Hello All!!
This week, wow.... it has been a lot
of ups and downs if you know what I mean. I would like to thank you all
for the package, it really means a lot to me, I am sure that Benito will love
those little Marvel things :) He tells me every visit what I have missed
that past week. It´s pretty funny. Well on the topic of them, they could be
a lot better, but they are still kickin! They moved to a very small room.
They don´t have any work... until Diana fasted!! Now she does!! It
was a blessing that was very needed!! We taught them more about why it is
important to fast and to do those things. So Diana did and now she has a
job working for a family in Pozuelo, about 45min away, so some of our members
paid for a Abono so she can go out there. I love good members that care
about our investigators.
Well we have had many great blessings
this past week. First off, Rosa, is really good. She told us about
2 weeks ago she didn´t want anything and that our church was a joke. She
hadn't been to church or prayed about it. She likes the Book of Mormon
but it´s just a book to her. Well, we took another chance, we had a good
lesson about doing things and having faith in our message. Well, she
finalllly went to church... and she LOVED it!!! She wanted to bring her sister
inlaw and her family!! She just couldn´t stop talking about it. That Saturday
we met with her sister in law and her son and they wanted to go to Engish class
and come to church too. That Sunday, I see a huge smile on Rosa´s face
and her sister inlaw is there and her son! Ahhh what a great blessing
that was. We had a lesson right after church, and her son pops a question
"how do I become a member of your church?" Well let´s
tell you how. That lesson we set a fecha for all 3 of them. Wow
that really was a great help. They love going to church, and they are
really getting it. The Lord can do some amazing things :)
So with that said, we just had a
great week of teaching and just everything. We just have been really
blessed this past week. Elder Woodbury and I have been on our knees
thanking the Lord for these great people and great blessings we have.
People just need to take a step of faith, then they will see what we are
talking about.
Well this week has been a bit tougher
for me. My Spanish is good enough to get me by, but I want to be better
than that. Unfortunately, this past week my stutter just wanted to come
and say hi in full force. It was really hard to speak. I don´t know
what happend. It was hard and I just wanted to sit down and cry some
days. People couldn´t understand me and my Spanish just took a dive down.
It was hard, very hard for me this week, even talking in English was
hard. I tried to slow down, breath more, but nothing was helping. I
got very frustrated and very angry of why this was happening. Then, on
Monday I was reading in the Book of Mormon. I was praying hard on what do
you want me to learn? Why is my stutter back now? I had a very
strong impression to read in Doctine and Covenants. I was reading
in section 122, I was reading in this and i started to read in Verse 7.
It just hit me. I don´t know why I was freaking out. In the
verse it just says that when you are in the worst part, in the hands of the bad
guys, it´s all for an experience. It´s gonna be okay. I felt a lot
better after that, I just thanked God after that, for giving me just a plain
answer about what he was doing right now. My stutter is doing better, my
breathing is good still, it is still hard to speak but it has been better.
Just yesterday I had a lady tell me I didn´t sound like a person from
the US. I sounded like I was from Brazil or somthing :) that was new.
hahaha
Well I have a food story (Dad I would
skip this if I were you). Well on Saturday we are at a members home that
is known to give us bad food. Well we get there and it doesn´t smell
good. She said she has spent 4 hours making this soup. Oh noo...
Well she said it is sheep. Well that´s fine, then she said, well just the
insides. Say what lady??? Well I had sheep heart, liver, stomach,
everything, even solid blood from the sheep. Yeah that was gross.
And yes, I said no when she offered more.
Well I love you all!! I am home
sick right now. I miss you all so much. We had a 4 of july party,
and our new president was there :) He is very nice and his wife is just
so great. That´s what got me home sick, just seeing them and she acted
like mom, it just got me a little home sick. I love you all so much, I
miss you all like crazy!! I hope everything goes well!! I love you all!!!
Love your favorite son in spain!!
Elder Alex Laubaugh
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