It
doesn´t feel like it but I have 6 weeks left in Spain as a missionary...
My companion elder Olaso is now gone. We took him to the mission office
yesterday and now he goes back home to Idaho mañana.
This last week was
really slow with the conference of President Dyches of the area presidency
visiting our mission. I wished you were there to listen. It was
really powerful. We learned a lot about our usage of time and how well we
should spend it as missionaries. Time =life, wasting time =wasted life, excellent
time = great life. We have planners and area books to help guide our footsteps
to do that which is most important so we can be faithful servants of the
Lord. We also learned how to make origomi missionary shirts so that we
can use them as cards to leave to those we teach in case we knock their door
and they are not home, we can leave them with something to read knowing that
the missionaries came by. We used one last week to leave an apple pie to
a member family and they just love the pie and paper missionary shirt. We
met in the big church in Barcelona with 5 out of the 8 zones of our mission
because our mission is too big to do a mission conference. the other
zones met in Bilbao. I got to meet a few old companions.
RAndom thoughts:
We are teaching a woman
named Raquel who we met in the street a few weeks ago really quickly and now
she is progressing really well. Last week we were teaching her and she
had a shirt that said RIVERTON on it. She has desires to change and
come close to our Heavenly Father.
Crazy last week with
Elder Olaso. Lots of visits to members. Lots of food.
The heat is coming in.
We helped a new family
move into the ward. the husband is catalan and the wife is ecuadorian.
I got a hair cut.
We had conference on
thursday and we had some elders come from the islands come and stay over with
us. Elder Olaso and I were able to make it to the conference on time the
next day while the others came late missing their train.
I have a new temple
recommend, and president Dayton said that it may be my only recommend I will
ever have in spanish. It was made only valid for three months till I come
home and get a new one.
We met a less-active
last week who was baptized into the church after being in a coma for 19 YEARS!!!!
He knows that God has a plan for everyone, But he is looking around at other
churches because he is losing his testimony.
I made 2 apple pies for
our visits last week.
We had our 5th sunday
lesson in church and we learned about the family services that the church has
produced so that family can be more united and strengthened.
And Finaly the most
important thing is that I have a new companion named Élder Gibson from Idaho.
He has red hair and came from Sant Sabastian, the most beautiful place in our
mission to the not so good looking place in our mission. He has about 1
year and 5 months on the mission.
I know that this work
that we are engaged is true. It is led by living prophets and apostles,
and the chief corner stone is Jesus Christ (Véase Efesios 4:11-14). Our
adversity is but a small moment. Dad sent me a scripture to read about a
year ago and I read it in my new testament reading this week 2 Cor.
12:9-10. I love the work that we get to do as missionaries. Thank
you for you prayer and love. Have a great week.
Con Cariñó,
Élder Gonzalez
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