Hello everyone! This week was a really weird interesting but great
week. Well first my comp almost died. He was doing pull ups and the
bar broke and he fell and hit his head REALLY hard on the door frame.
When he got up after a few minuets he was unbalanced and not himself.
He has gotten a really bad concussion in the past so we were worried
about him. We called the mission medical person and she said that it
could be serious and that he needs to stay home this afternoon and see
if his headache went away. So we had a party in the piso all night.
Not really but he wasn't supposed to sleep and he had a really bad
head ache so he just laid in bed and we played a few games and talked
and just relaxed. It was really weird not doing missionary work and I
think that was the longest I had ever been at home on my mission haha
I didn't like it. The next day his headache was still there so we went
to the hospital and it was weird because it was all in Spanish (which
makes sense because we are in Spain) but we got all the way there and
he got an X-ray and everything and we were there for 3 hours haha but
it turns out he has a concussion so they gave him some pain pills and
said to take it easy so we spent a lot of time just hanging out at
home this week. The time went by so slow...
This week we met with this dude who just went off about the church and
was pretty anti Mormon sooo.. But after that we ran into the golden
Francis who is from Nigeria. He is reading the Book of Mormon and is
in Alma!! So awesome and he is loving it :) he is so good at reading
he remembers every little thing that happened in the reading and
applies it in our lessons when we are teaching him! It's so cool :)
it's amazing going from someone who just bashes on the Book of Mormon
to someone who is developing this deep love like we have for it. It
really makes you open your eyes to the fact that God brings you down
and throws you trials and people that make you question your testimony
just so he can bring you back up and takes your weakened testimony and
uses it to make itself stronger by having an amazing experiences like
the one we had this week with Francis. The thing is normally we don't
see it this way because the two events might be far apart or my not be
very related but this experience really opened my eyes to that because
these two events were 30 minutes from each other. We had one lesson
with an anti who read half the Book of Mormon looking for things wrong
and writing them all down on paper and showing us all these faults he
thinks he has found in this book just trying to reck our testimony and
ruin our spirits. But then because God loves us and what's us to learn
and progress 30 minutes later we run into Francis who just lifts our
spirits and just makes us so happy seeing his growing testimony of the
truthfulness of this book. It's just amazing to see God work in this
way because we appreciated and were so much more great full for
Francis and the blessing he is for us because of what we had dealt
with earlier that day and we can apply this to life in general! God
gives us bad and trials so we will appreciate the good we have been
given it's just hard to see. But really if we open our eyes it is
everywhere. The lesson was really great that we had with him.
Another lesson I learned with that experience is that we are going to
get out of things what we expect. The first guys starts reading the
Book of Mormon with the intention of finding what's wrong with it.
Going along and writing down things he doesn't like or things he think
are contradictory. Basically he looked for the bad and what does he
find? What he was looking for (what he thinks is bad anyway). But
Francis went in with an open heart looking for the good in the book
and what did he find? A whoooooooole lot of good and now he is filled
with this joy and this holy spirit that we always talk about. And his
testimony starts with that and has been growing exponentially as he
continues to search and ponder on these holy scriptures. It's amazing
and we can apply that to anything. If we go in to something with a bad
attitude expecting the worst then that's what we are going to get but
if we go in with a good attitude looking for the best then that's what
we will find and we will be so much happier because of it.
We had two amazing lesson with Luise our obedience miracle. She is
super awesome and super prepared. We taught her the plan of salvation
and she was really liking it. And we talked so much about Jesus Christ
and his atonement for us and the spirit was so strong. But she is just
so amazing. She said she really liked one of the talks on Sunday about
honesty and that she was really trying to apply it to herself this
week. This blew me away. He first time attending church and she was
already applying the talks to herself. The active members don't even
do that! We asked her about the spirit and she said she felt it so
strong last lesson and she always feels it when she talks to us and
when she reads the Book of Mormon. She knows this church is true and
she knows the Book of Mormon is true. And she wants to be baptized. I
just don't know how much more prepared and perfect you can get. She's
a miracle. And we were put in her path to help her bring herself back
to Christ. I love missionary work.
We have seen some amazing sunsets too this week :) I love the sunsets
of Spain. There amazing. Also the picture is me with the Russian woman
Alina who is from that branch in Saratov and knew the missionaries who
got kidnapped personally so cool! I love being a missionary and I know
this church is true :) also I'm really sad to say it but transfers are
coming up... And unfortunately it's my turn to go.. Sooooo send me
letters now before I change addresses also if you send me a personal
email I will respond. I have my iPad again so I'm not dead :)
week. Well first my comp almost died. He was doing pull ups and the
bar broke and he fell and hit his head REALLY hard on the door frame.
