Elder Hirst week 81

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Monday- P day was way fun, we took a train down to Elche, and took a hike to a waterfall with lots of missionaries.  It was a very great time.  That evening we had the usual family home evening with some of the ward members and it was good . 


Tuesday- We had district meeting and it went well. Then we had exchanges with the district leader of our district Elder Craven and his companion elder Moore. I was with Elder Moore, from Virginia, and we had a great exchange, I love elder Moore a ton he's a super cool guy and we basically just hit the streets and talked with a lot of people and found some great people. 


Wednesday- We continued the exchange and basically did the same thing as the previous day, and too found some great people in the streets, many of which were people who had just moved to Spain from some non Spanish speaking country, including a french girl which was way awkward because i don't speak any french, later some Brazilians, which is better because you can at least sort of understand between Spanish and Portuguese, and a Bulgarian guy.  Good times.  That evening I was back with my comp and we had lots of meetings with the ward leaders and it was good. 


Thursday- Weekly planing went well, and then we were able to pass by a lot of people that night, and we were able to teach Frank Lourdes and Erica and we talked a lot about baptism with Erica and how the marriage papers are going for frank and Lourdes.  Erica still doesn't feel like she's quite ready but feels like she will get baptized, and the marriage papers are going good. This family is doing so well, it's just been a testimony to me to see how much the gospel has transformed their family.  


Friday- We taught the less active Jaime who has been doing so incredibly well, he's been coming to church 3 weeks in a row now.  Then that evening we had more exchanges with the district leader of the other district in Alicante, Elder Acevedo who goes home in less than 2 weeks, and his companion elder Erickson. I was with Elder Acevedo from California and we were super busy all night, we were able to teach quite a few investigators and less actives, and eventually we taught Angel the recent convert here who continues doing incredibly well. He blessed the sacrament last week and now has a calling.  He feels very happy to have the gospel in his life 


Saturday- most Saturday mornings, the two Alicante wards play futbol at the church, and the rule as missionaries is we can only go to futbol if we have someone we are teaching (less active, recent convert, investigator) who comes.  Well we've never actually gone, but now Frank has started to come so we went and it actually turns out that a ton of less active YSA from our area that we've been trying to meet have been going to futbol so we got to meet some of them and it was a really good time. Us missionaries still all suck compared to these people! That evening my companion unfortunately got quite sick so we had to stay in, but it gave me a chance to give the apartment a good ol deep cleaning.  

Sunday- Church was very good. The most packed I've ever seen it ever. Every single seat was filled and this chapel doesn't have an overflow so there were even people standing in the back. An entire row was taken up by member Swedish tourists here on vacation so we had to do a ton of translation. I also was asked last minute to give a talk, so i did. All in all it turned out to be a great meeting. Then we actually were able to go teach the restoration to one of the people me and elder Moore met on our exchange, and it went great! She's from Bolivia and seems to have some good potential. 



It was a fantastic week!!!! Man is time flying by... i just don't want it to end so soon.

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