First of all, if you know me well, you know I
LOVE the Lord´s timing.
It it seamless and perfect and nothing happens by coincidence! Before
I came out on my mission, I wondered why I wasn’t called until
January..why did I not turn in my papers earlier so I could get called
earlier?, why didn’t I get to report in December when david archuletta
came to this very mtc?! Things like that. Well the very second day at
the Madrid CCM (MTC) I found out one of the many reasons there are and
will be for the Lord´s timing specifically for ME. So the
director spoke to us missionaries the second day at the MTC. He is a
convert. The missionaries taught him when he was about 15 or 16, about
30 something years ago. He named one of the missionaries that had
taught him then continued on with his story. Towards the end of his
address he mentioned the three missionaries that brought his family
the gospel, one of them being an “Elder Blackner”. My mind went back
to when President Mortenson briefly mentioned the Brother Blackner in
our stake served in Spain. I hadn´t thought much of it but,”Oh cool!”
until Brother Arjona said his name. After his devotional, I quickly
went up to thank him for his words and shake his hand and tell him I
know a Brother Blackner. That´s all I had to say and he said, “I was
not able to keep contact from him. He is from Tacoma. He is probably
in his fifties by now.” I KNOW HIM!!! He said, “I never mentioned that
name when speaking to missionaries before. I didn´t know why I did
this time, but now I know- you.” PLEASE TELL BRO BLACKNER J Brother
Arjona is the director here, he served a mission, his brothers served
missions, his family was baptized, he has a family now and he is so
inspired!
Next cool thing that Adam King needs to hear! One of my teachers,
Brother Rissi, served in Portugal 4 or 5 years ago and knows Adam!
Tell him that for me please J
Also, I found my tea tree oil haha, my blow dryer turned red hot and
started smoking the first time I plugged it in but I figured out how
to change the voltage and it works now thanks hartles!!
This past Saturday was……proselyting in el Retiro Parque of course! I
was companions with Hermana Diderickson this time. I LOVE her. She is
so sincere and sweet, but real. We have the exact same views on the
kinds of missionaries we want to be. I have a couple cool stories to
share from Saturday- Frist, Friday I had set the goal of reading 15
min. of BOM and 15 min. of PMG each night before bed because I just
wasn’t finding time to read them during the day and I was missing it…
I was going to continue in chapter 2 of PMG where I was at in personal
study, but I had the feeling to read in chapter 9 instead. Great stuff
in it as always, and it lead me to 2 aswesome scrips: Alma 31:34-35
and D&C 123:11-17 but specifically 16. The D&C v. 16 talks about a
small helm being of great worth to a large ship in a mighty storm. I
likened it unto myself as the small helm. Saturday was ironically very
stormy- windy, rainy, hail, cold…craziness! Anyways, as we were
leaving the park this couple stopped us and said a set of elders had
talked to them earlier offering a BOM but the kindly declined. The
elders had left them with a family proclamation pamphlet anyway. The
couple decided they were actually interested in reading it and asked
for a copy- we gave them an English and a Spanish and talked to them
about what we believe and a little about the BOM!(: after proselyting
we sing in the park and then leave. We had finished singing and
everyone wanted to leave because it was freezing and super stormy. A
few of us wanted to sing one more song so we were like no no one
more! The Lord knows I haaaate being cold, but the cold didn´t even
bother me that day. Had we not sang another song, we would not have
passed that couple when they needed us(:
Second park experience, there is a cool statue column thing, im not
sure how to explain it….., I compañera was testifying when all of a
sudden the clouds parted and the sun shone so bright. Gabriella´s eyes
got so big and she pointed to the sky and was like “el sol!” we all
laughed a little and inside we knew that was the spirit helping her
know what we were saying is true. She said she was from Brazil, so I
told her I have friends that have served there and are serving there
right now so it was cool to make a connection with her about that! I
cannot get her out of my head! I fasted for her on Sunday, but I pray
that she will be lead back to the gospel somehow if not through us. It
takes about 9 contacts before a person investigates the gospel! Just
keep planting seeds and eventually the right time will be right!!(:
President Lovell said I remind him of a Sister Barbie (Barby?, Barbi?
Idk how to spell it but maybe you can find her on the Malaga blog!) at
first I thought he meant if “Barbie” was a missionary I would be her
lol, and it just reminded me of when grampa called me Barbie, but then
he asked sister lovell if I reminded her of this sis Barbie, my
mannerisms, the way I carry myself and look, everything, and she said
yeah a blond version! So apparently she has dark hair but shes my twin
haha.
