Elder Dallin Anderson's Mission Blog: Lost Phone Miracle

Olá,

With our group meeting in Cova da Piedade we have been working a lot more in the north part of the area trying to build our little group there Sunday we just had 7 of us but this week we will work even harder to bring some Less active or Investigators there.

Tuesday we were leaving the chapel after a mission zoom conference and around the corner we met a guy named Hugo and talked with him for 10 minutes about the Book of Mormon, He was super receptive to our message, but he lives on the other side of the river so we passed his info to the missionaries there. Right after we got done talking to him we received a call from the church office (Our chapel is split, one half in the church offices for Portugal and Cape Verde the other is our actual chapel) that they had a new church key for us, ours had broken a while back. After talking to Hugo we were still really close to the chapel. If we had not talked to him we would have had to walk a good ways back. Milagre.

We were looking for an address for a reference and saw a door to a 10-story apartment complex open, we said well its open for a reason, we went to the top and knocked a few floors and met a lady named Carla who had talked with the missionaries about 10 years ago, we talked for a little bit about the restored gospel and how it could bless her family, she wasn´t interested in hearing right then but i think we helped prepare an elect for the missionaries her down the road.

Last week we were knocking doors on one of our inspired roads. I saw a gypsie teenager who was smoking and looked as he had been drinking but nonetheless i had the feeling that i should talk to him, we made an appointment with him later in the week. Later that week when we went to pass him we ran into a guy named Tejan at an intersection, we were walking down two different roads and were passing the intersection at the same time. He said that he had a friend that served a mission and is some what familiar with the church and wants to hear more. It was such a miracle how we found him. It is amazing to see how Heavenly Father leads us to his prepared children!

We passed Bruno, and ended up teaching his Mom, Ana also, and she is super receptive to the gospel.

After 3 and a half months of waiting my name tags came in! it is so nice to have more than one.

We taught Orlando the Restoration, he is super cool, after when we had returned to Laranjeiro Elder Fisk realized that he didn't have the phone. So we passed the house so he could get his pass to the metro then we rode the metro back to get the phone. On the way down there Caio, who we taught some time ago was on the metro, I had a chance to talk to him for a few minutes, then we got the phone, returned to the metro, I saw a guy whose face lit up when he saw us so I sat by him, he said "Oh you are the missionaries! my cousin served a mission and I am familiar with the church." So we got his contact info, and passed it on to the Miratejo Elders where he lives. He had to have been the reason we left the phone at Orlando´s house.

We had interviews with President Tavares again on Saturday. On the train there I sat by a guy named Paulo and explained that I was a missionary and began talking about the Book of Mormon and basically taught him the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He was interested in learning more so we passed his info to the Elders in Seixal. On the way back I sat by a guy named Hugo, He was playing some game on his phone, but i wanting to talk to him so i waited until he looked up and then introduced myself and I began explaining the Book of Mormon to him. I told him that they was a family that left Jerusalem on a boat to ancient America, how God established his church in America and how after Christ was resurrected he visited the people in America. He eyes lit up as I explained it, "Another testament of Jesus Christ, Christ himself visited america?! No way! I want it how much can I buy it for?" I explained that it was not for sale, but that I could give it to him for free. I then invited him to read the introduction and passed his info on to Miratejo. It was a miracle that we found both of them, because we arrived to the train station a little late and had to wait 20 more minutes for the next train.

Tchau,

Elder Anderson