Anita, our Recent Convert, told me she was really chapped with me since I never went to her house last week. After looking at my planner I realized we had been at her house 5 of the 7 days. She laughed, and said, you guys missed 2 days. . . . even though on monday we were in Lisbon. Today we are going to go sightseeing with her in Braga. The ward is happy that she has a car. It is sort of annoying sometimes, because she thinks we are more important than the bishop and comes to us for everything. It is flattering at the same time. She is such a funny lady. Yesterday we realized she is old enough to be my mom.
On monday we went to lisbon and had a meeting with presidente fluckiger. That night I made the executive decsion not to return to Braga since on tuesday we had a zone meeting in Ermesinde, so I made the executive decsion to sleep in Ermesinde's apartment. We pulled into ermesinde at 8:30 and We had an hour to spend with marta and arlindo. They absolutely love Elder Govier.
Tuesday we had a zone meeting and a division. We talked about marking people and we marked a guy named Joaquim. He lives in the sister's area, but both of us teach him since he doesn't have a woman there. It will count for the sisters, but I will be his missionary!!
Wednesday we basically had a p day since we had 2 meetings and in between we were running around to get food and write y'all. At night there was a halloween party and our family came to the party.
Thursday we taught another lady that is progressing named Fátima. She loves our visits and has already been to church twice. She will be getting baptized here soon!!! We went to our English families house for dinner (members) and Elder Govier got his cake and everything. They made him really good food.
Friday, we went around to figure out all of the forms for recent converts and less actives to please our bishop.
Saturday we finally got to teach Guaretti and Eudeilson, a couple that is working on getting married. We marked them for Christmas Day, because of the wedding, but then we had to change the date to 2 days earlier because the bishop didn't want it. Guarretti is a portuguese woman that has come to every church activity since Anita's baptism. She is a friend of Anita. I am so greateful that she has been coming into the church. She never fails on appointments and is super cool. I am so excited to help them get married and baptized. . . . 1 problem, the date is after transfers. After Anita so kindly explained that to Guaretti, guaretti is now tring to get married as quick as possible.
Yesterday I am not really going to speak about since I wasn't too pleased with our bishop as he refused to interview our recent convert because we didn't have a form that is not our responsibility to have, that is also a blank form as the bishops interview is the first step and one of our district leaders told us that we don't have the right to correct problems within the zone, that we are simply here to support, not to correct, and that we don't have any right to receive revelation for our zone. That is what you hear from a missionary that only taught 3 lessons in an intire week, and 2 of those 3 were on a division with us.
Elder Hope
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