7-6-11

Dear Family,

Well, things have changed here in my mission a lot. The two missions in Portugal combined into one and now we have a new mission president named Presidente Torgan. He is from Brazil and he is a famous politician in Brazil. And he is also famous for being really tough on crime and all the criminals fear him haha. He is a pretty big guy too probably 6´5" and 300 lbs. But he is a really nice guy and he is really stright forward and direct. And he has a very forceful leadership style but since he has been in Portugal he has helped baptize over 1000 people. Which is pretty dang good for Europe. We had a two day training about how things worked in the Lisbon mission. And we learned a lot of good ways to help people be baptized. He really focuses on goals and achieving them.

So we did a couple activities where we re made our goals.

And he gave us a challenge this week to find someone that has already been to church at least once (to be baptized you have to go to church twice) and get them to be baptized sometime this week or after church on Sunday. It is a really daunting task and will be really hard to do, but me and Elder Nielsen have prayed and we have a couple people that we think would be good to help be baptized this Sunday. Our goal is for two people to be baptized. And we also made a goal for 10 people to be baptized this month is Guimarães, which will also take a lot of work to achieve. But I know that it was revelation that I received to make this goal and that there is a way that I can achieve this goal that we made.

I didn´t get to do anything for the 4 of July because we had trainings and my mission president is Brazilian, but he did let us sing the national anthem during the training but nothing else. And no one in Portugal cares about the US so nothing else went on. Just a normal day.

Well, that is all for me today. I love and miss all you guys.

Love,

Elder Spencer Jensen