Elder Dallin Anderson's Mission Blog: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart..."

Olá,

We had our last Conference with Presidente and Sister Tavers, they have been incredible I have learned so much from them, We had an hour question and answer time about their missions, then Presidente gave his last training about Trusting in God and his power to qualify us for this work by his spirit Proverbs 3:5 "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding." I am so thankful for them.

Carolina was baptized Thursday because that in her husbands day off of work. It went so well. There was a special hymn arrangement of "Come thou fount of every Blessing" with Irmão Rafael on the piano, Elder Webb on the flute and Sister Restopo singing. The spirit was so strong and Beatriz gave a talk about baptism, and looked like she had been a member her whole life. They will be incredible members. Luis and Marion are excited to be baptized soon after they get the papers to marry. Luis went from smoking 60 cigarettes per day to 3-4, 15 coffee per day to 0, never more touched alcohol and is willing to change jobs to be able to go to church all Sundays for 3 hours. Alexandre who was Athiest is reading the Book of Mormon and now has the desire to be baptized, but is still working on Sundays so it will be a little while longer. We had dinner with them all last night and watched a video about temples. This Family is incredible!

We all ran to the beach one morning, we could see Cristo Rei and the 25 de Abril Bridge. The river is really cool at sunrise.

Walking back for lunch from helping a member I stopped and looked at 2 roads we could go then Elder Webb said, the first door on the left, so we knocked it met Guilherme (William) and taught him the Restoration. Pure Inspiration. I love seeing the difference in how someone looks at the Book of Mormon when we give it with 2 hands and wait until they receive in with 2 hands.

Saturday we had a Sardinhada, Fish Cookout with the Ward And of course there was a projector to watch the game. Well unfortunately Portugal got kicked out of the World cup losing to Uruguay. On our way we felt to knock one more Door, met Elson, Rosaline, Asaf and their baby Isaac, a Brazilian family. We taught the Restoration and they all came to church Sunday! Imaculada, Patricia and Caetano, Luis and Marion and Beatriz, Carolina was confirmed and her baby was blessed by Bishop. It was a great Sunday!

President and SIster Tavares and back in Brasil and President and Sister Fillmore are here in Lisbon. I´ve heard great things about them and am excited to meet them.

Boa Semana!

Elder Anderson