TRANSFERS!

5/7/12

Okay, so it was Mother´s Day here in Portugal, but Mother´s Day in the US is this coming Sunday I guess so I will talk to you all this week!!!  CRAZY how fast time flies!!  I have your numbers, I don´t know what phone I will be using, I will buy a phone card, and I will try to call around 8:00.  

Transfers are today!!  The whole mission has been in an up roar because I guess we usually know Sunday night or Monday morning but no one has found out the whole day!  We have gotten some calls of a few missionaries, but for the most part people don´t know.  Me and Irmã Dos Santos will probably stay here in Odivelas.  Irmã Boshard is with us right now because her comp. (Irmã Wilde! my comp. in the MTC!) went to Madiera!!!  Irmã Boshard will train again- her fourth transfer training!!!  WOW.  She will stay with us until the newbies come on Weds or Thurs.  This has been a crazy but awesome week!  During our District Meeting earlier this week we made District goals and then our district leader told us of the Zone goals.  I was just filled with FIRE and the desire to Testify to the whole world and so i suggested we split the zone goals in half and make those numbers our district goals.  They agreed.  So we had big goals this week that really helped lift our numbers and we talked to TONS of people and I LOVE it!!!  I am happiest when I am talking to people about the gospel of Jesus Christ.  When I am feeling down, I just talk to someone and I become much happier :).  I know that when we have goals and push ourselves miracles happen and we grow and change and become better.  Remember to Demand Excellence!!!  I try to remember every day.  I have some new goals to do this better for next transfer.

Lots of opposition this week.  We had 4 people for this Sunday to get baptized but no one did!  So sad and frustrating.  This is war- serio.  But we will win.  I absolutely LOVE being a missionary!!!  AH!!!! love love love love love love!!!  Thank you for your letters!  I am so grateful for this privilege to be a representative of Jesus Christ.  I am so grateful for this opportunity to be an instrument in the hands of the Lord.  I want to be a missionary for forever!  I Know that Jesus Christ lives.  He will come again!!!  I want to shout that to the whole world- the good news that Christ is coming again!  I absolutely love the scriptures.  I feel like I understand the scriptures in a different way, here on the mission.  It is so incredible.  I feel like the prophets are talking to me and about the people of Portugal.  I am so grateful for personal revelation.  When we act, we invite miracles.  I am still working on being a totally consecrated missionary- to be willing to lay everything on the altar of sacrifice.  I testify that this is the church of Jesus Christ, restored again to the earth.

Mother- I love you with my whole heart and soul.  I cannot thank you enough for who you are.  Your example has taught me everything.  You have taught me to love everyone no matter what circumstance they are in, no matter what they have done in their past, but to just love them for who they are.  You have taught me to not be afraid to push myself and make myself do things that make me uncomfortable.  I remember in 4th or 5th grade there was a talent show and I told you about it and you asked me if I was going to do anything.  I said no, but you encouraged me to step out of my comfort zone and not care about what others think- same thing with student council and many other things.  You have always pushed me to do good things and because of these experiences I am not afraid here on the mission to talk to people and do uncomfortable things that I know I need to do.  Thank you.  Thank you for teaching me to be polite and never to lose my cool with people, but to always respect people.  Thank you for teaching me to laugh and smile and have fun even when times are tough.  Thank you for teaching me to love.  That is the most important thing on the mission- I believe.  Thank you for teaching me to pray and read my scriptures.  Thank you for following President Hinckley´s council to read the Book Of Mormon before the end of that year- you helped inspire me to follow that counsel and because of that goal I have read the Book of Mormon every day since.  Thank you.  Thank you for helping me work hard in school.  Thank you for being so willing to move around so much to different places- because of these experiences I have learned so much about the world and people and your attitude has helped my attitude- to love wherever I am.  Thank you for teaching me to try and look my best when I get ready in the morning, and then to forget about how I look the rest of the day.  Thank you for building my confidence.  Thank you for loving me for who i am- even though I am stubborn and crazy, you always have patience and love.  I will always remember laughing our heads off in dressing rooms at stores, and our days together in Montreal when Abby and Jack were in school, our French lessons with Diane, our yoga in the mornings, you making smoothies for us for breakfast, you making cinnamon rolls for the seminary kids every Friday in Indiana, you playing the piano while we sing around you, you ´forcing´us to Christmas Carol :), teaching me to sew- even though i would always mess up the projects, you driving me home from practice after school, encouraging us to try everything- soccer, basketball, dance, gymnastics, singing, lacrosse, student council, cross country, etc., you coming to my plays and musicals- always supporting me and telling me I did a great job, always helping with school activities and field trips, and many more memories! Thank you for supporting Dad in his callings.  I love you so much Mum.  I can´t express how much I love you and appreciate you.  I think about you often- wanting to tell you about my day.  But the Lord is watching out for me here.  He promises you that He will watch over me and I know that He is.  Thank you for having such a strong testimony I could lean on until I got my own.  Your are precious to me.  You are the most beautiful woman I know.  I LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LOVE YOU!!!!  Happy Mother´s Day this Sunday!!! Can´t to talk to you!!!

I love you all, family and friends!!1  You mean so much to me.  Thank you.

Hurrah for Israel!!!

Irmã Tingey