We are in Lagos today and
will stay the night and do a division/split tomorrow. We are in an Indian
store writing our emails so I don’t have a lot of time. The weeks are
flying by now! This week we did a lot of work focusing on building a stake here
in the Algarve. It has been really tiring but very rewarding. We have had the opportunity
to work with a lot of the missionaries which has been a really good experience!
This week Cesar has fallen
of the face of the earth so we have been looking for people! We hadn’t found
anyone but we were always putting in our best effort and having faith. Then on Saturday night while we
were contacting people I was making some calls and this women from Mozambique
named Tina, answered the phone and said that she and her family wanted to go to
church! She and her two daughters made it to church! Also two young women from Brazil
who are studying here decided to come to church because one has a boyfriend
from the US who invited her to come! Her name is Angelica and she liked church
a lot! So we had nothing this week and then poof--5 new people to teach in
one day!!
Love the mission and
all the things that I am learning here! One of the things that I am learning is
that the Book of Mormon is an essential part of anyone in the Church’s testimony.
If we don’t have a testimony of the BOM then we don’t have a testimony of Joseph
Smith and the restoration...we need to do everything we can to gain a testimony
of the Book of Mormon!!!
A funny story, I was
on a division with a Brazilian elder and we were contacting this girl who only
spoke English. I thought, “Oh yes, I can use my English finally!” Man, it was
so bad....I can’t speak English! I kept going back to Portuguese. Then I tried translating Portuguese to
English in my head and it didn’t make sense to her. You know it was sad when my Brazilian comp
tried to help with the English.
Well thank you all for
the prayers regarding our goal of creating a stake. I’ve never worked so hard in my life and have
a few grey hairs to show for it. We had
an attendance of 398...I couldn’t believe that we missed it by two people...2!!!!
We have high hopes for next week so keep praying!
Wait,
so President Tavares just called me and said that it was close enough so THEY
SENT OFF THE OFFICIAL PAPERS to Church headquarters!! But we still have to have
a good attendance for the month of November.
The gospel is
true.
-Elder Herrmann
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