First off, nothing really crazy or cool happened this week.
Lot's of little strange things but mainly we taught and looked for new friends
:) We met a young lady named Alicia who has a huuuuuge family. They are from Africa
and there are more than 15 people living in this big house. We found them
because her brother had gold painted tennis shoes and I thought they were super
cool, but turns out they had already been taught some lessons by the
missionaries and have records in our area book. Hopefully a miracle will come
around and we will be able to help and teach them. We spent a lot of time with
our recent converts this week too. Manuela and Nadia are doing super great! Nadia
is working for a member in our branch and is helping us teach every week.
Manuela loves to make us Portuguese soup,
which is the best thing ever. Alda is also doing well. She's going to
get married in two months to her fiancée, who is very nice. All of them are
also introducing us to their friends and we're working with four investigators
because of them. WOOT!
The Elders in our area had three baptisms this week which is
AWESOME! It was a really great little party afterwards too. Of course, we made cookies.
One of the members in our branch told me afterwards that the Sisters can get
everyone to come to the baptisms because of our cookies. They love chocolate
chip cookies and cinnamon cookies!
It's gotten quite cold here. I was really grateful for the
breeze in the summer but it's probably the worst thing ever now. But that's
more motivation to have lessons inside! It has also been kind of nice because
it's really easy to find our investigators and members in their houses. No one
wants to be outside!
Overall It's been a great week. Lots of ups and downs, lefts
and rights, forwards and backwards. This isn't really something new in the life
of a missionary though... In one day you can teach and have a thousand
appointments and then the next day you prepare in a simliar way but absolutely
everything falls through and you have to pick up the pieces and start again.
Perspective and patience are two things I thought I had before my mission but I
realized that those things are so much more complicated than I expected.
Heavenly Father has a plan for each one of us. We have such
a small understanding sometimes and it's hard to trust in that plan. I'm so
grateful to have the knowledge that I have about where I came from, why I'm
here, and where I will go in my life. I'm grateful for the opportunity to serve
in Portugal, land of the bolos de Belém and bacalhau. I'm grateful for the
support I have from my family and everything else! I hope all of you have a
super great week!!
Be happy and the world smiles with you :)
Heres a poem for you:
I wish I was a glow-worm
a glowworm is never glum.
Because how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum?!
Be a happy glowworm.
Love you,
Sister Ellsworth
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