How is everything going out there!?!?! I saw that Mandy had her baby and David was there for everything! That is such a great blessing!! I am so excited for you Mandy and David!! Well I just want you all to know, that this week was good, but also very hard on me. On the investigator side, Susi dropped us. We have been calling her for a good week and a half and she doesn´t answer. It is really sad, I really thought she was going to change. We had a member call her and she answered. She said she was just busy. It´s fine, it´s life and people have their agency.
On the other end, Benito is doing great! They had a Noche de Hogar (Family Home Evening) on monday and it was great! We taught it just to show them how to do it. It was a great time and the spirit was so strong. Benito is going today to get his papers from where he was born in Spain. I forget where, but he has his meeting in 2 days! I can honestly say that I love that family so much. They are the best, even through the toughest times, they still keep a smile on their faces. They might be kicked out of their piso. We still aren´t sure why, but times are hard for them. Hopefully the Ward can help them out as best as they can. Last friday, Elder Woodbury and I took them to the Temple. I love going to the Temple. The feeling of peace is amazing there. We were in a rush to get there, the baby is crying, Arturo is yelling. Everything was just all crazy. When we entered the grounds, the Baby was happy, Arturo was fine, and things just slowed down. The feeling of the spirit was so strong, they of course loved seeing the temple and being with us.
Our other investigators are doing well, some are slowing down, others are right on their way. We just have to keep on going.
In other news, my talk was great. I used Elder Nelsons talk from General Conference back in 2010. I did mine on how the members can help, and how we can all be missionaries, not just the ones that are called. It was great, I put in how we have an activity on saturday and the goal is for each family to have at least 1 non member friend or family member present. I hope that they can do that. After the talk a lot of people were saying that my spanish was a lot better and my vocab was a lot larger. It was really nice to hear that. It´s kinda funny, when we are contacting people often say to elder Woodbury that his spanish is great.... then they just look at me. It´s funny. I get a good laugh and just try harder to get this language down.
Well I would like to say I have had a great week for gross food stories! First off, I made medio dia meal this past saturday. It was very good. We had steak, grilled onions, and mashed potatos. mmmmm that was good. ON the flipp side we had a nasty dinner with some members. Before she said, I´m not sure if your going to like this... but I made it anyways. Ohhh no. She said that it is called Leather and potatos. Ohh no again. She brings out this pan full of grease and little chunck of I don´t know what. Well they put a bunch of rice and this stuff on. I took a bite and it´s all slimmy and weird. Well hold your breath. It was pig skin and potatoes. And yes I had 2 plates :( the second was a lot smaller. The potatos were good, but it was the eating the pig skin that killed me. It was just nasty!!!
I would like to thank you mom for what a great letter I got from you. I love that talk by Elder Cook. His daughter is in The next zone over. She is super nice. I have been looking up a lot this past transfer. Life here is just getting hard. The work is doing well, but it´s the visits where they don´t want anything to do with you after you´ve taught them for a month that kill me. Well it´s the mission life. I have learned to lean on my Savior more during those times in my weeks. Well I also want to thank dad for that great letter and that great picture of his new lawn mower. Man that must be a beast to drive :)
thank you so much for everything!! :) I love you so much and this past week I have been having great experiences that I can share later on. The Lord has blessed us a lot and I am so thankful for that. We just finished a fast for baptisms today. It was great at the end. I felt so much more better. I felt so much more peace and closer to my Father in Heaven after that. I know that he will bless us, just in his time.
I love you all so much and I hope that you all are having a great time with the new Baby!!!
Love your favorite brother and Son in Spain!!
Elder Alex Laubaugh!!
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