Sister Emma Hulsey: Email: July 24, 2017

Ola Familia!!

This week was fantastic! We went to Porto and did a division with the sisters there, it was a blast. Then on Friday we for some reason set a goal to find 5 new investigators. Somehow we were able to do it! We found this really nice family that lives in our building. Then after our correlation meeting we ran to another area and found this woman standing outside and we started talking to her but realized that she couldn´t speak! So we made motions to tell her that Jesus loves her but then we realized that she could understand. SO she invited us in and we were able to share the first lesson with her and her husband. We showed her a picture in the pamphlet of this happy family and we explained how the gospel blesses families...but this picture is of a black family. The lady started shaking her head and making noises and then her husband explained that she´s super racist hahaha

We had a really powerful lesson with Marta yesterday and the spirit was so strong that we invited her to pray to know if she should get baptized so we left the room and let her pray. She came out of the room and asked how she could know the answer so we testified of the spirit and... SHE STILL DOESN´T WANT TO BE BAPTIZTED. We found out some of her fears but man sometimes agency is annoying! But I know it is essential.

Then last night we were out knocking doors and we ended up in this spot with a huge hill. We questioned whether or not we wanted to walk back up it after but we went for it anyways and found this AWESOME family! We taught them about Joseph Smith and it was awesome! We started teaching the first lesson with candles to explain the priesthood and it has been really cool.

Sorry- don´t have a lot of time today but I LOVE Oortugal and LOVE my mission. I am so grateful to be able to get to know so many of God´s children here. I'm so grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ and for Heavenly Father´s plan!

Love

Sister Hulsey