Sept 19, 2012

Well, I love Ferrol.  Thanks for writing me and I´ll talk to you all next week, Bye.... Joking! I can´t leave you all hanging like that! haha  Well life has been good.  We work very hard and are very tired and just want to sleep a lot, but we push through.  My back is still out of whack, I´ve been stretching and yesterday, I couldn´t touch my toes... oh snap! The day before I could, but yesterday, I couldn´t.  My back was just hurting.  So we had a companionship strech time.  I know it takes time to get everything good, but ahhh just hurts!  Well time for the good stuff! Ready? Okay, good!

Well this week we have had many milagros, miracles in English.  Remember when I talked about our new family, that we met at church, well, that little girl is a fire cracker.  When I was on splits in A coruña, she said many things to the point of just get me baptized.  After the lesson Elder G asked what she thought about things. Of course being a miracle girl she said, and I quote  "I want to be baptized as soon as possible."  Can I get an amen... AMEN!  Thank you.  What a great blessing that is.  She is so good.  She said that she wants to know more about Joseph Smith.  To tell you the truth, I about cried when I heard that, we both almost.  Just tears of joy just from working so hard, walking up so many flights of stairs and not one person having interest.  The Lord knows his sheep, he knows each and every one of us.  AMEN!  Well she is just a miracle.  We set the fecha for Oct. 6.  and we can do it earlier if she wants it.  

Second miracle.  I am just saying the Lord has worked on Santi for the past transfer.  He is a 65 old Spaniard.  He has 5 kids, all of them out of the house, and his wife passed away.  He is great and very nice, but he talks a lot.  That is totally fine.  Well the first couple of lessons he would just pull the  "how am I supposed to believe this crap" on us.  But after some time he warmed up and started to listen.  He came to church, prayed, and now reads all the time, and wow, a total change.  We haven´t set up a fecha, but he has been feeling something.  He´s called us up about 5 times saying thank you and I feel different.  He gave me and Elder G a big hug the other day and he just started crying.  He said sorry, but no need, and just left.  What a guy! But he is great, he is so ready, just needs to change a little still. It´ll be some time but he will.

Well things have been good, the Lord has blessed us a ton!  Also I have a challenge.  It´s a zone one.  To read the Book of Mormon by Christmas.  Seems good, but I decided I wanted to challenge myself, so I´m reading it in Spanish.  It´s hard, but the good thing is that I understand a lot of it.  Spanish has been coming along this past transfer.  I´m talking more, reading more, and having more of a convo with people, which is super nice!  

Well Pday was also good.  I just want to say that before I thought that seeing the mountains in Utah was beautiful, or seeing a nice sunset was just grand... but I was wrong.  Today, we went to A Coruña, and we went to the coast.  It was sooo beautiful.  Waves crashing up against the rocks with a nice big view of the ocean.  Just beautiful.  We went to torre de Hércules.  It is just the Roman built tower that just has this great view.  I have a lot of pictures that I will send later! Don´t worry a lot of them are of me and my district.  I love you all so much! I hope that you all have a great week!!

 

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