New year, New schedule!

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Happy New Year! !t is crazy to think that 2016 is over and it is now 2017! 

This week has been wild. Monday night  we got a call about Emergency transfers, and Tuesday night Elder Pickrell joined us in Santo André. He is from Wyoming and has been out a year and a half. Wednesday night the office missionaries dropped off a new bed for him and some other things to help accommodate the 2 person apartment for 3 Elders. It is a little tight but we make it work.

Thursday we had splits with the Zone Leaders, I went with Elder Collete and stayed in Sines. He is one of the funniest Elders I have met haha we had a great time and found some Elect! We met this lady named Maria Fatima and gave her a Book of Mormon. The next day we followed up with her and she had read the introduction and the testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith! I am excited for our lesson later this week.

The best mission in the world just got better! New Years day we had a mission wide zone meeting where President Tavares presented the totally new Daily schedule! It goes as follows:

7:00- Wake up and Exercise

7:30- Prepare for the day and eat Breakfast

8:30-9:00- Daily planning

9:00- Personal Study

10:00- Leave the apartment for proselyting!

1:00- Lunch

2:00-Comp study

2:30- Language study

3:00- 12 week training, (I only have 2 weeks left of this!)

3:30- Leave for proseltying 

9:30- Return to our house

11:00- Bedtime

We have 90 minutes for lunch and dinner combined, so we will have to shorten one of them. We have no more nightly planning or Zone meetings! By cutting down companion and language study we will have more proselyting time throughout the day and without nightly planning we will have plenty of time to wind down and get ready for bed at night. On P-day we plan and have personal study until 8:30 then can leave the apartment, 2 hours earlier than usual! Although it now ends at 6:00 rather than 6:30, but we will have an additional hour and a half to get our things done and explore.

 Alma 49:8 "But behold, to their uttermost astonishment, they were prepared for them, in a manner which never had been known among the children of Lehi.(The new schedule) Now they were prepared for the Lamanites (Portuguse People), to battle (Preach the Gospel) after the manner of the instructions of Moroni (President Tavares).

I am so excited for this new year and new schedule and the opportunity I have to represent and serve my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

--

Elder Anderson

 We explored the northern part of Sines this morning, it was amazing!