Well... so you heard the news, eh? It was a pretty big shock to me. I feel pretty inadequate and humbled to serve with President and Hermana Pace, especially to be able to help them get to know and adjust themselves to the mission. I just feel like the Lord relys on me a TON and I dont rely enough on Him. That´s definitely something that I´m coming to recognize and something that I´m working on changing. So this is what happened...
Friday morning last week, Elder Littlefield and i had just left piso to go out teaching in the morning. As we were arriving to the metro our phone rang. Elder Littlefield answered and it happened to be Elder Keeler, my current companion, and he said, "I´m calling on behalf of President Pace. He wants both of you to come into the office at 2:00." He hung up and then told me what happened. I thought, "oh no. I think one of us is getting transferred." I thought of the fact that Elder Middleton was leaving and that there would have to be a new ayudante and I immediately felt ok because I knew Elder Littlefield is perfect for that. But then I realized he only has 3 transfers left and the fear came back to me. After teaching in the morning, we went to the office. There were 2 other missionaries from our district that were there, Elder Greep (who has one transfer left) and Swenson (has 2 transfers more than me in the mission). President first called in Elder Greep who, afterwards, walked out silent. He wouldn´t tell me what happened so I just waited patiently... somewhat. Then Elder Swenson walked out after his interview and he said, "I cant believe we´re both going to the islands!" Their companionship has been serving in our zone but they both got transferred out and are going to 2 different areas on the islands. Big change for them. Then President called in Elder Littlefield. He was in there longer than the other 2 Elders so I was starting to wonder what was going on. I still had an uneasy feeling that Elder Littlefield or I would be Ayudante and I just prayed that the Lord would help me feel that whatever was going to happen was His will. Elder Littlefield walked out and President called me in for last. We sat down and the first thing he did was pull out a 25 anniversary book of the Madrid mission back in 1998, i think was the year. He flipped open to a page of him and it had his picture when he was a missionary, his info, some miracle experience, and then a picture of his family back in 1998. It was super neat. Then he flipped to another page. It was the page of Uncle Robert Reeves. It also had his picture when he was a missionary, his miracle experience, and then a picture of their family with all of our cousins. After reading the miracle experience, he started to get choked up and he turned to me and said, "your uncle was my first zone leader when I got to the mission. Every time I was with him or even just looked at him, I wanted to be a better missionary. He made a huge difference in my mission. I have seen that same quality in you. And I dont think it was a coincidence that we went out together my first night here in Spain. So, I would be honored and would love to be able to work with a Reeves again with you as my ayudante. Can you do that for me?" I sat there for a couple of seconds in silence amazed at the love that I felt from President Pace at that moment. I of course answered yes.
Even though I only had one month out of the office, i feel like ive learned the most in these last 6 weeks with Elder Littlefield than I have in my whole mission. I seriously and soooo grateful for that chance I had to serve in Hospitalet. I love Hospitalet. Its been amazing to see how the Lord has been preparing me for this. I still feel WAY inadequate and that I need to step it up a ton more but I honestly feel the support and preparation that God has given me. I´m excited to be able to work with President and Hermana Pace. They are so incredible. Every day they impress me more and more. There are some changes and there are some different focuses but i´m just going to embrace them. I know that President Pace is called of God. I know that he was prepared to serve here at this time and i´m just lucky to be able to follow him around and see him receive revelation for this mission.
I love my mission fam. It´s going way to fast. Oh by the way, Elder Keeler and I are being whitewashed into Barcelona 3. It´s the 3rd ward here in Barcelona and 2 other Elders were taken out and we´re being put in. There is another companionship with us here too. We´re way excited and we know Heavenly Father has been preparing so many people, especially families. We´re going to see tons of miracles here. Love you all. Pray for me. Pray that I can sleep. We´ve gotten like 6 hours of sleep in the past 2 nights. Haha good welcome to the ayudante life!
Elder Reeves
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Monday, July 2, 2012
Hospitalet week 5 - La Familia Alvarado
Bon día family
That´s so weird that Valerie is already done. I remember thinking when she left, "wow, when she goes home, i´ll have a year in the mission." I´m pretty sure that was just 2 days ago when I said that. That´s how fast time has gone. it´s been such a blessing being able to serve side by side with you Val. Thanks for your experiences and for your testimonies. I´ll just keep goin with Emily by my side.
