On monday we had a great time teaching the brasilians. They insist on feeding us, and we accept. we have a carlos we call Carlos Grande that we had marked that we taught as well, he is super pumped for his baptism. during p day we played baskeball with 4 other elders. There was a really annoying guy that didn't play very well that we humbled, it was fun. I played one on one and beat him, and I don't even play basketball all that well.
Tuesday was transfer day and it was really annoying walking around with a third elder.We went down to the train station to get his comp and Elder Harvey and I continued finding really cool people. We found a cabo verdian family that is in really humble circumstances. The Brasilians made us Lasagna and Carlos, the one we baptized was really excited for the holy ghost.
Wednesday we basically had a huricane come through and nothing worked out for us. In the end we managed to find a couple people and teach our caboveridan family. They are elect, but they don't exactly like the idea of waking up at 8 am for church.
Thursday it rained all day agian, but we took our brasilians to the chapel for an interview with the bishop. One of the brasilians is a less active that was interviewed for 1.5 hours by bishop, but it was all good. We taught another one of the brasilians the basics of piano. We then took the bishop over to Miguel, our recent convert's house and Carlos Grande. They loved bishop. The bishops wife got mad at us because bishop didn't get home until 10 pm and he hadn't eaten anything and he is diabetic. Turns out there weren't any problems with his health.
Friday I went on a division with Maia and I was with Elder Fry. We had another terrible storm pass through and on our way to the stake center we saw a car stopped in the rain with it's emergancy flashers on. In portugal this doesn't mean anything, but there were 3 or 4 people with umbrellas right infront of the car and there was a little red sack on the ground. As we crossed the street we saw the head of a joven sticking out of the bag with obvious head wounds and a covered in blood. I was about to help, but then we saw the ambulance pull up, and I didn't want to get involved in the portuguese legal system. I am pretty sure that he was dead. I helped elder fry get organized and we ate at subways. There are not very many subways in portugal, but we found one.
Saturday we went around looking for ingrediantes to make a dish that a member was going to make us on sunday. She is super poor, and we had the idea to buy stuff so she could make us a meal and give her the leftovers seeing as it would only be 10 or 15 euros and we had money left over. Needless to say we didn't find it. We had correlation meeting and got really exctied because we had 7 super ready investigators coming to church. We gave a lady a blessing and in a really humble way she was imediately healed. It was a blessing to see that Christ loves her that much to show her His power like that.
Sunday we woke up to a couple of text messages saying that investigators werent coming. We had 3 in church and then we called another, and he had decided to visit another chapel because his friend was getting the aaronic preisthood, so we actually had 4 in church!!! Our members made us a great meal with our money and we baptized Carlos Grandē·. I have seen the many miracles of baptism in portugal.
Elder Hope
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