Grateful to be a Missionary

Transfer Calls and Finishing Training

This week was good :). We got our transfer calls and I am going to

stay in madeira and finish the training of a sister named sister

silva. I think that she is from Capo verde! It will be fun I am really

excited :) I am staying here in Lisboa until Wednesday and then we will fly

back.

Traveling

Our flight got canceled so we all got 16 euros to spend on

dinner. We went to a fancy restaurant which was fun.  But we

didnt get to Portugal until 3 am.  I am kind of tired. But On the

flight I Sat by myself in the very back of the plane with a lady

and I taught her the first lesson. She was soo cute.

This week we had a zone meeting and we talked about inviting people to

be baptized in the first contact.  Sister Briggs and I did it

this week and it was great! It helps them to know right away our

purpose. :) also our mission standard went up to 4 baptisms for the

month,12 new investigators,  6 in church and 25 lessons! I want to reach

it so bad.

Also this week a member in our ward got married. We only stayed for

the ceremony but it was cute.

Also we found some really cool people this week, that I am really

excited to start teaching! Also we went and talked to that family that

hid from us and we are going to keep teaching them! Sonia is not really

progressing anymore but we are going to try one more time and talk

about Joseph Smith.

I am so grateful that I am a missionary and I am able to help people

everyday learn about our Savoir Jesus Christ. I am so grateful that we

have a prophet called of God to lead and guide us today. I am so

grateful for the scriptures and that we can pray to a loving Heavenly

Father. I am so grateful that we can change and repent everyday. I am

so grateful for the gospel and the knowelge that I can be with my

wonderful family forever :) We are soo blessed.

Picture of fancy meal

picture of Madiera on way to Portugal to pick up my trainee

District in Madiera

Best ice cream

Our Responsibility to do Missionary Work

Divisions and Great People Who Want to be Baptized

We started the week with divisions. Our stl´s are Sister Call and

Sister Dumas. They are sooo cute and it was soo much fun. I really

loved how they just tried to have fun and they were super positive. On

my division we marked 5 people to be baptized. We taught that really

big family and almost all of them excepted and it went really well.

but on Sunday we went to pick them up for church and they were all

sleeping except for one. Marcio went with us to church and he really

liked it. Our branch is really good at helping make people feel

welcome. After church we were on our way to visit Marcios family and

they saw us in the street and ran a hid from us. Haha, it was crazy

even the mom did! I went over there and talked to them anyway. Its sad

because I thought they really wanted to be baptized, we will

maybe pass by in a week and try again with them.

We have another investigator named Sonia who is in love with the Bible

and she doesnt really have any church. She came to church and I think

she liked it. She has so many questions.

This week we also decided to drop one of our investigators named

Tereaza. It was so sad because she really wants to be baptized, but she

just cant quit smoking or drinking cofee.

This week we had Zone meeting. It was wonderful. I felt the spirit so

strong. We learned how to invite people to church better and practiced

how to invite people to be baptized. We also talked about why

covenants are so important and how they bless our lifes. I am so

grateful for covenants that help keep us close to God.

Also this week I spoke in church about missionary work. I hope that

every member there understands that it is our responsibility and

opportunity as members to be missionaries. It is so wonderful to

help someone come closer to christ.

Sister Prank and World Cup

Prank

okay so after a long night me and my comp. came home and opened the

door and when we opened the door our little dresser in front of us was

a mess... i took one look to the right and our house was a disaster...

and it looked like a murder scence~. my stumich dropped... my comp

said what i was thinking in that very moment. that we had been robbed.

I took three steps inside our house and saw that my bed was up against

the wall and that all of my clothes drawers had been messed with ( the

place that i would hide my money). I was so freaked out and my eyes

started to water. i told my comp we needed to leave. We went outside

and called sis fluckiger and she told us to call the police. We first

called the others sisters. They came home and we went in together. We

noticed that a window was left open. We went around the house to see

what was stolen. To our surprise nothing was stolen. We could not

figure it out. I wanted to call the police but the sisters said that

if nothing was stolen they you need to pay so we did what we always do

haha we called the elders. The elders came over and said a prayer and

checked around the house. After I was trying to figure it out... it

didnt make sense... someone came in but left all the cameras and money

and passports... so i thought ohhh maybe it was the sisters i asked

them if they did it and they said no. Then i was thinking maybe

someone was looking for something or it was a threat... Anyway that

night I was soooo scared and I went to bed with a stumich ache

thinking at any minute a crazy man would jump out of the closet....

the next morning i was still a little freaked out but we kept working.

When we got back for lunch we got a text from the other sisters saying

"hey we were the ones that did it last night... can we still be

friends..?" ohhhhhh I was sooo mad hahaha but dont worry we will get

them back! ;)! I am just grateful that no crazy man came into our

house.

World Cup and Ward Activity

Also this week we had a great ward activity!! We had a game night. We

played a few min it to win it games and some chocolate games and ping

pong. It was sooo fun. I think that the members really enjoyed it as

well. Not alot of members came but it was still fun.

hahah the world cup... the portugues people love watching it! I think

they are pretty upset with how they have been playing. Its all they

talk about and do here haha. Also we tried to do a family night with a

brazilian family while brazil was playing and they couldnt even talk

to us they were just screaming and watching the game hahah it was sooo

funny!

Also we have got a great branch i love them! about 40 people come to

church each week. Lately we have been doing alot of finding.

Also this week we started teaching this family. They are soooo

elect!!! They are so ready! its just hard to have them all in the

house and to get them to church. But this week we will walk there and

wake them up :). They are a family of 8 and they  just great and i am

soo excited to teach them :)

Also today we went on a island tour! We have a less active member

named sasha who is from demark that is a tour guide and she gave us a

tour of part of the island today!! it was soo much fun!!!! :)

Also I just know how much heavenly father loves us and is listening to

our prayers.