tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91943495742092847542024-03-14T05:29:02.047-06:00Elder Anderson in EspañaSpain Madrid Misson Nov 2013 - Nov 2015
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04036597572510182883noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194349574209284754.post-30667114051220280222015-11-02T10:44:00.000-07:002015-11-09T13:41:56.917-07:00Week 101 - November 2, 2015<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Dear Mom,</span><br />
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I haven't had time to be trunky and I honestly don't feel like I'm going home. everything is so surreal and I am frankly in shock. But this is it. The last email!</div>
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Mixed feelings is an understatement! but the only way to describe it. I feel numb,Ii feel like I'll just keep on working after next week but I know it's over, and I don't want to leave, but it's time to see you guys and all that fun stuff. </div>
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All people talk about is me leaving!! haha but it's alright, there is too much work to do so I'm not getting distracted. </div>
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We found one new investigator this week whose name is Ricardo. We talked to him about the restoration and families and he was really liking it. He is from Venezuela and he has talked with missionaries before so we are really excited about him. He also has 2 daughters and a wife, so we will be trying to meet with them too. </div>
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We had a trainer's and trainees meeting and once again it was a meeting that I got a whole different experience than everyone else because I was asked to translate for the natives. (the meeting was in English) and as always it was a miracle. My brain was fried afterwards, as always, but I was once again able to be a testimony of the gifts of the spirit. </div>
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I also translate at church for the Hermano hein and so I've been speaking a lot of English lately, but I'm also pretending to be a native this week for my comp. I won't speak English to him and I act like a don't speak it so this has been and will be super fun!! </div>
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President Pack is an amazing president. he's an amazing man and I'm so happy to have served under him and President Jackson. Men who have shaped my life. </div>
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I will work hard until the end!!! I was reading this morning and my thoughts were "how will I endure to the end?" and I was reading through the last part of the Saviors life and I read in John 13:1 and it said that he knew his life was about to be over but what he did showed us an example of the key to endurance, "los amó hasta el fin." "he loved them until the end". I got my answer. In dad's email he said "that which we serve we love." and that is truth. I have grown to love these people. I now love these people as my own. At times I think I should have been born a madrileño! (¡debería de haber nacido madrileño!). People tell me all the time "you are super Spanish" "you do that because you´ve turned into a Spaniard". I've become one of them and I love them with all of my heart. The key to my enduring to the end lies in loving them until the end. The savior did so, and I will do the same. I will love them to the end and I will work hard until the last second. I love you all!!! </div>
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I love you mom. Thank you for loving me with a love I didn't know existed before. I have felt of your love and support through every moment in the field. I always knew my mother back home was right their supporting me and loving me through it all. Thanks for the prayers. Thanks for your words of comfort, love, and help. Thanks for bearing me, carrying me, delivering me. Those messianic words Elder Holland spoke of have new meaning to me after everything you have done for me while I have been in the Lord's service. I love you and am forever indebted to you for what you have done for me. I love you mother. You are the most deserving among women of that title. My Mother is the best of the best. Thank you. Everyone here in La Laguna knows how amazing you are and how excited Ii am to see you. When they ask if I'm ready to leave my response is always "No, but I am ready to see my mother again."</div>
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Till next week,</div>
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At the top of El Tiede</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04036597572510182883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194349574209284754.post-75400308976387506432015-10-26T09:52:00.000-06:002015-11-02T12:52:02.409-07:00Week 101 - October 26, 2015<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">I don't really have any time at all but we are continuing to work hard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">and try and find people. Still waiting on the fruits. We tore through</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">the area book and we are now passing by all the members to try and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">develop a relationship because for some reason it's hard to on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Sundays. We have a new ward mission leader and he is great. He will</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">do great things for this ward. But in the meantime we are still</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">scouring and bearing testimony. I know it will pay off someday. Thanks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">for your words mom. They're what I needed. I know I'm doing what the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Lord needs me to do. And I need to do it until the end because I am</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">I know God is at the helm. And it's taking a lot of faith to open this</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">area but I know he is guiding us. It's been a week of progress and</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">We went to El Teide today (measured from the bottom of the ocean,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">which is its bottom, it is the third tallest mountain in the world or</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">something like that) So we went there with President Pack today and wow it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">was beautiful!!! I will send some pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Have an amazing week!! I will send a good final email next week. And I</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">will also be sending a letter that I want you to read on the way</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">to the airport. So if it says "aeropuerto" on it. Don't open it yet!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Until you're coming to pick me up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Love you all. Have an amazing week!!!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04036597572510182883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194349574209284754.post-59208373428125279672015-10-19T09:26:00.000-06:002015-11-02T12:51:29.929-07:00Week 100 - October 19, 2015<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Dear mom,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Thanks so much for the email mom. It helped me so much. It's a very</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">emotional time in my mission and it's so comforting to hear that from</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">you. I try so hard to be a true disciple and I know I'm not perfect</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">but it's what I'm striving for. So thank you mom!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">To answer your food question I have just been eating healthy foods</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">lately in the piso. And with members well we haven't eaten much. But</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">when we did we ate Cuban food haha. Haven't had much seafood at all.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Oh and the Germans make good food! They made bratwursts and sour kraut</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">so I assumed that was really German. Haha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">This week was a good week. We did A LOT of work in the area book. My</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">companion has been making a ton of calls to practice talking to people</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">in Spanish so that's helped him! We have been setting things up with</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">people we meet in the street and from the area book but not much has</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">come through yet. A lot of stuff has fallen through, but we will keep</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">trying!! That's what the mission is all about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">We were making some plans on Thursday to meet with the Bishop and we</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">were praying for the opportunity to meet with him and we were planning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">on setting something up with him when we saw him on Sunday. Then</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Thursday night he called the other elders and said "elders I want to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">meet tomorrow. Let's meet at 11" so that was the absolute biggest</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">miracle. We were able to finally talk with him and start to work with</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">While making calls in the area book we called a lady named Elia. She</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">seemed kind of skeptical about meeting but she agreed to meet. She had</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">designated spot and she came around the corner with her son. She was a</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">little worried because we were strangers calling her and she didn't</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">know who we were but in the end we taught them about the restoration</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">and we were starting to develop a good relation with her and her son</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">José. We will be meeting again with them tonight. We are really</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">I have had a lot of fun training!! It's great to have a companion who</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">wants to be obedient and work hard. He's progressing and his Spanish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">is coming along well. I speak to him (or try to at least) in Spanish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">all day. It's super fun. What's funny is I'm super excited for the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">time he will have in the mission and he's super excited for me to get</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">home haha. He says it's going to be a whole different world. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">He's </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">hilarious and I'm bummed </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">I've only got 3 more weeks with him. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">The 12 week training program is </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">amazing!!! I love it and I'm learning a ton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">I love you all. It doesn't seem real that I will only be emailing 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">more times after this. I feel like I will be out here for forever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Have an amazing week and never forget who we all represent as his</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Spiritual thought for the week is the following invitation, which I</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">will proceed with a couple things from this week. The ward put on a</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">theatrical presentation about the people waiting in the spirit world</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">for us to find them. (A great man in the ward name Emilio wrote the</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">history work. On Sunday during 12 weeks we discussed how we could use</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">family history in the work. And I can feel "el espíritu de Elías" as</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">we say in Spanish. The spirit of Elijah. Lately when we have been in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">the chapel waiting for things I have been trying to do family history</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">on my iPad and now I am even more excited thanks to this week. My</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">about our ancestors. And try and find some names we can take to the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">temple. I found Alfonso V and Alfonso VI (kings of Castile y Léon, a</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">people waiting for us to find. So go find them! I promise that as you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">do so you will be filled with the spirit of the lord and as the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">apostles have promised you will have a greater protection from the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">temptations of this world, you will be protected from the fiery darts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">of the adversary. I promise you'll be filled with "el espíritu de</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Elías" because that is what has happened to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Love you all!! Have an amazing week!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">A lot down, 3 to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Love,</span><br />
