Hello!!!
We had a great week and saw lots of miracles here in Seixal!!
It started off like a normal
week working hard and finding people to teach. We were kinda in a post baptism
slump because we focused on Mayara so much the past few weeks, and realized we don’t
have many other investigators this week. But we have been working hard and
finding new people here in Seixal!
We had a lesson with a reference. She was 15, but has a family who
is incredible. She is the only one interested, but her family is so sweet and
supportive. They are from France so they only speak French at home. We had
dinner with them one night and I literally felt like I was at the beginning of
my mission all over again when I couldn’t understand anything, I am SO grateful
I will never have to relive those first few weeks in Portugal hahahaha. But is
was a really good lesson and she came to church yesterday and really liked it!
Our ward here is awesome and takes all of our investigators under their wings right
away!!
The primary is really big here! I really like the ward here! It
works like our ward back at home basically. Of course it is a little less
organized and everyone is a convert so isn’t the same structure, but its really
rare for Portugal here to have a ward like this. Its good.
We have also been praying a lot for the opportunity to teach the mom
of Mayara. She came to the baptism and felt the spirit really strong there.
Mayara said that after the baptism the only thing she said was "I’m next
for baptism". We have been trying really hard to teach her, but she has a
really busy schedule and wasn’t that willing to let us teach her. But then on
Sunday she just showed up to church! And we talked afterward and she let us
come over and teach her. She is really interested and wants to be baptized! We
marked her for 19 of February so it should be a day really special!
Also yesterday we were
walking to an appointment, but we saw a mom and daughter struggling with their
grocery bags. So we stopped and asked to help, they let us help (which rarely
happens) and we started talking. Turns out that they were baptized 4 years ago
in Mem Martins and were really active, but then they moved here about a year
ago and didn’t know where the church was so they just stopped going. They let
us in their house, and we talked to them, ate a cute little brunch, and they
said they want to return to church!! They said they have been looking for the
church for awhile but then just gave up after some time. This was such a
humbling experience to see how Heavenly Father will put people in our paths,
and that is why it is so important to talk to everyone we see in the street!!
They are so sweet and I am excited to work with them!
Also we had lunch with the Bishop and their family yesterday. I
really like the Bishop here and he is available to help us whenever we need it!
He helped us figure out which less actives we should work with and where to
start with our huge ward list that we have. I also bonded with his wife a lot
because she loves Grey´s Anatomy. There house was so cute and they just have
the cutest little family. I am really grateful for them!
Also this week our fridge
broke. I am convinced I have the worst luck in the world, I am always having
problems here in the field. I don’t really know what happened, but we called
the financial elders and they told us to unplug it, let everything melt, and
then try again. We did this during the day and then returned at night to find
weird brown liquid all over our fridge. It was so gross, and we had no idea
what to do. SO naturally I decided we should just mop our fridge.. so that’s
what we did. I will attach a photo to show you the life of missionaries.
Also this week we literally
ran a mile trying to figure out what bus stop was right, ended up missing our
bus. And then sprinted to catch the other one. My track and field skills are
coming in handy... man these are the adventures that no one can prepare you
for. hahahha we slept really good that night for sure.
And then last night our
district leader decided to play a joke on us and sent a text that it was Pday
of consagração. Basically Pday would end at 3 and then we would just have a
normal day of work. We started planning out when we will grocery shop and do
email and getting everything sorted out when he called and said he was just
joking and we have a normal Pday. SO lets just say we are appreciating this day
A LOT more hahah. Sometimes you don’t know what you got until you (almost) lose
it.
The Produce here is basically the same. They have the same fruits.
They also have others that are more tropical! They are good, but we don’t
really buy them because some of them are hard to eat and I like our basic
oranges and bananas like at home. But with members and stuff I have tried
others... they’re good. The veggies are basically the same I think.
I am reading the war chapters in Alma right now. I am reading in Portuguese
and really surprised I have gotten so far and could understand everything, or
mostly everything. It’s been good. We have to read about 25 pages a day to stay
on track. It’s hard when we don’t have much time during the day, and have to
study PMG during personal study, but we have been making it work.
Also this week my body has been doing some weird things. On Wednesday
we have interviews with President so we went to Lisboa. I was completely fine. We
return eat lunch, and then have 1 hour of studies. After that we were preparing
to leave and I started feeling way sick. It was so weird.. right before leaving
I ran to the bathroom and threw everything up. But then I felt fine so I just brushed
my teeth and we left. I didn’t want to miss our appointments that night. But
then the rest of the week I haven’t been feeling 100 percent and have the worst
heartburn everyday. I don’t know what it is, but I have just continued and not
said anything about it because its not bad enough to stop our work.. so yea its
been weird. But I hope this week I start feeling better.
OHHH also this week was 6
months!! Our day was so crazy that I didn’t even realize it was 6 months as a
missionary!! It’s defiantly been the longest/hardest/most tiring/most
rewarding/happiest 6 months of my life. I am so excited to still have a year to
do this amazing work here in Portugal!!
Have a great week!! Thanks
for all the support!
Sister Jones!
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