Those Sundays when the relief society president makes an announcement to feed the missionaries and everyone comes up to you and invites you over! We had a fulllllll week of eating citas:))) blessings! Haha or
cursings....we were sooo full everyday! But it's better than being hungry right? Thursday we had 3! Not sure how we made it out alive on that one..
It was a great week! We great lessons with a lot people, but I'm going to talk about one young man specifically, He is from Ecuador, he is 18 years old, and the missionaries have been teaching
him a little while before I got here to elche. He had been to a few baptisms and met a couple members from member present lessons, but had never been to church in the three months that he has been receiving
the charlas.....until YESTERDAY! My comp and I gave him a church tour on Friday and introduced him to family history work. His parents aren't very interested in the church...yet!...they are always working
except Sunday's and so they always go out of town for the weekend and that is one reason why he's never been to church. I told him a few weeks ago to talk to his parents and plan a Sunday in the future to
leave free for the morning so they could all come, well they didn't but he did! anyway, like PMG says-family history work would be a good way for people to to be brought closer to their families and to the
gospel. So he took the papers home and we told him to work on them with his mom and dad and then we can put it all in the computer. They started working on them so we will see how far they got this week! Did
I mention he came to church!? Satan was at work too, the sacrament water was salty and we were one of the first and only to take it when the bishop jumped up and told everyone to stop drinking it haha.
Thankfully it was blessed, but really!?. Never in my life has something like that happened haha, so they changed the water real quick and re did it. Super funny. Anyways, another funny story! We gringos thought we were going to a "capilla limpieza" (church cleaning) on Saturday and we showed up and it looked like a big party. Eventually we asked someone because we were so confused, but it was the olimpiada de los niños. (Kids Olympics activity!) Hahahah. So we helped out with that and it was so fun:)
Yesterday this old man we know said hi to us while we were walking the street and gave us a handful of candy, one was strawberry, one was mint, one was lemon, and the rest were coffee. My comp threw all the
coffee ones away immediately and ate the strawberry so I was left with mint or lemon...neither sounded good so I didn't take one. Then a lady was walking behind us, and for some reason I asked my comp for the
mint candy even though I didn't want it, wasn't really sure why but the question just came out of my mouth. So I was struggling to open it and I finally got it, then it dropped and broke all over the ground:(
sad day...but it was the perfect conversation starter! Haha. We started talking with this girl and ended up really connecting with her and shared our beliefs and why we are here. She said what strikes her so much is how young we are and we are sharing the gospel for so long away in a foreign place. I said that this was evidence of our testimonies of the reality of our message and the blessings it brings to people and families. Then of course we got her numba:) pray for her. I know this church is true, and that we have to fight upstream constantly, but that it is worth it! There is so much more in this life than what the world has to offer. There is a solace and peace and an indescribable happiness that can be found and treasured In the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It isn't just for a few people, it is for every one of us, as heavenly fathers children. And it is available, today. The Book of Mormon is evidence of this message and we each need to find out for ourselves if it is true, through reading and praying and then listening to the spirit. I have done this
personally and testify of the happiness and joy that is found within living the commandments, making and keeping covenants with the Lord in His temples, and putting others before ourselves. I love the gospel- the more I live it the more I love it! And my family!! I love you all, but man do I love my family! Xoxoxoxox
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