3-7-11

well hey everyone how is it going? everythign here is going great. me and my new comp elder marlor have been working really hard here in Leiria to improve this area and to get some people for us to baptize. it is way cool to be a issionary. we get to see things everyday taht a normal person doesnt haha it is coolt o see how much the Lord loves his missionaries and all the little things he does to help us and all the little mriacles that happen everyday.
one tool we ahve to find people is called Olhos da Fé or eyes of faith. what you do is you pray to have the Lord put into your mind the image of someone he had prepared for you that day. so you pray about what they look like where they will be what time and what will they need to hear. so me and elder marlor did this and i came up witha brown man in a jacket levis with a shoulder bag and he would be in the central park but i didnt get far enough to know what he would need to hear. so we get up and we decide to walk across the bridge on the riveer and we cross over and the first guy we see is a brazilian guy sitting ion a bench with all the things i saw. so we go up and talk to him and he want interested but we tried to leave him a book of mormon but he said no but then e was like but my aunt would. so he sadi he would give her the book and he gave us her adress and a number so we could go talk to him. haha it was a really cool experience and helps my testinmony that the savior is helping me do this work.
we got this new invesigator a member brought her to church. her name is augosta and she is probably 70 or 80 years old and catholic. she has had a lot of bad things happen in her life. one husband left her the other died and none of her reletives except her 13 year old grandson will talk to her, she lives alone and hasnt had enough money to have running water since 2008 and barely has enough money to eat. i feel so bad for her but the best thing we can do is baptize her and she can find peace through the gospel. she is a really nice lady but seems to dwell on the past a little too much. but we decided to teach her the plan of salvation first and she really liked it and we said this is how you can gain peace in this life by following this plan god has created for us and we asked her when she knows these things are true if she will be baptized and she said yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so next time we are going to give her a date to be baptized. im just grateful that we were the ones to find her and she is humle enough to accept the gospel.
well i love you guys and write me letters and ill try to write back. i love and miss you all.
love
elder spencer jensen