Bom Dia!

This week we met some interesting people!

The first is a Brazilian named Pedro. He isn´t living here in Portugal, but he has been traveling the country for the past month. He´s 19 and decided to come to Portugal and explore this country by just getting lost, haha. As we were walking down the street, we saw him smiling at us, so we decided to talk to him. Apparently he had met the other missionaries while he was staying in Braga a few weeks ago. They had taught him a few times, and he even went to church with them. He also has a friend in Brazil who is a member of the Church. When we found him, he was looking for  a place to charge his cellphone, so we brought him to the chapel, haha. There we taught him about the Plan of Salvation. He was only in Viseu for one day, and left for Porto the next day, but we invited him to search out the missionaries and talk with his friend who´s a member, when he gets back to Brazil. We also told him that it probably wasn´t just a coincidence that he met the missionaries two times in two different cities while he was here. He said that he would definitely search out the church when he gets back home! It´s one of those stories that I will probably never know the end of, but I´m grateful that we could share the gospel with him and plant a seed in his heart that will hopefully go with him as he returns to São Paulo!

Another person that we met this week was an old man on the street, haha. But he wasn´t just any old man. It turns out that he is the great-uncle of the wife of our mission presidente! We knew that Sister Amorim had family here in Viseu, but this was the first time that we had found one of them! He was so nice and told us where he lived, and said we could pass by this week. Right after we finished talking to him, Sister Amorim called us to let us know that the Presidente was sad I hadn´t written him a weekly letter (this was the first time I forgot!). But I buttered her up by letting her know that we had just finished talking with her Tio José, and she got so happy! She told us that she would write about this in her journal, and then gave us more references of her other family members that lived in Viseu! 

Last night we taught another old man named José (there are a lot of them in Portugal, haha). He was also so nice, and told us to come back this thursday! Something that I love about Portuguese older people is that they love to give us "tours" of their homes and show us all of their pictures of when they were younger. It was neat to hear the stories of José, and also hear him play harmonica (he about passed out after playing a song for us, haha). He told us that he will come with us to church one of these days, and we hope that it´ll be this week!

We also had a Family Home Evening in the chapel this week, and I will send pictures in a little bit!

I love and miss you all!

Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Barker