Tuesday we had divisions, I stayed in Almada with Elder Guymon, who had been in Portugal for 3 weeks haha. I basically trained for a day. I was a little nervous leading our area all by myself but it went well. In the morning we went to pass some Less actives in the north part of our area, when we usually pass (visit) a person in an apartment complex we press the other buttons and try to get in so we can knock their actual door, I did this and someone let us in so we knocked on the door that let us in and met a guy named Rogeiro. We said we were missionaries and he said come on in! We then taught him the restoration and he was super receptive, he then said in was funny that we passed today because he works in Lisbon and that day was a holiday in Lisbon so he did not work and happened to be in his house.
In the evening we taught Katia and Frances the Word of Wisdom, and explained that God does not want us to partake of Alcohol, Tobacco, Black Tea, Coffee or Illegal drugs because our bodies are temples and we should treat them like that as it says in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. She has a small problem with Coffee, after the lesson I asked her if I could have it, then I tried to buy it from her (and through it away) haha neither worked but he committed to finish what she had and after no more. After that our last lesson fell through, our goal was to teach 3 lessons that day and we had just taught 2. It was about 9:20, about time to return home. We thought about passing the grocery store real quick and getting as few things that we need but then decided we would at least try to teach one more lesson, We passed an apartment building and i thought no, then the next and i had a feeling that it was that one, I knocked a few then someone let us in we met a guy named Mateus he invited us in and we taught a brief restoration and left a Book of Mormon with him. It was such a miracle that we were able to teach three lessons that day!
The next day we went back to pass the same less actives because they were not home that day and we ended up running into Rogeiros friend, Marcos he invited us in and we taught him the Restoration and invited him to read, ponder and pray about the Book of Mormon.
We met our goals for 12 lessons and 10 new investigators this week!
We had zone conference again this week, President Tavares spoke about three zones of missionaries: Fubecagem (Lazy), Comfortable and Consecrated (giving all you have to the lord) and being determined to reach your goals and how your hard work will pay off with many blessings in the end. We all got super pumped to work hard.
Irmã Rosa took us to a sushi buffet and we at a ton!!
Sunday we had stake conference and had a visit from a different Elder Anderson from the seventy he spoke a lot about the time to prepare to go the the holy temple is not when it opens, 6 months before is opens but now! and the blessing the temple will be for the faithful saints here in Portugal and how it will help boost the work here. He also shared a ton of super cool,l conversion stories that he has been a part of.
We went to pass Tejan, he was not home but his neighbor Claudia we coming home at that time I introduced us as the Elders and she said that she had talked to the Elders 10 years ago and liked our message but hadn't talked to us since and thought it was funny that we ran into each other at that time.
Last night we ran into a a lady named Margarita, she had some bad back problems and was carrying two heavy bags of groceries back to her house, so we carried then for her, she was super grateful for our help.
My brother Scott returned from his mission in Brazil this week, it is crazy how fast time flies!
Tchau.
Elder Anderson
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