Hello everyone!!!
SO yea I had my first week in Setubal!!! The members in faro are
incredible and made me my favorite pão de batata on Monday night and mint
ice cream to say bye :( I am gonna miss them, but I know I will see them before
my mission ends (I have a lot of hope)
But yea then on Tuesday we started the journey to Lisbon, and then
to Setubal. Because we are doing a whitewash, when my new comp, Sister Baker
and I met up, we weren't exactly sure where to go and how to make it to our
area. But the other elders in the area said we could just follow them. So we
are following them with our HUGE bags, and we had to catch a train, as we
were entering the place to load the train, the ticket of my comp had a problem,
so basically we left our bags with the elders and ran downstairs to buy a new
ticket. While we were buying the ticket, the train arrived, and will only stay
there for like 3 minutes at the most, so we literally were sprinting through
the station, make it back up the stairs to see the elders sprinting to catch
this train with all of their bags and our bags. It was like a movie, as we had
to sprint for a good like 100 meters to make this train. We literally entered
the second the train doors closed. Miracles happen kids. And our adrenaline was
pumping for sure.
But yea we made it to our area. And I remembered that whitewashes
are HARD. But we met with a few members, a few investigators that the sisters
left, and have walked A LOT to get to know the area. The progress is coming
along slowly and surely, but we could use all the prayers we could get for this
area.
Setubal is BIG and we live far from like everything. We have to walk
almost 40 minutes just to reach the chapel and the area that we can work in, so
majority of our day is just walking. But it’s so hard to try to get to know the
area when it is so big like this, so it has been an adventure this week for
sure. Luckily I feel like we are already getting to know the area a little
better by now. They have some people that look really cool that they were
teaching, but we have only been able to get in contact or pass by 2 of them
this week, so it looks like we will have to start looking for our own
investigators and people to teach a lot more this week which isn’t the funnest
thing, but the people here are a lot more open than in Faro so it should be
good. I forgot how easy it is to do contacts and stuff here closer to Lisbon.
People are more opened minded here so that’s good.
My comp is Sister Baker. She is from St George and she is 19 fresh
out of high school on a mission basically (she has a late birthday) so it’s
funny. She is on her 5th transfer, but she had a really hard beginning of the
mission so she is still adjusting a lot. I really like her, she’s so cute and
we have fun together. But she really isn’t that happy in the mission, she said
she left not really knowing what she was doing, and she is literally already
counting down the days until she goes home which gets a little difficult
because she still has A LOT, and I want to focus on the work and not home. But it’s
been good. I have been trying to not talk about home and things that remind her
of home so I hope it will help. But also hard because she really does not
understand Portuguese that well.. like its not her fault everyone learns at
different times but it gets a little hard when we leave lessons and contacts
and she’s like so yea what did they say?? But I just need to be a little more
understanding with that hahha. But it’s good. It will be a good
transfer!!
OHH The apartment is way nice!! It’s the best house I have lived in
in my mission, just far from like everything.
I thought I had mastered how to use a map with my time here in
Portugal, but I was proven wrong this week. Our very first day here, we started
on the journey to the church. We were walking for like a solid 30 minutes when
we were kinda ending up in the middle of nowhere. So I decided to ask someone
in the road the name of the street. He told us the name and then told us that
we walked in the wrong direction for 30 minutes and that had to turn around and
walk in the other direction for over an hour. So that was our first fail here
in the area. I would be lying to say that we haven't had more of these fails
throughout the week. My map skills were pretty rusty, but I think I have been
improving this week.
Also when I was younger my dad would always say to me "You
would lose your head if it wasn't screwed on" because I would always lose
things. That is still true here in the mission. On Saturday I managed to lose
our map. You know we are just 2 new people in this city that we
don't know, and I manage to lose our only hope of having success. Then
later that night I lost my agenda (daily planner) that was full of numbers and
addresses of people that we have talked to this week. SO yea it would only be
worse if I were blonde at this point. SO today we have walked a ton just to
find a map, and still, haven't found one. It's a good thing my comp has a
lot of patience with me because it's a tad bit ridiculous.
The ward looks good. idk. During church i was just homesick for Faro
but that always happens the first week in a new area for me so I will adjust
and it will all be good. There are some families, which seem cool!! I am
excited to work with them and everything, but Sunday was a bit
overwhelming.
But yea church yesterday was good to get to know the members, and I
am excited to work with them here in this area!! Also, I am excited to get into
shape again because we walk A LOT here. It's going to be a good
transfer!!!
Have a great week! Remember the power that comes through prayer. One
of the most comforting facts of life is that we have a Heavenly Father who
wants to hear from us and wants to help us, and He will. We just have to
ask.
Com Amor,
Sister Jones
 |
| Sister Baker and Sister Jones |
 |
| Sister Jones new apartment |
No comments:
Post a Comment