Dear family and Friends,
This week has been one heck of a week. It started out by helping Ireneu (our recent convert) find a place to live for the time being. He was kicked out of his house because he was baptized and forced to sleep in the road one night, until we finally found him. We gave him food, and got ahold of bishop to figure it out with him. He moved in with other friends in another ward, and will be attending church there from now on. These friends are looking at being baptized too in Amadoura.
Later on monday night, we marked a guy to be baptized named Manuel. He was struggling with the word of Wisdom and was hospitalized for detox. Something I don't understand is why the doctors let him smoke 5 ciggarettes a day during detox, maybe the nurses in the family can explain it to me, but it simply doesn't make any sense to me. So we went to the hospital to get him interned, and it was an experience to see the wonderful socialized health care system. He said he was treated like a king, and I say he was treated like a slave. So to start, they signed in to the ER (because that is the only place he can be signed in, even though he was going to detox, and he had an appointment) and we waited for about an hour or so until he was called to Triage, where they determine how severe it is and then he was sent back to the waiting room to wait to be interned for another hour and a half or so. During that lovely 2.5 hours only 3 ambulances came up, and 2 were people that had died. and there were only 20 people or so in the waiting room. They also decided to clean the floors while I was there, and I could have done a better job than they did in half the time with only water and no soap. They buffed the floors with black, dirty water, which I am sure is super sanitary, and then they mopped it with the same water. They put some soapy thing on the ground, I am sure didn't help any, because I do not think they knew what they were doing. We did meat a guy named lucas that came in right after us, who had broken his wrist, but unfortuanately, by the time we left, he was still waiting on Triage, but he recieved the first lesson and read about half of 1st Nephi, too bad he lives in Seixal.
On Tuesday night, we invited a boy named Nuno to the Youth Center, and he came. At the end Irenu was telling him how legit his baptism was, and he asked to be baptized. On wednesday we marked him for the 12th and he got a super strong answer to his prayer. We prayed with him and he started "Father in Heaven, Good Afternoon", and he didn't know what was going on, he just tried and tried to explain it, but he couldn't. He came to church on his own, and he is set and ready for baptism.
Tuesday we had interviews with president. He started out really interersting and told us that every day the Holy Ghost and Jesus Christ have prepared a lesson for us to learn, it is our responsibility to go to the class and learn the lesson. He really understands the scriptures in a different way than others. He understands that the purpose of life is to be close to christ, and he takes that seriously, and every conference he tells us that we come closer to christ in 5 ways, Faith, Hope, Charity, baptizing, and confirmations.
I have learned that no matter what happens, god is with us.
anyways, I hope everything goes well with y'all
Elder Hope
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