Pouring down Blessings....and Rain!

Wow. I just loved this week. I would probably say I learned the most this week than I have any other week in my mission. I don't have a lot of time today and even if I had all the time I needed I don't think I would be able to write it all.  So, I will just share the best parts. 

First it started out that on Monday after pday I had to go to Porto for a leadership meeting. Sister Guerra stayed here with the other sisters and went with the Zone Leaders to Porto. We got there late, but I got to stay in the house of Sister Huntsman my long lost sister! I was so happy to see her cuz I haven't seen her since we were living in Leiria together! 

Tuesday morning we had our lovely Leadership Meeting. It was great! We made lots of goals for our mission and we talked a lot about President Monson and the example he left for us and how we are going to apply his example in our work as missionaries. My favorite thing about him is how he was such a great friend to all those he talked to and he really cared about each person individually. And he was always happy. Through the good times and the rough times. Then lucky me got picked to do a practice in front of everyone by myself. After the meeting we headed back to Coimbra.

Thursday we had Zone Meeting and basically we talked to our Zone about all our goals for this year. It was great. That night Sister Guerra and I had an appointment with T-ia. It was great! We watched the video finding faith in Christ and we talked about how important He is in God´s Plan and how He is central. Through Him we can return to Heavenly Father´s presence. In the end she bore her own testimony that she believes that He is the Savior of the world. It was incredible! And she excepted baptism! She is going to be baptized the 27th. 

Afterwards we had an appointment with S-ra who lives right next door. We talked about faith and the story of Peter walking on water. She wants to be baptized, but she is afraid to talk to her mom. We talked about how she can do it and she told us the next time she goes to her mom´s house she will talk to her. Then after that appointment Sister Guerra had a really strong impression that we needed to go see A-ra. We got there and she told us that she had been praying for us to come and that she really needed us then. It is incredible how the spirit works. She is doing soooo good with stopping to smoke! She said that the schedule is helping and that she has completely stopped. Now she just needs to continue! 

Well, my time is up, but so many more miracles happened this week! Heavenly Father just keeps pouring down blessings (and rain) on us over here. I love it here in Portugal:) Love you all and have a great week!

com amor,

Sister Sampson