This was the fastest
transfer yet with another super crazy week! We had the huge Christmas
conference in Lisbon on Wednesday with about 100 missionaries! All the training
we did along with President and Sister Tavares turned out great! The whole
conference we were just running around trying to fix problems so by the end, I was
dead but really satisfied. The next day we met with President and Sister
Tavares and the office elders to finalize the transfers and the plans for the
next transfer! The meeting was great and right after we headed down to the
Algarve to do our last Christmas conference. We arrived in Algarve late that
night then the next day started over again with the conference cycle.
Sister Tavares’ message
was on how we can be our own hero by making things happen and not just sitting
around waiting for things to happen. President’s message was on the life of
Abraham and how he was tested time and time again to show his love for the Lord
through sacrifice. When we think of Abraham we instantly think of him sacrificing
Isaac but that was just ONE (the hardest) of all the sacrifices that he made
for the Lord. He went deep into the life of Abraham, showing how he was ready
to sacrifice everything so that he could live with God again. President Tavares said, “To inherit the
kingdom of God we will need to sacrifice the things we most love." Applying this message to ourselves as
missionaries…if we want to live with God again we will need to sacrifice, we
need to leave our comfort zone!!
This week we did a
project with “Light the World”. Elder Egbert and I went to some of the areas
where we had a stand on the street and gave them calendars to help them know
how they can be a light to the world. It
was a fun project.
We had more miracles
happen this week in our area! Nelson (recently baptized) is in Angola right now
picking up his family of 5 to bring them to Portugal. We are excited to meet them! Also we are
super close to baptizing Nilton’s family. We just need one more paper from Angola
to legally marry them. After that their
family will be baptized as they are so excited and ready! Please pray for us
that we can receive those documents this week!
Everything is amazing
here in Lisbon!
- Elder Herrmann
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