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| Sister Tavares and the gimpy missionary |
This week was good.... I feel like I say that a lot. I bet
ya´ll think a mission is a party all the time. And I´ll let you in on a
secret... If you choose to dance when there's no music then it´s always a
party! I think The beginning of the week was one of those dancing with no music
days. Sister Selman and I talked to everyone, smiled, laughed, and came out on
top. One thing I really love about serving with companions who have been on the
mission for a while is that they understand that the success of a mission is
inviting everyone. That is what you can control and if you do it then you have
success! But it's also really awesome to see someone accept your invitation as
well!
On Monday we got invited to family home evening with a
little widow who was one of the first members in Lisbon. We ended up staying
and helping her do random things and watching Christ videos and listening to
her talk. She told us about her life and the difference that the Church made.
On Tuesday we went to Catia's house. She and her family are
the coolest recent converts ever. We had thirty minutes before our visit with
her so we decided to play contact-every-single-person (one of my favorite
games....) and we got rejected for 29 minutes! But both of us felt like there
was one person close to Catia's house that we needed to talk to. Desperately I
ran to talk to this young woman that was walking in front of Catia's door and
said "Hi! We're the missionaries! Can we talk to you about the Book of
Mormon?!" The girl looked at the card I gave her and accepted. WHOOO!!!
Reminded me of one of those 4th floor last door experiences.
On Wednesday we had to go to Lisbon for interviews with
President. Of course the Elders in the office didn't tell us until the night
before..... (patience)..... In the interview President asked how we were
working with the moon boot. I told him we were working our butts off again. I
showed him that the tread on the bottom of the boot was wearing off and the
padding was wearing out. He looked at me and didn't saw anything for a
minute... Then he said "We're going to have to get you a lead boot."
I laughed and told him that my foot is almost at 100%!
That same day on the way home at the train station I saw
this drunk man walking along the platform. It was like 12 am and the poor guy
was too drunk to put one foot in front of the other. I kept my eye on him
because he was walking really close to the train platform. Then... In slow
motion I saw him put one foot in the air over the edge of the train platform
and fell down on the tracks. I jumped up and sprinted over to him. I
hollered at him to get over here and give me his hand, because I knew that the
train was going to come soon and drunk people can be difficult sometimes. He
sat up and looked at us all dazed and Sister Selman and I each grabbed an arm
and hauled him up. #morningexcersies. He was okay, we gave him a couple of
band-aids to help with the cuts. I did my neuro check on him and he got up and
stumbled outside. Never saw him again....
On Thursday we invited all of our recent converts to the
church (we have 11 and it's been really hard to teach all of them and have time
to find new investigators) and 6 of them showed up. We taught all of them the
Plan of Salvation and had an awesome discussion and fellowshipping at the same
time! One of our recent converts told us that he had been taking pamphlets with
him to work to study. When I asked him which one he took today, he pulled out a
chastity pamphlet! I almost died laughing XD Who do you know studies about
chastity on their lunch break? LOL!! Also we were teaching about the Celestial
kingdom and I asked the same recent convert (a recent convert of about 3
months) a question. I said "Do we have to sit and home and eat potato
chips all day to get into the celestial kingdom?" He replied no. I asked
"Do we have to shower every day to enter the Celestial Kingdom?" And
he replied "Well.. I think so... because no dirty thing can be with God so
we have to be squeaky clean and shower every day." I was
like... Lol okay you've got a point!
The absolutely weirdest thing that happened this week was
that we were knocking doors inside this 9 story apartment building and in the
stairwell we heard someone whistling "Now let us Rejoice". I looked
at Sister Selman and she wasn't whistling. I wasn't whistling. And that song is
a song that our members know! But there wasn't any member that lived in that
road.... So we ran up and down the stairs looking for someone that was
whistling. We found no one. Then we knocked every single door in
that building and not one member.
Conclusion? Angels are messing with the missionaries again!
Haha it was so weird!!!
The Church is still true!
Love you guys!!
Sister Ellsworth
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