Helloo from Spain!! This has been another great week of growing and learning. I just want to first say that I love my mission. Yes it is hard, yes I want to die sometimes, but I love it. I just love everything about it, the people, the language, the food, the times that I grow, everything! I also want to say thank you. Thank you family for pushing me to do my best, to be better everyday. Thank you for just everything. Now being in my mission for 7 months I have seen a lot of change. Yes I am a little thinner, yeah maybe a little taller, but more of a spiritual change. It just started to hit quite a bit this past transfer. I have to say, I wasn´t the humblest elder out here. Yeah I knew that I had to rely on the Lord, but there was something missing. One thing that I have learned is I can get along with anyone I want to. I am everyones friend. By that I mean everyone asks, why do you have a smile on your face, why are you so happy alllll of the time? I just say, well, I love life and my mission, what´s more to ask for? Lately, I have had to rely more on the Lord. I have had to pray harder, to read more, to just do more. With that, I have noticed that I have grown. I have learned more and more everyday. I have seen so many blessings from this. Just putting forth more action has brought me so much more blessings. The Lord is the best! :)
Well this week we had a baptism! :) It was a great day. The sad thing, is that Renzo backed down. Jorge is doing great, but Renzo just wasn't ready. He prays but not for an answer. He just doesn´t have any action. But on the flip side, Jorge is doing great. He is just loving life. On Thursday he said he would like to be baptized on Friday, not Saturday:) How great is that! Benito and Diana are doing great! He had his meeting for his marriage yesterday. We need to call him to see how it went, but I am so proud of him. He is just the best of the best! He´s paying tithing, living every commandment, just doing great!Well one thing that I would like to say is that Elder Raiano is a good Elder. He recently stood up for me. During a lesson I started to stutter a little bit. Nothing big but they all noticed. Well one of our investigators just starts to giggle and laugh at me. The mom is just oh it is okay, we understand, but this girl who is 22 is just cracking up. Elder R just rips her apart. He says "you know that he has a stutter, right? You know that this is very hard for him to say, right?" He just said some other things and she just stopped and stared at me with sorry eyes. I went on and started talking like normal.On the stutter note I have to say something. When we were in a lesson with Diana and Benito, they said something very nice, just really hit me hard. Benito was saying that during the first part of him taking the lessons he didn´t really understand me. But he said when I prayed, bore testimony, he could feel something, very strong. Just this feeling of this is true. It was so nice and I just was so thankful that he said that. I have been having some trouble with just knowing if the Spirit is there. I feel it but I am not sure if they do. It was just nice to hear.Well I have no food stories which is good, but I had a really good talk with President :) He was at our district meeting and he stayed just to talk to us. Wow what a great person he is. Both of them. They just are so nice and just so caring. They really do love the missionaries :) We just went off on football topics. He was a surgeon in Utah and also a doctor for BYU. He has been everywhere. He just is so cool. I love him and his wife so much. He always says that we need to marry a women like his wife. It´s pretty funny:)Well family that is it. Thank you so much for everything, for just supporting me. I do really love all of you. If you have any advice, or anything, please send it my way. I love you.Love Your favorite Elder in Spain,Elder Alex Laubaugh!!
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