Whoo..
For once in my life, I feel calm at this computer, the difference is, I prayed for help, and so far I¨m doing a pretty good job at managing my time, ha, such a simple thing, but it really just stresses me out to try to respond to your emails and share some of these awesome experiences with you all.
Okay, so I would have to say this has been one of the most Babylonic weeks of my entire life, festivas de España are intense! And that is why this week and I am MOST grateful for the safe haven of our capilla (chapel) that I was able to feel yesterday in our Sunday reunions. I love our ward so much, we had our fast and testimony meeting yesterday, and we just have these rock solid members, not a single gap at the microphone... I will always remember these people, many of them our really new members, but their faith and the way they put God first in their lives amazes me. Not to mention, our sweet little Lucia, that was baptized two Sundays ago is now serving in the Relief Society Presidency, increible, this woman is a rock, like she just gave up smoking last month and now she´s preparing for the temple with an eye single to the glory of God. And I¨m sorry, we don´t really use last names here, but there´s this family, Rosi, Carmen, Monolo, and they were the strongest catholics and now are the strongest Mormons, and they´re still waiting upon their other siblings to choose this path, but they don´t doubt. The thing that I love about these converts is that they don´t take anything for granted, they´ve been searching and preparing for this Gospel their entire lives, even though they didn´t realize it, and now that they have it, they´re never looking back!
Anyways, just a heads up, today is the first day of our new traslado (transfer) and I am extremely grateful to report that I get to be with Hermana Ross for another six weeks, she´s been in Murcia for seven months already and so we really weren´t sure if she´d be leaving or not.. And don´t tell her, but I prayed a lot of times that she could stay here in Murcia, she´s just what I need, and obviously Heavenly Father agrees, on the day of transfer calls from President, I was so nervous, ready to drop my heart at any moment if we got a call from President, but we didn´t!! Anyways,
K, sorry for the rambling.. This week! Okay, I say Babylonic, because it was another entire week of festivas! Except this time it wasn´t Easter related, Spring instead! So Tuesday, we had a bit of a forewarning, it was supposed to be some kind of a Mardi Gras, and so we planned smart and set tons of citas (appointments) to avoid being stuck in the streets with the borachos (drunk people) but guess what, everybody and fallared us (direct translation, not sure, failed, didn´t show up) and so we tried to visit members and menos activos, but our plan B was weak, and so Tuesday was kind of a rough day. There´s a not a lot of value, let me rephrase, there is NO value in trying to contact the borachos or the people around these areas, so we were taking a lot of back streets and trying to find others. It was just really sad to see, I mean this holiday, used to be a beautiful Spanish tradition, all of the girls and guys dress up in the traditional vestidos and they have, of course, a bunch of parades. BUt now it´s all about the alcohol and the jovenes (young people). Solo para que sepa, just so you know, it´s the busiest day in the hospital, and as we were contacting we overheard a couple groups rushing off to visit their unconscious friends in the hospitals.. Needless to say, kind of a dark and dreary day.
Things brightened up though! As en entire mission we had set apart this last Friday, Dia de Diamantes (Day of Diamonds) to only contact or tract for the ENTIRE day, we found out about this about 10 days in advance, so we were all pumped up, we fasted as a mission the day before so that we could have more direction in where to go finding and set goals for the numbers of futuros that we wanted to find! And as a mission, we found 1400 people, in this day, that are que tiene interes para aprender acerca del Evangelio de Jesucristo, as in 1400 people offered us their telephone number and direccion (address) , we refer to these people as futuros!! It was one of the most exciting days, our President had promised that we would see miracles and that we will baptize people that we would find on this day. It was the best, that morning when H Ross and I left the piso (apt.) we were stoked, we had fasted and prayed, and selected specific streets for each hour and we reallly did find a lot of people. It´s just a matter now of deciding who to focus on and go visit! We had so much fun though, we talked to hundreds of people, I heard my first swear words, since being set apart as a missionary, not my favorite at all.. Anyways
As far as our investigators go, we really had a lot of opposition, we´re coming up on Mari´s date for baptism, and we were only to meet with her once this week, not without a LOT of attempts, and Andrea, her daughter, we´ve set up 3 different citas to teach the Law of Chastity and the 10 commandments with them together, and they keep fallaring us, so it´s been frustrating. But we´re not giving up on em.
Also, this week we taught a mother and son, for the first time, Jean and Tania, they´re from English class, and they´re awesome! We set a date for baptism for the two of them, Jean is only 11 but he has sincere concern about his salvacion, I love that, we´ve seen that with several investigating families, a lot of the times it´s the children trying to push their parents along! Whatever it takes right?
Well, I gotta run, I hope you enjoy the photos!! Love you all,
Hermana Nelson
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