It feels like just yesterday that I emailed you last!
This week went by quickly. Seems like it just slipped through our fingers. Proably because it was so hot and humid!
All the interesting things happened yesterday. Paloma got confirmed! And it was Sister Cardoso´s birthday! I made her a cake, but we didn´t have much flour, and also I had to make it in the microwave, so it came out more like a weird little pancake, but I just told her that´s how american birthday cakes look, and she seemed satisfied with that. I also gave her a BYU shirt because she wants to go there after the mission.
This week was kind of hard, at least physically. On Thursday especially, both Sister Cardoso and I were both sooo tired. We were kind of crawling through the street and stumbling around. We felt like we weren´t doing anything---we were giving all we had, which was almost nothing. But then at the end of the day, we realized we had met several new people and had quite a few lessons. It just goes to show, the Lord really will consecrate our actions for good, if we pray for it! (2 Nephi 32:9)
Another scripture I found that I really like is 1 Corinthians 1:27. When we are weak physically, we are strong spiritually (that is why fasting is powerful).
Some of the funny things Sister Cardoso said in English this week: "Repent yourselfs!" "That´s a nice car... Let´s rob it!" (Steal) "My body is sweated" (sweaty) "All Americans eat are hamboogers".
Patrícia and Bea are doing well--they fasted this weekend! They still haven´t gotten permission from their mom, but there is still time. :) We are very hopeful! Patrícia is so awesome. She works on Personal Progress every morning, and tries to do at least one experience per day. And she helps Bea say her prayers every night. She is so wonderful.
Seems like the hardest thing for people in this area is coming to church. Everyone says they need to have more "spiritual strength" before they can come and that they need to have a better testimony and etc etc. We have tried to explain that it is IN church that they will find those things but so far, no one is taking the initiative. I think mostly they are lazy because it is summer vacation.
So I don´t know if I have already told you about this---but after getting my mission call, I was disappointed that I had to wait so long to report to the MTC. I was really struggling with the wait, until one night I had a dream, that in my last two weeks on the mission, I found a woman, who I had never met, but that I recognized immediately. She was baptized, in my dream, on my last Sunday in Portugal. She told my companion and I that she recognized us from somewhere, and it was only because of that that she didn´t shoo us away like she had so many other missionaries before--that it had to be US or she would never have accepted the gospel. And obviously, if I went on the mission sooner, I wouldn´t be there to find her.
That dream helped me be more patient and I just thought it was a nice idea to calm me down, but over the past few weeks, I have started to feel like it wasn´t just a dream, but it really can happen. But I feel like this woman is not in my current area. I don´t know where she is, but I know the Lord knows. Then this last week, I had another dream that I was transferred and became companions with Sister Anderson, in her area. I don´t know if that was a coincidence, but I don´t think so. I hope I can find my sister!
I hope that youth conference went well and that you are all having a wonderful summer! Have fun and be good :)
I love you!
Sister Gidney
P.s. we found some fun stuff in our house
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