We received some good news this week. Elder and Sister Davenport, who have been
helping us in Spain with the contacting of the PEF participants there, are
returning home this week. But we will
have a new couple from Spain for the next six months. We are really excited about this because
there are around 100 participants in Spain, with more being added as we
write. With a Spanish couple there to
speak with them, it will help us a great deal. This also means that we will get to make
another trip into Spain to train them around the 10th of
October. Thank goodness PACO will be
there to help with the translation because they don’t speak English.
On Wednesday there was a meeting at the office to prepare
the Church employees that there are changes coming. We may lose some of them as positions are
being consolidated. This makes us sad,
as we really like the people we work with.
Reginaldo, one of our favorites, is being transferred to Porto with an
advancement in position. We are happy
for him and his family, but will really miss him. He was our go-to guy for all computer
problems. He always made me smile
because he worked right next to us and we would often hear him singing “Jingle
Bells” in English.
We also had appointments with two PEF participants in Lisbon
on Wednesday evening. Both are from
Brazil—one a young married girl and the other a bishop with a new baby
boy. We really enjoyed getting
acquainted with them. Unfortunately they
are both looking for work and we hope that they will be able to find something
soon. We would love to meet with more
people, but there are only 14 in all of Portugal and many live a great distance
from here. The difficult part for us is
that we have to make contact with students in so many countries and we have to
do it by phone, email or text messaging.
Would you believe that I now text? But, I do it by computer. We have a special program for doing it that
way. We can mass text, but it is
difficult because we are working with three different languages. We feel that the work is going well and we
are getting some positive responses from the students.
On Thursday we made a visit to a family in Monte Caparica
and found that it was the mother of one of our members in the Miratejo
ward. We didn’t go to Caparica today
because we were concerned about a fluid leak in our car. So we stayed here in Miratejo and Mike was
asked to speak in the Sacrament Meeting.
He did a wonderful job, without notes, and pretty much gave his talk
from a few weeks ago.
Our weather seems more like fall now. Our temperatures are now in the 70s and are
supposed to dip down into the 60s for a day or two this week. We had some rain last night. Today is very pleasant.
We are healthy, happy and enjoying our opportunity to serve
however we are able.
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| Sign on school wall--HE WHO FALLS ON HIS HEAD RISES ON FOOT |
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| It seems everyone here has a dog--This guy has three. |
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| Interesting building in Lisbon. |
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