5 weeks down
and only a bunch more. So we had such a
busy week and what more can I say than that.
On monday we
went with the hermanas and made lunch at the church. We had tacos and apple pie. However. we had use of a cool, new
touchscreen stovetop that we weren´t able to use, so we cooked the chicken in
the oven instead and cooked the pie afterwards.
It was super fun (mom just to let you know, there is no crisco here in
spain, so I just used butter instead and it worked out fine.) The pie was super good, but the crust was
super crumbly and the inside was a bit runny, but was SUPER good!!!!
Tuesday we
had district meeting here in castellon because the church building in Valencia
was being fumigated (sorry for the missspelling. All of the spanish computers here in spain
make all the english words in red as errors and I just seem to ignore them). It was super spiritual. and I gave a quick
talk on diligence. It was cool. (it was in english by the way). Then, afterwards I went on intercombio (companion
exchange) with Elder schoen from valencia.
I stayed overnight in Valencia.
Elder Alder, our district leader, came down and stayed. We had a nice evening because we did lots of
contacting in the streets and talked a lot about the mission and how things
work. I enjoyed being with him. Elder Schoen is from texas and is big and
super fun to be around.
On wednesday
we went to a nigerian woman´s piso and talked to her in her doorway about her
reading in the book of Mormon, and she was super funny to be around because she
thanks Jesus for everything and is just fun to listen to. Elder schoen made a super good lunch and got
on the train to castellon with Elder westfall, whom we met back up at the train
station. We went back down and had some
more visits and had a fun noche de barrio (it´s like a ward night). we talked about prayer and afterwards I had a
nice talk with the ward mission leader
in spanish. We talked for like
10, 15 minutes. That was a testimony
builder for me because I got to see a sneak peak of my progression in spanish.
Thursday we
had our normal studies and watched like an hour and a half of the district
because we had to catch up on the "12 week program." So, I popped some popcorn, ate and
watched. we did some more visits and i
just love the members here. Our
investigators are progressing very well and soon we´ll get some baptisms here,
but these people just need to work on a few things. We had our priesthood council after english
class and that went very well.
Friday was
just like thursday, but packed with a lot of visits. I picked a few names from the area book of
investigators and less-active members to go visit and we had some success with
contacting them. We met a peruvian man
named victor. He´s super receptive to
our message, and I was able to speak a good portion of the time. I know he´s getting baptized. We didn´t have correlation with the ward
mission leader, but we did meet with Emilio.
Emilio is this investigator we have, and he´s been taught a lot of times
and now progressing a lot. He was able
to open his heart to us a lot too.
Now saturday
was a LONG day because we did a lot of walking.
With my gps watch, I measured 2 miles from our piso to the church. We walked to sports at the church in the
morning and played/had piella (because it was Rita´s farewell, a girl who is
going on a mission). We left to go back
to piso and shower and change to go to a visit that night. We went to the church again to talk to some
of the friends who were at a birthday party for one of the ward member´s
son. We then traveled another mile out
of town to visit an investigator. I
shared the story of when we prayed for help when we were on scout camp this
summer (remember dad?) because we were talking about faith. We walked back to
the church then back to piso. So we did
like 10ish miles that day and I was super tired.
Sunday was a
good spiritual day. Church was great and
the spirit was super strong there. We
went to lunch at the Roja´s again and had more piella with octopus, yum! Then went back to church to meet with bishop,
but we never got hold of him. It was a
hard day for me because I wanted to understand what was going on in church and
with all the lessons, but the stupid language barrier stopped me from understanding. When I focus with 100% I can understand some,
or at least enough to know what´s going on, but if I get distracted. It´s hard to understand/concentrate. We had a guy come up and gave a good lesson
on church education and watched a video about famous mormons in history. that
was cool.
Well I need
to go. Hope you have a great week and
sorry but I can´t send any more handwritten letters during the week. President told me that I can only do that on preparation
days. so yeah. Hope you all are well and
talk to you next week.
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