When he got up after a few minuets he was unbalanced and not himself.
He has gotten a really bad concussion in the past so we were worried
about him. We called the mission medical person and she said that it
could be serious and that he needs to stay home this afternoon and see
if his headache went away. So we had a party in the piso all night.
Not really but he wasn't supposed to sleep and he had a really bad
head ache so he just laid in bed and we played a few games and talked
and just relaxed. It was really weird not doing missionary work and I
think that was the longest I had ever been at home on my mission haha
I didn't like it. The next day his headache was still there so we went
to the hospital and it was weird because it was all in Spanish (which
makes sense because we are in Spain) but we got all the way there and
he got an X-ray and everything and we were there for 3 hours haha but
it turns out he has a concussion so they gave him some pain pills and
said to take it easy so we spent a lot of time just hanging out at
home this week. The time went by so slow...
This week we met with this dude who just went off about the church and
was pretty anti Mormon sooo.. But after that we ran into the golden
Francis who is from Nigeria. He is reading the Book of Mormon and is
in Alma!! So awesome and he is loving it :) he is so good at reading
he remembers every little thing that happened in the reading and
applies it in our lessons when we are teaching him! It's so cool :)
it's amazing going from someone who just bashes on the Book of Mormon
to someone who is developing this deep love like we have for it. It
really makes you open your eyes to the fact that God brings you down
and throws you trials and people that make you question your testimony
just so he can bring you back up and takes your weakened testimony and
uses it to make itself stronger by having an amazing experiences like
the one we had this week with Francis. The thing is normally we don't
see it this way because the two events might be far apart or my not be
very related but this experience really opened my eyes to that because
these two events were 30 minutes from each other. We had one lesson
with an anti who read half the Book of Mormon looking for things wrong
and writing them all down on paper and showing us all these faults he
thinks he has found in this book just trying to reck our testimony and
ruin our spirits. But then because God loves us and what's us to learn
and progress 30 minutes later we run into Francis who just lifts our
spirits and just makes us so happy seeing his growing testimony of the
truthfulness of this book. It's just amazing to see God work in this
way because we appreciated and were so much more great full for
Francis and the blessing he is for us because of what we had dealt
with earlier that day and we can apply this to life in general! God
gives us bad and trials so we will appreciate the good we have been
given it's just hard to see. But really if we open our eyes it is
everywhere. The lesson was really great that we had with him.
Another lesson I learned with that experience is that we are going to
get out of things what we expect. The first guys starts reading the
Book of Mormon with the intention of finding what's wrong with it.
Going along and writing down things he doesn't like or things he think
are contradictory. Basically he looked for the bad and what does he
find? What he was looking for (what he thinks is bad anyway). But
Francis went in with an open heart looking for the good in the book
and what did he find? A whoooooooole lot of good and now he is filled
with this joy and this holy spirit that we always talk about. And his
testimony starts with that and has been growing exponentially as he
continues to search and ponder on these holy scriptures. It's amazing
and we can apply that to anything. If we go in to something with a bad
attitude expecting the worst then that's what we are going to get but
if we go in with a good attitude looking for the best then that's what
we will find and we will be so much happier because of it.
We had two amazing lesson with Luise our obedience miracle. She is
super awesome and super prepared. We taught her the plan of salvation
and she was really liking it. And we talked so much about Jesus Christ
and his atonement for us and the spirit was so strong. But she is just
so amazing. She said she really liked one of the talks on Sunday about
honesty and that she was really trying to apply it to herself this
week. This blew me away. He first time attending church and she was
already applying the talks to herself. The active members don't even
do that! We asked her about the spirit and she said she felt it so
strong last lesson and she always feels it when she talks to us and
when she reads the Book of Mormon. She knows this church is true and
she knows the Book of Mormon is true. And she wants to be baptized. I
just don't know how much more prepared and perfect you can get. She's
a miracle. And we were put in her path to help her bring herself back
to Christ. I love missionary work.
We have seen some amazing sunsets too this week :) I love the sunsets
of Spain. There amazing. Also the picture is me with the Russian woman
Alina who is from that branch in Saratov and knew the missionaries who
got kidnapped personally so cool! I love being a missionary and I know
this church is true :) also I'm really sad to say it but transfers are
coming up... And unfortunately it's my turn to go.. Sooooo send me
letters now before I change addresses also if you send me a personal
email I will respond. I have my iPad again so I'm not dead :)