Dear Everyone,

 

Thank you so much for all of your guys´ prayers on my behalf. I really appreciate and feel the Lord´s support for us in the work here in Odivelas. Our week was alright, but we lost two days of work due to a Zone Conference and a failed atempt to get a bus pass outside of our area. Aside from that this week was great. We have been searching a ton for new investigators and we´ve been working to help older investigators improve. Areas really have their ups and their downs; there are times when we sow seeds and times when we reap the harvest. Right now we are sowing lots of good seeds.

 

We have been working a lot with a man named Paulo, who is marked for the 22nd. He prayed on his own for the first time yesterday! We are so proud of him. He has lots of great potential but he lives far away from the Church and doesn´t have a transport pass, so we need to work something out. Oh, I hope that he can come to Church! He is highly addicted to cigarettes and so we gave him a present! Sister Thornley is so cute and had this idea of making a Spiritual cigarette pack by putting scriptures on sticky notes inside an empty cigarette box with pictures of Christ on the front. It was fun! I really like our companionship.

 

Something that is really fun about this area is that there are English classes on Thursday nights! It is a really great experience for everyone there. Another thing about this area is that it´s gorgeous. We live on the 12th floor of our building and the view is spectacular. It´s completely the opposite of Setúbal´s Social projects.

 

Been in the same zone as the mission office has its perks and its vices. It has come to my knowledge that I am now considered President Fluckiger´s gunea pig being put in Odivelas on a white wash. He wants to see if our success in Setúbal was a fluke or not. Well, we´ll just have to show him that it wasn´t/isn´t! I hope that I can prove it to the Lord most of all, because after all these are His children we are talking about. I have a good feeling that this upcoming week is going to be great. I am really excited for it!

 

Sister Derrick