This trip has been amazing. We can’t even stand it.
Today we did service all day long! Yay! This is what we came for! We met Peter and Anna early, and another sister Marika, from Lisbon, but initially from Oregon, and headed up into the mountainside.
It was still a little rainy, and really foggy. But we found a spot to park, split up and headed out to some known English-speakers. Nicole and I talked to Gary, but he let us know he wasn’t a religious man. I suggested that the Bible is worth looking into and we would be happy to leave him a brochure to help him to that, but still no interest. That’s fine, we’ll keep on going. Well, then we headed on down the road, and actually, never found the rest of them, so we just hung out under someone’s porch to wait out the rain until the came back. Turns out Lauren and Anna had found plenty of people
to talk to. The best was their last person, a girl in her 20s named Anna, who wasn’t raised in a religious household. Lauren was able to read 2 Tim 3:16,17 about the benefits of looking into the Bible now to have a more successful life, and Anna accepted the brochure. Lauren will hopefully find her again on Monday and talk to her some more.Nicole and I were just having a good time looking at all the snails. There’s lots.
Well, it rained, so we headed to a little café. Got some coffee. And a really yummy croissant. It was cute, Lauren and Anna wanted another coffee, since we waited out the rain for an hour, and the lady had to ask for their cups back to wash them, since she only had so many! (We were the only ones there) Just like Panera …
Then we headed over to a different mountain, and walked up, down, and all around. Corey and I managed to get the whole way to the top of one driveway, and the man came out, and I introduced ourselves. Well, he wouldn’t even tell us his name before he was directing us back down his mountain.
Well, at least it was a good hike…. All in all we found several houses that we can visit again, so we were happy with our day. Nicole and Marika were nearly attacked by a dog, she’ll tell you the story in person sometime.We ran to the little ceramic store just down the street after we got home. It was fun, the store was really neat. I think the best part was being, as Corey calls it, Googled. (She misspoke ogled) The construction workers that so rudely woke us up on Monday get a kick out of us every day, and then some drunk guy outside a bar tried to talk to us as we left the store. He’s like “Hello ladies. Hi babe!” We didn’t flinch and just kept walking. Now they thought it was funny “You need some company tonight?” Oh, ha, ha. Yeah, what exactly made you think we came around here looking for you? Sheesh. You'd think we were walking the 1-2-5 (the infamous route that has 'ladies' along the way. We saw them today, in daylight. Classy.
Corey picked a pomegranate, we ate it with our last soft cheese and quince jam.
Meeting was so nice!
Its always so neat to see how no matter where you go in the world, the meeting is the same and the friends have so much love! Look who had a demonstration today - our very own Nickel and Courtney! Meetings around here start later, this congregation was at 7:45, and some in Lisbon were at 8:00pm or later. OK ladies, let's hear what's on your mind -
(Lauren) Shoot first, ask questions later.
(Corey) To cap it all off, no, you’re wrong.
Nicole is unavailable for comment, she’s attending to her sore ears from a long afternoon with Cappy-Pap.
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