Elder Hirst update week 63
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Monday- p day, we took our long
journey up to the north of Sevilla to the wonderful Costco. We ate some Costco
dogs and bought some food, it was fun. Then that night was crazy. All of our
appointments failed us, and although Halloween isn't as big here, it sure is
weird. People do dress up all scary, and us being in the ghetto of Sevilla made
it even more scary. There arrived a point where there was a group of teenagers
and they started throwing oranges at us (there are many orange trees in
Sevilla). Anyway it was bad..
Tuesday- we had district meeting
and it went well and then we had exchanges with the elders from Alcalá de la
Guadaira, a pueblo just south east of Sevilla. I was with elder Grey and we had
a good time. First we taught some of our Nigerian investigators, Victor and
Rose. We don't know really how to help them progress, they don't really know
how to read and they don't seem to committed. Later we went my Margaret,
Gabriela, and Matías, the Argentinian/Bolivian family we've started teaching. It
went way well and we read a chapter in the Book of Mormon with them. They are
way cool, I just hope they progress.
Wednesday- the family actually
invited me and elder grey over for lunch and we offered to make the dessert, a
peach cobbler. So we contacted in the morning and met some nice people,
and then later went to start cooking with them. They made one of my favorite
dishes in this whole world. It's a Bolivian dish called Pique- macho and it's
just absolutely amazing. the lunch turned out great and we were able to teach
them a little more, especially Matías who's a super awesome guy. That evening I
was back with Reseigh and we taught a less active from El Salvador Who's facing
some tough problems in his life but he's super positive and really wants to do
the right thing, and we had a great lesson with him.
Thursday- weekly planning in the
morning. That evening we had more companion exchanges with the missionaries
from the pueblo Dos Hermanas. I was with Elder Rojas, a good mission friend
that I first met in La Mancha. He's from Madrid and he's just hilarious. We had
a good night we started teaching our progressing less active and she promised
100% that she would be at church. Then we found an awesome Brazilian family.
Later, we went with my comp and his comp to help move a giant mattress and
frame from one side of our area to the other for a less active. We sure were
exhausted after, but he's from El Salvador and made us all a really good
salvadoreñan dish. Salvadoreñan food is super good, some of the best. After, we
taught another less active who was one of the most famous classic guitar
players in Spain in the 70s so that was cool. He had a very bad car accident
that ended everything for him and he lost use of the entire left side of his
body and so it's sad. He was so lonely and so happy to have some company to
talk with him. He also has a man there who takes care of him from Nicaragua
named Melchizedek and he said he wanted to hear our lessons with him so
he could be way cool!
Friday- still on exchanges, we
went and taught our other progressing less active and had a very powerful
lesson about really pondering the Book of Mormon and not just reading it and he
said he would start applying it in his reading. That evening we visited our
Nigerian member Morrison, and he's doing way awesome. We talked about him going
to the temple soon and it's something he said he really wants to do. Morrison
is just my favorite guy ever, he just has so much swag, he's so chill, and he's
so spiritual. I love that dude. Later going home (we were in tres Míl our scary
part) and these gypsy kids like attacked us kind of, but It was more in a
playful way... probably. Anyway it was weird. Later we talked with a really
nice gypsy couple with their new born baby. It was way interesting to talk with
them, because they told us how gypsy culture really is. The goal is just to get
married super young and have as many kids as you possibly can. Anyway,
I've always sort of prejudged gypsies because they usually give us problems, but
it just goes to show that all people are children of God and we all come from
different circumstances and cultures and we should never prejudge just based on
that.
Saturday- in the morning we had
correlation. Our amazing ward mission leader Manolo unfortunately will be
leaving us to go get some more medical help in South Carolina and leaves the
next week. We'll miss him so much here, he was one of the best men I've met in
my mission. He treated all missionaries like his children, and missionary work
and reactivation are the most important things to him. That evening, we met
with the old guitar player less active and it was so fun because he just loved
the message we shared with him and wanted to play all his old guitar music for
us. It's so sad, he truly was an incredibly guitar player. Later we visited our
Argentinian family we are teaching, but only Matías and Gabriela were there. We
had a great lesson with us but they weren't sure if they could go to church on
Sunday so that was a bummer.
Sunday- we had a great miracle
on Sunday! One of our less actives we've been working with so much came to
church finally!!! We were so happy to see her. The rest of the Sunday wasn't
too interesting though.
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