Well this week...
Tuesday
So we found and are teaching this less active, and we started teaching
his mom too (who isn't a member) she loves us, literally calls us her
daughters, she is the best! She taught us to make a really good
Spanish tortilla. Later we had a lesson with an old investigator we
are trying things with again. He's coming to church and has a lot of
potential, but he is a little difficult. He reads A LOT and has many
difficult questions.
Wednesday was king's day here in Spain. It's basically bigger than
Christmas. They always eat this creamed-filled cake, and in every cake
there is a prize and a bean, and if you have the prize in your piece
it means a new year of good luck, and if you have the bean you get to
buy the cake the coming year. Let me just say I'm sooo tired of eating
cake. We got it served to us literally at every appointment.
Thursday we had exchanges. It was so much fun! The sister who came
with me was in my group in the Mtc. She is a boss. We had a really
great lesson with these 2 Romanian cousins. They are chicos locos, but
have a lot of potential. One of them barely spoke Spanish, so the
other had to translate, but they were so excited to hear the message
of the restoration. The one who a hardly spoke Spanish prayed in
Romanian at the end of the lesson, and it's just amazing how the
spirit is just the same in all languages.
Friday we found an awesome new investigator from the Dominican
Republic and she is the best! I'm so excited about her!
Saturday I had a really cool experience contacting. I stopped a group
of people on the street, and only one listened. So I introduced myself
to this lady from Bolivia, but she was running and literally had no
time, but gave me her number so we can call her another moment. But
she really looked at me like she could recognize that what I had was
something special. In preach my gospel it gives us the promise that if
we live worthily, the people will recognize us as representatives of
Jesus Christ, and I've never felt that in the street contacting until
this day, this moment, with this lady from Bolivia. It was really
special. I'm excited to see where this contact goes. At this point on
my mission I can say with confidence that not too many things scare
me. I can talk to whatever stranger, make whatever phone-call or teach
whatever principle. But I really want to achieve now and what I've
been praying for daily is to really have the spirit in my countenance,
that I can be worthy enough to radiate the light of Christ, and so I
can have more experiences like I had with this Bolivian lady in the
street.
Sunday we managed to receive a bunch of member references (which never
happens..) and had an adventure visiting this lady in the hospital who
we thought was from our ward, but really wasn't.. So it was kinda
awkward, but turned out well, and ended up being a needed thing.
Heavenly Father really just directs our paths.. I thought that on the
mission I would be sent to bless groups of people, and bring so many
of them the gospel. But Heavenly Father loves his children so much,
sometimes our detours lead us to just one person who we needed to find
and needed to hear that their god loves them. It is the most amazing
thing being his representative and having the mantle to tell them
that.
Well I love you all and hope your week is marvelous!
Tuesday
So we found and are teaching this less active, and we started teaching
his mom too (who isn't a member) she loves us, literally calls us her
daughters, she is the best! She taught us to make a really good
Spanish tortilla. Later we had a lesson with an old investigator we
are trying things with again. He's coming to church and has a lot of
potential, but he is a little difficult. He reads A LOT and has many
difficult questions.
Wednesday was king's day here in Spain. It's basically bigger than
Christmas. They always eat this creamed-filled cake, and in every cake
there is a prize and a bean, and if you have the prize in your piece
it means a new year of good luck, and if you have the bean you get to
buy the cake the coming year. Let me just say I'm sooo tired of eating
cake. We got it served to us literally at every appointment.
Thursday we had exchanges. It was so much fun! The sister who came
with me was in my group in the Mtc. She is a boss. We had a really
great lesson with these 2 Romanian cousins. They are chicos locos, but
have a lot of potential. One of them barely spoke Spanish, so the
other had to translate, but they were so excited to hear the message
of the restoration. The one who a hardly spoke Spanish prayed in
Romanian at the end of the lesson, and it's just amazing how the
spirit is just the same in all languages.
Friday we found an awesome new investigator from the Dominican
Republic and she is the best! I'm so excited about her!
Saturday I had a really cool experience contacting. I stopped a group
of people on the street, and only one listened. So I introduced myself
to this lady from Bolivia, but she was running and literally had no
time, but gave me her number so we can call her another moment. But
she really looked at me like she could recognize that what I had was
something special. In preach my gospel it gives us the promise that if
we live worthily, the people will recognize us as representatives of
Jesus Christ, and I've never felt that in the street contacting until
this day, this moment, with this lady from Bolivia. It was really
special. I'm excited to see where this contact goes. At this point on
my mission I can say with confidence that not too many things scare
me. I can talk to whatever stranger, make whatever phone-call or teach
whatever principle. But I really want to achieve now and what I've
been praying for daily is to really have the spirit in my countenance,
that I can be worthy enough to radiate the light of Christ, and so I
can have more experiences like I had with this Bolivian lady in the
street.
Sunday we managed to receive a bunch of member references (which never
happens..) and had an adventure visiting this lady in the hospital who
we thought was from our ward, but really wasn't.. So it was kinda
awkward, but turned out well, and ended up being a needed thing.
Heavenly Father really just directs our paths.. I thought that on the
mission I would be sent to bless groups of people, and bring so many
of them the gospel. But Heavenly Father loves his children so much,
sometimes our detours lead us to just one person who we needed to find
and needed to hear that their god loves them. It is the most amazing
thing being his representative and having the mantle to tell them
that.
Well I love you all and hope your week is marvelous!