So, to start, we have a Jehovah Witness that we have marked for 8th of October. She is progressing super well. We got her to pray in the name of God finally, and had a whole lesson explaining to her why Jesus was Jehovah. In the end, she actually accepted it (it is interesting how it is easier to prove it in their bible than in ours). We only have 2 more commandments to teach today which are Word of Wisdom and Law of Chastity. We know that Law of Chastity isn't a problem and the word of wisdom is pretty much done. She doesn't smoke or drink like the other 98% of the portuguese people. Her date is pretty solid, we are not seeing any real problems, which means there is something we don't know.
So, we found out that the law of Chastity was a problem for our investigator so we will wait just a little bit to baptize her (we are interviewing her on friday), but she wants to be baptized by her boyfriend, which would mean that we will have to wait another 3 weeks or so. Anyways we were very direct and didn't pull any punches with the Law of Chastity. We went in with that intention that it was necessary. We made the boyfriend read the scripture Jacob 2:28 which says that the lord delights in the chastity of Women and if they do anything to defile that they will be cursed. We then went into it by saying that this was the reason Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, and told them that it wasn't anything funny. After that they payed a lot more attention. They were sort of laughing about it and trying to rationalize it, but we were very direct, and it was interesting, as we were halfway chastizing them, the spirit was really strong. The mission President says that as representatives of Christ, sometimes we have to chastize. The lord chastized the brother of Jared, Joseph Smith, and many other men and women to get them in line, and then the spirit testified the truth, and then he showed a grand increase in love.
Conference will be at our stake center a whole hour away by car. Because of the time difference there is only one session on Saturday, but then there are 4 sessions on Sunday. Our investigators really don't want to go because it is in Maia and is sort of hard to get there. By public transport, we have to take a bus down to a big hospital called Hospital São João and then take the metro over a little ways and then take anther bus over to the chappel, and it could take about 2 to 2.5 hours to get there without a ride, which is hard to come by. We aren't getting a ride. When we get there they have 4 rooms set up. The chappel will be playing in Portuguese, and then the Relief Society room is playing in English (the members who speak english really good have been asked to go to that one, we have been told to go to the english because we will understand it better and we get the emotion), then they will have 2 more, one for French and one for Spanish.
well, the library time is shortened today because of weird stuff, but I know that we are being blessed and protected and god loves us a lot.
Elder Hope
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