Elder Parks Layton - Portugal Lisbon Mission

WEEK 88 The Algarve, Julieta, Real Friends, and Street Soccer August 26, 2019 Hey everyone! Yeah so this week was sick, I really have been fraco (weak) with writing, so here are some of the weeks best moments: 1: Division in Santo André. Elder de Lima and I have both served in Santo André and it's our fav area! We were blessed enough to return and do a division there. I got to see basically all the people that I had come to love including all of my recent converts from that area, who are all continuing strong in the faith. Man it was unreal, I went on a division with Elder Garay a Greenie (a new missionary) he only has about 10 weeks in the country but he's doing super well! He's from Paraguay and I can tell he will be a great help to the Portuguese people in this country. I loved this division, it was incredible.  2: Division in Faro, The Algarve. We had the chance to do divisions with the Zone Leaders in the Algarve, one of my buddies Elder Taylor,...

Week 87   Lisbon Temple Highlights of the week: - Going to the Open House at the Lisbon Temple - Meeting Davino, Elena & Gessika at the temple open house - Running into members from the Braga ward at the temple - Seeing Elder Cloes at the temple - Zone Conference - Visiting castles and caves on P-Day

WEEK 86 One of the Best August 12, 2019 Hey everyone! I'm back to writing. I realized how much I will be upset with myself for not writing these last couple of weeks. But the week was awesome!!  6 de Agosto, it was a pretty good day. We woke up and drove to our district meeting which always happens in Oeiras, we have a district of 10 now instead of 12, and our roomie Elder Goff is the district leader. He's unreal, absolutely a bud for life. Then after that the couple missionaries (The Marriotts) took 8 of us all out for lunch... it was unreal and we had Cod fish. After that, we got back home and prepared a training for the mission leadership conference which was to happen the following day, I'll talk more about that in the next day. We then went and taught one of our investigators, Ana Beatriz, at an amazing member's house. Family Cardoso helps us out so much. We taught a great lesson and Ana Beatriz is super close to being baptized. What then followed was gre...

WEEK 85 - It's Been A While August 5, 2019 Hey everyone! Wow it's been way too long since I've written everyone... sorry about that.  Since I've been gone so many things have happened. So I stayed in my area for a third transfer... my companion Elder Morris left me after 1 transfer here to go be a Zone Leader, he'll actually be my zone leader! That's so great for him! I got a new companion, Elder de Lima. He's from Brasil and has spent most of his time as a member of the church on the mission! We did recieve a car in the area though which will be intreresting! We've been together a week and we've just loved it!   I have to give some Birthday shoutouts to Tag, Cruz, Holt, Granny, and my Mom!! Love all of you so much, and wish I could write more but I don't have time! I want to start up my weekly emails again!  This week was crazy, my companion and I helped receive and train the new missionaries who arrived here in the country! It was ...