Dear family and Friends,
Elder Searle was impressed by me calling the Sisters and getting help cooking from them (I just needed the recipie, I knew what I was doing), and then Elder Searle reaped the benefits of it. We absolutely love one and other and we are working to fulfill our purpose.
This last week we marked 3 people for Baptism. Marta, Arlindo, and Julio. Marta and Arlindo are marked for October 1st (we forgot about conference) and they are preparing really well. They agreeded to start the Stop Smoking Program and to get married. They asked me to marry them,and I explained to them that I will be a wittness, but I can't marry them, because our Mission President doesn't want us to marry people. So, our branch president will marry them and Elder Searle and I will be the testimonies. They want us to baptize them too, which is super cool. Elder Searle said that I can baptize them since they were my Eyes of Faith. Eyes of Faith is where we pray to find a specific person. I felt these people back in Viseu and I have been looking for them ever since, this was the answer to my very first eyes of faith and so it is really special to me.
Julio is still tecnically marked, but probably won't get baptized since we were kicked out of his house. His brother doesn't like us and threatned us to never come back, so the next day we went back, and no one answered the door, so we are really worried about this one. Our Branch President said he will help us out.
This week we should mark a girl named Margarita. she is way cool. She is the Girlfriend of a less active, and we asked him to baptize her. he said he would start preparing. We left her with the introduction, and when we went back she said we didn't leave her enough so she read until 1 Nephi 13. We can only meet with her once a week, but she said that she didn't have time to read very much this past week, she was apoligizing bigtime. She had ONLY read all the way through the first book of Nephi. She was telling us how the tree of life doesn't make sense, but then Nephi explains it, so it's all good. She has really good relations with our Primary President, and she is like another Liz Friend, so she is helping us a lot with her.
Our District total for number of investigators in church yesterday was 4, and elder searle and I had 3!!!. Marta and Arlindo were sick, and Margarita got food poisioning (her boyfriend cooked for her), so we had our eternal investigator that is more active than the members and knows more than half of the missionaries about the church, and 2 people that we taught that said they will not come to church just happened to show up. I love it when we pray for Miracles!!!
There is a lady that gives us a box of food every week, like a lot of food, but it is always half moldy and hard bread. I asked her where she got the food, and she said that a bakery down the street gives her the food instead of throwing it away.
This week has been really long, but really fun, it was great to have a P day. Last night I confrenced called my district and we were talking about what to do for P day. Then the Zone leaders called me, so I added them in, and the first thing Elder De Hoyos said was "What the heck . . . Confrence" because our phone says confrence call when we are added in. So he liked that idea of how to plan a P day, and then it all changed about 15 minutes after 11 when they called to tell me that I have a meeting today.
Hope all is well, and that everyone is doing good things.
Elder Hope
When we are hoping for things in the future we are building our faith, and when we hope for things in the present, we are building charity. Elder Uchtdorf
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