october 13, 2012

Well I gotta tell ya, this week has been freaking crazy on my end.  Doing A: Missionary work with a member  B: Going to the hospital and back everyday, it just was too much!!  But..... I got through it.  President pulled some strings, said some words, and now... drum roll please!!! Elder G is back!!!! OOO OOOO!!!!! What a great day that was.  He came back on Monday after 8 days in the hospital.  AHHHH!!!  Well that in itself gets an OO OO! hahaha.  Well he is doing better.  He can´t go on long walks or do activity for one month.  He can just do a little bit at a time.  So it´s going to be a little hard, but he is a trooper.  We just went walking and he just told me when to slow down, but he´s doing great. 

Well our members are sweet!! They are so good!!!  I love them.  I have to say, good members change the work.  I have seen it in my areas and others too.  When you don´t have good members, the elders well, they don´t want to work as hard.  It´s hard up here I have to say, and without members we have no work.  No one wants to talk to two elders on the street for 10secs.  But I have to say I need to give many members a big hug.  They did so much for us.  They made food, called Elder G, visited him, and did many more amazing things for us.  

We had zone conference in the Santiago Zone and that was a good treat.  I got to see President and his wife, talk to them and figure some things out for them.  I have to say I´ve been in many zone meeting and conferences, but this one was one of the best I have ever been in.  There was a sweet spirit in the room.  Just of peace and some other feeling, their isn´t a word for it.  I knew I would be learning a lot.  Through this experience I have had with Elder G I had an open mind on what I needed to learn.  What type of things I needed to do better, do more of, that type of thing.  I came with many questions and through each talk and practice, I learned and my questions were answered.  

For the past couple months I have been praying if my work for the day has been accepted by the Lord.  If I put in my full day´s worth, if I went all out.  Yeah my body was telling me yes, I was tired, dead, sore, headaches that tore me apart, but I felt as though there was a piece missing in my heart, or something like that.  After I would pray I would hear Dad, his voice saying to me ¨Son, just get out there and work, get it done, Light it Up!¨  day in and day out I would hear some voice saying Light it Up Lil A!  Just get it done! I would look around and wonder what the freak, who said that to me.. hahahah, but it pushed me every single day of my mission.  I know I still have a long ways to go but for some odd reason it just made sense to me.  I can´t put it into words. During Zone conf, It just started to make sense to me.  I don´t know, I just pray that when I get done after these 2 great years, that the Lord will accept my work.  I know if I do my best, if I know I did my best he´ll accept it, but it´s just a thought that comes in here and there.  

With that said, I want to say I feel myself changing.  This past week I really started to feel it.  After the little experience with Elder G, with learning a lot about myself, my mission, the work here in Spain.  I just felt this change in me, this change of heart, this change of mind set.  I love it, I feel myself growing, learning day in and day out, it´s beautiful.  Right now I know why I´m here in Ferrol, in Spain, just so many things are starting to make sense.  Like I told President, The Lord knows what I need to learn and when I need to learn it.  The only way He can teach us, is through these experiences.  

I love you so much family.  Elder G loved his cards, thank you for that.  That literally made his whole day, and probably week.  He loves you guys and He loves our family.  I´ll send him your love.  I love you!!

Love,

Elder Laubaugh

P.S  I bought me a new pair of shoes!! YEEEE HAA!!