Elder Hirst week 72
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Monday and Tuesday- we had
mission council in Fuengirola. It was really awesome, i always enjoy it a lot
because i learn a ton, eat great food, and get to see so many missionary
friends. It's just always a great time. We mostly just talked about our
mission's goals and plans and changes fro the year. It was some good
stuff. On the way back, i forgot my ipad and had to run out of the metro
from Fuengirola to Malaga to go grab it and we barely made it back to málaga to
take our train to sevilla on time. Then we got to Sevilla and i had forgotten
by backpack on the train. We all through it was gone (and all the important
stuff inside) but luckily we talked to the train people and they were able to
get it. Oh also on the train ride, we talked with these Irish rock
climbers and they were cool guys and we had a good conversation about
religion
Wednesday- we had district
meeting in the morning and it went really well. The evening we pretty
busy with some home teaching assignments to fill, as well as we taught our
investigator Andrew and he says he's for sure coming to church on sunday.
Thursday- we had weekly planning
in the morning. Then we met with our good pal Juan Carlos. Today is
3 kings Eve (three kings is basically like christmas here in Spain, it's the
day they give gifts and stuff to each other, and the eve has tons of parades).
He was with some other friends from El Salvador who aren't members and they all
invited us to go see the big three kings parade down in the center with
them. We taught them a lesson and then went to the parades. The
parades are just enormous and they all throw candy at the people and we got
tons of candy, and there were just tons and tons of people. It was a really
awesome day.
Friday- it was three kings day
and there were more parades! Everywhere we went, there were parades. We
taught that morning the recent convert Gabriela and she's doing well. Then we
just talked with people in the streets. That evening we visited the
recent convert Nigerian and we're helping him get his patriarchal blessing all
figured out and he's just doing amazingly. I don't really remember the rest of
the night being much, we mostly just passed by people who told us they were
busy with the festival.
Saturday- wow, we had an amazing
day! That morning we met with this guy we found named Jorge from Honduras like
a month ago in the pouring rain. It was a miracle that we found him and
we finally met with him and it was such an amazing first lesson. He has so much
potential and so much desire to get closer to god and is willing to do things
necessary. He really was someone the lord has prepared. It may be
difficult to meet with him frequently though. Then that evening we
invited morrison to come with us and we visited all our Nigerian investigators
and it went well. Then that night nothing too interesting happened,
people mostly canceled. Oh and i found out my sister is now engaged!!! Sounds
like they'll be getting married before i'm home, but that's alright i'll be
there and spirit and in cardboard cutout at the wedding. I told her before my
mission that if she were to get married during my mission, the condition was
that she had to get a cardboard cutout of me. Congratulations to her and
her Fiancé Kyle!
Sunday- Andrew came to church!!!
Unfortunately he didn't really like it, so that was sad. He really
doesn't seem to interested so we will probably have to drop him. But
church was great, basically every missionary in Sevilla is sick right now
though so that's sad. Anyway it was a good week! We're super happy the
festivals are over because it means people will be back in their routine and
able to meet with us. The festivals are always fun, but make the work
more difficult.
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