Elder Wiley and I are doing really really well. We´ve just been quenching our thirst with living water all week, and we feel great. Seriously though, this is the greatest time of my mission. I have never had so many desires to be a missionary!! Let me tell you about the miracles that we have been blessed with!!
ANDREA!!! She is my favorite person alive. Seriously. 16 year old Ecuadorian girl. We found her while searching for an old investigator. The old investigator wasn´t home, so we knocked some doors and then started to leave. Then this lady named Vanessa? looked down the stairs from a higher floor and asked us who we were looking for. We contacted her, and she told us that she would let us come by another day. But she didn´t tell us which door was hers. So then while on an exchange with another missionary, Elder Datwyler and I went back looking for this elusive Vanessa. We knocked every door, and we didn´t find her. BUT we did find a 16 year old girl that told us we could come back another day when her mom was there. We talked to her a little bit about God and she told us that she was atheist. But we kept talking to her and invited her to pray. About a week or two later, we finally went back (we didn´t think there was much potential) and it turns out that she is AMAZING!!!!! Very prepared. She has felt the spirit so strongly and she came to church yesterday and loved it. Her and her mother Maria have fechas for the 29th of this month, but I think that we will move Andrea´s fecha to the 22nd because she is ready. She´s super funny. Very serious and quiet and intelligent. She cried during the testaments movie when the old prophet guy was killed. Which I thought was interesting. So we told her that he was killed for reading and preaching and protecting the very book that she holds in her hands (it was the BOM). It was a cool lesson. And she just loves Joseph Smith. After the second lesson she told us that she had already got an answer that he was a prophet. And she just kept talking about this ¨weird¨ feeling that she gets when she prays. It´s so great. She went from not praying at all and doubting God´s existance to praying, reading, and feeling the spirit every day. All in a few short weeks. God has really worked some miracles with her. Her mom is great too. Another plus is that Andrea has tons of cousins and family that live close by. YES.
Cesar. Mexican boy of 14 years. STUD. We are having a hard time meeting with him. His mom Claudia is wonderful. SUPER catholic but that´s ok. We are working with them. It´s actually a family of five. C was married before, and had a kid- Cesar. Her ex husband is a member. But he left them when he found out that she was pregnant. Awesome, right? Yeah. Thank heavens for the Atonement. Anyway, she met this Spanish guy online and came to live here. So they had two daugters who are now 7 and 4. Cutest girls ever. The Spanish father, Manuel, is atheist. He won´t listen to us. But he´s a nice guy. We just want Cesar to come to church. He wants to get baptized and he really likes us. He has been praying too. But I think the mom is trying to make it difficult for us. UGH. C has a fecha for the 29th as well, but we´ll see what happens.
M. Spaniard. 24 years old. Best friend of J, an investigator of ours. I love J to death. But she doesn´t really progress. She´s A´s sister. B is doing a bit better. Finally finished her tests. We´re going to try and help her come unto Christ this week. We´ve been giving her a break because of how stressed she was. But now we´re coming in like a wrecking ball. (they play that song all the time on the busses here) M has a fecha for July. But she is kind of hard to meet with too. And hasn´t been to church yet. But we´ll see. If she reads and prays, she´ll get an answer. And then she´ll want to be baptized. It´s as simple as that.
We also have this cool couple from Cuba and Peru. But we found out yesterday that they are moving. A the wife is going back to Peru and M her Cuban husband will follow her shortly. So that´s kind of sad. But hopefully their life is better there. Their house almost burned down yesterday. A was alone and we were about to knock on her door when she came bursting out of the door crying saying that her house was on fire. There was lots of smoke and stuff. What had happened is she left a plastic bottle on the stove in a pot of hot water, and it ended up burning the entire baby bottle. And there was lots of smoke. It could have been poisonous. But we got that all taken care of. It was an exciting change of pace :)
We found this really cool Columbian family. This little kid on the street gave us this reference. So we went by a few times and the mom just tried to keep us out but finally she decided to let us in. And she (her name is Y) said that it was the first time she had ever let any religious people in her house. She just felt like she should. She´s christian but she´s against churches. So yeah. Her husband is awesome. E. They have two kids. It´s one of the few put-together families with a good dad that I have found here in Spain. Usually the fathers here suck. We always find awesome women that would progress super well if it weren´t for their dumb husbands. But this guy is awesome. He´d be such a great priesthood holder. We´ll see what happens. They are moving to London in like five months, so we have to pick up the pace.
We have other people, but my time is way up.
So things are going well. I really am just loving life. The mission is the best. I really really really love Spain. I will cry so hard when I leave this place. I am glad that I still have time left! I still have so much left to do and learn.
I´ve been studying the Savior lately. And the Holy Ghost. And I just love teaching people that want to learn. The Book of Mormon is still true, just so you guys know. The mission has CHANGED my life. It´s insane.
Love you all
Brigham- you´re a stud. I am going to write you a letter about what you can do to prepare.
I am glad that Quincey´s birthay was so great :) He is seriously the cutest kid. I love the fedora. What a classy little guy. I miss him a ton.
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