So I need a new young woman president because I called the old one to be the primary president because the district took my primary president. I had also prayed about a new young woman president and decided on a sister but then found out the she and her husband go back to their home land for the winter and are only here from April to October to work and make money because of the tourist season. Well I thought great my inspiration was no good but then remember that I had asked the Lord if she could be the young woman president and not if she would be. So I'm back to the drawing board. Also found out that there are 3 other families that go home for the winter and they have good active sisters that could serve. So I took the names of all the sisters that are active and crossed out the ones that have callings because I don't want to upset another organization. That left me with 4 sisters one is 81, one is 86, one doesn't have a strong enough testimony to be here each week and the other one is 71. So Pres. Tavares said to make a list of the inactive sisters in the age range that could be the new young woman president and then meet with my branch counsel and ask them about the sisters on the list so I could find out some about them and then go out and visit the ones I can find and when the Lord indicates to me the one that should be the new president to tell her the Lord and the young women of the branch need here and extend the call. If she drinks coffee tell here she has to quit again and the first thing she should teach the young women is about the word of wisdom. He then said he would pray for the Lord to help me find her. So I've made my list and will present it to the branch counsel on Sunday and then go out and try to find her.
Monday we took the two elders Elder Batista and Elder Cabral over to a little area called Pera (pear in english) to see this magnificent 10 acre site of absolutely wonderful sand sculptures that are as large or larger than a dump truck. They tear them down every year and then invite artists from all over the world to come and sculpt to the theme of the year. this year was great musical artists and movie actors. There were several that you're mom and I knew and could recognize like Liza manelli, Nick Jagger, Elvis, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Ray charles and a bunch od disney Charactures. All it was fabulous.
We then went to the beach for a couple of hours and then had lunch at the restaurant that sits up above the beach where we could watch the ocean and enjoy some good food.
On the way home we went through Faro (flair in english) where we walked through this magnificent catholic cathedral and then around back where
we entered a chapel made of human skulls and bones that is 61 feet long 36feet wid and 20 feet tall. A monk in the early 16th century gathered the bones of 5,000 of his fellow monks from chapels all around the area to build this in hopes that it would make pople stop and think about what lies at the end of life and what they are doing with theirs. Over the doe is the saying WE BONES THAT ARE HERE, FOR YOURS AWAIT.
Then inside is the following poem
Where are you going in such a hurry traveler?
Stop do not proceed
You have no greater concern
than this one that on which you focus you sight
Recall how many have passed from this world
Reflect on your similar end
There is good reason to reflect
If only all did the same
Ponder, you so influenced by fate
Among the many concerns of the world
So little do you reflect on death
If by chance you glance at this place
Stop for the sake of the journey
The more you pause, the further you will be
As I stood there and reflect with you mom about the quiet sanctity of that place it made us really realize once again what a blessing it is to have the gospel in out lives with the understanding of death that it brings.
thats all for this time Love to all Elder and Sister Roberts
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