Letter to President Fluckiger

10/2
Ola!

Alright, can we just discuss that it’s already October? What the what??

I didn’t even realize until we had a zone conference and President Fluckiger gave us a challenge to read all four gospels and study the life of Christ until Christmas. Christmas! IT'S SO SOON! THIS YEAR WENT BY TOO FAST. When it’s Christmas I will be half way through my mission. I’m not ready for that nonsense yet.
But my companion and I are so excited for conference! Yes. I feel a little bit like a drug addict because we have a countdown and everything. We will just turn to each other randomly and say IRM. (Yes without the “A”, idk, it’s just what she calls me) TEN DAYS. NINE DAYS. EIGHT DAYS. FOUR DAYS!!!!!! We are excited!
Life is pretty much the same, we haven’t been able to teach a whole lot because of my back and staying in the house but I’ll copy what I wrote to President about one of our investigators Galia.

Ola President!
This week was really great. I would love to share a story about our compremetido, Galia. She wasn't baptized and insisted that she had to go to work yesterday, but we had an amazing experience with her. We had a lesson with her earlier in the week and when we arrived she was talking on Skype to a woman that she knew in Bulgaria who was like her daughter. She said, "She’s from America, talk to her!" So we spoke to the woman and her husband for a little bit and Irma Palmer basically taught them the first lesson and about the Restoration.  We invited them to go to Mormon.org and they said they would try and contact the missionaries there in Germany where they are living. Then Galia talked with us after we finished Skyping and she told us that she knows the Book of Mormon is true and she loves it.  She said that it explains things for her really simply. We wanted to commit her to be baptized but her husband was being really destructive to the Spirit so we felt we should leave it how it was for the time being.
We came back on Saturday night and were able to talk to Galia and her daughter-in-law who is also really receptive. Galia told us that the woman we had spoken to on Skype offered her a job as a nanny to come live with them and have money to send home. Galia had been really struggling with the decision because she couldn’t bear the thought of leaving her family here even though all of her children are adults.  She has always taken care of them and they don't know how to do anything for themselves. She asked how she could know if she was making a decision because of what she wanted or because of what God wanted. 
We testified about the power of the Holy Ghost and that God uses the Holy Ghost to help us understand his will for our lives. We shared a few scriptures and some personal experiences and we could see in Galia such a strong desire to do what was right. She eventually told us that she felt really strongly that God had sent us to her right now because she needed the Spirit we brought to make her decision and she felt like God was giving her an answer right then. She said, God sent me Jennifer (the woman with whom we skipped) and He sent the first Irmas who talked to me on the street (Irma Brown and Irma Walker) who helped Galia reconnect with Jennifer, and now He had sent us to help her understand what she needed to do to follow Him and have the joy of being with Jennifer again.
President, I felt so strongly in that moment that Galia is why I'm here in Quinta do Conde. I feel it right now. During my first transfer, Irma Brown was in the Mem Martins ward with me and told me about how Quinta do Conde had been really hard for her but she talked about Galia and how much she meant to her. When Irma Brown was here with us the first day she practically begged us to pass by Galia and help her. I've already felt such a love for Irma Brown because she is really the reason I made it through my first transfer, and in the lesson with Galia the Spirit said, "You’re here to finish what your dear friend started. Help them both."
I know that none of the friendships or relationships we make here on the mission is a coincidence. I've learned so much from Irma Brown and I'm so grateful for the help she gave me and I feel so honored to be in the area where she worked to help with someone she loves so much. Thank you so much for this opportunity to serve here and to serve with Irma Palmer. She is teaching me so much as well and I feel as though Heavenly Father is really expecting a lot from us.
Thank you so much for everything, sorry this was really long!
Love
Irma Dean


So yeah, she’s really our big focus right now and she’s wonderful and she’s coming to conference! I’m so excited! I love her and she feels like my adoptive Portugal/Bulgarian mother here in Quinta do Conde.

In other news, I started physical therapy yesterday! It was interesting. It was normal and everything and my doctor is so great.  Its going well though and President Fluckiger gave me a blessing last week and my back has already started to improve a ton!

Well I have to go and sorry it’s a day late, but I love you guys so much!

The scripture for this week is 1 Nephi 21:15-16 and replace "House of Israel" with your name, okay?
Christ loves you and is always with you!
I love you too and I’m praying for you guys!