Transfers!

Today is the last day of my first transfer (transfer? transfaréncia). Can you believe it? The time has really flown by. Today was my first experience of waiting for...the phone call...from President, to tell us if any of us are moving. Luckily the phone call came around noon, so we didn´t have to wait for too long. The News...I am being transferred!!!!
I am moving from Oeiras to Almada, which is across the river. My companion will be Irmã Howard who, interestingly enough, was in my freshman ward at BYU! She has been in Portugal since August, and we are the two newest sisters in the mission. It should be interesting! I know it will be hard, but I am excited because I know that the Lord has a purpose for this, and that there is a lot to learn!
This week was interesting. We worked a lot with our investigator Nito, meeting with him every day to help him feel prepared for baptism and be able to stop smoking. Miracles really do happen! He was baptized on Sunday after church, and he was so excited and happy to be baptized, it was great. Funny detail- after the fiasco last week of not being able to heat the water, we lit the aquecedor a whole day before the baptism to heat the water. Well, when it was time for the baptism, the water was too hot!! So we added a couple panfuls of cold water to make the temperature better...never without adventure here!

Often times things happen that make it so clear that this work is not being done by us, but that we are only instruments in God´s hands. A couple weeks ago we received a reference from church headquarters with a name and endereço of a woman. After a couple tries we finally found the right rua and predio that the reference listed, except a woman by that name does not exist in that predio! We knocked every door in the predio and could not find her. However, at the address that the reference listed, there was a family. We left a pamphlet with them and said we would return later. Yesterday we went back to their apartment, and found the whole family there. They let us in and we talked about God´s plans for families. They are an incredible family! We made an appointment with them to return, and we found a new family to teach!! This is the first complete family that we found, and it is very exciting! They are truly golden. I´m sad that I am leaving before we teach them more...But, we felt that our goal this week for new pesquisadors should be 10 pessoas, and we found the last 5 last night! Heavenly Father truly placed this family in our hands, and now it is up to us to do our part!