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What a week it has been. Another one has flown by and I've been very grateful lately for the every moment I have to be a part of this great work. In the service of our King. </div>
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First off I wanted to let you know, there will be a zone training the last week of the transfer , so if you want to write me one last time you can send letters to me through the mission office and I will get them, my last Thursday. </div>
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Well, I don't really even know where to start. I'm learning that things don't always come quite as fast as you want them (a lesson I feel like I've learned over and over again in the mission but it's been a good reminder). We are working extremely hard and I feel like we are laying the foundation and I'll be leaving before its dry but that hasn't stopped the desires to work hard. We are searching for people to find like crazy. We have been doing a lot of work in the area book and talking to a lot of people in the street. It's a hard process but we are slowly but surely finding the people that are ready. The miracle of this process has been that as they've basically thrown us out here and said, "Alright! Go find!" We have found. The Lord is truly preparing the hearts of the people and I am constantly reminded of the words in Alma 13:24 "For behold, angels are declaring it unto many at this time in our land; and this is for the purpose of preparing the hearts of the children of men to receive his word at the time of his coming in his glory." The lord is preparing His people. He's trying to touch all of his children's hearts, and the elect are listening and being gathered. We have found two men and a woman who I am extremely excited for. Pepe, a nice Christian man who is from Tenerife. who at first said "I don't really share your beliefs" and then at the end accepted a Book of Mormon. We will meet with him on Wednesday. We found another man named Miguel, also a Canario, who was very nice and we will be meeting with him tonight. We also found Blanca last night. A lady from Quito, Ecuador and she accepted a Book of Mormon and is excited to meet.</div>
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We have also been teaching a man named Miguel (from here, from Tenerife) he said to us during our first lesson while we were reading about Christ's gospel in 3 Nephi 27:13-20 "you know I feel like I haven't been able to truly live the gospel with past missionaries, but this time will be different. I want to live this gospel". So we are going to help him make the changes he wants to make. Super humble man.</div>
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My companion is awesome!!! I love him so much. He's a great missionary. His Spanish is improving every day and he is working hard. He's got a great understanding of the gospel and is well prepared. The training program 12 weeks is really fun and it's been great for both of us to review the basics of the work. We are doing the Lord's work, in the Lord's way and he's doing awesome!</div>
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We were finally able to start meeting members this week. I don't know if I've ever mentioned it but I have been so impressed with the faith of the members here. They are an amazing example of faith, sacrifice, and love for the Lord. They endure so much social pressure from family and friends just so they can live the gospel. It's amazing. I love the saints here in Spain, the Canaries, and Europe in general. They are an amazing example to all.</div>
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An amazing example of this faithfulness to the Lord is the example of the Hein family. From Germany. They are a retired couple living here. He speaks a little English and are in the very beginning of the process of learning Spanish yet they come every single week to church, despite not understanding anything, to partake of the sacrament and share their wonderful smiles. They are members of the ward family despite their inability to fully communicate. He can say a few things in Spanish but she doesn't speak Spanish nor English yet they go to every activity and social because they love the Lord and His church. Every Friday we go and eat with them and this Friday we were going to a lesson in their town and we needed a man to get in to a lesson and we called him and next thing we know this 70 or so year old man comes sprinting around the corner with a huge smile on his face. They're such a faithful couple.</div>
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We also met with Fiona, a 27 year old less-active member originally from Scotland. She has been inactive for a few years and has gone away for work reasons and a couple little doubts. She expressed her testimony and love for the gospel during our visit and we testified of God's love and how he simply wants us to come unto Him. We invited her to church. Called to remind her to come on Saturday night and she came!! She showed up and loved it. It was awesome to see her partake of the sacrament again after so long without it. So that was another miracle for the week.</div>
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I cannot express with words how beautiful this Island is. From the east side of our island you can see Gran Canaria (another island) and when we are on the west side we can see Teide (a giant volcano) and La Gomera (Another island). The houses on the cliffs next to the ocean make me feel like I'm in Greece at times and the beautiful black sand beaches are amazing. The ocean is gorgeous and it's somewhat of a desert. Just my beautiful home off the coast of Africa. I love it here. It's unreal.</div>
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"13 O how great the plan of our God! For on the other hand, the paradise of God must deliver up the spirits of the righteous, and the grave deliver up the body of the righteous; and the spirit and the body is restored to itself again, and all men become incorruptible, and immortal, and they are living souls, having a perfect knowledge like unto us in the flesh, save it be that our knowledge shall be perfect.</div>
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14 Wherefore, we shall have a perfect knowledge of all our guilt, and our uncleanness, and our nakedness; <i>and the righteous shall have a perfect knowledge of their enjoyment</i>,<i> and their righteousness,</i> being clothed with purity, yea, even with the robe of righteousness."</div>
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Through the power of the resurrection we will also live again. And we will be restored to a " perfect knowledge". I found in verse 14 a blessing I yearn for. It's the part I put in italics, "<i>and the righteous shall have a perfect knowledge of their enjoyment, </i><i>and their righteousness</i><i>" </i>At times we have a hard time seeing the good we do. Seeing how our efforts to be righteous are worth it. It's hard to see the good in us. But as we keep trying, keep moving forward, living the gospel of Christ, the day will come when we will be able to recognize the good we did and realize we did a lot better than we thought we did. Don't get discouraged if you think you're not doing very well at being a disciple. Our father loves us and the day will come when we see what we did through different eyes. Just one more blessing through the atonement and resurrection of our savior.</div>
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I love my Savior and I love His work. </div>
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Have an amazing week. I love you all!!!</div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Well it was a crazy week. Got my new comp Elder Romney on Tuesday and</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">flew out on Wednesday. We arrived on the island and a couple hours</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">later I led district meeting. Then we went back and the next couple</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">days were spent getting settled in. Taking the old area book (that was</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">literally a binder with some papers just shoved in it) and organizing</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">it and trying to find our way around town and finding people. It's</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">been a slow week when it comes to the progress of the area but it's</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">been fast other than that. Now to answer a few questions. I actually am</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">serving in a ward that has 4 elders and they were actually here before</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">(well one of them) and its Elder Gorge! My old companion! So it's a</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">little bit easier because we are opening up a companionship in the</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">ward but the thing is there is nothing. We walked into the piso and</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">there was one usable Book of Mormon and a couple of pamphlets. Thank</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">heavens Elder Gorge is here because he's been able to help us find</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">things. We went out to a pueblo called Puerto de la Cruz and met a</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">couple members and a less active lady named Carmen. So we are going to</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">start working with them. Puerto de la Cruz is beautiful!! But a very</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">My companion is doing good! He is learning Spanish and has amazing</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">desires to learn it and do the work. It's great to be with someone who</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">has desires to work hard and be obedient. He's a great missionary and</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">will do amazing things here. We are both learning how to do things</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">here in the islands cause wow, it's a lot different than Madrid. We</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">can't drink the water here so we have to buy it at the store for the</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">week. We don't live right on the coast (about 25 minutes in the above</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">The work is coming. We're just finding right now and so we will just</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">continue to lay the foundation for future missionaries. It's gonna be</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">5 more weeks of hard work and I'm trying my absolute hardest to give</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">it my all. It was a couple interesting transfers in B5 after Elder</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">Cahoon left but it shaped me and helped me grow. Now he's giving me</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">one last mountain to climb before I come home and I'm gonna summit it.