Elder Parks Layton - Portugal Lisbon Mission

Week 93 September 30, 2019 Highlights of the week: - Having an awesome lunch with Robyn Dawes and Elder De Lima is Lisbon - Thank you! - Attending Zone Meetings - Helping President Fillmore - Preparing for upcoming baptism - Saying goodbye to Elder Santos Robyn Dawes and me Thank you for lunch Robyn! Elder Santos

   WEEK 92 "A Quicky" September 23, 2019 Hey everyone! This'll be super short.  We had the baptism of Genilson in Amadora on Sunday, that was great!! Great young kid and now basically his whole family has been baptized. He is the brother of Emily and Jecy who got baptized recently (in past emails). The week was great, we did divisions with some Zone Leaders and we even visited Porto, I saw some old friends there! For example Vinicius and Josy, Vinicius is about to head out on his mission. Crazy to see all the blessings that family has received since coming back fully to church.  In our area Cacém, we were able to work and mark 2 people for baptism. Helder and Bruno, pray for them and their baptism will be the 5th of October.  Good times, this is it!  Elder out.  Mamba out.  parks.layton@missionary.org Genilson's baptism! Me and Vinicius Me and Josy and Vinicius Palacio de Pena i...

WEEK 91 Dedicated Temple, Baptism, Apostle, New Missionaries, Great Times September 16, 2019 Hey everyone, I don't have much time. Here's some point form highlights of the week and pics.  We got into the new area of Cacém and it's just lit. We haven't worked much but from the work we have done it's gonna be good.  We helped all the new missionaries arrive from the airport, and then we had dinner with them. The following day, we gave a training to the new missionaries and then saw them get their new comps and then leave for their areas. So awesome.  We met Neil L Anderson, an apostle, he came to our mission and gave a training in front of our entire mission! He taught the importance of memorizing scriptures to help teaching, as well as in life for the long run. He also spoke a lot about the importance of bringing people to the church. I took lots of notes, so if you wanna know more just ask!  Elder Anderson dedicated the temple here in Portugal......

WEEK 90  I'm off to Cacém September 9, 2019 Hey everyone! Transfers came in and it looks like I'm moving out of Queluz. I will be heading off to the area of Cacém which is just an unbelievable area. I will actually be going there and staying with my same companion, Elder de Lima. He has already served there for 12 weeks, it was his first area in the mission, so he's pretty excited for that! We know that the Lord is gonna bless us so much this transfer as we strive to do everything as we need to and show our faith.  I didn't go day for day this week but in the end I just wanted to say that my time here in the area of Queluz was so amazing. Queluz is the smallest area in the mission, and it was a great 18 weeks. It was sad saying bye to my recent converts in both the areas of Queluz and Amadora (I served for a small period of time in the neighbouring area called Amadora). The bonds made were super strong and I'm really excited to come visit everyone aga...

WEEK 89 - Good Week of Work September 2, 2019 Highlights of the Week: 1. We found a lot of good people to visit with. 2.  We went to the hospital to see Sister Pratch. 3. Lots of basketball and soccer this week. 4. Julieta is set to be baptized at the end of the week.  Please pray for her. 5. Transfers are next week. Sister Pratch  Elder Goff