Tuesday June 5, 2012

Ok, so yesterday we had a zone conference in which Sister Torgan was crying because it was the last time she would see us, and president torgan said that he was really dissapointed because only 6 people in the old porto mission were baptized on Sunday, and that it needs to be better, but on the positive side, one of those 6 people was named Job. We baptized Job. He found a book of mormon and started reading it. He really liked what he read, and then the elders contated him a little while later. On sunday, he was baptized. He was marked earlier, but he was having problems with work on sunday, and didn't want to live the law of tithing, but wanted the blessing from it.

 

We had 2 really cool lessons this week, one with a guy named Virgilio, who we will baptize this transfer, and we talked about the atonement, and how he makes christ suffer when he sins, and then we told him to stop sinning and be baptized, he accepted the date, but aparently, he always accepts the date, and then flees right before.

 

We had another deep doctrine lesson with a recent convert, that has been comparing the book of mormon, with the bible, and the bible, with another version, it is quite interesting, I learned the the Lords prayer is translated differently in other bibles, so I am sort of curious how the catholics choose which lord's prayer to use, since they are both catholic bibles that this guy was using, his name is Jonathan.

 

I can't think of anything really cool that is going on, except that elder Rose got his ingrown toenail fixed, and they wouldn't let me watch the surgery, because I am not married to him . . . yes they think that way in Portugal.

 

a couple interesting notes from zone conference

 

if we follow up with another area, but don't try to help them, then there was no point to follow up.

 

the way for the church to prosper is through baptism (Helaman 3:26-30), it is clearer in portuguese though

 

we need to live up to our message, our message won't come down, so we must go up to the level of our message.

 

Love,

Elder Hope