24 Lessons last week!!! Even though most lessons are prayer contacts. to be a lesson, we have to pray with them, teach a principle, and extend an invite. So we go and teach people something, and then pray with them on the street. Our Mission President asked us to do that and it is working great, because one of 2 things happen. 1, the person won't meet with us again, but they know that we like to pray and ask god for help, or 2, they will feel the spirit of the prayer and want us to come back. 2 investigators that we had at church we had a prayer contact with them, and we told them that that peace that they felt during the prayer they would feel at church. They came to church on sunday and had to leave right after sacrament, but they were nearly crying, it was amazing. But they are going to germany for the next 6 months.
Ok, so a few quick things. 1) I think I am going to give up on the Lasagna from home and just have to do it the way of the Portuguese. They have a sauce called Bechamel, that I hope will be good. I don't think I have eaten any Beef since I have gotten here with the exception of McDonnalds, because it is way expensive. Elder searle and I looked today and a thin little dinky steak is €13 and they didn't even have ground beef, just ground Pork, so we got the ground pork (it was only €2.35), and it was 500g. We did find Sour Cream, I don't know why it is called Queijo fresco in Portuguese, because translated that means fresh cheese, but that is way expensive too, so I am learning how to cook all over again because we get different foods. The typical meal at a restaurant is rice, french fries, and some sort of a meat thing, the portuguese people disagree, but it is true. They also sometimes have salads. As for me, Elder Searle and I have found a good Fruteira that has some good fruit and stuff that we have been eating.
As a district we doubled our number of investigators at church. The last several weeks, we have been averaging 3 to 5 as a district, and this last week we had 9!! In my area we had 5 investigators, including one TJ, which I will be way excited to mark on this tuesday for baptism. She loved it, we just have a couple big problems to overcome with her. 1, she keeps praying that Jeová will forgive us for not using his name in Prayer, 2, she doesn't know too much about the plan of salvation, which will be a big hurdle for her (we have taught the Restoration, The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the ten commandments, Sabbath Day, Tithing) I don't know why we have been going so out of order, but it just works for this investigator, so we will keep working with her. Keep praying for Olivia. she isn't married and know she is living the Law of chastity. It is funny how the TJ bible is easier to prove that Jesus is Christ easier than with our bible, because ours says, the Lord, where as theirs says Jehova
We have an investigator marked for this weekend for baptism, but that might not happen, because we just found some things that may postpone her baptism. We wanted her Less active boyfriend to baptize her, but we found out that he won't be ready, which is really sad.
We had zone confrence this last week which sort of ruffled my feathers a little. The week before I called the general secretaries every day to find out if we had zone conference and every day they said I don't know, it is still a maybe. So I kept calling, and finally, Monday night they called, telling us that we have zone conference on Tuesday, the very next day, after we had marked an appointment with an investigator who we don't have a phone number. right after Zone conference I decided we were going to do a division, so I went with Elder Locee to Guimerães. Well, after Zone conference we had a leadership meeting, and they gave the leftover pizza to the district and zone leaders, so on the train back, I had elder Locee hold the pizza all the way to guimerães (1h15m) I found out the next day that Elder Locee was fasting, but don't worry, I was holding a box of book of Mormons. We got back to Guimerães at 9:00 and only had 30 min. to proselyte, so we prayed and found 1 new investigator and had a lesson with a less active, it was interesting, we only contacted 2 people, and both of them were lessons.
I haven't eaten anything too strange since i have been here. I have had fish pies (interesting, not bad, just interesting), pig intestines (in intestine form, not just hot dogs), pig tounge, pig ear, and a ton of different fruits like passionfruit, ect... We have had a lot of fish stuff though, the Cheese Bread is good though.
thank you for your love and support,
Love
Elder Hope
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