Dear Everyone,

 

This week was an interesting one. I was put under house arrest again after talking to the mission nurse because of my fever. She said that my immune system was just exhausted, so even though I wasn´t super sick I still needed to stay inside. It took quite some patience on my part. But I learned my lesson because Sister Caldwell needed to renew her residency, so we went to Lisbon on Thursday and it wiped me out. But long story short, I am feeling 100% better, so I can´t complain. It sounds like there are quite a few Sisters in my same boat. Missions are rough on the feminine body, so I´m not surprised that several Sisters have had to take breather. Our colleagues were really nice and helped us out, though.

 

Once we finally got outside on Friday afternoon, we saw some good things happening. Joaquim Borges is really doing well! Oh, how we love him. He´s totally our Portuguese dad. We normally teach an English class on Wednesday evenings, but because I was sick, the Elders taught. He called afterwards making sure we were all okay. Man, normally we  are the ones making calls like that. It was kinda nice to be on the receiving end this time. Anyway, we´ve been having to clean sweep our area because we haven´t had progressing investigators since Joaquim was baptized. Of course being sick doesn´t help out, but that´s in the past! We´re determined to find and help people progress. On Saturday we taught a pretty good first lesson with a sweet lady named Deolinda. She came to church! She´s great. I hope that she continues with us.

 

I sure love you all,

 

Sister Derrick