Well, for a really quick rundown, I don't have a lot of time because it's transfer monday and we don't know what is going on yet, we are going to save a little bit of time to send an email at the end of the day to let y'all know.
So for a rundown this last week we had two baptisms.
We baptized a little girl named Miriam. She is the daughter of a less active family that we have been working on reactivating. They have come to church for the last 5 weeks in a row and I was asked to do the baptism. The bishop took advantage of it and called her 13 year old brother to be Deaconºs quromn President and now he has come working with us this last week. They are becoming really strong now.
The other baptism was a little more stressful, it was a lady named Natercia. She has depression and about 10 days ago she went from smoking a pack of cigarrettes a day and drinking herself to sleep every night to being baptized yesterday. So she stopped us in the street two weeks ago and asked what she needed to do to get baptized. We had marked her about 4 or 5 times, but she never progressed, so we dropped her. Her son went to prison and she got even more depressed. We told her that we had to meet with her every day, several times twice a day and we would be calling her during each day to work with her. So she said ok. We had a lesson everyday on the word of wisdom and taught another lesson generally too. We scheduled a lesson where we had 6 members present to show her that she has a family. It was neat to see that those were the people she said she wanted at her baptism and asked several of them to be present and participate in the program. So yesterday was a disaster trying to get her baptized. We had called her at 8:30 and she was in bed and going to sleep. We were pleased, She said the alarm was set for 8:00 but she didn't wake up and when we went to get her for church at 9:00 and she wasn't awake. She said that she would get up and be ready by 10:00 and just miss the first part of Releif Society. We went back and she was still asleep. At 11:00 we went there to get her for sacrament meeting that started at 11:15, and she was taking her jolly sweet time. We ended up paying for a taxi and just barely missing the sacrament. Our bishop came up and said Elders don't miss the sacrament again, but you two can go and bless it at home, but don't miss it again, but good job on the baptism, everyone gave up on the baptism except you two, we thought, we almost gave up too, but we made it happen!!! The brazillian and Angolan members brought treats and a lunch!!!
I went to viseu again for an interview, it was cool to see all of my people: i.e. Felipa, Marco, Ana, Nela, Miguel, Telma, and Lucia. Nela and Miguel (a couple that I became close to in Viseu came to our baptism in Coimbra.
That was my week, taking care of Natercia
have a good one.
Elder hope
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