Hola Family!
Pretty normal week, not much to report other
than my companion’s gone in Barcelona for a day or two for residency, I ate an
ice cream cone filled with caramel inside today, and well, we had pretty a fun
Sunday. We had several less actives we've been working on come back to
sacrament meeting, and a friend of a member(Miriam, my Bolivian grandma here
who helped us baptism Alicia's family, is the friend). And well, she basically
got a high speed restoration lesson from our gospel principles teacher, and
accepted a Book of Mormon! Her names Joana, and well we're praying that she
wants to meet more because she had to take in quite a bit for her first day at
the chapel(not our fault but still, faith!). Joel didn't make it to church
because, well we think he was fishing so we're going to have to find him and
sort out his priorities haha! Other than that, lessons and contacting Atheist Spaniards.
Except for Percy! On following the prompting
that Elder Perry received after talking to an old Spanish man on a bench about shellfish
for a while, we punched the timbre of this reference and found this 20
something year old joven inside! He only let us in at first because we offered
a prayer for his sore teeth, as in he had just gotten his dientes del
juicio(wisdom teeth) out and couldn't talk much. But he listened, and is going
to meet with us again this week! No matter what, it's listening to those little
promptings that gets us to where the lord wants us to be, when we need to be
there!
I also tried some delicious things this week!
One was some more subway cookies(raspberry cheesecake...yum....!). The other
was melted chocolate in a mug, dipping cookies and Churros into in covered in
cinnamon sugar, and yea, pretty amazing! Goofy members though, an older couple
that have lived here since the dawn of the church here in Spain. But you've got
to help out the members fulfill their missionary purpose somehow!
The talks that I studied from this last
general conference were the ones by Quentin L. Cook, and Dven Cornich, the
first one on stumbling blocks on the way to happiness and salvation(lesson
learned, if your goal isn't Jesus Christ or becoming better, you missed the
point of this life). Especially here in the mission, where we're only here two
very short years(now that I'm on the downhill I'm freaking out), we can't waste
our time and energy on things that won't bring others to Christ! Just like Elder
Cornich says, we need to stop wasting our time comparing ourselves needlessly
to others, but rather we need to compare ourselves to who we were before, and
to who we want to be! Not to those around you! Better, ask Him what He thinks
of You! It'll probably be a lot better than your opinion of yourself at the
moment! Just repent daily, smile, sip some mate, eat some fuet and cheese, and
all will come out ok(and preach the gospel, that always works out good!)!
Also if anyone's wondering why I put racist
dragons in the title, it's from a song that's stuck in my head about a racist
dragon and this little kid that annoys him. This is what happens when
missionaries talk in our piso at night.
I love and miss you all, I love these members,
investigators, friends and all the people I've met here in Spain, and I'm
grateful to be part of the work of the Lord in bringing some of these people to
Christ! I'm also grateful for a modern day prophet, and modern apostles who are
here to teach and help all of us come into Christ, and especially for Joseph
Smith. Because without him, none of these things I've been doing these last 14
months would be possible!
Agur!
Sending off my companion yesterday to do some residency stuff in Barcelona
Las Arenas district meetings
Churros and chocolate at the Hidalgos
Preparation Day fun!
Spain!
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