Hello people-
Well, so bad story of the week-my water bottle opened inside of my bag and got by Bible and Book of Mormon and and pamphlets pretty wet. Well, the Book of Mormon is alright but the Bible is in bad shape, but my wallet was fine.
We met with Y. once and she wants to be baptized. It’s just that she is traveling. She is also traveling this weekend for work. We didn’t meet with L. and he is traveling also. It’s frustrating. We find new people and we have a good lesson, but then that’s it. We haven’t met with K, but we called him and he said he has been reading the Book of Mormon, so that is really good. We are now meeting with B, the husband of a member and he is progressing now. So I was just with a member going from appointment to appointment and no one was there, so on the last one we knocked on the next door and she opened and invited us in. She said she had talked to missionaries before. then we found out she was baptized in.. but when she moved to Europe she never attended church. We will start meeting with her more. We are having a missionary work activity for the ward. It’s just a social thing where we invite members, investigators and encourage members to invite friends also. Hopefully we can find lots of people to teach through this. Well C. moved suddenly and doesn’t have a number so we don’t know where she is. It’s sad. Hopefully we will run into her somehow.
There is a soccer tournament in brazil for the champions of the regions that everyone is watching. Spain is in it for Europe, so they will win. We have had a few lessons with a recent convert in Plaza Mayor. It’s kind of a touristy spot. It’s kind of cool to have a lesson there. It’s such a famous spot. Well I taught english class this week and it was good. Neither of us are fluent is spanish, but we managed though it. We went over pronunciation and vocabulary.
I guess JJ opened his call with no one there. He does fit in there. I was secretly hoping he would come to Madrid, but I think if we were ever companions, the work we would get done would be lacking. but he will learn spanish.
We do have to be diligent with family history. It’s like missionary work. They are people, not statistics. You wouldnt just teach a lesson and not listen to the investigator at all then leave. we need to know them. its the same with geneology. we do need to treat it sacredly. i just found out we are watching the broadcast june 30.
I have no clue about Facebook or anything yet. The mission is growing a ton. Each transfer about 10 or 15 leave and about 30 come in, so a lot. The mission is a lot more work than I thought. Before I thought it was just teaching people, but it is work, but it is good.
My spanish is really coming along. Hermana C, a missionary from spain, asked my companion what he has done for me to learn spanish so quickly. Nothing really, just learning and speaking. We don’t do anything really to learn. Just personal language study and talking obviously in spanish. Time does fly. I’m already one-eighth done with the mission. And it only goes faster I hear.
Just one more thing, there were 3 Americans visiting church. One his passport was stolen, so it going to the embassy today. One is traveling Europe with friends, but they went to missions to France and he had already been there, so he came to Spain. He goes to a university in Utah and the other is a family traveling. The boy’s name was Phil, so i said my favorite golfers name is Phil and he knew him and he likes golf!
Well I love you all. Thanks for all of the support.
ps did you send some recipes and some of the ward mission letters? Thank you.
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