This is our friend Renata! We spent this P-day at her house. =) She is from Cacem and is soooo cool! Also, she speaks fluent English.
This is Sonia and her sweet son Reuben.
We love them so much!
This is a group picture of the training meeting that we had with a visiting General Authority of the church. His name is Elder Dyches. It was a wonderful and inspirational meeting!
This is us and the Bishops family! We had lunch at their house after church. He is seriously the coolest Bishop. We love him!
My Letter Home:
This Sunday all of our investigators in church were children. I
really love how the Savior taught us that we should become as little children.
In so many instances they are so prepared and open to the message...while their
parents are not. It’s so hard because we really want them to have support in
the home to help them on this path. We will continue working with them.
We taught primary this week in church. It was crazzyyyyy! Haha
there is a big primary here in Mem Martins. We taught them about the tree of
life and then played some games. Sister Aiono learned a lot of command form
Portuguese words as she told them to "Sit! Wait! Listen! Stop!" (Good
learning experience:)
This week we heart-attacked an Sister in our ward named Hélia. I
affectionately call her my mission mom. We stuck all the little hearts on her
door and then rang the doorbell and jumped in the elevator. Apparently she got
so freaked out and thought we were robbers. Hahah She is the best! She takes
care of us and always gives the best hugs.
One of my favorite people in Mem Martins is a man named Mariano.
He is a recent convert that was taught by Sister Bakker. He is soooo funny.
When he was baptized he was homeless. But now he has work, has the priesthood,
and got a haircut! This week he was a great example of a member missionary and
invited one of his friends to hear the missionary discussions. It was funny
because his friends name was Helder (pronounced Elder). He is very Evangelical
and was fun to teach. Right after hearing the First Vision, he motioned for us
to be quiet, pulled out his phone, and played some Christian rock music. Haha
we got some giggles. He is really nice and I hope he comes to church next Sunday!
This Saturday we had an activity. Me and Sister Aiono were in
charge. We had invited this 13 year old less active named Luis to come and he
said he would bring his friends. Well, surprise for us, he shows up to the
activity with like 7 friends! And the funniest part was that we recognized this
little gang of boys! They always follow us in the streets yelling "Hello!
My name is! My name is!" haha they get a big kick out of hearing us speak
English. Not gonna lie, sometimes they are a little annoying...like when they
stole our bag of Cheetos! Anyways, so Luis walks in the church with these crazy
little boys and I just think to myself...well, this will be interesting. But in
the end it was a huge success! We got them under control and had a really good
experience. Sister Aiono had a ton of ideas of games to play that she did at
family reunions and we did musical chairs and everything. All the members were
so excited and supportive. They definitely love the Sisters! We love these
people!
I love you all!
Sister
Barron
