TRANSFER WEEK! Dont worry fam im staying here in Lleida with Elder
Pericle. We have preparation day on tuesday during transfer week so
thats why i didnt write yesterday. But Elder Tirado left us this
morning to go to Santander which is the farthest corner northwest that
you can get in our mission. Elder Rasmussen is staying here and he´s
going to be training again and guess who it will be... ELDER KANE!!
My companion from provo! Crazy huh? He´s been serving in Los Angeles
for the past transfer but he finally got his visa. I cant wait to see
him! Its going to be a party. He doesnt get here till next tuesday
though because he´s off track of the transfer. So we´ll be in a trio
until he gets here next week.
Alright a little miracle story... 2 sundays ago, Elder Pericle and I
were walking to a visit and we passed a Bolivian couple who had 2
daughters with them (yes dad you would be proud). We said hi and they
said hi back and the mom smiled at us. We kept walking for a second
and then Elder Pericle immediately turned around and said we need to
talk to them. We went back and introduced ourselves and told them
that families can be together forever. They said they´d love to talk
to us and they set a time to meet with us without us even asking for a
visit. We visited them last monday and yesterday. They are some of
the most prepared people to hear the Gospel. José is the dad, Doli
the mom, and Salene (15) and Chenia (11) are the daughters. Its hard
though because theyre busy every day so we can only see them like once
a week and they havent come to church yet and we havnet been able to
set a baptismal date. But we know that we were guided by the Spirit
to go back and talk to them and theyll eventually get in the waters of
baptism.
On tuesday we had zone conference with Pres and Sis Hinckley.
Actually Sis Hinckley wasnt there because she was in Barcelona with
some sisters who are sick. But it was so good. Pres Hinckley shared
a quote from Elder Bednar who was talking about how they decide where
missionaries go to serve their missions. He said something like this,
"we dont think of the next 2 years the missionary is going to have...
we think of the next 30." It just blew my mind how much revelation
they get to decide where we are going to serve. They really do see a
glimpse of our futures and thats how they decide. Anyways, after zone
conference Elder Pericle went up to Zaragoza with one of our Zone
leaders Elder Rhead and Elder Estrada, our other zone leader, stayed
here with me for intercambios for a couple of days. I was pretty
scared because i was going to be in charge of the next 2 days on the
intercambio with Elder Estrada. By the way, Elder Estrada´s little
brother lived right underneath our apartment at BYU and we became way
good friends with him. So its been neat to get to know Elder Estrada.
We went to visit this one lady who Elder Pericle and i received her
as a referral from some other missionaries who met her on the street.
Her name is Maria from Ecuador and is about in her 50´s. She isnt
married but we´re pretty sure she has been married before because she
always talks about her kids. We taught her the restoration and when
we shared the story of Joseph Smith she started to cry. She committed
to be baptized on Oct 8th and is way excited. She said she´s always
been searching for the full truth of the Gospel and now she is finding
it. It was pretty amazing.
Frank is doing amazing. Every prayer he says is like he´s talking
face to face with Heavenly Father. He has completely stopped smoking
and drinking and is keeping the ley de castidad. He is just having a
hard time understanding that he still needs to keep the law of
chastity after baptism too. But we´ve taught him everything and he´s
going to have his interview tomorrow to get baptized this weekend!
Danny was baptized and confirmed this last weekend. The service was
so good. He loved it and is going strong. We´re going to try to keep
meeting with him but it´s going to be hard though because he´s
starting school and he wont have a ton of time. But he is going to
keep coming to church every sunday and he´ll receive the preisthood
next sunday.
Sorry we´re locked out of our apartment right now because we forgot
the keys... so i dont have my thing to put on pictures. so next week
i´ll send more. Love my family. Keep praying for me and for our
investigators. We all need the help
Elder Reeves
My boyyyyyys out in the field.
Elder Mossito, where are you?? i havent heard from you forever.
Elder Marsden, keep working hard my brotha. Shelby sent me pictures
of our powell trip... oh man they are classic!! good times. Les amo
mis hermanos. Mandenme mas cartas electronicas. Me encanta a oír sus
experiencas en el campo misional. Chao
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