9-3-12

Dear Family, This week is going to be very busy for us. We have mission council tomorrow and then Saturday a bunch of General Authorities will be visiting Portugal and they are going to have a private conference with the missionaries and we have to clean the chapel that it will be in because it is part of my zone. But it will be very cool and then on Sunday there will be a big conference with two stakes and one distict. it will be a very busy week. We have been teaching a family that we found and they are very cool. We had a lesson with them last night and they were very open to the message and they have a lot of potenital and they have been to church before. But I would like to see them baptized before I go home. But other than that we only have a few weak investigators, but I am trying to do my very best and use all the knowledge that I have gained to help the people in Alverca. We had a vbery interwsting experience this week. We had to go to another area all of a sudden to do a baptismal interview. So, we were getting onto the subway and this man starts talking to us and asks us how to get to a certain place,l which just so happens was the place that we were going to. So, we talked to him and found out that he already knew the Church and stuff like that and that he was from Vila Real. So, I got suspicious because he kept asking about the sisters and I remembered that there was a stalker from Vila Real and liked the sisters. So, he told us that on Sunday he would visit the ward where certain sisters were in my zone and that he had a surprise then we said we would be there too and he got real nervous and started to ask a lot of questions. So, we told the sisters after we got off and then we called President and he told us to go to their church on Sunday and that he had already talked to this man before and that they had worked out a deal where he wasn´t allowed to talk to the sisters and if he was interested in the Church he needed to talk to the stake president in Porto. So, my comp and I went there and he was there and we made sure he didn´t talk to the sisters too much and then after the meetings and what not we took him aside and told him that he wasn´t allowed to talk to or go to any ward in Portugal where there are sisters and that he needed to leave and go back to Vila Real and we told him we talked to our mission presdient and he got really aggitated and told us that we had ruined everything and that it was all our fault and that he didn't go there to do anything wrong. And then he just got up and left. It was pretty funny. And by the way, this guy is about as tall as Mom and skinnier than Ali haha. But he somehow got our number and called us later and told us that we had ruined everything for him. But it was a funny story and the sisters were grateful that we had saved their lives haha. Love, Elder Spencer Jensen