Bon día mi familia!
I feel like i just wrote... oh wait, I did! I´m finally having a normal preparation day today. I finished training Elder Watkins this last Friday so now I can just stay in my area. FINALLY! Elder Salcedo also just left to Utah this morning. He´s going to be in the MTC probably for 9 weeks (poor man) and then he´ll be serving in the Ogden mission. So if you ever meet an Elder Salcedo mom and dad, that´s my adopted hijo.
I´m learning a lot being zone leader. Our zone is the best zone in the whole mission. Our missionaries are working super hard and are seeing a lot of miracles. There is this couple that just got baptized in the Cornellá ward with which i had that oportunity to do their interview for baptism. They´re from Colombia and were way way way religious in some church in Colombia. But then when they moved here to Spain they couldn´t find their church. Their uncle is a Bishop up in Bilbao and he sent the reference to the Elders in Cornellá. They started teaching them and they just ate everything up. When i did their interviews they were both telling me how much they just want to go out and do missionary work and spread the gospel. They´re incredible. We´re right on the path of hitting our goal of baptizing 14 this month finishing this last weekend with 7 in total. The Lord is preparing people all over. It´s a little hard though because 7 of our 10 companionships in our zone has a new companion and almost every time there´s a new companion, the investigator pool starts over. So once we get over that hump, people will be getting baptized left and right.
We´ve been teaching this girl named Nerea that is the girlfriend of a member in our ward. She´s española, 17 years old and comes from a deep Catholic background like all spanish people. She´s been taught before by other missionaries but she´s never been able to progress much because her mom is against any other religion besides catholisism and because of that she´s never been able to set a baptismal date. She´s almost always at the house of her boyfriend Jairo (from Bolivia) and she´s learned everything about the gospel because the whole family are members. She´s told us tons of times that she wants to get baptized but her mom wont let her. Her mom told her that when she´s 18 she´ll be able to make her own decision. Well... her birthday is June 27th. She´s so ready and has so many desires to get baptized. The miracle was that yesterday she came to church! We asked her how she was able to get permission from her mom and she said, "I didnt! I just told her that I was going over to Jairo´s and then I wanted to come to church so I did!" Haha pretty bold, but it was a miracle for us and she loved being there. Once she turns 18 she´ll be baptized as soon as she can.
Love you all. Happy birthday to those who´ve had one or who are about to have one!
Elder Reeves
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