Week 12: Cadiz Casco Antiguo, Cadiz District

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Monday- So this P day, we just did the usual stuff, then got together one last time with our district before all the transfers this Wednesday. It'll be sad losing such great people here and splitting our district but it'll be fine.  We just played some ping pong at this local like hang out place called the Casa de Juventud then played some soccer and that was way fun.  Then the rest of the day was just contacting a bunch of references.  Everyone that we contacted didn't have time today and said they'd be out of town this week!! But oh well.  

Tuesday- Today was the last district meeting of this transfer so it was goodbyes to our district leader and to hermana Nelson in Cadiz.  It was a very good district meeting though, and I'm going to miss having such a big and fun group.  After that, we went and contacted some more references.  Elder Stephens is now making me take the lead on lots of stuff like phone calls and knocking doors and what not, and I will say it is stressful.  It's very difficult for me to understand people as it is, it's even harder on a phone, but hey, it's all good! It's a great way to learn.  If I ever get incredibly lost, he'll help me out and stuff so it's fine, and it's been fun for me.  So none of our references worked out today, and most of our appointments got cancelled so that was a little sad, but we still had an amazing lesson! We had our usual Family Home Evening with an awesome family in the ward, and they brought a non member friend who has been having difficulties and has known about the church for 20 years, but has finally agreed to have missionaries come by her house.  We could tell she was feeling the spirit during our lesson, and the members shared some amazing experiences.  Honestly, if there is one thing I can name that is the most important part of missionary work, it is for sure members.  Without members, teaching isn't as successful.  


Wednesday- The day of transfers.  Our morning was basically helping others out with transfers and stuff so nothing too special happened.  It will different without hermana Nelson here in Cadiz but i know that it'll all be okay.  Then for lunch we went over to our friend Luis from English class's for lunch.  He and his wife honestly couldn't be nicer people.  They made us chili and had infinite amounts of cheese and bread and drinks and kept offering us more and were so kind to us.  They even invited us over for Thanksgiving and Christmas! They are such nice people.  Unfortunately, there also could't be a more anti-mormon person, he brought out his Book of Mormon which was marked up everywhere and had tabs and everything, but all it was intended for was stuff that disproved the Book of Mormon. He's so polite though that he didn't share any of it with us, and still listened to our short message, but unfortunately, I don't think Luis and his Wife will be baptized any time soon.  Then our night was going to new less actives we found.  One was a man named Juan who served a mission in Madrid and kind of confused me.  He said he still has a huge testimony of everything in the church and the Book of Mormon, he just doesn't think members are as strong anymore or something? I don't really get it.  Then we had an appointment with Antonio with baptism date, but he kind of fell through on us.  Then that night we helped the new hermana of Cadiz, hermana Anderson move in here.  


Thursday- Today was just the normal weekly planning routine.  We weekly planned all morning and then lunch at Juani's.  It was a really great message at Juani's.  We were talking about the importance of tithing and it was funny, Juani got almost frustrated.  She basically said "I don't like it when members say that can't pay a full tithe because they're worried about being able to support their family.  Name one person that you know that keeps all the commandments and pays a full tithe, and doesn't have food to feed their family.  That person doesn't exist because God will do as Malachi promises in Malachi 3:10 that we will be so blessed, we won't have room to receive it." It changed my entire perspective on tithing.  That 10% isn't anything we earned, it's just a small portion of the 100% God has blessed us with on this earth.  So later we visited a Less active recent convert, and she said she'd come to church this week so I hope that happens.  We went to that lesson with a Young Single Adult of the ward named Fernando, who basically is exactly like my Brother James, but the Spanish Version.  He was awesome and helped us out and also introduced us to another Young Single Adult named Guillermo that's a little less active, and we got him to promise that he would go to institute tomorrow.  Then on our way home, there was an enormous protest about women abuse or something going on outside the main government building in the central of Cadiz so that made it a little difficult to get home, but we eventually did.  

Friday- So this morning, we went to another city or Pueblo that's apart of our area called Puerto Real to have lunch with the second counselor of the stake Antonio.  The family was very nice, and we tried doing some work there as well. Puerto Real is completely different than Cadiz, so it was kind of weird.  Then we returned to Cadiz that evening and met with Javi, our 17 year old investigator.  Man, all these Jovens though, they can difficult.  Unfortunately, I don't think they take us very seriously, and they only care about Futbol and las chicas.  I guess that's what you'd expect from a 17 year old in Spain. But we met his friend Fernando, who is a way awesome guy.  He's also a joven of 15 years, but he's way nice and he seems to be really interested because he says his family is non practicing catholics (which is just about all of Spain it seems) but that he really has faith in Christ.  And we explained some of the Book of Mormon to him, and he seemed to think that it would make sense that God would not only speak to people in Israel but in other parts of the world, so he wants to learn more.  Hopefully we can get him to church (and maybe Javi if he would agree to wake up earlier than noon, man kids these days). Then we met Antonio and brought him to our stake Institute class taught by our stake president, conveniently in Cadiz, and he seemed to like it and enjoyed talking with people.   We just need to meet with him more so he can receive all the lessons and start making changes in his life.  The worst part was he called on me to answer a Question in institute!! I didn't give the most amazing answer, mostly because of the fear of messing up my Spanish in front of all the cool institute people, so it was way short.  But yea, so that happened.  

Saturday- unfortunately we had no Futbol in the morning, so we just did lots of street contacting. We met many people, most of which were not very interested. Then later that day we just did a ton of door knocking. We knocked on the doors of an entire building near our church and figured by the end of the night, we knocked probably around 70 doors in total! We did get about 8 people who were interested by the end of the day so that was cool! I will say, that was an exhausting night. Then on the way home, we ran into our favorite hooligans from my 2nd or so week here. They were super nice again and wanted us to come by another time to their little hangout place and talk. It's so interesting how the people you expect to me mean or robbing you end up being some of the nicest people to you. A mission can truly change your perspective on who people really are. How people treat others becomes much more important to you than how they look or anything like that. You start to remember that God "looketh upon the heart, and not the outward appearance" 


Sunday-  so today was just normal church as usual. Unfortunately, Antonio was in Jarez this weekend so he couldn't come which was sad. But we did have a less active we we've started visiting show up. He's way awesome, he served a mission, but he just sort of fell away from church after. Always said he had a way strong testimony though. Then after church, we ate at Milagros and Guillermo's house and they were super spiritually amazing as usual! Then we were asked by another less active in the ward to come to her new house and give it a blessing, so we went with Juan ferrezuelo and did that. Then we just went to see if we could pass by our Dominican investigator who we found out returned on Monday but she wasn't in her house. Then we went to follow up on some people we talked to yesterday but nobody was home which was strange for a Sunday night. 

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