Conference and Having a Ball

This week we had zone conference. It was one of my

favorites, we talked about repentance and how to better plan for our

investigators and that we need to study the nature of God. I

have loved studying about the nature of God. I feel that as I learn

more about Him, I am learning how much love He has for us and I have

felt alot closer to Him this week.

Also this week I recieved a wonderful surprise in the mail :) haha a

pink ball!! Thank you, It was soo cute and sweet!! :) ohhh you should

have seen the mail mans face.... hahhahahhahahahhah it was so funny!!!

:)

Hanging out with Family

Also this week I hit my one year mark... what?! It was great. We were

able to go and visit Sister Parkers family again. They fed us fish.

Sister Parker is doing family history with them.

We had such an amazing lesson with Nilda!!! It was so

powerful. She really opened up to us. I felt the spirit so strong. She

has been through sooooo much and I just felt that Heavenly father

loved her sooo much and wanted her to know that.

Pancake Party

Also, my companion and I planned a ward activity.  It was a

pancake party :)! It was great hahh they all loved the pancakes.

 It was so much fun. The elders started with the message and

game and then we made 200 pancakes!!

One of our investigators Anna Rita had her baby so we

went and visited her in the hospital. There were soo many pregant

ladies who looked in a lot of pain (freaked me out)  hahah it did not look fun.. but the babies were sooo cute :)

General Conference and Inspired Prophets

Also the huge highlight of my week was of course

conference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE CONFERENCE!!!!!!!!

wow it was just sooo amazing! I think that my favorite talk was from

our Prophet Thomas s Monson. I am just so grateful that we have a

prophet that leads our church today. Also Maria came back from France

and was able to come to conference and she loved it! :) I am happy

that she is back.