Transfers & Stuff

Today was transfers!

Parabens to me for making it this far!  It’s a legit miracle. Things are getting a lot better and I’m starting to really feel my purpose here, and  I'm starting to get excited and happy despite the difficulties. First things first! HAPPY FATHERS DAY DAD! I miss you and love you a ton.  I got two letters from you today. You are amazing and I love you and appreciate your letters more than I can say.

Well I guess you guys want to know where I am. So, this past transfer I was in Rio de Mouro, which shares a ward with Mem Martins.  We had four sisters in one ward. Irma Brown got transferred to Beja and will be with one of the Irma’s I knew in the MTC.  Irma Thomas is now in our companionship, and we are a triple, and we are living in the Mem Martins area house.  They are combining our two areas! So it’s absolutely wonderful that we get to stay without investigators.  That just means that now we have to cover a lot more ground and manage a lot more investigators.  I’m excited though. The house we live in now is nice. It has a working shower! That’s really the thing that’s taking away any stress. I’m so excited for that.

We don’t know what’s happening to our house yet, but I’m pretty sure the conditions are like unfit to live in.  So they won’t put anyone else in there even if they split the areas again later on. There’s like mold everywhere and dust and everything’s falling apart and someone died in there. I can’t get past that. Weird. 

So, yeah, this transfer should be good. I’m so excited to be staying with Irma Quebbeman because she is wonderful and Irma Thomas is super nice too so it will be good. I’m just a little sad because Irma Brown and I were freaking peas on a pod. Anyway, this week was actually pretty good.

I’ve been so much happier the past couple weeks and then I kind of started getting in a funk again.  I just sort of felt apathetic about the work and especially the people. I honestly didn’t care if anyone was taught or baptized because I didn’t care about them for some reason. So, I prayed about it and felt like I needed a blessing. The zone leaders came to our area on Friday because we were trying to have an interview with one investigator named William. I don’t think I’ve written about him. He’s incredible. He’s 12 and has a learning disability.  So we’ve been teaching at a much slower pace than normal but he is just amazing. Like I don’t even like kids, but the first time we met with him I was a goner. You can just look at him and know how much Heavenly Father loves him.

When we started teaching him, we taught him with his aunt who is a member.  We had permission from his mom, who lives in Cabo Verde, to teach him. Two days before his original baptism date, his mom said he needed more time.  So, we’ve still been working so hard to get him baptized because he really wants to be baptized.  The elders came to do an interview because we were working with his mom and trying to get her to allow him to be baptized.  We had the elders come to do the interview but he had gone to stay with another aunt in a different area for the weekend. It’s been a struggle, but we're making progress.  So please pray for him.

I asked our zone leader, Elder Weiss for a blessing. He gave Irma Quebbeman a blessing first and a lot of it talked about how the Lord is pleased with the work we’ve been doing in Rio de Mouro. Then I got mine and it was amazing. It was exactly what I needed to hear. He said that the Lord could see my growth and my companions growth and the friendship we had formed.  He was really pleased and had planned that. He said that the Lord changed Rio de Mouro to Irma’s specifically for us. He said the Lord wants a miracle worked there and he wants us to be the ones to do it. He talked a lot about my purpose and why I’m in this specific mission. He said the Lord loves his children in this area and trusts them in our hands and that my strong personality was going to be invaluable in my work as a missionary. He said a lot more too but most of it was to that effect.

As soon as the blessing was over, I just felt at peace. Like legit I cannot honestly say I had any fervor for being on a mission until after hearing the things in the blessing I was like ok, let’s go work some miracles! Really since then my attitude toward this has been totally different.  I finally feel like I have some direction and I know for myself why I’m here. Something just clicked in my head and I know what to do now. I can actually say I’m excited! Ha ha, that’s a miracle.

Anyway, that’s really the only update for the week. I love you guys a ton and I promise I’m happy. I hope everything is going well with all of you and my goal this transfer is to be better about writing letters on p-day. I know I’m a bad friend, sorry. But I do really love you guys!

Everyone fica bem, have a wonderful week.  Look for the little miracle in your day. It helps make life easier, I can promise you that. The church is true! Do everything you can to help and support the missionaries in your ward. No seriously, Do it.  We need you guys.

Love you!