Sushi Master Miracle

Oi todos!


Not too much happened this past week, so I apologize for the short email. We did have a crazy miracle too, but I'll get to that a bit later in the email.


This week, we did a bit of shopping for 3 white elephant parties we're doing. We have stores here that we call "China stores," which are basically glorified dollar stores. lots of the white elephant gifts were bought there.


We also decided to make a ton of cookies for members in our branch and our friends. It took up most of our p-day to bake, but it was fun and they turned out well.


The miracle we had this last week was awesome. Might be a once-on-a-mission miracle. I hope not though. Anyways, this last Friday, we were walking around town finding people to teach, and we tried talking to a guy we were walking past. He said that he had no time and had to go pick something up, and so we just kept on walking and didn't think anything of it. After about 10 minutes of walking, we heard someone running up behind us, yelling at us to stop. It was that same guy that we tried talking to earlier. He said that he had the strongest feeling that he had to talk to us, and so he ran after us across town. 


We ended up giving him a shortened version of a lesson, and then we talked with him and got to know more about him. He is from Brasil and used to be a pastor of the pentecostal church there. He ended up leaving the church because his higher ups were using the money for the Church for themselves, which he didn't like. He moved here to Portugal 16 years ago. He became a sushi master, and he owns a sushi restaurant here in Caldas that my companion and I have been eyeing, which is awesome. Becoming a sushi master takes YEARS of hard work and dedication. He is interested in hearing more, and we get to teach at his restaurant which is a bonus. So that was a pretty cool thing that happened this week.


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Pictures
- Vanillekipferl cookies
- View of the coast after a rainstorm

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