Sister Madalyn Jones: A Week of Miracles!

Hello!!

Hope you guys all had a great week! Our week was HOT! In the words of my companion "I actually like it when I sweat, because then when a breeze comes along it gets a little refreshing" That’s a sad representation of our lives right now hahah. BUT I think fall is arriving here and it should start cooling down here in a few weeks!

Other that that, our week has been amazing! We had to travel a bunch, to Lisboa and back and then to a few workshops and meetings, but it was a good week!

Lets start off with our sad Pday adventures last week. There is this place in Lisboa that will make covers for scriptures so cool! We decided that we wanted to go there and get them done for our scriptures. So we travel like one and a half ours to get there and have to walk kinda far. It is way hot and we have our scriptures in our hands. We get there to see that the shop was closed for holidays (like every other thing in Portugal) until September! So basically we traveled there for nothing, but decided to take advantage of our time there. The only bummer? We had to walk everywhere with our scriptures in our hands (And they were our English quads so they were big and everyone stared haha) BUT we found an American store and bought Butterfinger and Dr Pepper and Reese’s (its been a looong time without these things) and so it was a good day. This is a beautiful country.

But this week was SO good! The Maria Alice that we found last week and came to church is continuing to progress and its SO cute! We taught her this week and she LOVED church! She even told her daughter in England about the church and told her to find a branch to go too! She said that the Spirit testified that the Book of Mormon is true and she wants to continue learning more! She wants to be baptized, but has a few problems with the Word of Wisdom, but we taught it and she said she will live it. So we are helping her stop smoking and she will be baptized! She is so elect and ready to receive the gospel is amazing! The spirit is always so strong in our lessons. She came to church again yesterday and she is just SO cute!

Also the girlfriend of a member has been investigating the church for a few years. She said she never knew for certain if the church was true, and her dad didn’t approve that much. But she went to EFY this week and came home and said she has never been more sure of something in her life and that she wants to get baptized! She is 18 years old so she said she is old enough to make the decision for herself, and she is going to be baptized no matter what! I am telling you, EFY is the best things for youth! So we are going to teach her all the lessons and baptize her in 2 weeks I think! She has already been to church like 20 times and she is so ready! And so cute!!!

With this week of miracles, something we have been doing is saying a prayer of gratitude together every night when we get home. The first thing we do after entering our doors is kneel together and thank Heavenly Father for the day that we had and all the miracles we saw. It has helped us recognize how blessed we are and be happier!!

SO yea, this week was great!!! Hope you all have a great next week!

MOM NOTE: she sent me a note in Portuguese on accident so I asked her who she normally writes in Portuguese. Here is her answer: “About who I write in Portuguese... our mission president. Also sent an email to my MTC teacher and decided to prove to them that I learned Portuguese and write all in Portuguese. other than that I prefer English. With sister Conrad and Aiono when I write them its a good mix of the 2. Its great because I always forget English words and its so much easier to talk about the work in Portuguese because that’s how I always talk about it hahah “

FOTOS:

1. SETUBAL!!

2. Sad faces with our scriptures and a closed store

3. First Dr Pepper in over a year (and it was good man)

4. LISOBA. You cant see the bridge that well, but its identical to the Golden Gate Bridge, and we have to pass it to get to Lisboa from Setubal. Its so cool!