My district is awesome. All the teachers and the president say Abinadi
is outstanding. Elder Kirby is from England so he gets letters and
packages all time…he´s so sarcastic, we say his is that sass in our
district. I love all of them though, we are all a family (: Elder
Llavina sits next to me, hes always messing up my chair…hes from Utah,
and is the district leader now. Elder Lake used to be DL but is ZL
now, hes from Arizona. Elder Gibson is so sweet. Elder Wadsworth is
hilarious and has 11 bros and sis! Omg… Elder Byington is from Santa
Cruz!! and is super sweet at well, we talk about Cali all the time. I
miss it L
It it seamless and perfect and nothing happens by coincidence! Before
I came out on my mission, I wondered why I wasn’t called until
January..why did I not turn in my papers earlier so I could get called
earlier?, why didn’t I get to report in December when david archuletta
came to this very mtc?! Things like that. Well the very second day at
the Madrid CCM (MTC) I found out one of the many reasons there are and
will be for the Lord´s timing specifically for ME. So the
director spoke to us missionaries the second day at the MTC. He is a
convert. The missionaries taught him when he was about 15 or 16, about
30 something years ago. He named one of the missionaries that had
taught him then continued on with his story. Towards the end of his
address he mentioned the three missionaries that brought his family
the gospel, one of them being an “Elder Blackner”. My mind went back
to when President Mortenson briefly mentioned the Brother Blackner in
our stake served in Spain. I hadn´t thought much of it but,”Oh cool!”
until Brother Arjona said his name. After his devotional, I quickly
went up to thank him for his words and shake his hand and tell him I
know a Brother Blackner. That´s all I had to say and he said, “I was
not able to keep contact from him. He is from Tacoma. He is probably
in his fifties by now.” I KNOW HIM!!! He said, “I never mentioned that
name when speaking to missionaries before. I didn´t know why I did
this time, but now I know- you.” PLEASE TELL BRO BLACKNER J Brother
Arjona is the director here, he served a mission, his brothers served
missions, his family was baptized, he has a family now and he is so
inspired!
Next cool thing that Adam King needs to hear! One of my teachers,
Brother Rissi, served in Portugal 4 or 5 years ago and knows Adam!
Tell him that for me please J
Also, I found my tea tree oil haha, my blow dryer turned red hot and
started smoking the first time I plugged it in but I figured out how
to change the voltage and it works now thanks hartles!!
This past Saturday was……proselyting in el Retiro Parque of course! I
was companions with Hermana Diderickson this time. I LOVE her. She is
so sincere and sweet, but real. We have the exact same views on the
kinds of missionaries we want to be. I have a couple cool stories to
share from Saturday- Frist, Friday I had set the goal of reading 15
min. of BOM and 15 min. of PMG each night before bed because I just
wasn’t finding time to read them during the day and I was missing it…
I was going to continue in chapter 2 of PMG where I was at in personal
study, but I had the feeling to read in chapter 9 instead. Great stuff
in it as always, and it lead me to 2 aswesome scrips: Alma 31:34-35
and D&C 123:11-17 but specifically 16. The D&C v. 16 talks about a
small helm being of great worth to a large ship in a mighty storm. I
likened it unto myself as the small helm. Saturday was ironically very
stormy- windy, rainy, hail, cold…craziness! Anyways, as we were
leaving the park this couple stopped us and said a set of elders had
talked to them earlier offering a BOM but the kindly declined. The
elders had left them with a family proclamation pamphlet anyway. The
couple decided they were actually interested in reading it and asked
for a copy- we gave them an English and a Spanish and talked to them
about what we believe and a little about the BOM!(: after proselyting
we sing in the park and then leave. We had finished singing and
everyone wanted to leave because it was freezing and super stormy. A
few of us wanted to sing one more song so we were like no no one
more! The Lord knows I haaaate being cold, but the cold didn´t even
bother me that day. Had we not sang another song, we would not have
passed that couple when they needed us(:
Second park experience, there is a cool statue column thing, im not
sure how to explain it….., I compañera was testifying when all of a
sudden the clouds parted and the sun shone so bright. Gabriella´s eyes
got so big and she pointed to the sky and was like “el sol!” we all
laughed a little and inside we knew that was the spirit helping her
know what we were saying is true. She said she was from Brazil, so I
told her I have friends that have served there and are serving there
right now so it was cool to make a connection with her about that! I
cannot get her out of my head! I fasted for her on Sunday, but I pray
that she will be lead back to the gospel somehow if not through us. It
takes about 9 contacts before a person investigates the gospel! Just
keep planting seeds and eventually the right time will be right!!(:
President Lovell said I remind him of a Sister Barbie (Barby?, Barbi?
Idk how to spell it but maybe you can find her on the Malaga blog!) at
first I thought he meant if “Barbie” was a missionary I would be her
lol, and it just reminded me of when grampa called me Barbie, but then
he asked sister lovell if I reminded her of this sis Barbie, my
mannerisms, the way I carry myself and look, everything, and she said
yeah a blond version! So apparently she has dark hair but shes my twin
haha.
My district is awesome. All the teachers and the president say Abinadi
is outstanding. Elder Kirby is from England so he gets letters and
packages all time…he´s so sarcastic, we say his is that sass in our
district. I love all of them though, we are all a family (: Elder
Llavina sits next to me, hes always messing up my chair…hes from Utah,
and is the district leader now. Elder Lake used to be DL but is ZL
now, hes from Arizona. Elder Gibson is so sweet. Elder Wadsworth is
hilarious and has 11 bros and sis! Omg… Elder Byington is from Santa
Cruz!! and is super sweet at well, we talk about Cali all the time. I
miss it L
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