Roberto and his family! They fed us a few times. Really cute family that loves the missionaries.
TIAGO!!!! We LOVE to teach this kid in his apartment staircase and read the Book of Mormon with him. He is 10 and desperately wants to get baptized but his Mom wants him to wait. He is sooo funny!!! (Look at that face! Lol!) He is one of my favorite people in all of Portugal! He taught me a cool handshake. =)
This is our train station that we use almost everyday.
This is Mariano, he is a recent convert to the church. He wanted to teach us how to make sweet rice. He is a great guy and funny person. He will be getting the Priesthood soon!
Some of the sweet planners that I made for this transfer. I ended up making a whopping 6 planners this transfer. These were for us and the Financial Elders. Haha we are all friends.
This is the planner I made for Elder Nogeira. I had fun with it this transfer. Hey, gotta keep myself entertained!!
This is the Bread Man!!!
My Letter Home:
BREAKING NEWS: I am staying in Mem Martins (which I am soooo
psyched for, this area is awesome! We are close to the post office, train
station, church, and the grocery store! Score!) And I AM TRAINING! I will be training
Sister Aiono (Falefusi). I am soooo excited to show her around Portugal. She is
brand new with the language, straight out of the Missionary Training Center, so
it will be my job to help her learn fast and not be overwhelmed. I am totally
up for the challenge! I love to help people. She is Polynesian, I think, (I
meet her later today) which is super cool. I hope she is ready to work and get
hopping! We will baptize people together, I just know it! I am also staying a Sister
Training Leader. Basically it feels like I have a lot of responsibilities and
pressure. But hey, that’s cool!
So this Sunday we went to go pick up our investigator Lilí for
church. She is so awesome! We had a really powerful lesson this week and she
got totally pumped to ask her Mom if she can be baptized. She is only 15, so
she needs the permission of her mother to be baptized. We talked about it and she said "TODAY is the day!".
Man she is so elect. It’s just hard because her Mom is Jehovah’s Witness and in
their church they are not baptized until after like a year or two of studies.
Since we have only been meeting with Lilí for a few months, her Mom still
thinks it is way too fast. It is so hard because she is so ready for baptism.
We have taught her all the lessons really thoroughly and she has been coming to
church for a few months. She is even doing Personal Progress (a program for the
Young Women) and participating in the youth activities. But this Sunday when we
went to pick her up and walk with her, her Mom was there! We had invited her to
church and she said she would! And she did! It was a total miracle! I hope the
fact that she came to church softens her heart and then she lets Lilí get baptized.
It’s gonna happen soon! I can feel it! We have fasted and prayed so much for
her. We have faith!
Well one funny thing that happened this week is that we realized
we didn’t have our phone charger. We hadn’t charged our phone since Christmas
(it went strong for like more than a week! Props to ghetto phones!) and it was
about to die. Well, seeing how it was the weekend of transfers we reallyyyyy
needed our phone. So we called the Sisters that had stayed in our house at Christmas
and they had accidently taken it with them. Well, they live really far away and
it is a long bus ride. But we really needed it. Well, we didn’t want to be those
annoying sisters that always call the elders for help and we just went and got
it! It was pouring rain, but we rode on
the bus for like an hour to go get our phone charger. Hey, it was a good
decision! Hopefully....haha
On New Years day we ate dinner at the Stake President's
house. It was really fun:)
I love you all!
Sister
Barron
( From Mom: Got this picture from the Mission President! Quincey with her new companion!)
