This week was super busy but really good. We started off the
week in the Algarve doing "workshops" where we meet with every
district in the mission to do a training and help remind the missionaries of
stuff they already know but need help to apply so that they can have more
success in their area. We did workshops for 2 days in the Algarve and then
returned to Lisbon. The next day we went to another zone to do more workshops.
It is so amazing to see the Spirit work through us to help resolve specific
problems. We’ll finish the workshops with the rest of the mission next week.
We had Friday night and all
day Saturday to work in our area and saw
miracles happen! With so little time we knew we needed to take advantage of
every minute…or in other words we needed to "light it up!". So on Friday night we did a division with the zone leaders
of Lisbon and I was in Mem Martins with my old comp, Elder Richards. We served
together in the Açores for 3 months so we were super pumped to be together
again. We were doing contacts near the metro station where there were so many
people during rush hour when we received a call from a recent convert named
Finda. She told us that she had a friend
at her house that she wanted us to meet. We went over there and met her friend,
Edi, who is a mom of 2 and is also from Guinea Bissau. We are now teaching her
and she seems interested.
Also we are teaching a family of Niltonand, his wife Paula, and
their 3 children! They are from Angola and incredible but are having hard
times. The miracle of the week was after we taught Edi, Elder Richards and I
returned to the metro station where we were doing contacts and met Dora from Cape
Verde. We had a really good contact and asked if we could follow her to her
house and teach her. She said yes so we went there and taught her and her 2
sisters! They are so funny and really have a lot of potential. The Lord has
been preparing this area, we need to just continue to have faith and keep
working.
The temporal thing I learned this week is to always be aware of how much gas is in the car, especially in traffic. We were on empty and had to make some crazy maneuvers to get to a gas station.
I learned a lot about faith this week. Before my mission I always thought that faith was “believing”, but it's so much more! We need to put action into our faith, our works is how our faith will be measured. I want to show my faith this week through the works of meeting our goals!
Today was a sweet pday. We took a tour of the amazing Benfica stadium (Benfica is a huge soccer club in Portugal). We saw everything from the field to the locker room. It was a great experience!
-Elder Herrmann
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