My fam
This week has been a crazy week so i´ll just jump right into it...
We´ve been seeing some success this week but a lot of stuff is falling through. Investigators have been disappearing and theyre not coming to church and really not progressing at all. Miracle man Carlos who had the dream and everything hasnt been able to meet with us since that experience, Steven from Tanzania has been working like crazy, Kelly is losing faith somehow, and some other problems. But despite all of these things, somehow im still the happiest ive ever been in my life. Somehow the Lord blesses me with strength and happiness i need every day to keep going. Because the work of the Lord never stops... it will always move forward. I know these blessings are coming from all of your guy´s prayers and fasts and love and support. Elder Bajaña and i are working hard and we´re sure we´re going to see a lot of miracles soon.
So a couple weeks ago President called and asked Elder Pericle and Elder Estrada to go up to Andorra (the tiniest country i think there is in the whole entire world, right in between spain and france) and see how the missionary work is going up there. There were missionaries there almost 3 years ago but they were taken out for some reason so there hasnt been anything going on up there for a while. Elder Pericle and Estrada went there and there´s tons of investigators that the members have been inviting to come to church and to learn more about the church. So President said that it might be possible that us Elders here in Lleida would be going up there to see what we could do with the work (because we´re the closest in the mission to Andorra). On tuesday this week the ayudantes called us and told us that they had been praying with Pres. about what to do about it and they had come to the conclusion that........ Elder Rasmussen and i go up there every week for a day and work with the investigators. I dont know why i was chosen to go up there with Elder Rasmussen because obviously Elder Bajaña has been out in the mission a ton longer than i have and he speaks fluent spanish. But for some reason Pres chose me and Elder Rasmussen. For reasons i dont understand the Lord just keeps blessing me so much in this work. So we took the bus up to La Seu which is a city right outside Andorra still in Spain. It was a 2 and a half bus ride and probably the prettiest drive ive ever seen. I took a billion pictures. We were picked up by the counselor in the branch presidency there in La Seu named Hno. Raul. He took us to meet the branch President, Edgar and then we went and visited an investigator named Ramón.
Ramón and his family is amazing. They have 2 kids together, a boy thats 9 i think and a girl thats like 4. They have been investigators for a couple of years and they always go to church each week and they are already sharing the gospel with their friends. All they need is to get baptized. But the problem is... they´re not married. Hno. Raul told us they both were married before and got separated but didnt divorce legally, so now theyre living together and they dont want to get divorced from their last spouses. So this next week we want to talk to them about marriage and how the gospel blesses the family and what they need to do to get married. We slept over at Hno. Raul´s house and then went around the city the next day to get familiar with everything and to get some maps and bus schedules for Andorra. We ended up not going to Andorra but we´ll probably go this week. The experiences i have every day is almost too much. Maybe everyone should stop praying for me so i dont get blessed so much.
Another quick story... We went to go visit Frank on tuesday and we were going over the plan of salvation with him again. When we started talking about Jesus Christ he shared his story about how he decided to put Christ in his life. He came from Africa on a small boat about 6 meters across with 57 other people. He said they were on the boat for about 24 hours when somehow the boat started to sink. It was filling up with water and everyone was crying and praying for help when out of nowhere another boat showed up on its way to Malaga. They all waved and yelled for it to stop and pick them up and luckily it saw them and rescued them. Everyone was saved but were shipped back to Africa... everyone except for one person. Frank. He said he knew that God had saved him that day and had guided him to Spain and that there was a reason for him to be in Spain. We testified to him that God truly had put him in Spain so he could meet us missionaries and receive the gospel. He said he knew that was why he had come to Spain and that he had found the true church of Jesus Christ. Frank never ceases to amaze me.
So thats my crazy life here in Spain. Wow this was a long letter. I love you fam like crazy. Thanks so much for your fasting and prayers. Its obviously working.
Elder Reeves
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