My Last Email:( See you all next week!!!

Well folks, this is my last email to you all. First, I just want to say that I am so grateful for the chance I have had to be a missionary here in Portugal. The thing that I love most about the mission is how my relationship with my Heavenly Father and my Savior has grown. I have really learned who they are to me. I know that the best way to get to know Them is by serving Them. I am so grateful for my Savior and everything that He has done for me. I really understand how the Atonement of Jesus Christ can apply in my life. As missionaries we have the opportunity to help others understand how it applies in their lives and a long the way we learn too. I love my Savior and my Heavenly Father and I love Portugal.  I have met so many incredible people who have helped me and changed my life for the better:) I am just so full of gratitude. 

Anyways, this week was another great one! We had a lot of adventures that include teaching a lot of people that don't want us to come back, and also knocking a door and getting invited to come back to find out that the guy is a preacher and we literally sat through him preaching. It was a set up and he didn't let us talk the whole time, but in the end we were able to ask him if we could say a prayer with them before we left and so I taught them all how to pray and he said we could come back this week and tell him why are name is the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! We will see how this goes! 

But we also had a really great lesson with M-a. We had a heart to heart with her and talked more about baptism. She is so close to accepting a date and that is the only thing I want before I leave is to have her accept baptism! 

Then on Saturday we invited R-do to the baptism of SANDRA!!! yep! She got baptized finally:) And R-do and R-ry came and we taught them about faith after the baptism. It was a quick lesson cuz they had to leave, but super good!

That was my week! I am super excited to work this last week and I will see you all soon! Remember that Heavenly Father loves you and He has a plan for each and everyone of us. Keep your head up and your faith strong. 

Ate logo!

com amor, Sister Sampson

FeLiZ PáScOa!!!!

This week was incredible!! I just love the mission! We saw so many miracles as always and General Conference was great as always!! Our week went by so fast and some many things happened! 

We had divisions with Sister Shipp and Sister Scott. Haha. It was fun being with basically ALL of my companions that haven't finished their missions yet. I worked with Sister Scott and we worked in this small town outside of Coimbra where President da Silva lives and we had dinner with their family. 
Then we had Zone Conference, which was also really good. Our mission president is really focusing on how we need to be more creative to find more people to teach and improve our way to contact people. I learned how important it is that we live the message that we bring and apply the principles that we teach in our own lives as missionaries. 

After the conference Sister Jones and Sister Esteban had divisions with us. I feel so blessed to work with other Sisters and learn from them. Each of them have so to bring to this work and teach me so much! Another really exciting thing that happened was we went to Figueira da Foz on Saturday with one of our members to teach R-do with his wife R-ry (who is a member)! We taught him the first lesson with a lesson of Easter. It was great and then after they gave us lunch and it was super good. They are Brazilians and know how to make really good food. 

Then we got on the train to get back to Coimbra for J-os baptism and he asked M-a to say the closing prayer and she did! It was awesome. It is incredible how involved she is and still isn't baptized. Then she stayed for General Conference. A-ra was there so I got to see her and how she is doing! We watched conference in the chapel in the old ward I served in. 

On Easter we had the opportunity all morning to work and find people to teach and we left all excited to share the message of how Christ lives! And I don't think have received more rejection... I started to feel a little discouraged. I was thinking...Man, I am here on Easter and we have this beautiful message to share with families about the true meaning of Easter and everyone is being rude to us. But I just kept praying that I could stay happy and keep a smile on my face and then this thought came to my head....."Hey what better way to show the love for the Savior even when people are rejecting you. You are still out here giving it everything you've got and it shows Him even more how much you love Him when you keep going when it isn't easy. He died for you and it wasn't easy but He did it because of His love for you.  He kept going when it was hard... You can too!" and after that I couldn't stop smiling because I knew that I was showing my love for the Savior!! 
Then we got to watch the last session of conference at 9 until 11 at night and we slept in my old house with Sister Mortensen and Robinson! It was great! 

I love you all! I love the mission! I love the gospel. Have a great week!!

com amor,

Sister Sampson​