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Conference was amazing as always. I have come to appreciate it more</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">and more. As dad described it it's like finding an oasis in the desert</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">(or something along those lines) it was well needed and a good</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">spiritual recharge to help me keep going strong.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">I don't even know where to begin with what I learned. I learned so</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">much! But I loved Elder Uchtdorf's talk. What he said really comforted</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">me. I think I've tried for too long to complicate my discipleship. I'm</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">going to simplify things and not beat myself up so much. Sometimes I</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">feel like I don't do good enough but then I realize, I'm trying to be</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">perfect right now rather than improve and strive for perfection. I've</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">seen perfection as a destination and not as the journey it is. So I'm</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">going to simplify things and enjoy the journey. What you said mom at</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">the end of the email really spoke to me, it's what the spirit has been</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">telling me all weekend. My goal for the next 5 weeks is to find joy in</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">the journey. And what better place to do it than paradise?</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">This island is amazing!! I know the church is true! There are prophets</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">in Israel and we just spent a weekend at their feet. I love you all!!!</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">Love,</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: normal;">¡Hurah por Israel!</span><br />
<span style="line-height: normal;">¡El Reino de Dios o nada!</span><br />
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My comp is a great missionary. He's going to do wonderful things in this mission. So cool they emailed you. I'm so grateful for their prayers and thanks for your prayers mom. </div>
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1) There are 12 missionaries on the island. There are four of us in<br />
our ward. We are opening up a companionship in the ward (which is a<br />
little bit easier, and it's a blessing. Opening up the area completely<br />
would have been a very difficult task<br />
so it's been a blessing to have another companionship here to<br />
help us out)<br />
2) The church is outside of the town about a 20-30 minute walk.<br />
3) We are not sure how many active members there are, but it seems<br />
like there are quite a few! I will let you know next week once we've<br />
been to a sacrament meeting.<br />
4) It is a ward.<br />
5) The Canary Islands was made into a stake in 2013 a couple months<br />
before I got to Spain. It is called the Las Palmas Stake.<br />
6) Tourism is huge. There are also a lot of retired and rich Germans<br />
who come to live here. They are also a huge producer of bananas here.<br />
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Training is fun so far! He's got a lot of fire and it's awesome.<br />
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Have an amazing week dad.<br />
I love you!!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Well it was a crazy crazy week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I don't have a ton of time, due to the fact I spent the day with Elder</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">America) It was super fun!! Elder Mullins was in the district a couple</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">transfers back and he's an absolute stud!! But yeah, this email's gonna</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Well this week Elder Peterson and I had the assignment to go inspect</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">As for transfer news, It was quite the process in finding out what my</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">informing me that I would be training. On Friday I went to a training</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">for all the trainers and President told me a little about my</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">assignment. On Saturday I found out that I will be 1) Training 2)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">opening up an area called La Laguna on the Island of Tenerife in the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Canary Islands and 3) I will be the district leader for the Tenerife</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I am beyond stoked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Thanks for the emails! I'll be able to better respond next week!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I love you all!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">¡Hurah por Israel!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Well it was a great week! We had the leadership council and man it was</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">amazing. We discussed the Sabbath Day and the sacrament and how we</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">can better teach repentance and help people repent before baptism. It</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">was (as always) just an amazing experience.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">The zone training we gave went amazing as well. The spirit was strong</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">and I learned so much from it. I feel like the missionaries learned as</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">well.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">So we helped a man in the metro. He was an old man who had been lost</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">for 3 hours and so we offered to take him to his metro stop. We had</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">been on our way to pass by and I feel like the Lord sent us in that</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">direction to help that man.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I got to see Miguel and Silvia on Saturday!!! We ate lunch together</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">and it was so good to see them! They are working on preparing to get</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">married in the temple. They have a ways to go but they'll get there!</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I also got permission to call Nadya and I had a great conversation</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">with her. She's doing good. She is working on getting back to church</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">there's just some issues there but she was so grateful for my call and</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">said whenever I want to go to Russia, I'll have a place to stay.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Miyaret was baptized!!! It was a great day! We almost had a Graciela</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">fiasco repeat (the "I won't get baptized if I have to wear that"</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">scandal). It wasn't to that extreme but she did not want to wear the</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">jumpsuit and the mom was mad. So she wore one that was way too big for</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">her. I have developed a lot more patience '</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">cause I handled this situation a lot </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">were gonna </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">start helping him.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">We found Agustin (a man from Ghana) he is a less-active and we finally</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">passed by at a time he was home. He was super excited to see us and to</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">meet again!! He is an elder and was a counselor in the young men's</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">presidency so we're gonna work on getting him back:)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">It was a great week!!! I also got to go on an intercambio with elder</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Overson! It was super fun!! We were able to reminisce about old times</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">in B9 and as we taught together it was just like we never had been</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">apart. It was super fun!!</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Great week!!! We are now in week 6 so there are transfers this</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Saturday and the next time I email you it will be the first week of</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">my final transfer.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Cool to hear you talked with Elder Peterson's mom! I'd love to meet his parents!</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">He's a great kid and a great missionary and I count him as one of my</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">companions. I go on so many splits with him and we have a great time.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Super cool!</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Thanks for all your prayers!! I love you all so much! Have an amazing week!</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Love,</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Elder Anderson</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">¡Hurah por Israel!</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">¡El reino de dios o nada!</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Enviado desde mi iPad</span><br />
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Well it was a great week. </div>
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Like absolutely amazing. </div>
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First off my companion has turned his attitude around 100%. Out of the blue, I don't know what happened, nor why it changed but it was a 100% difference this week. We studied 6 of the 7 days and it was unreal. </div>
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We have been working hard and it was just an amazing week. I am just extremely happy right now.</div>
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This week we were working a lot with the ward leaders. We have begun to go one by one to the home teachers and train them on how to home teach and how to minister. It's been a great opportunity to help the ward grow and progress. It's been awesome! </div>
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We made the call to repentance!! and it went fantastic!!! Things have completely changed as well. We just needed time and to have a chance to talk to them. We talked about where our hearts are and having the attitude of Nephi and obeying because we know the Lord commands it. </div>
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The baptism was changed to next weekend so I will let you know how it goes next week:) but she passed her interview so all we need is to finish planning everything!!</div>
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We found an inactive whose name is Patricia and it was amazing. She was so grateful for our visit and was almost in tears. She kept saying, "It's time to come back, I need to come back".</div>
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Sorry for the short email!! but it was an absolutely amazing week. This week will be great we've got the leadership council and a zone training. </div>
