Dear Everyone,

 

Viseu is a really nice place and I am enjoying it. There are two wards here. Sister Fuertes and I are in the Viseu 1st ward and it is my first time being the only companionship of missionaries in a ward. It is kinda fun! Viseu itself is relatively small, so naturally all of the members and most of the progressing investigators live really far away. João our marked investigator lives a 45 minute drive away, so we have been having his lessons over the phone with the pamphlets. Crazy! But when you´re elect I guess it doesn´t matter, because so far he´s been understanding the message anyway! It´s cute because he has been giving Balbina, an elderly recent convert, a ride to church because the busses don´t run on Sunday. We are really excited for him and we hope and pray that he will be baptized this Sunday, confirmed next Sunday and an Aaronic Priesthood holder the following Sunday! Lots of prayers!

 

We found a great, typical Portuguese grandpa named José Coelho (Joseph Rabbit) in a street contact on Wednesday. Typcial Portuguese grandpa means the following:

- Wears dentures, or has rotting teeth (he has rotting teeth)

- Needs reading glasses but doesn´t have any

- Talks for hours about something completely irrelevant

- Knows everyone on his street

- Retired and single

- Goes on walks for most of the day just to pass the time

Seriously. I can spot one of him miles away! But he is really special because after we contacted him we set up another time to meet up. In our next lesson he took our card with a picture of the Book of Mormon on it out of his pocket and asked if he could have a book of his own! He came to Church yesterday and asked if we could talk to his daughter. We are really excited to see him progress as well. He told us that his attitude has been better ever since we met him for the first time. Hopefully he keeps it up!

 

Saturday was kinda crazy, but fun as well. The ward asked for our help in an 8-year-old´s baptism! I gave a talk and Sister Fuertes lead the music. It was cute.

 

Well, we´re still learning the ropes around here, but things are going pretty well. Sister Fuertes and I have a new catch phrase among ourselves: ´Live and learn!´ That about sums everything up! 

 

I love you all! Thank you for supporting me :)

 

Sister Derrick