Dirty Trick

Olá,

This week we had an interesting experience I talked with a guy named Francisco in the City Square, he explained how he was a Jehovah´s Witness but had interest to learn about the Mormons so we set an appointment and were excited because it was the first time we would teach one of them. It turns out he played a dirty trick on us, he showed up with his missionary comp also and instead of wanted to listen to our message they began teaching us...Trying to prove to us that we study the Bible wrong they threw a bunch of ridiculous points at us. We respectively listen to them then briefly explained the Restoration and The Book of Mormon and left our heartfelt testimonies with them. I took a few things away from our conversation. Primarily that they tried to persuasively prove things to us, while we teach and testify by the Spirit and invite people to pray about our message. It reminded me of a Bible Scripture 1 Corinthians 2:4  "And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power". I know that I belong to the true church.

After following a prompting of the Spirit and a series of a few things happening we knocked on Vanio´s door he let us in and we taught him the Restoration, He was taught by the Elder´s some time ago in Brazil and was super open and receptive to our message. It was a miracle!

We ran into a bunch of less actives on the road this week a few of them moved her recently and want to get back into church.

This weekend in Montijo there was a huge Medieval Festival we passed it a few times they had a lot of things going on and we bought some Faturas.

Sunday we had a few opportunities to help people with a few things, we were walking by Irmão Pimela´s house when he had just gotten home from picking Uvas-Grapes. He had 2 huge bags of them, lives on the third floor and has a hard time walking, so we helped him carry the bags up to his house then he gave a bunch to us they are super good!

Sunday we unexpectedly recieved a call from the Office notifying us theat there have been a few changes in the mission and that there would be an Emergency Transfer, Elder Alpizar will go to Oeiras and I will stay here with Elder Angulo we will make the switch tomorrow.

Até Proximo,

Elder Anderson