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I just hope you guys know how much I love you. The work is going great. We worked a ton with the ward this week and I'm really excited. I did some shopping today for the family and I think I got a couple cool things:) I'll be getting some more in the future:)</div>
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I love you all!! So glad all is well back home!!</div>
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Have an amazing week!:)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04036597572510182883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194349574209284754.post-88866929532693854992015-09-08T11:50:00.000-06:002015-09-08T11:50:00.802-06:00Week 94 - September 7, 2015<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Dear family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Well it was a good week for the most part. Still trying to resolve </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">some issues with the missionaries in our zone and trying to keep the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">work going. Things continue to march forward and I'm really </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">pleased with myself. Despite my constant feeling of inadequacy I was </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">able to reflect this Sunday on the week and I know the lord is proud </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">of me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I think Lolo is basically off the radar for baptism for now. He came </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">back from Malaga. We found him and talked for a while about things and </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">he committed to be baptized the 12th (we were thinking he was ready </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">and everything) when we came back to the park later to find him </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">smoking and drinking. We pulled him aside and had a very good talk </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">with him. He talked about how with the people he is with (a bunch of </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">homeless Romanians) it is at times hard to remember who he is and </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">what his standards are and how it's not an addiction, it's just the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">occasional cigarette or beer when they insist, and so we talked about </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">how he can prevent that and avoid those situations and overcome </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">temptation. He was very grateful for our visit and was excited to i</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">mprove, repent and change. But we haven't seen him since. So we don't </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">really know what to do. We are going to keep trying our best to meet </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">with him and help him change but it's just been impossible to meet </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">with him. So, he will not be baptized this weekend and probably not in </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">the near future but one day he will! He's got a testimony of this </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">church. I've got his email and his Facebook so I'll be able to stay in </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">contact with him. He also might be moving to England soon, or to the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">south of Spain for a few months. So that's the news on him. He will </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">make the covenant one day. But for now I'll just keep doing what I can </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">to help him out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Vilma's daughters have been sick ever since their trip to the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Philippines and so they haven't been able to meet. A member who lives </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">in their building also told us she doesn't think that she got married </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">while she was there. We aren't 100% sure but we will find out. Vanesa </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">hasn't answered for a few weeks and no one knows where she is. So we </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">will keep trying to contact them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">So it's been really rough because all of the work we have done with </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">them since April is starting to fall through and it's really sad. I </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">have to be honest, I wanted to see "the fruits of my labors" and see </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">them baptized. It would have been so cool but I don't know if I will. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I'll keep trying!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Miyaret will be baptized on the 19th! She's doing really well and is </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">really excited! So things are going great with her!:) she's a great </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">girl and is preparing herself well. She loves reading and praying </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">every day and absolutely loves Young Women's!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">We are still working with Marco, the man from Ecuador who was baptized </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">years ago and wants to come back now. He's gaining a testimony and </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I've been really grateful to work with him. I feel like if nothing </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">else goes right here in barrio 5, I was at least able to help him start </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">to gain a testimony. The good thing is lots of things have gone </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">great here in barrio 5:)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">also uses a lot of slang terms that are hard to understand and he has </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">a super thick madrileño accent so I don't blame the younger Americans </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">for not understanding him. I'm the only one who fully understands him </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">of the Americans. But they get impatient and contentious and are </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">driving the spirit away because they don't want him to talk a lot, </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">they say it "wastes our time". This has been going on for many </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">weeks. The reality is he gives us great information and yeah he </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">chatters sometimes but he wants us to be informed so it's been really </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">good to have this time with him. As well, my comp and I have been able </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">to develop a strong relationship with him. The truth is there </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">hasn't been much progress in the ward in regards to the work the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">missionaries have been doing and I have been studying, and fasting, </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">and praying to know what we need to do. It comes down to having a </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">better attitude, dropping the contention, and stripping ourselves of </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">pride, and working effectively with the members. So the night before, I </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">was up really late studying and praying and looking for scriptural</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">help and I also was studying the handbook of instructions, and some of </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">the information and things they gave us at the zone conference this </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">week. So I developed a plan for our ward, and found some scriptures to </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">talk about the contention. So the next day after coordination I talked </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">to them about Alma 4 and how the church "began to fail in its </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">progress" (verse 10) because of the pride, and contention of the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">people. I then defined contention with 3 Nephi 11:29-30. The </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Spanish translation is really cool because the verbs mean "to be </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">agitated" or "to be irritated" and I talked about how we can get</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">better and the blessings that would come from improvement, one of them </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">being progression in the work. Then I presented my developed plan </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">for working with the ward leaders with our newly called ward mission </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">leader. (Who will be sustained and set apart hopefully next week) It's </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">been a great time for me to develop my leadership skills, and even </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">further my knowledge of church government and how things should work </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">according to the handbooks. It's been a great time of growth and </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">patience for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Funny story, yesterday my comp went to bed when it was time to study </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">as a companionship and so I went to my desk and I yelled in, "Hey! </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Ready when you are!" And then I waited a few minutes. Nothing. So I </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">sang a hymn really loud. I got through all four verses, nothing. So I </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">knelt down and offered a prayer out loud. Yeah, I made sure he heard </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">me. "Please bless my companion that he will join me in the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">companionship study we are going to have." Finished my prayer. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Nothing. So I began to read out loud from the missionary handbook. N</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">othing. Finally as I was reading the How to Begin Teaching points in </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">chapter 10 of <i>Preach My Gospel</i> he came lumbering in put on a shirt and </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">we studied together. Hahaha! It was funny! But hey, whatever works </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">right? I'll never forget that prayer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Zone conference was amazing!!! I ordered the pizza and I don't think </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I'd ever ordered over the phone that many before. I also was the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">interpreter again! And as always it was an amazing experience. I r</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">eally enjoyed it. I love translating and interpreting. So much fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">recommend because mine expired at the end of last month. I absolutely </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">love President Pack. That man has been called of God and I am so </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">grateful I'm serving with him. He's a great friend of mine, and I've </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">developed a great relationship with him, even in this short time. We </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">had a great talk about a lot of things, like life after the mission, </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">service in the church, my goals and my education and career plans, it </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">was a great conversation and I just want to say he is an inspired man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">We discussed possibly an extension, the possibility of staying longer </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">in the mission but after discussing it, we decided it would be best to </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">go home on the designated date, November 10th. I have a lifetime of </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">service ahead of me so I feel and think it's the right time to be </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">In the end it was an overall good week, a lot of frustrations, a lot </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">of miracles, but I'm loving every moment. As I always say, I love this </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">work. I love my Savior and I know He lives. Thanks for all your love </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">and prayers!! Have an amazing week!!!</span><br />
