another great week

Well this week has been amazing!  Many prayers were said and many prayers were answerd.  Well this week, Antonio was baptized:)  He was so happy! Might I add, he is a very short man.  Around 5'4" tops.  So i was towering over him in the photos.  I have some good ones of him and the Elders:)  He was so happy.  After everything he came up to me and gave me a hug, then Elder Woodbury and said thank you.  He is such a nice guy:)  Well on the topic of Baptism, Luis is going to be baptized this week! 4 Weeks after we met him.  He was so ready when he met us.  He is so happy, and he seems so much happier than before.  He has the gospel now and I am so glad that I was able to give him it.  


On sad news though.. Andrea was pregnat.  Luis called us and said that they lost the Baby and it is going to be really rough for them.  Luckly they turned to the Conference talks and not something else.  They read Elder Packers talk and said they had found their answer in it. They said their faith was down a bit till that point.  So this was so good that they this experience.  Yes it is very sad, but he was saying that he feels so better right now and he feels it was supposed to happen.  


Well Amanda is doing good.  She works a ton so we can´t really get to her, but she has been coming to church and doing all the things that she needs to do, we just can´t get a time to visit her.  So we just need to wait a little bit for her.  Eliana is doing amazing. She came to church for the first time.  Usually investigators come dress down, but she dressed up and wore her nice dress and everything. She said she really liked it.  She also has a fecha and is progressing really well.  Susi is also doing great! She now has a fecha.  She still has a lot of doubts but she is working on them.  She reads the Book of Mormon all the time.  She was telling us that she has recieved a lot of answers to her problems from the chapters we have given her.  Diana and Benito are being golden as always.  They are going to here back from the Marrige place soon, so we shall see when they can get married.  He is so funny, He got mad because he couldn´t go home teaching and he couldn´t go to the temple with the youth.  He has been ready since the 3rd lesson we have taught him.  If only this marrige process didn´t take so long!  

Well this pday We went to SAGOVIA!! Look it up on the Web, yeah be jealous of me:)  It is a older city in spain.  It has a sweet castle that we got to go to the top off and see all of the city :) We also got to see a acuaduct.  I don´t know how to spell it.  I think I mixed it up with the spanish word:P well we also got to see their cathedral which is really beautiful on the Outside, we couldn´t go in though.  Well it was a fun pday and yes I have some great pictures of it all.  Well this week I had a really good lesson learned.  A thought came to my mind a little bit ago... Am I worried about the Number or the Person.  I looked back on my little time in the Mission and I could tell that I was worried about how many lessons we had and how many contacts and recieved we had.  I have been working on changing that.  This week we only had 13 lessons, but with that the Lord has blessed us a lot.  We have 5 new investigators to teach.  With the 89 contacts we had 20 recieved, and a couple new families that might be really good.  We don´t know yet because their lessons are later this week.  I have been trying to work on focusing on the person and or the family that we are teaching, instead of the number.  It has really helped me out, I still need a little bit of work and Elder Woodbury has been helping with that.  


I love you all so much and I hope all is well in The USA and Germany! I sure do miss you all.  Also the best time for me is around 4ish my time.  That is about 10 your time.  I hope that works out good for all of you, I know that is when jana is calling so I hope I can talk with her a little bit.  I might call a little bit later after 4.  We have a lunch appt with a member at 3 so we can be at the Locutorio by 4ish.  So i hope that is all good with all of you!! I love you so much!!

Love,

Elder Alex Lobo!!