Our office
was pretty empty most of the week. Our
two co-workers Olinda Silva and Luiz Silva, who had their positions moved to
Germany, left during the week. It was
sad to see them go. Besides that several
people were on vacation. At times we
were the only ones on the second floor of the office. No one was prepared with a spiritual thought
for our devotional on Monday morning, so Elder Henry stepped up to the plate
and gave a nice presentation about the pioneers.
Elder Henry
also helped two of our Elders (Rhodes and Shumway) move to a better place in
Costa de Caparica. Four Elders had been
living together in Mt. de Caparica, so this was a good move for these Elders
into a nice place owned by our bishop’s mother.
I stayed at our apartment so there would be more space in the car to
move their belongings. I worked on
indexing, something I have really enjoyed doing when I have a little time.
On the 24th
of July—not a holiday here even in the Church office building—when we walked in
the morning, we took a large bag and picked up the garbage which was littering
the beautiful park across the street. I
guess you could say that we had our own little “Helping Hands”. For several days after that I had really sore
muscles; but Elder Henry, who does more exercises, did not suffer as much.
We had been
asked by Raquel, a Young Single Adult, to give talks on the pioneers for a YSA
activity last Friday. She asked us
several months ago, so we had been reading pioneer stories and preparing and
translating our talks. On Friday she came into our office and apologized that
they would not be having the activity because someone had dropped the ball and
it had not been properly advertised. It
didn’t hurt my feelings at all. I
enjoyed reading the stories and it renewed my appreciation for the sacrifices
made by our early-day Mormon ancestors.
We had an
enjoyable day on Saturday visiting the National Palace of Queluz. I have posted quite a few photos on Facebook
for any who are interested. It was a
very beautiful and interesting place to visit.
Wishing Tristen a very happy 13th birthday on July 31st. We love you!
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| 2nd floor of our office--where we work for Perpetual Education Fund. |
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| National Palace at Queluz |
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| One of many beautiful rooms inside the palace |
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| Don Quixote Room |
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| Sister Henry on palace grounds |
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| Beautiful grounds outside the palace |
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