Dear Everyone,

 

Transfer day! Turns out I am staying in Miratejo but I have a new companion named Sister Lewis. She is really cute and this is only her third transfer. Guess where she was trained? Viseu! With Sister Fuertes! How fun is that? All I know about her so far is that her father is in the Marines, so she´s moved around quite a bit. If I remember right, she´s lived in Utah, Virginia, California, Egypt and Florida. She seems pretty fun. She is another tall blonde! How many of those have I had already? Four? Here we go again! Sister Anderson will be training in Setúbal, but her companion won´t be coming in until Thursday, so she´s staying with us for the next few days. We think her companion is Portuguese, but we aren´t sure yet. Her last name is Pereira, so she could basically be any nationality. It´ll be a surprise!

 

This last week was really great. We have lost almost all of our investigators, but we really did our part in contacting people and inviting. I am excited for this upcoming transfer. Something really neat that happened was that 2 weeks ago I was feeling really inadequate and frustrated and -- I hate to admit it-- a little trunky. But we included `good cheer´ and `fire´ to do the Lord´s work and it really happened. We´ve been feeling a lot more excited about the work lately. I´m so glad the Lord listens to our fasts! 

 

We taught Rita and Isabel about temples and eternal marriage, which was neat. I think Isabel is shying away from us, but they´ve been organizing things so that Rita´s baptism will be at the end of the month. 

 

This weekend we had a rare opportunity to go to the neighboring chapel in Seixal for a wedding. The family asked the missionaries to do a musical number because the bride and her family are English. So we got together with the Sisters from Seixal and a member, Diego, that sings really well to do `Love is Spoken Here.´ Diego sang the lower part in Portuguese and the Sisters sang the higher part in English while I played the piano. It was neat. It was bitter sweet because they weren´t temple worthy yet, but that is their goal. Hopefully in a year or so they will be able to have an even more special wedding in Madrid.

 

Well, I love you all and I am so grateful for your support. Have a good week.

 

Sister Derrick