Elder Hirst week 89
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Monday- Our last p day we went
to a beautiful palm tree park with all the missionaries of Alicante and our
ward mission leader and his brother and cousin. It was super fun. We ate
lunch in Burger King and I'm always happy with fast food. That evening we
had The last family home evening with the amazing families we are always with
on Mondays as well as frank, Lourdes, and Erica and it was a great time.
Tuesday- we had district meeting
in the morning and it went great! That evening we were able to say goodbye to
quite a few people for elder Greenhalgh like the recent convert Blanca, a
member family etc... we also had the usual family home evening at the ward and
many people came to say goodbye to the 5 missionaries that are leaving
Alicante.
Wednesday- we woke up early and
took Elder Greenhalgh to the bus station. Man he could not be taking a
longer trip... it's going to be a 12 hour bus ride! Anyway, I'll miss him, he
was a fantastic companion and a great friend. But I'll see him in 3 months, and
I'm also sitting next to him on the plane ride going home. Pretty funny,
we sat next to each other on the plane coming here, we were in the same MTC
district, we were comps in the mission, and we'll be sitting next to each other
going home. Then my new companion Elder Pincock came in and it was just
so good to see him. We met when we were both serving in La Mancha and he has
got to be one of the funniest guys I know. And a great missionary too. Well as
usual on Wednesdays, we had many meetings with the ward leaders and then just
had to pick up some missionaries in our zone's companions.
Thursday- we had weekly planning
and it was great. That evening we were able to visit many people. First
was a new investigator named Isabel from El Salvador. She seems to have a
really sincere desire to learn and progress, she just works a lot so it's hard
for her to come to church. She has the cutest 1 year old kid though! Then
we had a lesson with Frank, Lourdes, and Erica.
Friday- that morning we stopped
by some people and then came up with the idea to go buy some stuff to decorate
the doors of the Mother's in our area (Because Mother's Day in Spain is this
Sunday) so we did that. That evening we helped a rather strange man with English, then we visited a less active in our area from Colombia and that went
very well. Then we went knocking some doors and were able to teach a nice Gypsy
woman in her door. And last we visited the recent convert Angel he continues
progressing well in the gospel.
Saturday- we played futbol in
the morning and tons of people from our area came it was way awesome! Then that
evening we did the little thing we had talked about for Mother's Day and it
went super great. It basically took The Whole evening so we didn't teach anyone
but we had some awesome miracles happen. We talked to a guy who lives in the
same building as some members and he invited us over to come share our message
some time. We also were walking and a nice family walked passed us and
said "Hello Elders!" (In english). That's usually enough to turn our
heads. It was actually a Filipino family living here in Alicante. They
are members and had no idea there was a church and missionaries here. So we
hope to be in contact with them. Also, my sister got married today so
Congratulations to her and her husband!
Sunday- Sunday was also full of
miracles. This guy just shows up to church and we started talking to him
and he's actually from Ecuador and his wife is a member. He's here in the
Spanish Military and he just straight up told us that he was there to learn,
meet the missionaries, and find out how to be baptized. He lives in the area of
the other elders but he's a huge miracle. Also some random investigators
i had never met showed up to church as well. So it was a great day. And
all the mom's in our area were very happy with the little Mother's Day gifts we
delivered. It has been a great week
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