January 10, 2013

How is everyone?  I am doing good, still truckin, just gotta keep on workin, if ya know what I mean!  Well I have had many blessings poured on me.  It's been amazing to see and feel.  I have been really praying hard these past couple of days for my goals for the next 6 months.  I already told you all the goals I have for everyday of my mission goals.  I have been praying a lot to know of other goals that I should have for my mission.  One way the Lord really answers my prayers are through the scriptures.  It has been that way all along my mission.  When I pray, I recieve my answer in the Scriptures.  On Sunday I was reading in Doctine and Covenants in sections 66-68.  I saw many things pop out at me, many great things that will help me out a lot in this next part of my mission, life, and well everything.  I wrote down what I felt was a goal, or just a prompting and I prayed about it.  It just felt so right, I have a good 5 goals that I will be working on.  They will test me, and try me, but I will do it.  It should be a good next 6 months.  

Throughout this week I have seen so many things happen to me, so many great blessings in my life, I love it.  I have been learning a ton also, in my Spanish, in my lesson giving, in everthing.  The Lord has really been helping me out.  He's been really pushing me to do the things that I need to do right now.  One of the greatest blessings is the work has been pickin up in this area.  These past 3 weeks have been holidays in Spain, so many of the shops were closed.  There were a lot of people in the street, but no one wants to meet with us.  I mean no one.  We would give a lesson here and there, but that was about it.  It was super hard to just get a little bit of a lesson in, but like I said, the Lord has blessed us a ton.  We have been doing a lot of pass by´s on the ward list, and a lot of contacting as well.  That has really been good.  The days were long but we had good results.  We have received a ton of people that want to hear our message, and that is great.  Before, I would call many people, but no one would want to meet.  I got a lot of, don´t call me anymore.  Well on Friday after I called up many people during the week, I felt that I should call them up again, knowing that they said no, and they didn´t want us to come by.  Then again, this prompting to call up these people.. again.  Soo I did, I went down our list of  names and come to see that many of them want us to come over again.  They said, well now we have time, the other day was not good, sorry, yeahhh come on by!  Ohhh sawweeeet!!!  How great was that to hear a couple of times!  It was super nice, so this week we are passing by a lot of new faces, so we shall see if some of them can become our new investigators!!  It should be fun!  I am way excited to see what happens.  The cool thing is a few of them are families, saawwwwweet!  I am way excited for the upcoming weeks.  The Lord has really been blessing me a ton.  It's just is a testimony that when you work, you will be blessed, and I am seeing those blessings.  It also means, that you gotta be patient.  It's the Lord's, not ours.  It has really been hard on me when I am working and doing my best, but not seeing any progress going on.  It was hard to see that in Ferrol, but little by little, I saw those blessings I didn´t see before.  I saw those things happen that I never knew could happen.  I saw the hand of the Lord in our work.  It was great, I loved it.  Right now the Lord is just really helping me through everything, helping me by the hand.

It should be a good week, I´m excited to see what´s going to happen.  I hope this will keep on coming and these future investigators become our investigators.  

Well family I love you so so much.  You are the world to me! I love you!!

Lovvvveee,

Elder Laubaugh