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In Torrejon! We went and visited some people there today because </div>
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Sí lo has dicho bien!! You said it right:) Well done! It's so great to hear about all the adventures from your week and I'm always grateful for the update!! I cannot believe that school has started. That's just super weird to me. I've been dreading the coming of this fall for a while now and it's finally here. Just got to keep working hard and not worry about the little time I have left. I always thought that the end of my mission would be the easiest part because by this point I'd know what I'm doing and I'd be in a good rhythm, that is not the case. It's very difficult. I'm maintaining a level of obedience, and hard work. My work ethic and my heart are still in the right place, I'm still giving this work my whole heart, might, mind and strength because my love for the Lord is stronger than it has ever been. But it's just hard. For numerous reasons. Still helping my companion make the changes necessary which requires a lot of patience. It's really testing my good qualities to the max and changing those negative qualities I have. I'm learning even more than I did before the importance of good communication and listening. I thought I checked those off on the "lessons to learn list" but unfortunately I've got a lot of growth to make. The good thing I've been able to see though has been my overall improvement over time. I look back at who I was before and my very limited relationship skills and I am a new person. I have developed so many abilities here and it's thanks to a lot of the rough moments that continuously come my way. So I will continue to patiently and cheerfully submit to the will of the Lord and I know it will make me so much better. </div>
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Miracle number one for the week! Miyaret! The daughter of the lady from the ward who wants us to teach her. We met this week and she basically told us, I've been coming to church for ten years but because of some difficulties with time and other things I haven't been able to be baptized yet. (She's 13) She expressed her testimony of the Book of Mormon and said "this is the true church, I can just feel it". She will be baptized the 12th of September. It's been so fun to meet with her! The lord has prepared her well and all we have to do is basically show up and review things with her. </div>
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Miracle number 2! The elders from barrio 6 passed us a reference named Graziano. He is from Italy and is just a stud!!!! He is the coolest guy ever and said "I saw the Mormons in the street and said hey! Mormons! They're in my country too, I wonder what they have to say" and went and talked to the elders so we will begin to teach him next week. Super excited!!</div>
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Vilma and Vanesa are back, but it's been tough to meet with them. Vilma's daughter was in the hospital, so keep her in your prayers!! We don't know what's going on exactly. The grandma only speaks Tagalog and a little Spanish so we could barely get that out of her. So I'll keep you updated on that!! </div>
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Lolo has been working in Malaga again this week. So he should be back today. (At least that's what we've been told) ha! We aren't gonna give up on him!! So we will just keep the faith and keep trying!!!</div>
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We met with Elizabeth and she was really worried that we were going to have her go out and proselyte in the street after baptism haha so we told her that wasn't a requirement and talked a little about member life. It calmed her fears! She says she knows the Book of Mormon is true and she believes the church is true. She just works on Sundays so she can't come to church. Which is a big bummer. It's the only thing impeding her progression! She's doing good though!</div>
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Overall it's been a good week. Just trying to plug along! Things are going well.</div>
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I invite you to continue to seek to have those effective studies of the scriptures so that we may strengthen our testimonies and our will to stay faithful to the Lord no matter the consequences. I hope you all know I love the Lord. He is my King and I am His servant. </div>
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I love you all!! Thanks for your support and love. Have an amazing week!!! </div>
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¡El reino de dios o nada!</div>
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I will have served here in Barrio 5 for as long as I served in Barrio 4, but it feels like b4 was a LOT longer. My time here has flown by!! But I'm so excited to continue to work here. </div>
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The bad news for the week is that Lolo was not baptized. He went to Malaga for work a couple weeks ago (like I said last week) and he was going to come back sometime last week. We called and passed by daily but he never answered or was there. Wednesday rolled around and we had to cancel the baptism, and we had no clue where he was. Thursday he gave us a call and explained to us what had happened. While there, trying to find a bus to get back, he was robbed of all his money and a lot of his things. (I don't know if he was beaten and robbed, but he was for sure robbed) and he has been stuck in Malaga for an extra week now. He still had his phone sim card and had put it into a phone that the red cross allowed him to use and he was able to call us from there. He still has desires to be baptized but he has been stuck down in Malaga so we will have to have the baptism another weekend. So it was really hard for me to wait till Saturday for transfers. If I would have been transferred, I would have missed Vilma and Vanesa's baptism, and Lolos. And although that made me sad thinking I could possibly miss all that, I was comforted, and was not afraid one bit because I was ready to accept whatever the Lord had for me. I have a testimony that President Pack has been called of God and that the Lord's hands are in the transfers. But it was very nice to know I will be staying.</div>
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We had the leadership council this week. It was amazing!! and I continued in my service as mission interpreter. (I think interpreter is the right term, because it's a live translation rather than written translation). I interpreted the meeting for the Spanish speakers for the parts that were in English. It was amazing. I have been blessed over and over again with the gifts of the spirit. Our God is a God of miracles! Have miracles ceased? I say unto you, nay! Neither have angels ceased to minister unto the children of man. Because I've lived it. I saw so many miracles this week. Miracles I will share and miracles I cannot share over email. But when I'm home I can tell you about. </div>
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The funny part of the interpreting was there was a video we were watching and in a part of it someone was reciting the First Vision. I haven't heard it in English for ages and I have it memorized in Spanish but there are two lines that are swapped in their order in the translation from English to Spanish in Joseph Smith History (how I am supposed to remember that when I'm always saying it in Spanish? no idea..) So when I started to say the First Vision in the microphone I was lining it up to his words perfectly. I wasn't getting cocky nor showing off but it was pretty cool. But then he said the line that was switched around and I got thrown off. I was embarrassed! I sat there in silence and missed the next couple lines. Then got right back to it a couple lines later.</div>
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Learn from my mistakes! In the work of the Lord, never lean on your own knowledge and understanding. The moment you think you know better than the Lord, and begin to "show off" the spirit will not be able to guide you and your personal results will not turn out to well, and you´ll probably be really embarrassed. Trust the Lord, and never think you know better than Him. Trust His guidance even through the "parts" of your service to Him that you "have memorized" or that you "already know". Never relax on being guided by Him and doing His will. </div>
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The Zone training went well. I feel like I learn more preparing for it then I do going to the ones where I'm not giving the training! I also have fallen in love with speaking in public. My public speaking and communication skills have bloomed while serving as a missionary. It's been an amazing blessing. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04036597572510182883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194349574209284754.post-11484541596533184242015-08-17T12:10:00.000-06:002015-09-08T12:11:24.842-06:00Week 91 - August 17, 2015<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">
We only could meet with Lolo on Friday, and haven't seen him since. Please, please, please pray for him!! I'm a little worried, but not a ton because I know that the Lord is in charge. He's got Lolo in His hands:) We will be passing by today. Thanks for your prayers in his behalf these past week, but let's keep begging together and in the end, the results will be even sweeter, the happiness even more pure for all we have gone through to help him.</div>
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The miracle of the week is a man named Roberto. He found us on the metro, he called out to us, "mormones!!" and started to tell us how he had been to all sorts of churches and he hasn't liked any of them yet. He came to our appointment the next day. Had started to read in the Book of Mormon. He began to explain to us that he has been an alchoholic for much of his life. He isn't allowed in his parents house. He doesn't have contact with his 20-year-old daughter and has hit absolute rock bottom but he says despite his depression, he knows God exists and he wants to find the Savior. He is reading and praying and is really excited. We gave him a white shirt and a tie and he put it on and was almost in tears. He is so happy to just come and speak with us and read in the Book of Mormon because it brings him peace. Pray for his happiness. He is struggling but I know he will find healing. He has such sincerity and real intent! </div>
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It's been a good week. My companion is doing good! He makes awesome Peruvian food and is a great kid:) I've really enjoyed my time with him. I'm learning so much!! It's pretty cool to have a native companion. It's a really neat experience!! 100% of my life in Spanish right now. Like every bit. It's super awesome. I feel beyond fluent in Spanish at this point in my mission but don't worry if I come home and my English is a lot better than most foreign missionaries, (it won't be perfect I don't think, but it will be good, and I don't know if I'll have issues with remembering words!) Thanks to my translating experience I've maintained my English pretty well:) </div>
