Elder Parks Layton - Portugal Lisbon Mission

Week 58 Siāoto André January 28, 2019 Hey everyone! Birthday shoutout to my boy Jacko which was on the 26th, hbd my mans. And to Chris' which comes up on the 31, keep killin it in France. This week was a pretty good week, we had Zone Conference and it was overall a good week. Let's go into the week: 22 de Jan, we had a division with Elders Sales and Santos, it was super great. They were both originally part of the Porto mission as well! I went with Elder Santos. We had to get them from Setubal, so we went there the day before on our PDay. In the morning we went and got them from Setubal and then came back for lunch at Irma Germana's house! She made some great Cod fish! We then went and helped another woman in the branch move some big stones into someone else's car. Following that, we knocked some doors and didn't have too much luck! We then went and taught the first lesson to a family in the branch, Familia Anika, they have a daughter who just turned 8 and t...

WEEK 57 CRISTO REI January 21, 2019 Hey Everyone, First week I'm doing this, but I'm kinda down on time and I won't be getting a good email done. It'll be done for next week though! I'll just talk about Sunday's church. We had a special Sunday because it was Branch Conference, that means some leadership from the Stake were there. It was probably the most spiritual church that I had ever been to. Sacrament meeting was unreal and we brought 7 less active members back to church, and had 3 investigators there. One of them is an 8 year old girl named Laura (She turned 8 last week) and she said she wants to be baptizedr. So we'll talk to her about our missionary lessons in a more simple way! And also Valemir and Patricia our other friends were at church. All the talks and hymns in sacrament meeting were perfect! Then in the second hour it was a giant lesson with basically all the adults in the same room. Valemir was asked to read something in front of ever...

WEEK 56 Whatta RAMO January 14, 2019 Hey everyone! Second week here in the books and I'm really starting to enjoy this branch, like legit I've really been feeling such a strong love for the people here and I'm excited for my time here. Although the work is way different! I'll just just start you off with my week tho! 8 de Jan, So it started with our district meeting in Setubal, classic times. We then had to rip back to the town of Sines to teach a lesson with Irma Germana, that sadly didn't work out. Then we just ate lunch with Irma Germana, and it was killer good! In the night, we had dinner at Presidente Inacio's house! He's awesome, and an awesome branch President, funny dude. His wife, Sined, is so cool as well. They have three daughters, Joana, Laura, and Stella. I've already really began to love this family! Sined's sister, Flavia, was also there from Brazil, it's too bad she's not a member here! We ate some awesome food and the...

WEEK 55 Rollin' January 7, 2019 Hey everyone! First of all Happy New Years! Crazy that we're already in 2019! Anyways first week done in from Santo Andre! It's been so dope! I actually live in the City of Sines, but the church is in the city of Santo Andre! I'll fill you in on lots of things throughout the email! First off, my Comp is Elder Mansfield from North Dakota. He likes ball and sports, and overall we like some similar things. He's in his 4th transfer here so he knows where we need to go! It's funny though that I'm the driver! The branch here is so awesome though! I'm lovin the members! You'll see more about them throughout my email! 2 de Jan, I left Porto on the train! I went with a small group of missionaries and we headed off to the Lisbon train station. Once we got there, I met up with Elder Mansfield! I knew him from before, so it was easy to find him! We met up, received our car keys and basically headed off to Santo Andre. We g...