Hello fam!!
Such good news to hear everythings going well with Brett and fam. You continue in my prayers. Everything here in Bilbao is amazing as always and today is actually TRANSFERS!! Good news... im staying!!! Elder Prieto left this morning to go to Martorell, a small city about an hour away from Barç. He´s going to be district leader down there in the Hospitalet zone! He´ll do great. My new companion is Elder Pearson!! He´s been out for about 10 months i think and is actually the nephew of Pte. and Hna Pace! Haha crazy huh? But he´s such a good missionary so i´m really excited to work with him. He´s been serving in Zaragoza as district leader so i´ll be training him how to be zone leader. He´ll be getting in tonight at 10. I´ll let you know a little bit more about him next week after i get to know him.
2 weeks ago we lost the fecha that we had set with Dora, Wber(16) and Mikel(11) (the wife and kids of a less active, also named Wber, that we´ve been teaching for the last couple of months) for this last weekend because they had said that they didn´t feel prepared and they wanted more time to learn more before baptism. The baptism of Luz Marina was going to be that weekend, the 9th, so we promised them that if they came to the baptism they would receive their answer that they need to be baptized. They got there a little late to the baptism but all 3 showed up! They were able to see Luz Marina get baptized and then bare her strong testimony of how she knew the church was true. Then after the baptism, Dora went up to her to congratulate her and she told her that she was also wanting to prepare for baptism. Luz Marina told her that it was the most happy moment of her life and that Dora and her family shouldn´t wait to be baptized. It was perfect. We had a Noche de Hogar with them and another family that sunday but for some reason it didn´t feel right to ask them about baptism right then. But last thursday we went to visit them again. They had read all of their reading assignments and kept all of their commitments. After talking about their reading, we asked them about the baptism of Luz Marina and how they felt seeing it. Dora said that when she saw how happy Luz Marina was, she had the same desire to be baptized. She said she felt like she was ready to be baptized and that she wanted to make the step. Just as we were about to invite her again to be baptized she said, "I dont want to be baptized until Wber and Mikel are ready to be baptized too. But Wber doesn´t feel prepared yet." We spent the next couple of minutes talking to Wber about how he can prepare better for baptism. In the end we weren´t able to set another date but the miracle was that Dora has now felt that need and truly wants to be baptized to follow Jesus Christ and change her life. We´re working with Wber so that he feels that answer that he needs to be baptized so that all 3 of them can enter into the pathway of God. The dad, Wber, is still pretty hard hearted and doesnt want to come back but we´re hoping that having all of them join the fold of God that they´ll all start progressing as a family. I love the spirit that is felt in baptisms and we´ve been able to see that it helps so much for other investigators to feel that they are prepared to make that same step.
Mom and dad, those plans sound good. I really have no preference as to how long we´re in each city or where we go just as long as we get to see the people that i want to see. Thanks for everything. Love you all
Elder Reeves
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