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Keep the faith!! My spiritual challenge this week is simply that we strive to have daily scripure study, and as we go to the scriptures we need to take our problems and that which we are pleading with our Father to the scriptures and seek answers. It's something simple, but that's the beauty of the restoration of the gospel, it's a gospel of beautiful simplicity. I want to hear from everyone this week how they found answers to their questions, or trials, or problems in the scriptures.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04036597572510182883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194349574209284754.post-48573664013129909572015-08-10T11:54:00.001-06:002015-08-10T11:55:15.402-06:00Week 90 - August 10, 2015<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">¡Hola familia mia!</span><br />
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We went to go meet with Lolo on Monday, wasn't there. Tuesday, wasn't there. Wednesday, wasn't there. We called him every single day and didn't pick up. We were so worried, and was the main worry in our prayers for the first half of the week. We called him during weekly planning in a desperate try to get a hold of him, and he answered!!!! and he was so excited to hear us. He told us he had been called to work down in Malaga for the week. Holy cow, I had been scared to death all week that he took off! But he told us he could possibly be back on Sunday. We called him on Saturday to see and there were some complications, the man who was supposed to bring them back had never shown up. But he said, "Our brothers are down here! There's a lot of them!" and told us he had found the Elders there and was going to be going to church down in Malaga. WHAT A RELIEF!!!! He said "Yes, go ahead and announce my baptism in our ward, of course I'm still going to get baptized next week." After all that worry and prayer, all was well. We should be meeting with him tonight, but will be finishing the preparations for the baptism this week. So keep it in your prayers that all continues to go well! </div>
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We went to go teach Elizabeth and Sol this week and it turned out that Daisy, Angelina, and Selina were also there. So we got to teach 3 more of their friends. AN AMAZING LESSON and at the end Sol asked us to "pray for her" because her leg was hurt. We were able to give her a priesthood blessing. Right after, Elizabeth got up and asked for a blessing because "lately she hasn't been feeling good spiritually" and so we gave her a blessing as well. The spirit of the lord was thick. You could feel it in the air. The power of godliness was truly manifest (D&C 84:20) </div>
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Yesterday we went to a member's house. (They were from the Philippines) and we were talking about testimonies, and how they are our greatest tools when sharing the gospel. Then two of their friends walked in and we started to talk to them and the members bore powerful testimony. It started off with them saying, "We are Catholics sorry!" to them accepting a Book of Mormon, committed to reading and praying about it, and a return date (next Sunday at 6:00). Their names are Lornan and Ronel (if i wrote them down right). I'll confirm that next week, Filipino accents are hard sometimes haha. Keep them in your prayers!!</div>
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The work keeps chugging along!! I am so happy. And nervous. We went and visited the Buenos today (remember them? from b4?) and saying goodbye to them was so hard. I had a sick feeling in my stomach knowing it may be the last time I see them. It took every thing in me not to cry. With only 13 weeks left I dread the day I have to say goodbye to everyone, and this amazing country of Spain. This has become home and, I promise mom, I will enjoy every moment!!! </div>
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If you promise to do the same? Enjoy every moment of this life. There is so much to love, so much to enjoy. This world is beautiful and our Heavenly Father wants us to be happy. So smile, and love life!!!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04036597572510182883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194349574209284754.post-4374818338343122482015-08-03T12:01:00.001-06:002015-08-03T12:01:53.062-06:00Week 89 - August 3, 2015<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">So cool that you met sister Rodriguez! Elder Esquen knows her! Crazy</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">small world!! I met a woman yesterday who knew Tyson Hadden from his</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">mission in Sweden.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">It was a great week!!! We are now teaching a lady named Roxana! She is</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">friends with an older couple from the ward. She is awesome!! Lesson 1</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">was powerful and she loved it. She wants to learn and we are going to</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">meet with her again sometime this week.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">We also began to teach two women from the Dominican Republic.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Elizabeth and Sol. We introduced the Book of Mormon on her door and</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">she asked a lot of questions and is super interested. We meet with</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">them again tomorrow!!</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">The biggest miracle of the week was Lolo. He came to church last week</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">and we discussed the 15th as a baptismal date. He said I will think</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">about it this week and Sunday (the 2nd) we will talk. We saw him every</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">day this week and we finished teaching him the commandments.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Yesterday we met and we started to ask him some things and he</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">said, "Okay, I'm 80% sure I should get baptized, just two things. One,</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">if I decide to go back to Romania I don't know if the church is in my</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">town." He told us his town and we looked it up. It's there. That made</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">him calm down a ton, and was really nervous for that! He said, "If I</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">go back and I'm a member, what do I do if it's not there? Do I just</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">cry?" Haha! And then he was a little concerned about daily life. He</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">said what will it be like? He he heard things from other churches</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">about how we can't watch tv and stuff but we calmed his fears. T</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">hen </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">we went over the baptismal interview questions and he said "Yes,</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I believe Joseph Smith was a prophet. Thomas S. Monson is a prophet.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">And this is the true church." He began to tear up at the end when he</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">said, "Yes, I will be baptized the 15th of August." It was powerful!! He</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">was so happy. He knows it's the right decision and it is worth all the</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">pain of missionary work to feel that feeling there last night. It</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">was incredible.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">We haven't been able to meet with Will but we will be able to this</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">week! Maybe! Unless he goes on a trip to France. He will be</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">studying another semester here in Spain so that gives us a little more</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">time to meet with him and work with him.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Thanks for everything!!! I love you!! So it was a crazy day. We had to</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">get haircuts and we went to a barbecue in B9 and I've seen a bunch of</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">people I taught and it's been so cool!</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Love you!!!!:)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Love,</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Elder Jarrett Anderson</span><br />
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Going to be honest my fast didn't turn out to great. We went to visit a family from the ward and she had bought a lot of supplies to make us a traditional food from her country. I went to the bathroom and prayed and asked what to do and the answer I got was "eat her food". Sometimes we need to sacrifice our wants for His wants. It was a great meal and we discussed their friends and they are going to start to talk with 3 families they know and we're going to try to have a noche de hogar with them!!!:) and the family was so grateful for our visit. They were so happy to have us over. </div>
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We found Juan again in the park!!! He is really sad he can't meet with us and we talked about the faith the come to church. (He is working a lot) and he is actually going to try to find another job so he can come to church!! He has such faith and we are really excited for him. Keep praying that he can find a way to come to church!! </div>
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We had zone conference this week! It was an introduction the Pack family and Elder Peterson and I were asked to conduct the meeting. It was an amazing meeting and the Packs are amazing!!! I am so excited to work with them for the next couple months!! They are so inspired and are going to do amazing things here in Spain. Now I didn't really get to the notes because I was asked to translate the meeting. So I was the Spanish to English and English to Spanish translator for 4 straight hours. The night before and all morning I was praying for the gift of tongues, interpretation of tongues, translation and whatever other gift I might need to be able to do it. It was an amazing experience. Absolutely amazing. Whenever we prepare (in prayer and study) and then come humbly seeking the Lord's help, He can bless us. I translated for 4 straight hours without stopping once, without getting lost, and without forgetting words. It was an unforgettable experience. I just want to testify that the gifts of the spirit are real. I couldn't have done that alone. So seek ye earnestly the best gifts! Bless the lives of others through your gifts! They are real! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04036597572510182883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194349574209284754.post-14628796592905421442015-07-13T13:40:00.000-06:002015-07-27T13:40:41.606-06:00Week 86 - July 13, 2015 <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">So cool you got to see my companions! That's just really weird to me. I feel like they are just in different parts of Spain. </span><br />
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It was a good week. Getting used to a new companion is always fun:) He doesn't really talk too terribly much and so I'm trying to get him out of his shell. I told president pack, "I hope I'm not talking his ear off with all my small talk!" He's a great missionary though and I'm excited to serve with him.</div>
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Still have yet to meet President Pack. We will be going to the temple on Wednesday and then going to a zone conference with him so I'll finally get to meet him! I'm really excited:) I did get to talk to Sister Pack on the phone, she accidentally called me and she has the coolest accent ever! haha:) She's a true Louisianan. </div>
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We started to teach one of the investigators of a companionship that got shut down during the transfer and she is awesome! Her name is Talia and is from Peru. (from Trujillo. the same city and part of the city as Elder Esquen!) So that's cool:) She is doing really well. We have had some very powerful lessons with her and although she has some doubts about one of the commandments we are helping her gain her own testimony of these things. She's great and is progressing well. The only bummer is that she has to work sundays (during the summer) so for a while she won't be able to come to church. </div>
