It was another good month for us with the Perpetual
Education Fund. We were able to contact
100 percent of our high-priority contacts and all but a very few of the other
participants. (We have almost 400 total.) I was able to locate half a dozen of them on
facebook, so I sent them a message that way.
Sister Fluckiger asked if we would be willing to check about
6 missionary apartments every quarter for cleanliness, safety, etc. This will give us even more opportunity to
interact with the young missionaries, which we really enjoy.
We also met twice with Elder Staples and Elder Oliveira to
help them with their languages. Elder
Henry is helping Elder Staples with Portuguese and I am helping Elder Oliveira
with English, or at least I hope I am helping.
I took warm cinnamon rolls and then found that Elder Staples was
fasting. But, I am sure that he ate them
later.
I got a new permanent on Friday afternoon. Sonia, my hairdresser, is making me
crazy. She is always running late. I waited an hour and 15 minutes before she
started on me. I would be tempted to go
elsewhere if I had an idea where to go.
When we go in the morning, she is late coming to work, and when we go in
the afternoon, she is way behind from starting late. It’s a no-win situation.
Saturday we had an enjoyable time meeting our new missionary
couple from Southern California—Elder and Sister Sommers. Sister Fluckiger invited all of the couples
in our mission to a luncheon to meet them.
We had soups, salad, bread and flan and apple crisp. It was very nice. We really enjoy our association with the other
couples. Elder and Sister Rose stopped
by our office on Friday and we had a
nice visit with them. They were here
to do some baptism interviews, one of which was for a sister who was baptized
today in Costa de Caparica. Domingas Da Veiga was baptized by Elder
Oliveira in a meeting held immediately following Sacrament Meeting.
We start our meetings here with Relief Society and
Priesthood Meetings. Today the R.S.
presidency was all late arriving, so when they came in Annica (a fairly new
convert who was called to serve in the R.S. presidency) went to the front of
the room and began giving her very first lesson. She gave a beautiful lesson. We hadn’t had a welcome, opening hymn or
prayer. I didn’t want to embarrass her,
as she is very new in the Church. After,
when the presidency realized that no one had been there with authority to begin
the meeting, they asked me if I would see that the meeting was started in the
future if none of them were there. It is
a little bit like we found in Brazil—the people trickle in little by little
during the meeting.
I’m so grateful for our Savior, who loves each of us more
than we can imagine. How thankful I am
for the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and my understanding of the Plan of
Salvation. We are so blessed. Our love to each of you.
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| The Sommers (our new couple) with Pres. and Sister Fluckiger |
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| A highly-decorated Smart Car |
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| Elder Oliveira, Domingas Da Veiga and Elder Staples |
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| Note the ornamental wrought iron. Much of it seen here. (Lisbon) |
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