This week was really good! We´ve been finding some super cool people, working hard, and also having a grand ol´ time. That´s something that I´ve been learning the last few weeks- our attitudes are super important. We´ve been feeling more optimistic and letting that push us forward. And it´s made a huge difference for us this week! We taught more lessons, had more people at church, and we´re just working with more enthusiasm and energy. That has helped us see the Lord´s hand even more. Every day is a new chance to be happier, more grateful, and to do more. I´m glad for that!
On Thursday President and Sister Amorim invited us over for lunch! They are going to start inviting over all the duplas for a little lunch date. It was super cool and so so cute of them. It was great to be able to just chat with President about our area, our experiences, and get some personal advice and counsel from him. I´m real happy to be serving under the direction of the Amorims! Also we got to eat Brazilian food and no one was sad about that!
For weekly planning we were brainstorming creative ideas to do contacts. Sooner rather than later the ideas got out of hand and we found ourselves discussing code names for when we´re talking on our walkie talkies for when we are hiding in the bushes waiting for someone to take the Book of Mormon that we had left on a park bench. The idea was to watch and wait and then chase down the person who took the book. Anywho, in a moment of inspiration, the names Lady Midnight (Sister Parkinson) and Riff (me) came to my mind, and it was perfect. And since then we´ve been referring to each other and ourselves by our code names. I´ll let yall know if we ever actually end up doing that contact.
We met this super cute old couple the other day, Orlando and Margarida. We walked in to teach the first lesson, but before we started we were just chatting and stuff. They asked where we were from, if we like Portugal, the usual. Then Orlando goes, "America seems like such a great place, like how that humble man JOSEPH SMITH restored the church you represent and translated that one book.." I almost fell out of my chair. The fact that he didn´t say Joseph Smith like it was swear word was a miracle in and of itself! We then asked him how he knew all that, and turns out he worked right by our church building for like twenty years and talked with the Elders a lot and ended up reading some church books. Needless to say, we were suuuuper stoked. The lesson went really well and they are reading the Book of Mormon together as a couple. They are the sweetest couple, and I´m really grateful to know them!
Well fam, I hope you have a great week! Love you all!
Sister Wood
The Amorim's and the Sister Parkinson
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