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It's been a good week and it was just another week of getting lost in the work. It flew by. We've also got another assignment from the Bishop. He was sent a list of 20 families from the European area offices and so he asked us to find these people. The relationship is great and we are continuing to work hard with the ward. </div>
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Cool experience. In sacrament meeting (and the Bishop had told us what the program was before because my companion was speaking). Some people didn't take the alloted time and there was going to be a lot of time left. So I sent a text to the Bishop that said, "If you need someone to talk to fill time, I can" and so they announced that I would speak and I walked up there having no clue what I was going to say. So I walked up with a prayer in my heart and the thought came, talk of the hope of the atonement. So I began to speak, and the words came. It was incredible. I testified of the love of Christ and how we can find hope in Him. </div>
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I wanted to share that because I want to simply testify of the promise found in Doctrine and Covenants 100:4-6. Trust in the promises of the Lord. Every time I have opened my mouth as a missionary, it has been filled. Not once has the spirit left me with no words in my mouth. Not once. My mouth has always been filled. and they aren't my words, rather those of the spirit. I've learned of my true nothingness as a missionary. I am a weak servant. Alone I cannot do this but with His help, we can be instruments in His hands. I have learned to gain a true trust in his promises because he never fails us. </div>
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I will continue here in barrio 5 but my new companion will be Elder Esquen from Peru, but he lives in Sevilla (in the south of Spain). He is an awesome missionary! He was in my district in Torrejon and I'm super excited to be with him. Yes, he is a native so my Spanish will improve a ton! </div>
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I have been able to have some incredible experiences on intercambios. I have learned on my mission what it truly means to minister to people and how we are the hands of the Lord on the earth. As I am acting in the name of the Lord, I have been able to truly bless other missionaries, lift them up, help them improve, and help them feel the love of the Lord. It's kinda like my "home teaching" to the other missionaries haha:) I love blessing the lives of others and helping them receive the blessings of the atonement. I went on two intercambios this week.</div>
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I love you all!! Have an absolutely amazing week!! Thanks for everything. You're the greatest family of all time! I've been so blessed to be born into our family. Thanks for your examples. </div>
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Invitation for the week! Say a prayer of all gratitude. Asking nothing, just thanking our Father for all he has given us. I did it last night and it was a very tender experience. Count your many blessings! And name them one by one :)</div>
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The best part of having the iPad's has been the access to the words of the modern prophets. My studies have been more effective, and my testimony of the restoration has been strengthened so much. I have come to an even greater knowledge that we have living prophets. This is a divine work. </div>
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Elder Cahoon is doing great. He is not trunkee at all! He's doing so well at working hard until the end. We are super sad President Jackson is leaving. We are excited for the new president. (Sister Pack is from Louisiana!!) but President Jackson has been such an influential man in my life. I am so grateful for having served under his direction. He is one of my heroes! But President Pack will be amazing as well. </div>
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We have also been meeting with a less active man named Marcos, and his big doubt is wheether or not Joseph Smith was a prophet. We have, little by little, been talking through the first lesson (the restoration) with him to help him understand it and we got to the Joseph Smith part and we talked a little bit and then we watched the Joseph Smith movie (the long one) on my iPad. It helped him visualize things better and he understood a whole lot more. It was super cool! We then (as always!) challenged him to read the Book of Mormon and pray. He is excited and wants to know. Therefore, he will receive his answer.</div>
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This Sunday I had been asked to speak in sacrament meeting and I was told "whatever topic you feel" and so I began to prepare a message, had it all planned out but then Thursday I had a feeling to only teach the restoration and to not worry about planning it. Trust the spirit and just get up there and bear testimony of the restoration and Joseph Smith. I was extremely nervous. It went against everything I know in regards to planning is important and I was like this is crazy! Why would I feel like this? Sunday rolls around and I'm freaking out but I said a prayer right before going up, asked for the gift of tongues and to be able to stay calm and I went up and shared what I felt the Lord needed me to say, as directed by the spirit. It went amazing. I felt the power of the spirit working through me and the words just came. Afterwards a woman who was visiting from Valencia came up and said to me "that is exactly what my husband needed, thank you. He needed that more than anything. The Lord has answered my prayers!" As well, Marcos came up and thanked me and was really happy and it helped him with his doubts of Joseph Smith. As we do our part to be worthy of the spirit and seek his direction, and follow the prompting we get no matter if it goes against our best judgment, it will always work out, and it will always bless at least one life. The spirit will always allow us to bless the lives of others. That is priesthood service and I'm so glad I am learning how to magnify my priesthood while I am here. It will bless me for forever. </div>
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Brothers of mine, always, always, always seek the guidance of the spirit. Seek to understand how it works, how to recognize its promptings. Seek to always follow it and you will be able to serve in the priesthood and bless others in ways you never could imagine. Never forget you hold the power of God. Always seek his guidance and you use it.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">The truth is there isn't a whole ton of time to write today because we</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">went on an extravagant journey with a member from one of Elder Cahoon's</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">old areas. We went to El Escorial and went up to the mountains in the</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Escorial is a palace type place that was built in the 1500's and is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">where all the kings of Spain are buried. We couldn't go inside because</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">it is closed on Mondays (all museums, historical sites, and all</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">We went up into the mountains on a drive and it was</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">really cool! Amazing p-day!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">I also cannot believe I've been out 19 months and that tomorrow I'll</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">on getting married to the man she is living with. The Lord truly</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Lolo is trying to decide and is still warming up to the idea of</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">doing what he can. He loves the Book of Mormon and meeting with us</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Will is finishing his finals and then has a trip, but will be</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">in this world!! But that will leave us with only a week to teach him</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">everything if he is going to get baptized on the 4th of July. So I</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">believe it will be later on. But he's just a matter of when. We had an</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">amazing lesson 2 with him on Monday and it answered a lot of</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Also, I read the talk you read last week about staying by the tree! And</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We started off the week meeting with Will, our friend from California, who by self-initiative has been investigating the church for a while. We taught lesson one and we discussed it in good detail due to his fairly deep knowledge of the church and its structure and our beliefs. It turned into a lesson that filled in the gaps for him and answered a lot of his questions. He had some good questions and more than anybody I've ever seen had a sincere desire to know. We invited him to read and pray and he accepted, taking specific note on how to pray based on Moroni 10. ( sincere heart, having real intent, and having faith in Christ) and then Sunday a miracle happened. He came to stake conference on Sunday at Pavones and was telling us afterwards how much he enjoyed it. We were talking about the temple and its purposes, and he then told us, "Well I read what you asked me to read, and I think I received my answer. I know it's true and I know Joseph Smith was a prophet." He explained some of his situation and the potential difficulties he might face if he got baptized and as we started to tell him about how <i><b>if </b></i>he decides to get baptized, and he immediately said, "Oh, I'm getting baptized!" Tonight we will be discussing his fecha. We are thinking it will be July 4!! It was a very powerful experience there by the temple. He just simply needed missionaries to tell him to read and pray and he received the answer because he tried the promise with the 3 necessary elements. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Vilma and Vanesa are also doing really well. This week we were able to set them with a set fecha and they are both excited and preparing well. Vilma will be baptized the 4th of July and Vanesa will be baptized the 18th of July. We taught the Word of Wisdom yesterday and Vilma will be giving up coffee as they have both committed to live it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lolo is doing good, he just struggled getting to church. He is still on date for the 27th but we will see. We may need more time for more preparation. But he's doing well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We are working well with the ward and have a solid relationship with both the Elders Quorum President and the Bishop. We are continuously receiving assignments from them on things we can do to help the ward and we are truly strengthening this ward. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We had the leadership council meeting this week at the mission home, the final one of President and Sister Jackson. It was a powerful meeting. We discussed the digital age, the importance of preparation, our two biggest weapons (the Book of Mormon and Preach My Gospel) and many other things. My absolute favorite part was when president Jackson simply read passages from the Book of Mormon. The room was silent and the spirit was so powerful as he read the words of the prophets. That night for thirty minutes we started to plan the zone training that we were to give to next day. We got up the next morning and planned from 7:00-10:45 and put together the zone training. It went amazing. The spirit was strong and helped us transmit the message and it was powerful. I learned so much and it was really fun as well. The most powerful part was when we tried to replicate what President Jackson had done with reading the passages. We asked everyone (if they wanted to) to stand up and read a "power passage" from the Book of Mormon. They stood up one by one and it was one of the most powerful moments I've seen. The Book of Mormon brings such a sweet spirit as every verse they read testified of Christ and of his divinity and his purpose. Amazing experience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Families are eternal, and that's our message. I've tried my best this week since readimg that to simply testify to the world that families are eternal. Sometimes it's hard. It's definitely not popular and it takes boldness to defend because some people are against the family. But let our voice be heard!! Defend families. It's what the lord needs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Love you all!! Have an amazing week!!</span></div>
