Elder Hirst week 77
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Monday- We had a fun p day, we
went to the famous plaza de España (like my 6th time going or something) and
ate lunch with all the the missionaries in Sevilla and it was a good
time. That evening I just said my goodbyes to a few people, including our
amazing investigator Jorge who's doing really well, I'm going to miss him a
lot.
Tuesday- We had district meeting
in the morning, and it was a sad district meeting, i truly really loved this
district this last transfer, it was one of my favorites in my entire mission,
but it was a good way to end things off and I feel very grateful to have served
here in Sevilla with such a solid group of missionaries. That evening, it was
just more goodbyes to investigators and other people, man transfers are the
hardest part of the mission for me, i get really attached to places and people,
so i always start to feel like homesick (for the lack of a better word) of my
previous area. Sevilla truly has been an amazing place and god has given
me the opportunity to meet such great people. I'll sure miss it
Wednesday- it was a crazy day! I
had to catch a train to my favorite place ever for a 6 hour layover... i left
from Sevilla and had to stop in Ciudad Real, my previous area where i was at
for over 7 months! I had been in contact with the missionaries currently there
and they had set up some appointments so i got to go visit my convert Flor
(which was such an amazing experience to see her again, shes doing so awesome
in the gospel) and some other members as well. It was such a tender mercy from
the lord to see people who i love from that area too. Then later i took another
train from Ciudad Real to alicante where i met up with my companion elder
Greenhalgh! I think i''ve mentioned this, but elder Greenhalgh is in my group
and we were in the same district in the MTC in Madrid and good friends there
and so it is so fun to see him again and to actually be his companion! He's an
amazing missionary too
Thursday- we did weekly planning
in the morning and we have a really awesome area here in Alicante. Alicante
is very interesting, people from here take what they do very seriously, and are
quite open people. Fun fact, Alicante is the second most populated city
of Jehovahs Witnesses in the world, so it's like the equivalent of Rexberg
Idaho (or maybe Gilbert Arizona) for Mormons or something. But Alicante is like
the promised land of this mission, i love it. Later we had ward council
with all the leaders in the ward, and i can already see that this ward is
absolutely amazing and everybody works so hard in this ward. I was blown away
by how hard working this ward is, its so good that last month they achieved
100% home teaching and visiting teaching as a ward! I can't name many wards in
this world that achieve that very often. I got to meet a lot of the
progressing investigators of the area that evening, one of which is named Jesus
from La Linea de La Concepcion. Jesus in Gypsy and has An amazing story and we
are preparing him for baptism on the 28th of February.
Friday- we had district meeting
in the morning, and we have a cool district, i really like it as well. Later
that evening, we were able to meet with some other progressing investigators
that are working toward baptism, it is a family from Ecuador and they are
sweet. We also were able to teach one of this area's recent converts.
Saturday- We taught some more
investors in the morning, and then that evening there was a stake Priesthood
meeting held in Elche (which has got to be the most beautiful chapel i have
ever seen in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, it is just
gorgeous). Fun fact of Elche, Ellche is the city with the most amount of palm
tress in the world. There's more palm trees then people, and there are actually
laws apparently that if you build a house in Elche, you are require to plant a
certain amount of palm trees. Anyway, the stake priesthood meeting was
way cool, i can see that this stake has a lot of vigor and excitement right
now, there was not enough room in the sacrament room to fit like 1/4 of the
people there so people are excited about the church here. One of the recent
converts named Angel took us to the meeting and he's way awesome, i really love
angel. Also, found out that in my previous area in Sevilla 2, our investigator
Rosa was baptized, so that was great news!
Sunday- church was absolutely
awesome and i enjoyed it a ton. Once again, this ward continues to blow
me away with it's amazing work. I'm way excited to work here in Alicante with
elder Greenhalgh.
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