BOM DIA!!! This week was
amazing! Started off the week going to Lisbon to pick up my filho(son). On the
mission when you are a trainer you are a pai(dad) to your filho(trainee
son). Elder Alves is from Cape Verde. He
is really cool and a good missionary. He was shy at first but opened up and we
get along great! He is a good worker and willing to listen and try things out.
Working with him is so
fun since I get to show him all of the
amazing/fun/hard/rewarding/strange/awkward things about this work and about Portugal!
It’s good he came here ready to work because we have been working really really
hard! We have something planned for every second of the day so he can’t think about
home and miss it too much!
We are creative while
working really hard! We would do a bunch of little games too! I would say,
“Okay Elder, there is a golden investigator on this street! You pick the
building and let’s find him.” I would run up the stairs with a lot of enthusiasm
and before we knocked on the door I would say, “This is it, this is the one!!!”
Then 30 seconds later we would get the
door slammed in our face and I would say, “Sorry it’s not this door, it’s that
door with the golden investigator!” (Pointing to the other door down the hall.)
We are focusing on
finding new people! It is easy to have a bad attitude about this area because of
its reputation in our mission! I told Elder Alves that President put us here
because he knows we can baptize! “I know
there is a person here in the area that has been prepared to hear our message. We will never find them if we don’t have a
good attitude.” We have been on fire
trying to find new people! We are both growing.
I feel like the trainer learns more than the trainee!
We had zone conference
this last week and also had TRC. New
missionaries teach how they were taught in the MTC by memorizing and then
teaching the same way for every person. It’s great when the Spirit takes over.
It’s been fun to help him recognize that we don’t teach the lessons--the spirit
does. We can’t be a machine saying the same things but we need to teach to the investigators
needs! Same thing with contacting and our door approach...we aren’t salesmen. We need to show them that we are here to help
them and be there friends!
We received an email
from President last week asking us to read 20 pages of the Book of Mormon every
day to finish by February 16. It’s really hard especially in Portuguese! But I
love it so much!
This week we had a Scottish
couple come and visit the ward and they didn’t speak Portuguese so I translated
for them. It was fun but difficult
because I can’t remember English! We had dinner with them and they challenged
me to say the prayer in English.
Today for p-day we
went to Albuferia! It’s a beach town in Algarve. I felt like I was in heaven--it is so pretty
and warm with the best water! I definitely want to return to this place after
my mission! Well yeah, that was my crazy week! I learned so much stuff and
I can’t wait to learn more and help more people this week! I know this church
and the gospel is true!!
Have the best week
ever!! BOA SEMANA!
-Elder Herrmann
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| How they do a "baby seat" in Portugal |
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| Picking Oranges |
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| The plumbing in our house is bad. |
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| Albuferia |
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| Getting close without touching it :) |
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