Hard Times

Well things are pretty much feeling the same here. There just isn’t that much to report about because of my comp and this whole ridiculous situation, things are not progressing much at all. I’m having harder times getting compromissos to go through. It’s weird. Things are just getting harder and harder with this guy. All he does is sleep too. It’s really annoying; anytime we get home at anytime he goes to sleep. So, I work on the area book a lot and call people and try to set stuff up as he sleeps. He is killing this area. I really like this area but because it is so small it’s hard with this kind of comp. I need someone cool to get thru it. It’s really tough. I try to be normal and what not but it really doesn’t work. I’m trying tho.

Our investigator Koky is doing really good. He has been coming to church every week which is awesome. I’m so happy he is coming, I think in our next visit I want to extend the invite to be baptized. The last person that was baptized in this area was like 3 years ago I think. It’s been a while, and that person is already inactive, sad stuff.

We only have about 10 people at church every week. We have a family that seems to be going a little in active so I set up to go over there and have family night with them every week, I think so far it has been good. They came to church the next week smiling and happy to be there so that made me feel good. Whether I had anything with the fact that they came or not, it was just good to see them there. :)

That is about it, I’m about out of time so I will wrap it up. Thank you for everything. I appreciate the letters so much.
Love You! Elder Gray

Hard Week

This week was pretty good, we got transfer calls, my old comp is gone, and now I’m with the Elders of Olhao till tomorrow. But I’m really not happy at all about my new comp. I know who it is. Its worse than before. I feel like I deserved to get a new GOOD comp. Worse? I am having a really hard time having the faith in the fact it must be for a good reason. I’m really stressing about it. He is Portuguese which is the only good thing and the fact my Portuguese will improve, but he is super boring and well I won’t go way into it cuz I hate being negative, but I’m not happy. I’m having a hard time. I thought sunshine came after rain. I don’t know, its just not good. I know I need to be positive, but I’m not perfect, so I’m a bit down right now and I’m sorry.

This week we went to the house of a inactive member named Maria Cabral. She is so, so funny, and we also visited Senhor Joao. He is hilarious! So I really loved it. They are just really funny and its fun to be over there. We had this candy lesson thing and he just was acting like a 10 year old it was so awesome. He isn’t a member and it’s fun going over there. We also taught Irmao Pinto again. I really enjoy teaching him because I seem to always be able to feel the spirit in the room and he pays good attention too. We talked about the importance of having the spirit with us and he seemed to really like it and enjoy it. It was great!

Last week we had lunch with Casal Nelsons, we had enchiladas! Oh my goodness!! I miss good food! But I have really grown to love rice! Anytime we eat anything with rice I get all excited cuz there are so many types, I love it! Portuguese food is pretty interesting. The longer I’m here the more I start to like it too.

Anyways well that’s about it for this week. Sorry it’s not a lot. It was just kind of slow with Elder Clark packing and we did a lot of time at the chapel working on this member book thing we are doing. So we didn’t have lots of lessons and stuff. Thank you all for everything. You are all an inspiration to me.
Thank you so much.
Love Elder Gray