Elder Hirst week 91
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Monday- p day was a good time,
we all went to the castle here in Alicante (which I've been to before) and it
was good. That evening we had our Ecuadorian family home evening as
always on Monday nights and It was really awesome, i sure love those people
there.
Tuesday- we had a meeting with
all the missionary leadership in Alicante and it went well. Then we had
exchanges with the elders here in Alicante, elder craven and elder Anderson.
I've been with craven on like 4 exchanges now and it was good, i love elder
craven! We were able to work with a less active who's super awesome and he
plays guitar very well, and is a big Pink Floyd fan so that's cool. Then we
helped prepare the ward family home evening, and then just went out to find
some people.
Wednesday- we went and taught a
less active that morning and it had been a while since we had seen him and he
wasn't doing so well which is sad because the last time we were with him, he was
doing great. Anyway, we just helped him understand that he needs to do
the basic things to stay happy. Then that evening i was back with my comp
and we just had lots of ward meetings and choir practice and there was no piano
player so i had to play piano and I'm not good at piano, all I've learned of it
has been here in the mission.
Thursday- we had weekly planning
in the morning and I'm just kind of relieved i only have 9 left to do in the
mission. Then that evening we got a call from a man who was baptized a
few years ago, but then he got 5 different cancers and he's unfortunately on
his last leg, and he said that the elevator in his building had broken so we
went over to his building to lift him up in his wheelchair up 2 flights up
stairs. Man were we exhausted after that, but it was great to be able to
help him. He truly is a man who has endured a lot. That night we were
able to teach frank Lourdes and Erica and it was a very good lesson.
Friday- that morning we had
district meeting. Then that evening was interesting, because every single
appointment we set that evening failed us. It gave us a good opportunity to
really look for people and we saw some miracles. We saw Lourdes and she
was just sitting at this ice cream bar with some friends and invited us to sit
down and introduce ourselves. We met their new friends who are a nice
Ecuadorian family. We shared the Book of Mormon with them and they
invited us to their home the next Friday. We're excited but it looks like they
actually live in the area of the hermanas of the other ward so we'll have to
pass them over. But anyway, it was a good evening in the end.
Saturday- we played futbol in
the morning with the ward and investigators and it was good. That evening
all of our appointments also failed us, but we figured that it just meant that
there were other people we needed to go find and there definitely were! We
talked with a lot of people who didn't want anything but before we were about
to go home, we decided we would go talk with one last person. We were
going and there was just this large African man who i thought i knew so i
greeted him (as if i knew him) and he was just way confused. He told us
his name was Martin and he has only been here for 3 weeks. He is from
Guinea Equatorial (the only Spanish speaking country in Africa) and so we just
talked to him and introduced ourselves. He asked us if he could come to
our church the next day and we said of course and that we would pick him up. It
was a great miracle. That night we made brownies and they turned out
great
Sunday- we picked up Martin and
went to church. He really enjoyed church. It was funny because during
sacrament meeting we had to get up to go sing in the choir, and we looked up
from the stand and saw he wasn't there. We were way sad because we thought he
had left. But after the choir number and a few minutes after he walked
back in and said that he just had to go to the bathroom. During the
classes he participated a lot and we went to take him home, he said "thank
you guys, for changing my life." Haha also, all the members were getting
to know him and they'd ask where he was from and he would say Guinea Equatorial
and they would reply "Wow you speak Spanish really well!!" He would
just laughingly thank them (considering Guinea Equatorial's main language is
Spanish). We also set up an appointment for the next day. We really think
he has a lot of potential. Anyway, miracles really do happen in this work.
Also, frank Lourdes and Erica invited us to lunch and made us a nice fish
lunch. Very good!!
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