Monday May 9, 2011

Family!

Ok, so a few important dates for you to know about. May 19th is transfers. Elder Brown is pretty sure that we will be staying in the same place, but just FYI, can you believe it has almost been one full transfer?, and I still can't figure out the keyboard.

Here we have a mall. One of these days we will go and get a cord for my camera, so I can email you the pictures rather than sending the card in a long thing. Some areas I will have to mail the memory card,
but In this area I don't have to.

Another cool cultural thing is that every notable city (for example Frisco, Plano, Mckinney, ect) has an emblem for their city and a special patch, that are only a euro or so, so a lot of elders like to collect them. the really small ones (like celina or ana) don't have the patches. At first I thought it was a high school thing, but it is for the city.

Mom sort of thought that we got a lot of money yesterday when I told her we get €210 a month. The truth is that is just perfect because everything here is a lot more expensive. We normally spend €30 to €40 a week on groceries.

Sad thing this week is that we didn't have any other lessons taught (I did in Coimbra, but they donºt count for Viseu). We had about 25 appointments for lessons (5 yesterday) and all of the lessons fell through, but we had 5 Less active member lessons. We are doing really good with the less active members.

It is doctrine that if you have to be sealed to inherit the heighest degree of the celestial kingdom, but is it doctrine that if your spouse is unworthy, than you would need to find another one? We have an eternal investigator that is smarter than half the missionaries that our president has told us to continue teaching, and she had that question. We don't know if that is doctrine or not.

I know that our savior lives and loves us. He is always on our side and I personally believe that Christ is constantly pleading with the Father on our behalf to help us and bless us missionaries. I can truly feel the prayers of the Faithful on my behalf. We know that in the holy temples we are remembered, but some of those blessings only come on requisite of us asking for them. I know that if you are ever feeling down, ask for those blessings, and you will have peace in the place of that despair. Christ Lives, and loves you too.

Your Friend and servant of the Lord

Elder Hope