So..
I can´t really believe that a whole week has come and gone, it was fast, but it also sort of feels like forever? I have no concept of time as a missionary!
Ah man, so many miracles to share.. I´ll have to choose wisely! However, this week, I gotta say I´m most grateful for the chance to remember Whitney yesterday, of course, I knew the day was coming up, but Sunday we´re walking to our capilla (church) and I´m like, ¨Shoot Hermana, I forgot to wear pink.¨ And I¨m really embarassed to say that I didn´t have a touch of pink of my person in this moment of time. Whitney will forgive me, because I got to honor her in a better way! We got to teach the Plan of Salvation to Genny and Jose and their sweet 3 year old, Arelles. Genny is a member and has been trying to smack some faith into her husband for lots of years, they´re from Ecuador and have lived in Spain for years.. Pero, I´m thinking that this is Jose´s time. We were reading over his history in our Area book and the Hermanas had visited their family like 15 times, over a year ago, but Jose wasn´t present in most of the lessons.. And then a couple weeks ago Genny had this dream that we told her if we could have a Noche de Hogar (family night) it would change everything with JOse.. So no pressure, we went and taught last week about the atonement and how we can only become clean through Christ, and we invited them to start reading in the bom everyday as a family. Welp, we went over yesterday and guess who hadn´t read?!!! JOse!! But, we taught the Plan of Salvation, and bore testimony that families really can be together forever, and we said ¨guess what Jose, right now you´re wife is on track for the Celestial Kingdom WITHOUT you!¨Ah man, we´ll see, but he says that he will come to Gen Conference next Sunday!
IN Murcia, we´re heading into the rainy spring season, and we had a couple pretty chilly and wet days.. One in particular, last Tuesday night, we had about an hour and a half left in the night, it was rainy and wet and I was shivering in my boots.. Ha, but Hermana Ross and I were just having a gay old time. We were trying to get in contact with an old investigator but he wasn´t home, so we ended up toqueing the rest of the doors in the apartment building, and then we had to head back into the cold again! Ahh! It felt useless, not many people were out, and who wants to stop and talk in the rain right? But I just kept praying and praying, please just let us find one person, somebody that will listen. And H Ross turns to me at this corner, ¨K Hermana, which way should we head?¨ OH no, I didn´t know what we were supposed to do, I´m thinking, ¨Greenie here, you tell me where we should go?¨Ha but I´m like, that way? Ha, don´t worry, it was down that street in the last ten minutes of our freezing cold night where we encountered, not one, but 4 new futuros (future investigators). It was just a testimony to me, that we work, and we work till the very last minute, rain or way too hot shine, and then the Lord provides. Also, as we headed into our piso (apartment) we got this call from some lady who was frantic and asking if we could come visit here the next morning, H Ross asked her how she got our number? And she told us something about how she called Jesus and her friend had a pass along card with our number on it.. So we visited her the next day, her name is Maria,and she´s ready to drink up anything we have to tell her. We get to get teach her again tomorrow, so we´ll see!! ´
Okay, I just got to fill you in on something, as you may have heard, southern Spain is quite the melting pot, so as I jump around with investigators from Africa to Bulgaria to Ecuador, bolivia, Spain... Don´t be all to surprised. Hermana Ross and I have this little game, when we´re out visiting in different pueblos or neighborhoods ¨What country are we in now... ¨¨Hoy Estamos en Bulgaria, Estamos en Italia, o... Hoy, Estamos en Mexico or whatever.. It´s crazy. But, I gotta tell you about our Investigator, Omar. He´s from Mali, Africa, and he´s Muslim, for now at least, and we met contacted him in the street my first day here and decided to call him up last week. H Ross, hasn´t had a lot of good experiences with the Africanos, just because there´s often a language barrier, cuz they don´t speak Spanish often, and whatever. So although we had a cita (appointment) with Omar in the capilla, she wasnt really thinking he´d show up or anything.. But I was super excited, the glory of green perhaps?? Ha so we were just street contacting in the meantime, and don´t worry the time for his cita had come and passed, and I felt bummed out.. But all the sudden we find 3 missed calls and call back and it´s Omar. He just got the wrong time, so we meet up with him, because he didn´t know how to find the capilla.. And then we walked over to the church. And part of me is like, ah this is a bit dificil, he´s a guy, we´re girls, we gotta be super careful not to give the wrong idea. And that´s part of the reason we had to meet up in the capilla. But in turns out Hermana Ross and I were both eating our words in regards to Omar. He´s genuinely seeking to know if there is a God. We only had like 10 minutes before we needed to leave for our apartment. BUt we were able to kind of get to know some of his concerns, talk a bit about the Book of Mormon and Jesus Christ and then at the end we taught him how to pray. And this has just really hit me this week, what a blessing in our lives to be able to talk directly with our Father in Heaven, this man has never prayed to God before or really heard much more than the name of our Savior, but he genuinely wants to learn. I just can´t describe the joy of kneeling in prayer with someone for their first time EVER. Coolest thing in the world.
There´s so so much more I wish I could say, but I gotta report to my President too! I just want you all to know that we are so incredibly blessed. We have the truth, God is our Father in Heaven and he loves us so much, he wants the best for each and every one of his children on this earth, he gives so many chances, again and again, he anxiously awaits for us to come to him. I´m so grateful that I can pray, something so simple but so powerful. I can have my own personal relationship with my Heavenly Father, I know why I´m here on this Earth and I know where I am going.
I love you guys, you´re in my prayers and I don´t doubt that you are all being taken gentle care of!
Hermana Nelson
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