31-10-11

(Huge road construction project in Vila Real.)
Dear Family,
I hope that everything is going awesome overthere. So, this week Elder Lefevre and I, we decided to pray and to ask where the Lord wanted us to go knock. So, we prayed and Elder Lefevre saw this building that we had passed by a hundred times. So, we went there and we knocked it and we found a man named António. So, we said a prayer with him and then we set up another appointment to come back in a couple days. So, we came back and he let us in and we said a prayer and then he tells us a little about his life. He is unemployed (normal for Portugal) and he lives with his sick mom. He smokes and he is about 32 years old. He had worked in Holland on the tulips farms but he had lost his job and on the way here he and his girlfriend got in a car crash and she was killed. He then told us that 5 months ago he had tried to commit suicide but that one of his friends had found him and took him to the hospital, and he was in a coma for a week. And that just nothing in his life was going well. So, we testified about the power of the Atonement and that if he did the things that the Savior wanted him to do, he could be releaved from all the pain that he has in his life and then we invited him to be baptized and he accepted. So, that was a really cool experience. Then, the next day Elder Lefevre and I prayed over a date for him to be baptized and we chose two dates to pray over the 13 and 20. So we prayed and we both came to the conclusion that he should be baptized on the 12. But that would require that he comes to stake conference (yesterday), in Porto, which is 2 hours away, which would be hard for a smoker to do. But we felt that that was the day it should be. So, we went to his house at 9 pm that day and we watched Finding Faith in Christ and he really liked it and then we said that we had prayed and the we think he should be baptized on the 12. And he said yes!!! It was way cool haha. But wait it gets better. So, then we asked if he wanted to come to stake conference, and he said yeah, where is it? and we asid Porto. And he said that´s cool, what time do I need to be ready and where do I need to be? So, told him everything and then we left. (By the way we invited him to stake conference on Saturday night.) So, we went the next morning and picked him up and then we went to stkae conference. It was really cool. President Torgan gave an awesome talk where he proves the Church true with the Bible and then he says but that isn´t a good reason to join the Church, the only reason should be because you pray and receive a witness from the Holy Ghost. But it was a really powerful talk and António loved it and then we left so that he could smoke and he says that we have a lot of work to do for him to be ready on the 12 but that he really wants to do this and that he knows it will change his life for the better. And he bonded a lot with the members and he heard their testimonies and he really liked it and it strengthened his will to be baptized. And we have another appointment with him today. But please pray for him, he needs all the help he can get to be protected from Satan.
I love and thank you guys for all that you do for me. I am sorry if I am slacking on letters, not much time to write haha. I hope you guys have an awesome Halloween.
Love,
Elder Spencer Jensen