Monday, December 18, 2017

Christmas in Coimbra

Well, I am staying here in Coimbra with cute Sister Guerra:) We are super excited for this transfer, it is going to be awesome! We had a great week this week and lots of awesome things happened! 

Monday: We had a lot of things planned for the night and teach a ton of lessons, but everything fell through and I was a little bummed, but in the end A-ia needed help moving more things from her house and so we got to help her and the elders. I learned that day that if things don't go as you planned it is because Heavenly Father planned something else for you. Haha:)  We were able to help A-ia because she was super stressed that day.

Tuesday: We taught T-ia and L-a the message of the restoration and it was awesome! At the end of the lesson T-ia was like, "thats it? don't you have more? I wasn't ready for it to be over." T-ia is a huge blessing to us and an answer to my prayers. I just kept praying that we would find someone who really had the desire to learn what we were teaching and was truly prepared. I love teaching people that really are willing to learn and have that desire to gain a testimony. After that we got to help A-ia some more. That was also fun:)

Wednesday: We got to teach T-ia and L-a again! We also had a member named F-na that came and I just love having members in our lessons. She bore her testimony about the atonement and it was just so sincere and real and you could tell that her testimony really touched T-ia. 

Thursday: We had ZONE CONFERENCE!! It was great as usual. We talked a lot about how blessed we are to be missionaries sharing a message about Christ at this time of the year. I also got to see Sister Shipp:) so that was great! We had a yummy Christmas lunch tool Then that night I had divisions with Sister Cabanas (who is currently on her way home cuz she finished her mission:(). We went over to see T-ia again just to talk to her because L-a couldn't meet with us that night. And we just wanted to see if she had any questions... and did she have questions! She told us she didn't want to ask us cuz L-a was there. But she goes off asking about tithing and polygamy and me and sister Cabanas look at each other like oh no. But we answered her questions with confidence and while we were talking to her about polygamy S-ra (our other investigator) walks in and bares her testimony on the importance of family and how that is why she is joining the church and that she knows it is true. And man it was so cool hearing an investigator bare her testimony to another investigator! Then she left. After we explained everything to T-ia she completely agreed to everything we had shared and said that she wants us to keep helping her gain her own testimony that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world just like us. It was awesome! Then we helped A-ia more with moving.

Saturday: We had our ward Christmas Party and it was a BLAST! We did 2 skits as the missionaries and the ward loved them. Sister Guerra will try to send the videos.

Sunday: Was great, but I am out of time...

Love you all and I promise my email next week will be better! Have a great Christmas and remember the Savior and everything He has done for you! I know He loves you!

com amor,
Sister Sampson
























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