This week was great! I am so grateful for the blessings that the Lord gives us and the miracles we see every day (when we´re looking for them!). My greenie, Irmã de Almeida, arrived on Tuesday. We had to return her to the mission office on Wednesday, and pick her up again on Friday, so we spent a lot of time in transport this week! But Lisboa is cool, so it was neat to get to spend a little time in the city.

This week was so good :) I don´t know if I can really pinpoint or explain why, but becuase we had a lot less time to work (becuase of traveling), it felt like the Lord was blessing us to be really productive in the time that we had. We found some incredible new investigators this week: one is a 50yr old lady that lives and takes care of a senhora with 95 yrs; she is incredible and is ready to accept the gospel. The only challenge with her is that she cannot leave the senhora alone to be able to go to church...so this week we need to find someone or someway that she can go to church...But she is amazing- when we invited her to be baptized on May 1, she didn´t say yes or no, but just asked, á que horas? (at what time?); the other is a man from São Tomé, Luzú, that is really neat. I am really excited to keep working with them.

Training has been really fun and really good for me (all 6 days already :P ) Minha filha is incrível, and is already an example to me. I always heard about the ´greenie fire´, and it is neat to get to see and work with fogo! When President Torgan was talking to the treinadors, he talked about the importance of teaching by example. The quote ´´your actions speak so loud that I can´t hear your words´´ definately applies. So as I have been trying to teach by example, I have become better as well...I am definately already learning a lot.

I was reading in D&C this morning in section 95, and there was a verse that I really like. The Lord is talking about how the saints sinned because they were not building. He says that it is His will that they build a temple, and that if they keep the commandments they will have the force or power necessary to do so. Here in the mission we are always seeking the will of God, to know what we should do. But, we also have to be keeping the commandments and living worthily to be able to receive his help to be able to accomplish His will. We know that He always fulfills His part, we just need to do our part to be able to do milagres!

I am so thankful and happy to be here...I gave a talk this last Sunday about the two great commandments, to love God and love our neighbors as ourselves. I know that God loves us and that we are here because of this love. Have we not reason to rejoice because of the goodness of our God?!