Yes I did get transferred
from the wonderful city of Castellón and now I am in Badalona, Spain, with my
new companion Elder Streiff from montana.
He´s is an awesome guy. I took a
2-1/2-hour train ride to get to barcelona and had to carry all of my stuff by
metro to my new piso. It´s really nice,
but really small. We bought a TON of
food; we will be eating like kings for a
while!!! also my companion likes to
run!!!!!!!!! even better!!! So my old
companion’s dreams of having me be an office elder was shot down, but I do live
like 30 minutes away by metro.
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| (Jared's new location of service. Note: Missionaries are not allowed to visit the beach) |
Anyway, starting from Monday
we did mostly shopping for hermana barker´s last preparation day. We did some less-active visits. nothing too
exciting.
Tuesday we had a district
meeting for once in like 4 weeks because of holidays and zone meetings. We had a nice district photo and saw the
numbers from the past few weeks and they were good because our goal of every
companionship getting a baptism by the end of the year came true!!! We did splits that night and it was good to
see how well we were able to organize things.
I went on a split with the ward mission leader and we taught an
investigator named Juan who has been investigating the church for a long
time. I was amazed to see how well I can
teach and speak in a short period of time on the mission, and I can stand my
own ground without having to rely on my companion. I love how the Lord prepares us to do grand
things without us noticing it.
wednesday we had a visit
with a new investigator named Nadir. I
might have mentioned him in a past letter. He is from sudan and is muslim. He speaks english and likes to rip and stab
in the roots of our beliefs. I am very
grateful to have a testimony on faith because I may not know all of the
questions to every answer, but like President Benson said in PMG " we are
not obligated to answer every question.
Everyone with be backed up to the wall of faith and will have to make
their stand." We may not know
everything, but we walk by faith rather than by sight. It was a testimony "checker" to see
how I´m doing with my testimony and what areas I need to work on.
Thursday we had some busy
visits and some open areas where we had no idea what to do with our time. I hate spending long periods of time just
going out and contacting because it can be good, or just pointless.
I´ve got to go soon, but
the week was great and I gave my testimony in church, passed by a bunch of
members and said goodbye to them sunday and yesterday. I will miss castellón, but I am grateful for
the love and the help from the members there.
I love you all so much and will see you all next week.
Con amor,
Elder Gonzalez
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