Hello everybody!
Well, this week has been filled with interesting adventures! Lets start off with some of them!
We were knocking doors when an old lady opened up. We introduced ourselves and she told us to wait a moment and shuffled off. We stood there for a bit until she came back, held out her hands and showed us the small pile of coins telling us, "its not much but here you are." We were like, "...wait, what are you...AH, NO! No we aren't here for your money!" We explained why we were there and she was like, "oh, I'm not interested in any of that" and shut the door on us. We were standing there fairly confused.
That was actually a couple of weeks ago but I told the story to Presidente Tavarez and he made me promise to send it home. Next on our list was last P-Day! We went to Belem and ate pasteis de nata and saw all sorts of monuments. It was sic! Soon after, we received the announcement that we were going to cut back P-Day to end at 4:30 from there on! I'm actually super stoked for that, I know that may sound weird but I was like, "less free time? AWESOME!"
Well, then we had the baptism!! We taught Joanita and Leo every day but once at the beginning of the week. They are awesome. When we taught all the commandments they straight up accepted. It was fantastic. Interview on Saturday then baptism on Sunday! So Sunday was nuts. Ediene was being confirmed and Joanita and Leo being baptised then a lady from Spain brought three new investigators. Well sacrament started but Joanita and Leo weren't there! We grabbed a member (blessings for that man) and went to pick them up! We found them by the park, picked them up and a recent convert we found walking to church and sped back in time for the sacrament! Answers to so many prayers. We did unfortunately miss the confirmation of Ediene but...more member integration right? The baptism was after. Elder Castro baptised! I got that proud mama bear feeling when he said all the words right. They grow up so fast *sniff*.
Then there are transfers! Oh man. So I'll just get straight too it. I'm staying. Ya, thats not to different. But I'm now District Leader, I'm training, we have the Zone Leader in our house and he's training and its going to be awesome. I don't know my comp but the new Zone Leader Elder Simpson is awesome. He waited with me at the airport when I first got here to Portugal!
Elder Castro had plans to go to the airport at three in the morning so we slept over at the office in Benfica. We had three alarms set. None of them went off. We woke up at five. Ya. We missed his flight. It was slightly lame. So now we are still here at the office and have no idea what we are doing. Its a total party! I think he'll stay here for another day, we'll see. The airport early in the morning was a flippen awesome.
Anyways! Thats about it. You guys are awesome! Thank you guys for the letters, I promise I'll try to write back handwritten things in response to your handwritten things.
Love you all,
Elder Cordon
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