Another crazy full week. We
finally finished our workshops so that is good. Workshops are so sweet because we
get to see a lot of Portugal and we get to know a lot of the missionaries.
Unfortunately we were doing workshops on Thanksgiving Day so our grand
thanksgiving dinner was the drive through at Burger King on our way home!
Our area is doing well
and we are still working with Nilton, Paula, and their 3 children. The whole
family came to church! Also, we found this man named Nelson, who is from Angola
and is super cool!! He came to church with us and everyone was in awe because
he is a natural born leader. We say,
"He is elect." He was answering questions and giving his opinions in
the class. He will go to Africa next week and bring his family of 5 here and he
said he wants us to teach them. We are super excited to continue this process! We visited an investigator who was in the
hospital and the hospital made me super uncomfortable.
This week we were
close to breaking the mission record for baptisms in a month! I have never
talked so much on the phone in my life! We have 4 days left and we are really
close so pray for us!
Easily the miracle of
the week was Luis.....remember Luis? He is an old investigator we found 8
months ago when I was in Alverca for one transfer. I left and he lost contact
with the missionaries. At the beginning of this transfer I told one of my
friends who is serving there to look for him. They found him and I got a call
this weekend from him asking me to baptize him! It was such an incredible
experience that I’ll never forget! It was so good going back to Alverca and
seeing all of those amazing members. After the baptism Luis just looked at me
and said...I am clean, I am clean, I am clean! It was such a great night!
The spiritual thing I
learned this week is that wisdom comes from being humble and putting in effort.
If we really want to be wise or earn something we need to be humble through
receiving counsel and be willing work.
The temporal thing I
learned is that in Portugal you need to know how to parallel park in the
smallest spaces. I’m still learning you can say. The mission is great. I don't
want it to end!
Love you all!
Èlder Herrmann
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