"Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not." ~D&C 6:36

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was great! Finally we began to see more miracles! Mostly it was because I needed to have more faith, which is a constant work in progress. We all need to rely on the Lord just a little bit more and let Him help you.

Jolly: We finally got him a date set for baptism! May 7th! Which for this mission, is forever away! haha but at least he has a goal now. We had a really good lesson with him about goal setting and how we need to have a goal or we'll never get there. He is such a solid guy. I'm excited for him.

Edilson: Awesome story! We had taught him a couple weeks ago but after that he basically just stopped talking to us, so we thought he was a no go, but all of a sudden yesterday, as we were walking to church, he called us and said that he was in Cacém, but couldn't find the church. We basically started running like crazy to try to find where he was, but without success (it was out of our proselyting area, so we didn't know the area super well) so we finally decided to pray, and both of us felt that we should head to the church. He called us a few minutes later and said that he was with the elders on the way to the church! He ended up being super far away from the church and where we were looking, but he happened to run into the elders on their way to church with another investigator and he said "hey, do you guys know where your church is?" haha of course! So he came and had a great experience, we'll talk to him more this week.

Life is full of miracles, especially the work of the Lord, we just need to open our eyes and see the miracles in front of our face. God loves us perfectly, He knows us perfectly and He wants us to be happy. I'm so excited for this Easter Sundayand I hope you all find time to remember and focus on the Savior this week. Also, check out the new video the church put out! I think it's called Follow Him in English? haha I don't know for sure, but it's great! 

I love you all!

Sister Steagall

Photos: 

From left to right: Renata, Sister Williams, me, Rodgerio (recent convert) and Jolly after an awesome lesson

Divisions with Sister Neves!

Pi day!!!!!!

"And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if ye have experienced a change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now?" ~Alma 5:26

Dear Friends and Family,

This week has been good, but full of finding once again. We have been struggling in our area to find some solid investigators, but we have fun coming up with creative ideas to do better contacts in the road and get referrals from members. We are still smiling and we love working, that's all we know how to do, so we'll continue doing it! :) 

We found some new investigators this week that have a lot of potential. We decided to open up our area book and look at some former investigators and it turned out to be a great idea. While most of the people we found were no longer living in that address, it opened up a great opportunity to invite the current resident to hear a message about Christ and they have some real potential. We're excited to work with them.

Our other investigators that we have are doing well, but not progressing too much, so we're back to finding! But it's awesome :) I love talking to people, especially the older people, because part of the culture here is that if you don't know someone, you're not going to say hi to them. But when we say hi, even just in passing, they always have this look of "do i know that person?" it's always great! I love Portugal! haha :) 

We had a really fun Pday today! We went to Belém, a really popular tourist site, and played some American football, which I have no idea how to play! But it was fun to just run around! Haha

I hope you are all well and that you have a great week, continue in your faith, knowing that with Christ, everything is possible, but also remember that His will will always be greater than yours. Just follow His plan and trust in Him.

I love you all!!

Sister Steagall

Photos:

American football for pday! (I have no idea how to play that game..)

Belém!!

Belém pastries!! Literally the best in the world!!

BENFICA!! BENFICA!!!!

"For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old, and as well in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round." ~1 Nephi 10:19

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was the big soccer game in Portugal against the big rivals, Benfica and Sporting. Obviously we didn't watch the game, but while the game was going on, the whole city was like a ghost town! haha no one was in the street, but all the cafes were absolutely full of people. At one point we were walking by a cafe, and all of a sudden, everyone in the cafe stood up at the same time and started shouting "BENFICA!! BENFICA!!" Benfica had scored, it was a great time :) haha it's fun to experience the culture of Portugal.

This week has been a little more tough in terms of investigators, we don't have many progressing, but we did have a greally good lesson last night with a girl named Rodna, her family was baptized in Cape Verde 15 years ago but she was never baptized. She hasn't been progressing at all and we have been praying to know how to help her. We talked to her yesterday about the love that God has for her. The Spirit was super strong and we finally got her to say a prayer thanking God for the love he had for her.

I'm so grateful to be here teaching the people of Portugal. I know that each one of them is a literal child of God and He has a plan for each and every one of us. He knows us perfectly and He knows what we need. That's why it's so important that we always teach by the Spirit, the One who really knows what's going on. I'm so grateful for the gospel and for the Love that I feel from my Heavenly Father and my Savior. I hope and pray that each of you will find someone to share the love of God with this week. Pray for the opportunities and they will come.

I love you all!!

Sister Steagall

Photos:

We went to Lisbon for pday and i found my "mom" (trainer) and my "sister" (the other sister she trained) and then my "daughter" (who i'm training) so we had a little family reunion! haha :)