Lleida Week 2

Familia!!

Alright to start off i need to apologize to mom for not wishing happy
birthday last week... i totally remembered your birthday last week and
i was going to write you happy birthday but then i forgot. So HAPPY
BIRTHDAY MADRE!!! and happy birthday to all the nieces and nephews and
anyone else! im sorry birthdays are probably the last things i
remember.
Anyways this week has been a great week. I cant believe how fast time
is going again. it started to slow down when i first got here to
Lleida but now its flying by again. something thats hard here in
Lleida is that everyone we teach says they will come to church but
then they never do. And nobody can progress towards baptism unless
they come to church. We´re trying to help people realize the
importance of going to church but its hard for them to understand. Oh
a funny story i just remembered about church yesterday... so Elder
Pericle was teaching our class with the investigadors about the
priesthood and i started to bare my testimony at the end of the
lesson. There´s 2 words in spanish that i get confused sometimes
"olivdar" (to forget) and "odiar" (to hate). I was going to say,
"sometimes i forget the power that we have as priesthood holders"...
but it ended up coming out "sometimes i hate the power that we have as
priesthood holders" hahaha it was hilarious. Luckily there was only
us four missionaries in there with one of our investigadors and
Luciano who just got baptized. gotta love making mistakes when youre
learning spanish... but thats how you learn.
A miracle we had this week was on wednesday we were going to go see
Andrés (12 year old kid, amazing and always comes to church) who has
been ready to be baptized for a while now (Elder Pericle has been
trying to get him baptized since May) but his mom has been being weird
and wont allow it even though she´s a member herself. We decided to
fast for him that day and ask for a miracle to happen so he could be
baptized. That day was SO hot and EVERYONE we visited was offering us
food and water. We rufused all the offers and kept fasting. The
visit with Andrés was our last visit of the day and we brought the
bishop with us. We had a great lesson with him about the importance
of baptism but his mom at first didnt agree. But we continued to
teach and the mom slowly started to change and now she is totally for
having Andrés to be baptized! We know that Heavenly Father heard our
prayers and blessed us with this miracle through our fasting and
faith. His date to be baptized is September 17.
We got a new baptismal date this week with a lady named Mami (mommy).
She´s from Gineau Ecuatorial and is about 50 years old with no job.
She was a referral from the Elders in Hospitalet and we met her on
wednesday i think. She always has good questions to ask while we´re
teaching and she´s willing to change. We taught her the first lesson
and committed her to be baptized on September 10! We were going to
set it for September 3 but she was leaving on a trip to Barcelona
yesterday so she couldn´t go to church yesterday. We´re meeting with
her again tonight. She is an amazing lady! I´ll attach a picture
with her.
I love you fam. I pray for you all every day and i definitely need
your prayers too. Thank you for all your support and your prayers.

Elder Reeves