Elder Hirst week 81
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Monday- P day was way fun, we
took a train down to Elche, and took a hike to a waterfall with lots of
missionaries. It was a very great time. That evening we had the
usual family home evening with some of the ward members and it was good .
Tuesday- We had district meeting
and it went well. Then we had exchanges with the district leader of our
district Elder Craven and his companion elder Moore. I was with Elder Moore,
from Virginia, and we had a great exchange, I love elder Moore a ton he's a
super cool guy and we basically just hit the streets and talked with a lot of
people and found some great people.
Wednesday- We continued the
exchange and basically did the same thing as the previous day, and too found
some great people in the streets, many of which were people who had just moved
to Spain from some non Spanish speaking country, including a french girl which
was way awkward because i don't speak any french, later some Brazilians, which
is better because you can at least sort of understand between Spanish and
Portuguese, and a Bulgarian guy. Good times. That evening I was
back with my comp and we had lots of meetings with the ward leaders and it was
good.
Thursday- Weekly planing went
well, and then we were able to pass by a lot of people that night, and we were
able to teach Frank Lourdes and Erica and we talked a lot about baptism with
Erica and how the marriage papers are going for frank and Lourdes. Erica
still doesn't feel like she's quite ready but feels like she will get baptized,
and the marriage papers are going good. This family is doing so well, it's just
been a testimony to me to see how much the gospel has transformed their family.
Friday- We taught the less
active Jaime who has been doing so incredibly well, he's been coming to church
3 weeks in a row now. Then that evening we had more exchanges with the
district leader of the other district in Alicante, Elder Acevedo who goes home
in less than 2 weeks, and his companion elder Erickson. I was with Elder
Acevedo from California and we were super busy all night, we were able to teach
quite a few investigators and less actives, and eventually we taught Angel the
recent convert here who continues doing incredibly well. He blessed the
sacrament last week and now has a calling. He feels very happy to have
the gospel in his life
Saturday- most Saturday
mornings, the two Alicante wards play futbol at the church, and the rule as
missionaries is we can only go to futbol if we have someone we are teaching
(less active, recent convert, investigator) who comes. Well we've never
actually gone, but now Frank has started to come so we went and it actually
turns out that a ton of less active YSA from our area that we've been trying to
meet have been going to futbol so we got to meet some of them and it was a
really good time. Us missionaries still all suck compared to these people! That
evening my companion unfortunately got quite sick so we had to stay in, but it
gave me a chance to give the apartment a good ol deep cleaning.
Sunday- Church was very good.
The most packed I've ever seen it ever. Every single seat was filled and this
chapel doesn't have an overflow so there were even people standing in the back.
An entire row was taken up by member Swedish tourists here on vacation so we
had to do a ton of translation. I also was asked last minute to give a talk, so
i did. All in all it turned out to be a great meeting. Then we actually were
able to go teach the restoration to one of the people me and elder Moore met on
our exchange, and it went great! She's from Bolivia and seems to have some good
potential.
It was a fantastic week!!!! Man
is time flying by... i just don't want it to end so soon.
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