Going out with President Pace was so much fun. I love the Paces so much. They say hi by the way, mom and dad. It´s weird to think they were just with you a week ago. Anyway the miracle i wanted to share was actually from the visit we had with President Pace and the family Alvarado. The Alvarados were a reference from a member and they came to church last week for the farewell of the member´s son who was leaving on a mission to the Dominican Republic. The whole family came: Patricio (padre) Nancy (madre) Patricio (hijo 18 years old) and Antoni (hijo 12 years old). They loved it and agreed to meet with us that night in the house of the member that invited them to church. That night we taught them the restoration and invited them to read and to pray. We lost contact with them for a couple of days because they went to Valencia where they had been living, but then brought all of their things and moved in with another member, Jonni Ocaña. We found out about them coming to live with Jonni and we set up to visit them on Friday night. When we got to their house, the 2 sons were just leaving to take their dog on a walk but they reassured us that they were coming back. After eating a little bit and Patricio and Antoni coming back, we started with a song and prayer. We asked them if they had read and prayed and they said they werent able to because of all the moving that had to do in the last couple of days. Immediately we opened up the Book of Mormon and said we were going to read with them. We taught them about baptism and read 2 Nephi 31. Elder Littlefield invited them to be baptized but they were a little hesitant. We pulled out our baptism plan and told them that we would set a date as a goal and if they felt like they weren´t ready by that day we could move it. They agreed and are preparing for the 21 of July to be baptized as a family. President Pace testified throughout the visit and promised incredible blessings for them as a family. The spirit was so strong. They came to church again this last Sunday and Patricio the father even got up and bore his testimony in front of everyone. He testified of how God can really change lives and how he´s starting to enter into the path of God with his family. It was incredible. I love being part of God´s plan in helping families become eternal.
This Lord´s work is a work for families and the Gospel is what every family in this world needs. The Savior suffered and died so that we can be with our families together forever. Let´s all show our love and gratitude for what He did by helping other families receive what our family has. Love you all like I love my mission.
Elder Reeves
That´s so weird that Valerie is already done. I remember thinking when she left, "wow, when she goes home, i´ll have a year in the mission." I´m pretty sure that was just 2 days ago when I said that. That´s how fast time has gone. it´s been such a blessing being able to serve side by side with you Val. Thanks for your experiences and for your testimonies. I´ll just keep goin with Emily by my side.
Going out with President Pace was so much fun. I love the Paces so much. They say hi by the way, mom and dad. It´s weird to think they were just with you a week ago. Anyway the miracle i wanted to share was actually from the visit we had with President Pace and the family Alvarado. The Alvarados were a reference from a member and they came to church last week for the farewell of the member´s son who was leaving on a mission to the Dominican Republic. The whole family came: Patricio (padre) Nancy (madre) Patricio (hijo 18 years old) and Antoni (hijo 12 years old). They loved it and agreed to meet with us that night in the house of the member that invited them to church. That night we taught them the restoration and invited them to read and to pray. We lost contact with them for a couple of days because they went to Valencia where they had been living, but then brought all of their things and moved in with another member, Jonni Ocaña. We found out about them coming to live with Jonni and we set up to visit them on Friday night. When we got to their house, the 2 sons were just leaving to take their dog on a walk but they reassured us that they were coming back. After eating a little bit and Patricio and Antoni coming back, we started with a song and prayer. We asked them if they had read and prayed and they said they werent able to because of all the moving that had to do in the last couple of days. Immediately we opened up the Book of Mormon and said we were going to read with them. We taught them about baptism and read 2 Nephi 31. Elder Littlefield invited them to be baptized but they were a little hesitant. We pulled out our baptism plan and told them that we would set a date as a goal and if they felt like they weren´t ready by that day we could move it. They agreed and are preparing for the 21 of July to be baptized as a family. President Pace testified throughout the visit and promised incredible blessings for them as a family. The spirit was so strong. They came to church again this last Sunday and Patricio the father even got up and bore his testimony in front of everyone. He testified of how God can really change lives and how he´s starting to enter into the path of God with his family. It was incredible. I love being part of God´s plan in helping families become eternal.
This Lord´s work is a work for families and the Gospel is what every family in this world needs. The Savior suffered and died so that we can be with our families together forever. Let´s all show our love and gratitude for what He did by helping other families receive what our family has. Love you all like I love my mission.
Elder Reeves
Monday, June 25, 2012
Hospitalet week 4 - Lucky number 13
What in the world happened to the Stacy family? I litterally almost cant recognize any of them. Especially Aidan. Haha he´s huge!! Loved the pictures though. Thanks for sending them.
It was super funny because when we got on for emails, Elder Littlefield opened up his email from his parents and said, "oh look, my parents met President and Hermana Pace! Here´s a picture from them." (Elder Littlefield´s dad is the Manager of prefield services for the missionary department and has his main office in the MTC) I looked at the picture and thought, "i wonder if mom and dad met them" Then I opened up the email from mom and there was pretty much the same exact picture of President and Hermana Pace. Haha i´m sure you´ve met Elder Littlefield´s parents, mom and dad. Or at least seen them. Elder Littlefield and I were actually assigned to take President Pace out on splits with us his first night out in the field on friday... haha we´ll see how that goes!
