So, today is transer day :( I´ve been praying all week that I wouldn´t leave, but as usual, Heavenly Father knows better than I do! I´m being transfered to Mem Martins, which is close to Oeiras, but I don´t really know where...I´ll be greenie-breaking a native! It´ll be nice to serve with a native again, my Portugues could use a little polishing :P (or a lot!)

But this last week was really good. Everything went well with Cesaltina´s baptism. Well, at least in the end everything worked out... the baptismal font in our chapel in ´´under construction´´ and locked to our access, which has been really frustrating. So we have to go to Gago Coutinho, which is about 40 minutes away, to have baptisms. Last week for Jorge´s baptism, we missed the bus to get there by 30 seconds, which was soo frustrating!!! Luckily the Bishop was kind enough to come pick us up. So, this week we got to the stop at plenty of time before the bus would come by. However, there was a protest going on in the same area (its by a big roundabout- Marquês de Pombal). Little did we know that the bus stop was closed off to vehicle access. So we watched the bus come, pass the area where it would enter the bus stop, and continue on around the round about! We started running after it, hoping it would stop for a few minutes at the next stop, but it was gone. So we had to wait another 40 minutes for another bus to get there!! There is always ´´drama´´ when there is a baptism. But, the elders helped us get everything ready and the members were great, and it was a really good service. Her boyfriend baptised Cesaltina, and it was really cute, although she had to go under 3 times to get everything covered! But it was awesome to see her and Jorge confirmed during church on Sunday. The chapel was full, and also the gospel principles for new members class, so its really rewarding to see how the ward is growing.

I have really LOVED Lapa- I love the members here, the new converts, and working in the city. I really didn´t (and don´t!) want to go becuase my heart is here, but I know that I´ll love Mem Martins too, in time. It just shows that time really is moving when changes come...

We had a cool experience this week with a less-active. I had in my mind for a few days the name ``Ribeiro Santos´´ like a streetname. I looked in our index of streets, and saw a rua that was ´´Ribeiro Sanches´´. So we went there and knocked the predios there. In one of the first few predios we knocked, we found a woman named Joy from the Filipines. She works in a house there and has been here for 3 months. She was baptized in 1987 and even went to the temple, but becuase of family opposition eventually fell into inactivity. But she was so happy to see us, and she really wanted to go to church and become active again. Just so happens that we have a single mom in our ward who is from the Filipines. We saw her the next day, so we told her about this woman we had found. She called her, and it turns out they are from the same island of the Filipines! Joy came to church on Sunday, and it was soo awesome to see her and Elsa together. Elsa has really needed a friend, and it is so good for her to have found Joy. They were both blessed!! It´s great to see them both so happy and have the chance to mutually strengthen each other. IT´s interesting how we were led to find her, and was really a testimony to me that Heavenly FAther knows and watches out for each of his children.