Tuesday- So our morning consisted of having Correlation with our ward Mission Leader. Our hope is to get some of our newly reactivated less actives some callings, so Antonio said he'll talk to the bishop about that.  Then we had an absolutely amazing lunch with Milagros and Guillermo who are absolutely amazing people and their food was just amazing.  They served a mission together in Madrid about 10 years ago.  Our objective when we meet with members is to strengthen their faith, but I'm pretty sure in our lesson with them, they strengthened ours.   She basically told us that she has always been active since her baptism.  She said that when she was 32 and converted, she was converted.  Nothing was going to break her faith.  And it's because she does just all the simple things.  She reads the Book of Mormon daily, and she's always prayed and always attended church, and nothing has shaken her faith.  I think there'e something we all can learn from that.  Then we did some contacting and got some promising new future investigators!!! Wooohoooo!!! Luckily, even though our area is Casco Antiguo, we also have a little bit of Puerto de Tierra which is honestly where it seems most our success happens.  Then we met with a Less Active member and his non member wife, and they were just a little difficult... but God loves them so we love them too.  

Wednesday- So we had district meeting today in the morning.  Unfortunately our district leader, elder Holeman, is still super sick so my companion Elder Stephens lead district meeting today. We each gave talks on one christ like attribute that was meaningful to us.  I chose patience, because it's something I need to work on.  Then we had a lunch appointment with an awesome member and the food was way good and it was paella!! Then we did some contacting but couldn't find anybody who could meet with us, so we did more door knocking.  That was pretty fun.  We got the door slammed on our faces a couple of times, and honestly, I loved it! I felt like a true missionary.  We made a game to see how far we could get with talking before they slammed the door.  I think the shortest we got was "Hola, que tal Ho...." 'SLAM!!' It was funny.  Then we taught english classes and that was way fun as usual. Then our appointment that night fell through so we had to contact some more. And that was basically our night.  

Thursday- Wohoo!! We found out that we actually have a pueblo (village or small city) in our area now. It's called Puerto Real. So during our week we have to figure out what work we'll do over there because there's quite a few less actives and previous investigators who live there. So this morning was Thursday meaning lunch at Juani's!! It was great as usual, but then our lesson after with her ended up being extremely powerful from the stories she shared with us.  This week we focused on the importance of the Book of Mormon and we've heard some amazing stories from people as a result.  It truly is an amazing gift that we have.  Then the rest of the day just fell apart for us.  Everyone called us saying they couldn't meet today so we had nothing the rest of the day, even all our back up plans failed on us.  So we did so much proselyting and knocking doors.  And we received nothing from it as well!! I know I may sound frustrated, but truthfully I'm not.  It was honestly a super fun day.  I learn so much from trying to talk to people and Elder Stephens lets me take the lead on a lot and it's honestly fun.  And we always get at least one funny story from it.  And I was proud of us, because we kept knocking and kept knocking until the very last minute of the night.  We never gave up!!! Just like Aaron in the Book of Mormon.  We hear lots about Ammon and his work with King Lamoni and his Father, but all we really hear about Aaron is that he didn't have much success and was bound in prison and beaten. So i'm pretty sure it could've been worse for us! :) 

Friday- So this morning wasn't much.  We tried doing some contacting and we found some new futures that said we could meet with them later that evening.  Then something funny happened.  We were outside a less actives house and we knocked, but no one answered so we tried calling him.  And so we called him, and we could hear the phone ring in the house, and then he picked it up!!! So we could hear him through the phone and through the door, and he outrightly told us that he wasn't in his house at that time and couldn't meet with us!!! Haha, we just laughed about it and went and did something else.  Then we had lunch with our member friends Juan and Jessi, and that was great as usual.  And it was awesome, they invited us to go to Morocco with them this Monday for our P day! We basically knew that we wouldn't be able to, but they insisted that we call our mission president anyway, so we did and we got the answer we expected. President Andersen told us "You know elders, I'm going to probably have to say no on that one." :( But that's okay. :) And then later that day we met the people that we talked to earlier and basically their entire apartment.  It was super fun.  They were way nice and thought my Spanish was miraculous for only being in Spain for 2 months.  So that made me feel good! :) And we taught a lesson to them about the Restoration of the Church.  It's hard to tell if they're really interested yet, we'll what happens.  But man, the Word of Wisdom is a problem here in Spain... And then we met with a less active and that went well. We talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it was a great lesson.  

Saturday- As usual, we played futbol this Saturday.  And great things happened! First and leas important, I scored the game winning point!! It was so funny, I scored it and my entire team came and lifted me up in the air and began throwing me in the air yelling something I didn't understand! It was so funny and I was so confused because I had no idea that it was the game winning point... But it was great! Second, we met a lot more new people in this game today that are friends with Javi, so we'll see if we can meet with them too.  Last, one of the guys named Antonio said he would come to church with us tomorrow! We even called him and he seemed excited and was asking what he should where and where and when we would meet so we could go together.  So that's awesome.  Then we went and celebrated halloween during Medio Dia.  We went to burger king and bought some pumpkins and carved them.  And that's about it.  Halloween isn't super popular here.  The catholic archbishop of Cadiz came out a while ago and said that Halloween is bad so it's not really big here.  Even some of the LDS members aren't a fan of it... Then we met with some more people later that day and less actives and stuff.  Then we had an appointment with the Cowen family and they are so so awesome.  They gave us lots of candy as well for halloween and that was super nice of them.  

Sunday- Most amazing day of my mission so far!!! First, our friend Antonio attended church with us!!! And he had lots of questions and really enjoyed it, so much, that he wanted to meet with us tonight and talk about it.  So we invited the best ward missionary in the world, Jose who really helped a lot in the lesson.  And at the end I invited Antonio to be baptized and he said Yes!!! We set a date for November 28th.  I can't even begin to express my joy for this moment.  I am so thankful for God providing this miracle for us.  Me and Elder Stephens have prayed and fasted that we could find someone that would accept the gospel.  And who would've known that it came from playing Futbol Saturday mornings with a bunch of people.  It's funny, that's where a lot of our investigators are coming from.  We also that day had a great lesson with a less active member in the ward.  He suffers from depression that is on and off and he said he had a really bad week this week.  We taught him about faith because he feels like he has very little of it anymore.  That pained me so much to hear that.  So we really are going to try and help him regain that faith and hope in the gospel.  

This week turned out to be absolutely amazing.  I'm so excited that the lord has provided me and Elder Stephens the opportunity to have a date for a baptism.  It just goes to show, if you ask the lord with faith that you will receive what you need, and have patience the lord will provide in his own time. To be honest though, not an ounce of my faith would be tested if I never get a single baptism on my mission. Yea, I'd honestly be a little disappointed.  Not in myself or the Lord, but disappointed that people chose to reject the gospel. You seem to learn in European missions that no matter how good of a teacher you are or how strong you may bring the spirit, everyone has their agency.  So i guess the key is to never be disappointed in yourself.  As long as you try your best and continue in faith, the lord will do what's best for you.  But there are people waiting to know the truth.  We just have to keep looking.  

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