Week 20: Cadiz Casco Antiguo, Cadiz District
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Monday- so all the huge sales here in Spain are about to start, and they are sweet! You can buy a super nice suit for like 50 euros, so I was doing a little previewing. Then we went and played ping pong with our investigator Javi and he's for sure progressing. I think he's becoming much more comfortable in the church. Then these two people at the place where we were playing ping pong came up and started talking to us, so we taught them and they gave us their information. Then they asked if I wanted to play foosball and I said yes but if I beat them, they would have to come to church. Needless to say, I won... Haha just kidding but yea I did win so they promised me they'd come to church. It was way awesome. I just love having unplanned teaching opportunities. The Lord truly does work in Interesting ways. We have a terrible week of finding no one, and then finally, while playing ping Pong we find two new people. That's an example of the lord humbling you to make sure you're still willing to work!
Tuesday- we visited the less active that we are reactivating and we also met his son who we want to try and work with because he's not a member. Then we went by our new investigators, Desire y Geovanni but they were busy preparing for the Reyes festival tomorrow so they didn't have much time. Then that night the hermanas had some investigators that were really devastated because they had nothing to give their kids for Reyes and also didn't know if they had enough money to buy any food, so we helped the hermanas get some food from the huge bishops storehouse that we had collected a while back for our service project and give to the people as a surprise. We walked up the 4 flights of stairs and dropped off all the food, rang the doorbell and ran. It was the best feeling doorbell ditch ive ever had! Then we tried contacting some references we received from our office but they weren't there.
Wednesday-
Happy Reyes!!! Just like Santa clause in America, the Tres Reyes
bring naughty boys and girls coal. Well we must've been really bad
because we didn't even get that! Haha but we finally did get hot water
the night before so that was a huge present. But the work was a little
slow today, as it just is during holidays. So we just did the best
that we could and not many people really wanted to talk or really let
us in, so yea. But finally holidays are over so that's good! Except
now, Carnaval starts which is one of the biggest things in Spain,
and it's especially famous in Cadiz and apparently the streets can
get pretty bad... Literally I've heard it's just a month long festival
of inequity and intoxication.
Thursday-
This morning was way awesome. We taught our new investigator Desire.
She has so much desire to learn and it was an awesome feeling.
She really is concerned about where her mother is right now, because
she died sort of recently and she wants to know for sure where she
is. She just kept asking question after question and we told her we
would have to return to answer some of them! She told is she's really
happy to learn but that she doesn't want to be Mormon...(We'll see
about that) haha. Then We ate at Juani's as usual. Then we had correlation
with our ward mission leader. Then we had some other appointments
set with Less actives but they failed us. Then we tried finding
our Bolivian investigator because we haven't seen him in forever and he
wasn't there.
Friday- The
morning was zone meeting and it was cool. I did another musical
number with two other elders and we sang I'll Go Where You Want
Me to Go, and it was a cool arrangement by one of the elders here.
I literally did 0 singing back home, and now I'm doing so much, and
I guess its been fun. Then we talked about our yearly numbers. Our
mission fell short of its baptism goal with 347/542. But that's 347
souls brought to Christ so it's good. Our mission goal for baptisms
this year is 832!!!! It's way high, but I felt the spirit when they said that
number, as did all, so It is achievable. Then we came
back and did some reference contacting, and we got ahold of some people
we received. Then we taught two of our news we met on P day named
Zaira and Rocia and that was cool, they are interested and learning
more.
Saturday- We
played some FUUUTBOOL. More importantly, we invited one of
our less actives sons to play (who isn't baptized) and we got to know
him a little more. I have to say almost all of my progressing investigators
right now are under the age of 20. Young people, they are
good people to teach because it's hard to grow up as a teenager in this
downward spiraling world and people really need faith in Jesus
Christ and Heavenly Father! But yea it was way fun, and we got to
play in a way nice indoor court. Then that evening we were able to stop
by some less actives, most said to come back another day, and we contacted
more references. After that, we had a great family home evening
with one of the awesome families in our ward and it was a very spiritual
lesson.
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