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We went to two district meetings this week in Villalba and Barrio 1 and talked about how this will be a transfer of changes for many people (with ipads, a new mission president, many are going home, and many are being trained) and so our vision for the zone is to "Submit ourselves to the will of the Lord." and we gave a couple talks about it. It was super good! We also went on an intercambio with the district leader from B5 and his companion who is being trained. I have loved going on intercambios and learning from these other missionaries. He bore some of the most pure and amazing testimony and it touched me a lot. No matter who you are or how much or little time you have you can ALWAYS learn from other missionaries. Super powerful experience. </div>
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Just a little experience, we contacted a man who was sitting on a bench, as we approached he started shaking his finger at us and saying NO NO NO! I don't want anything! Elder Cahoon said, "No we are just here to serve. Is there anything we can do for you?" and he said no there wasn't and started to get emotional and we all of the sudden started to testify to him about how the plan of salvation brings us hope and how it helps us in any of our trials, and how families can be together for forever. It was amazing because he didnt hardly say anything to us, but with tears filling his eyes we could tell the spirit was touching his heart. We both talked afterwards and we both knew that someone in his family had passed away, and he just needed someone to bring him a little bit of hope. He had no phone, nor house, but we decided to meet Sunday at the bench he was at. He never showed up but that's okay. We touched his heart once and it will provide the way in the future for him to find the gospel. I know the gift of discernment is real. I felt like Ammon as he perceived the kings thoughts. I knew it was the spirit working through us as we read his thoughts and as the words left our mouths. Miracles are real, the gifts of the Spirit are real. Our Father is worried about every single one of his children. All of us. Without exception. I know that! So never forget that he cares for you. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04036597572510182883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194349574209284754.post-15666202372731478722015-06-01T08:56:00.000-06:002015-06-01T08:56:11.416-06:00Week 80 - June 1, 2015<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">What a week it was. Well honestly it wasn't as fast as it probably was for you. But now looking back, it's another Monday, and it's June and I can't believe it. So yeah, it's flying by! It's scary! It was a long week though when it came to the work, but it payed off on Sunday!</span><br />
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The truth is it was just a lot of walking around all week. Continuing our work on the ward list and contacting. ¡vaya tarea! What an assignment! But its coming along. Just about done. Kind of. haha. We didn't have many things set this week. We taught A LOT in the street, but didn't feel like we saw a ton of progress with investigators. Until Sunday. Lolo told us he would come to church and he did! He LOVED it!! He told me afterwards, "I just feel good, I feel peace, I feel amazing, I can't describe it. Thank you so much. I can only say thank you." He was so happy. He should be getting baptized within the next three weeks. Pray your hearts out for him!!</div>
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As well, Vanesa and Vilma (our two investigators from the Philippines) showed up! They even brought with them a less active lady. It was so cool! They really enjoyed it, and they are really enjoying our visits. They are slowly but surely progressing. Pray for them as well. </div>
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We also went to go help the daughter of the man we met last week when we went and blessed the sacrament. (Julian, and Kati the daughter) We helped the daughter with English, and then at the end, the mom, whose name is Gladis came in and we began to talk, and we ended up being able to share the Book of Mormon with her and she invited over to eat on Tuesday during mediodía. Now why is this such a miracle? It began with priesthood service, we got the invite, and we were going on Saturday. As we got there Saturday we didn't have a member with us and there was no man in the house so we couldn't go in. They were not happy at all because the daughter had an exam on Monday and she needed help. It was a messy situation. We were not on the mom's nor the dad's good side (we come to find out later on the phone) and we said we´d come back the next day to help. But we left knowing that exact obedience brings miracles. We left the piso on Sunday, and in our prayer we begged for a miracle, for a chance to talk about the gospel and to soften their hearts and the Lord answered our prayers. I've said it many times on my mission but its true, Our God is a God of miracles. We are so excited! </div>
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What a week it has been. We have been working hard on updating a ward list. It hasn't been updated in three years so we are passing by pisos and calling people like crazy. It's a long task but the Lord is blessing us as we fulfill the Bishop's assignment. Because we have been so busy with the list we haven't had a lot of time to contact and continue finding but the Lord is blessing us for helping the ward and people have been coming up to us and we have still been receiving on average 3-4 references a day. It's been solid and we are so happy and blessed. The work is going great here. The truth is it seems like the area isn't progressing but it is slowly coming along. We are helping things come along in the ward and we are slowly finding some really good people.<br /></div>
Juan has been out of town for work but he has been giving Book of Mormons to his friends and his family and he is so excited about the gospel. Still on pace for the 27th.<br /></div>
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We have also found some other people that seem extremely ready, a man named Luis from Taiwan who read the Book of Mormon there in Taiwan and went to church there. He has a lot of potential and, as well, we were asked to go bless and administer the sacrament to a lady who had just had heart surgery in the ward and when we got there her non-member son was there and after the sacrament we talked to him about the promise in Moroni and he said he would try it! We will be meeting with him and his daughter on Saturday. Their names are Julian and Kati.<br /></div>
Oh yeah! We are staying together for Elder Cahoon's last transfer. We are going to have an amazing transfer. Today was super busy, we were at the train station the majority of the morning, running people around, including helping some members from Utah find their train, and then later coming back to pick up an Elder who missed his flight to the Canaries. He will be staying the night with us. Wooh! Love being in a trio, even if it's only for a day haha:)<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Well I absolutely cannot believe school is over. As well, this is the 6th and final week of mine and Elder Cahoon's first transfer together! We are freaking out cause we cannot believe how fast it flew by. Transfers this weekend but based on the circumstances we are almost 100% sure that we will be staying together for his last transfer. Crazy stuff!! </span><br />
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The temple looks beautiful!!! I cannot wait to see it in person. Of course the marble would come from the beautiful land I call home! Go Spain!!! </div>
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I feel overwhelmed every day with my responsibilities in the kingdom. I know exactly how you feel mom and sometimes (for me at least) I think of my weaknesses. It used to scare me but Hermana Jackson said something in Zone Conference this week that helped me so much. She said, "The Lord is aware of every single one of my weaknesses, but despite them, he called me and he has promised they can be made strong". So just remember that mom, THE LORD CALLED YOU!! He trusts you, and through your dedication and love you will bless other's lives. There is no doubt. You are His hands in the Ponderosa ward relief society. Never forget it!! You are blessing lives because it's His work! </div>
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I loved what the Jackson's told us during the leadership council. They said, "As parents we would always teach our children the correct principles, and then we would trust them" and they talked about teaching the doctrine and principles and then they were going to trust us to use it wisely. Because it really does come down to it being our choice. Our agency. I thought of you and dad. You have taught us so well and have been able to trust us because you taught us well. Thank you for your words, but even more importantly for your example. What you taught me through your actions.</div>
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How are they doing with living the gospel. The kids? What can i do to help them? </div>
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Haha. I'm good on shirts. They aren't really white anymore but it's okay neither are my companions and they are going to last me the next few months so it's not necessary to send any! My shoes are doing amazing!!! Worth the extra money spent! They are holding up well and don't smell bad! We bought Ecco. I'm good on deodorant but I wouldn't mind beef jerkey. hahaha I'm doing good on pictures. Don't worry mom:) and just don't worry about me:) All is well:) I will maybe think of some things i would like but as I think about it nothing comes to mind. All is well:)</div>
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Same old with the work! </div>
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Lolo doing well.</div>
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Juan was out of town and just got back yesterday. </div>
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Both still on track for their fechas.</div>
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We are also teaching a mexican named Alejandro. He is a little skeptical about prophets in these days. Hard for him to accept but he is very willing to listen. Poco a poco with him! </div>
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We have been working hard on keeping a continous flow of new investigators going as we drop those who will not progress at all. It's been going well as we have had a huge focus on constant finding these past few weeks. I conquered my biggest fear of contacting on the metro and it went amazing!!! Got a lot of solid references. </div>
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The work is amazing. We are so happy and life is amazing. </div>
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I just wanted to bear you my witness of the blessings of the Lord. As we give Him our all, He gives us 100 times more in return. I feel like Peter in Mark 10 who said "Lo we have left all and followed thee". I've left everything. I have a family to come home to, yet nothing else. I left it all, and I honestly wasn't sure why. But I knew I needed to obey. So I did. And I sacrificed everything but I've found what is worth more than anything else in this world. I've found what money can't buy, what a college education cannot give me, what only losing myself in the service of the Lord can give me. A testimony that will last me into the eternities. I burned the bridges in the harbor when I left. I left my old life behind and things will never be the same. My only desire now is to give my life to the kingdom. Those desires and this testimony are worth so much more than anything I left behind. </div>
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God lives. I know Him. Our savior lives. I know we can be together forever and we will as we continue to follow them. </div>
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I love you all!!!</div>
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Love,</div>
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Elder Anderson</div>
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¡Hurah por Israel!</div>
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All the Madrid zones!!!! I'm on the third row wearing a red tie. Good luck finding me! </div>
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