It feels like a long time ago since the last time I wrote! This week has been a week of re-orientation. Last Tuesday I got everything all packed up and traveled by train and ferry across the river to Almada, my new area with Irmã Howard. This area opened for irmãs only the previous transfer, so the missionary work here is still beginning. There is potential here, but also a lot of work! This week we mostly did a lot of procura, contacting people from the area book and doing ´´contatos da oracão´´. It was an interesting week and we met lots of people. There is one investigator here, Nicolau, that is pretty much a golden investigator that appeared two weeks ago. After several attempts, we finally had a compromisso with him, and invited him to be baptized this next week. He accepted, and we´re really excited for him- he´s a really good person.
On Sunday I went to church with a member and an investigator while Irmã Howard went to buscar o outro pesquisador. We arrived at the chapel (which I had never been to before!) right on time for sacrament meeting. When the counselor started to conduct the meeting, he announced that Irmã Howard would be the pianist, but she wasn´t there yet! So, I got to play the piano for sacrament meeting- I´m just grateful that I am able to and that I got to practice in Oeiras a lot!
Sunday school was...interesting. The bishop teaches the class, and yesterday went off on lots of tangents that were not related to basic principles of the gospel! It was both a little frustrating and nerve-racking: you don´t feed the carne before the milk!
But, it was interesting being in a smaller ala slash branch. They could use a lot of help.
I was reading this morning in 2 Néfi 2, and I really liked the first three verses(I like them better in Portuguese!). In spite of the afflictions that Jacob passed through, he was blessed because he knew of the greatness of God, and his afflictions were consecrated for his good. I know that we all pass through afflictions, but that these experiences are for our good, and that we always have something to learn. No matter what we go through, when we have faith in Jesus Christ, we have hope because we know that Christ overcame all.