Dallin's Mom inserting information. This entry is from last week. I have been out of town so we are playing catch up...
Salutations,
I luckily thought of that one last minute ;)
SO, good to see you! Its been about, what, a week since we last talked? Things in Vila Franca de Xira are going swell. We have had some pretty neat stories this past week. First things first is the window. Our house is slightly weird so we have a glass window in our study that looks into a small apendage of our kitchen where our washer is. Its funny because there is a window in there that looks outside so in the study we can look out one window to look out the other window to look outside. Hard to explain, maybe I'll send a picture. But anyways, the window in our study. We found a dry erase marker and are now using the window as a big list of all of the people we have contacted with potential, our formal list of our investigators and their individual needs, and other relevant information such as that mentioned. Its really nice for planning because we will think "who on earth can we call or plan for?" then we just look at that window and a lot of times we find someone to call!
The other day we had Ivan up on the window (contacted him once) and we were having no success in getting in contact again so we decided that we would give him a call and if nothing came out of it we would take his name down. We called him and, to our suprise, we marked a time to meet with him! Who knew? We were both like, well, I guess he's staying up there.
We also were walking at night and passed a couple who seemed to be having a deep conversation of sorts and as we passed I thought "maybe we should contact them" but I just kept going. Well, whatever happened we were walking back that way and he calls out to us and asks "Are you guys Jehovah's Witnesses?" And we flip around and we're all "Nope! We are missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Have you heard of us?" We left him with a Book of Mormon and are excited to see them again.
We met this week with those two old ladies, Lídia let us in and we took more bags of garden waste out to the trash, sweeped up, helped pick grapes, and took the head of a garden hoe that she was very attatched to, and, using a branch she had picked out for just this purpose, put the head on. She now uses that for her cane. She was pretty excited and praised Elder Lowry endlessly for his genius as an engineer and his capability in using a screw driver! Really fun.
All sorts of stories and miracles. We got hold of a family we have been trying to meet with for a really long time and will be teaching them tonight. YES!!
Well, love you all. You are great! Happy Flippin birthday Rachel (that kills people)!
Stay awesome!
Elder Cordon
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