Re: SEIXAL

Little does Seixal know what will hit them.  You and your unstoppable spirit will change their world.

On Monday, May 26, 2014 5:05 AM, Eliza Shumway <eliza.shumway@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Transfer day! I´ve been kicked out of Santarém and I´ve been sent to Seixal, on the other side of the river Rio Tejo from Lisbon. I´ll miss Santarém, but they need some new blood up there to help them get people to church. We probably only had one or two people come to church the whole transfer, which is SUPER bad. usually you can at LEAST get one or two people a week but I am not sure what we did wrong but NO one would ever come. Yes people would promise, "I´ll BE THERE." and then not show up and then never want to talk to us again. SO what did our inspired President Fluckiger do? He sent Sister Amazing Church Attendance and Baptisms KROPF there to shake some things up. My only child, (the only Sister i´ve trained), is gonna tear it up in São Domingos with Sister Juilfs! 

GUESS WHAT MIRACLE GAHHHH

My kindred spirit, bosom friend, beautiful Nicole Cardoso from The Azores is on a mini mission here in Portugal. And guess who gets to be in a tripla with her and Sister Fuller for the rest of it until she heads out for her real mission in England? THAT WOULD BE ME and i cried tears of joy. First i cried tears of sadness at the mission conference we had last week when i saw her and was sure i would never see her again in this life, then yesterday i found out that i was the blessed soul who gets to serve with here until she heads out. haha. (i was also running on 5 hours of sleep and hormonal, so i cried for only like 15 minutes. nbd)

BUT THE CONFERENCE was amazing. Elder Patrick Kearon from England came and toured our mission. That means he came and held multi-zone conferences on the islands of the Azores, and Madeira and had two more on continental Portugal. HE WAS AMAZING. IS AMAZING. he told me everything i needed to hear. gah. i took really the best notes i could (with my left hand, yes i am still doing that, you thought i stopped didn´t you) but still didn´t even give it justice. He is so so sososososososo inspired. I don´t know how people get to that point. obviously i´m missing out on something vital here. How do i become an amazing conductor of the spirit? Better, how do i STAY completely obedient without going back to old/easier habits? i gotta pray harder. 

K well sorry no pictures. but Sister Crossman keeps a blog and even though i won´t be on anymore updates probably i´m in some. there are your pictures. 

http://r2crossmaninportugal.blogspot.pt/

K LOVE AND PEACE AND BLESSINGS (which come from LIVING the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST just do it.)

Sister shumway

SEIXAL

Transfer day! I´ve been kicked out of Santarém and I´ve been sent to Seixal, on the other side of the river Rio Tejo from Lisbon. I´ll miss Santarém, but they need some new blood up there to help them get people to church. We probably only had one or two people come to church the whole transfer, which is SUPER bad. usually you can at LEAST get one or two people a week but I am not sure what we did wrong but NO one would ever come. Yes people would promise, "I´ll BE THERE." and then not show up and then never want to talk to us again. SO what did our inspired President Fluckiger do? He sent Sister Amazing Church Attendance and Baptisms KROPF there to shake some things up. My only child, (the only Sister i´ve trained), is gonna tear it up in São Domingos with Sister Juilfs! 

GUESS WHAT MIRACLE GAHHHH

My kindred spirit, bosom friend, beautiful Nicole Cardoso from The Azores is on a mini mission here in Portugal. And guess who gets to be in a tripla with her and Sister Fuller for the rest of it until she heads out for her real mission in England? THAT WOULD BE ME and i cried tears of joy. First i cried tears of sadness at the mission conference we had last week when i saw her and was sure i would never see her again in this life, then yesterday i found out that i was the blessed soul who gets to serve with here until she heads out. haha. (i was also running on 5 hours of sleep and hormonal, so i cried for only like 15 minutes. nbd)

BUT THE CONFERENCE was amazing. Elder Patrick Kearon from England came and toured our mission. That means he came and held multi-zone conferences on the islands of the Azores, and Madeira and had two more on continental Portugal. HE WAS AMAZING. IS AMAZING. he told me everything i needed to hear. gah. i took really the best notes i could (with my left hand, yes i am still doing that, you thought i stopped didn´t you) but still didn´t even give it justice. He is so so sososososososo inspired. I don´t know how people get to that point. obviously i´m missing out on something vital here. How do i become an amazing conductor of the spirit? Better, how do i STAY completely obedient without going back to old/easier habits? i gotta pray harder. 

K well sorry no pictures. but Sister Crossman keeps a blog and even though i won´t be on anymore updates probably i´m in some. there are your pictures. 

http://r2crossmaninportugal.blogspot.pt/

K LOVE AND PEACE AND BLESSINGS (which come from LIVING the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST just do it.)

Sister shumway

sorry to disappoint

last week of the transfer! bring it on! 

no time and i have to be home in 5 minutes

love you all

sis shum

GUESS WHAT

I'm alive.

and I have no time.

k bye.

sister Shumway

pictures: Santarem zone and fun with the ipad

WHAT

ANOTHER WEEK GONE BY?!?! 

whoa. time flies when you´re having fun.

But some days it´s like a heard of turtles on cold tar going backwards uphill. #insidejokewithsisterKROPFsomethinglikethatright?faztempo

it was kinda sad yesterday we were knocking doors (well, here there are gates in front of houses if it´s not an apartment building so technically we were ringing doorbells) and we rang one doorbell that got stuck and the doorbells here are not (normally) the cute little ding-dong someone´s here that loves you song that the doorbells sing in the US of A but rather a BEEEEEERRRRRRRZZZZZZZZZZZZ SOMEONE THAT HATES YOU IS DISTURBING YOUR AFTERNOON noise (it´s unpleasant) so we were standing there outside freaking out while this SUPER annoying noise goes off in their house and we couldn´t do anything about it besides try to get it unstuck and prepare ourselves for angry people to come outside and yell at us. Surely that´s what happened but it was a little bit older (about 60 years old) lady who was at first really rude (understandably) but we used our power of the cuteness and made friends. (people here are super open with any personal problems) so she goes straight into how she has depression and how she´s not happy to which we held her hand and listened without really saying who we were or why we were there but then suddenly her maybe 25-30 year old son comes out and says quem é (who are you)? And then it gets personal as he starts speaking perfect english and says we are not interested, come on mom, we aren´t interested. She´s trying to get out of his grip because she wants to talk to us and is objecting the whole time and I say we aren´t Jehovah´s Witnesses (this is how people usually reply when they think we are JW´s) and her son says You´re mormon´s right? I say yes, and he says yeah we aren´t interested. so he (mostly) gently just pulls her back inside but then i hear him say under his breath "fanatics" to which i said back We just have a strong belief in Jesus Christ, there is nothing wrong with that and he just grumbles a yeah whatever and then it was over. pretty sad. i wonder what lie he´s heard hah. but it was sad cuz that lady was totally wanting to talk to us... but we said a prayer for her and hopefully she is okay. 

Well i am out of time but i love you all and i got a SICK farmer tan yesterday 

mom would you send me some doTerra Lavender oil too? i use it when i get sunburned (i do put on 60spf every day but i miss places sometimes) and it feels super nice to have that and it helps so much. if you can i´d super appreciate it... but don´t worry about it if you can´t.

Love you ALL! 

send me a quick email saying hey if you read this so i can know to keep you on my email list. i don´t know who still wants to get my emails. 

Sister Shumway

ps. aunt Jan can you send me a picture of Pregnant Kaily? haha thanks!