Elder Hirst week 75
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Monday- it was a fun p day, us
missionaries here in Sevilla went to the cathedral and went up the tower.
That's where the movie assassins creed was filmed so that's cool. I'll now have
to see it when I get home. That evening we visited Juan Carlos, a less active
that we work with and he's not really progressing so it's hard, and then we
visited Rosa who has a baptismal date for the 4th of February so we are helping
her prepare for that
Tuesday- we had district meeting
in the morning and it was good. Then that evening we met with a new
investigator named Paco who's from Sevilla. He's an interesting fellow but
might have some potential. Then we met again with Rosa and everything is going
great with that
Wednesday- we did weekly
planning in the morning, then that evening. Then we did exchanges with the
elders from dos Hermanas, elder Booth and elder Van Moos. I was with elder van
moos and he's a really great guy, pretty New in the mission but a great
missionary. We later had the world mission conference. That we all saw at the
church here in Sevilla. It was absolutely awesome and we got some cool new
changes. Now the missionary schedule has changed so that we as the missionaries
can make more decisions about our schedule. We still go to bed and wake up at
the same time, but what happens in between and how we do the work is up to us,
it's fun. Also we gained 2 hours more of p day so that's awesome
Thursday- me and elder van moos
went and did a ton of contacting that morning and it was fun, we met some great
people. The work has been really weird here in Sevilla lately, we've been
finding some amazing people who just kind of drop of the map and don't answer
their phones nor are at their houses. It's strange. We met with Juan Carlos
later that evening and tried to help him some more and he said he'd try and
change his attitude a bit so that's progress. That night we met with rosa again
and things still are going great.
Friday- in the morning we went
by a ton of people and talked with lots of people in the street and we saw a
but of success. That evening we met with a less active Maritza and she's doing
really great, she's come to church and is really showing signs of wanting to
change and come back. The rest of the evening there wasn't too much that
happened.
Saturday- today was a really
tough day. We had correlation in the morning, and Rosa's baptismal interview
was scheduled for that evening. Well an hour before the baptismal
interview which was going to be done by our district leader who is an hour and
a half away by train in Córdoba, we get a call from Rosa saying there's
problems at her work and she couldn't make it. Our district leader was already
on his way and yea, it was just sad to have to call them and tell them they
came down for nothing... so we were really bummed. We had nothing to do that
night so we decided we would just go to these really tall buildings in a part
of our area and just knock doors all night. We knocked over 60 doors and nobody
let us in or even let us talk with them for more than 30 seconds so it was a
tough night, we went home with our heads a little down, but hey it's all
good.
Sunday- today was a very amazing
day. Unfortunately we've like lost all contact with Rosa, she's not answering
or anything so we'll try and figure out what happened there. But on the way to
church this lady contacts us and says that she's from Nicaragua and her son
lives there still and that he was baptized fairly recently into our church. She
said he's going to soon be a missionary and had his papers in, but that she's
not a member and wants to start coming to church and be baptized so she wants
us to teach her! What a miracle! Also our Nigerian recent convert received his
patriarchal blessing that evening, and we had to be present so that we could
translate the blessing from Spanish to English. It was truly one of the most
memorable and spiritual moments of my mission.
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