If i´ve never told you why my lucky number is number 13, here´s another reason why..... This last week we really focused on getting people to church and asking for the members help in inviting and bringing friends to church. We focused on 3 strong member families and got a lot of referrals from them. They said that they would do everything they could to bring their friends to church. Luckily, one of the families, Los Luque, have a son who is leaving on his mission this week and was going to be giving his testimony in sacrament meeting, which gave a lot of investigators more reason to come. Saturday night, there was a birthday party for another girl in the ward, Carmen. We knew that a lot of members, including the Luques, and their friends would be at the party. We stopped by and shared a message with everyone and reinvited all of the investigators to come to church the next day. We were a little afraid because Saturday was the día de Sant Juan and everyone was going to stay up late at parties, which would make it harder for them to come to church in the morning. Elder Littlefield and I kept praying for a miracle and that these people could come to church. The next day, only one investigator family of 4 was there as sacrament started, or at least I thought there was. Then Elder Littlefield turned to me and said, "I think there are 7-8 investigators here right now". As I looked around and harder to where the members we had visited were sitting, and found there were 4 more investigators sitting with different members. We were up to 8. About 10 minutes later, in walked another investigator family of 5 that Los Luque had invited. 13 people in church. It was the biggest miracle I´ve ever seen in church. After sacrament, we met all of them and are working with the members to set up visits and teach these incredible children of God.
Well we gotta go right now to our last "concilio" as zone leaders with President Hinckley right now. It will be an amazing meeting. I´ll let you know how it goes. Love you all
Elder Reeves
It was super funny because when we got on for emails, Elder Littlefield opened up his email from his parents and said, "oh look, my parents met President and Hermana Pace! Here´s a picture from them." (Elder Littlefield´s dad is the Manager of prefield services for the missionary department and has his main office in the MTC) I looked at the picture and thought, "i wonder if mom and dad met them" Then I opened up the email from mom and there was pretty much the same exact picture of President and Hermana Pace. Haha i´m sure you´ve met Elder Littlefield´s parents, mom and dad. Or at least seen them. Elder Littlefield and I were actually assigned to take President Pace out on splits with us his first night out in the field on friday... haha we´ll see how that goes!
If i´ve never told you why my lucky number is number 13, here´s another reason why..... This last week we really focused on getting people to church and asking for the members help in inviting and bringing friends to church. We focused on 3 strong member families and got a lot of referrals from them. They said that they would do everything they could to bring their friends to church. Luckily, one of the families, Los Luque, have a son who is leaving on his mission this week and was going to be giving his testimony in sacrament meeting, which gave a lot of investigators more reason to come. Saturday night, there was a birthday party for another girl in the ward, Carmen. We knew that a lot of members, including the Luques, and their friends would be at the party. We stopped by and shared a message with everyone and reinvited all of the investigators to come to church the next day. We were a little afraid because Saturday was the día de Sant Juan and everyone was going to stay up late at parties, which would make it harder for them to come to church in the morning. Elder Littlefield and I kept praying for a miracle and that these people could come to church. The next day, only one investigator family of 4 was there as sacrament started, or at least I thought there was. Then Elder Littlefield turned to me and said, "I think there are 7-8 investigators here right now". As I looked around and harder to where the members we had visited were sitting, and found there were 4 more investigators sitting with different members. We were up to 8. About 10 minutes later, in walked another investigator family of 5 that Los Luque had invited. 13 people in church. It was the biggest miracle I´ve ever seen in church. After sacrament, we met all of them and are working with the members to set up visits and teach these incredible children of God.
Well we gotta go right now to our last "concilio" as zone leaders with President Hinckley right now. It will be an amazing meeting. I´ll let you know how it goes. Love you all
Elder Reeves
Monday, June 18, 2012
Hospitalet week 3 - Bitter to sweet
Buenos días de Hospitalet a todos
Girlcation huh? Nice! The girls are finally catching onto the trend. Don´t party too crazy. Haha. Sorry I havent read any of the other emails yet (I print them out and read them when I have more time) so if i dont answer anyone´s questions it´s not my fault.
This week was a little harder especially because of not having anyone come to church. It really showed that a lot of our investigators are not progressing as they should be and that we have to let some of them go for a little bit. It´s been super crazy because we´re starting to see around the mission right now that Satan is attacking hard. We only had 2 baptisms in the whole mission this last weekend... probably the lowest EVER. That was the bitter part. President sent us a text on Friday and asked everyone to start a fast on saturday and fast for our investigators, members, and areas so that we can fight against the work of Satan and see the success that God wants us to have. Yesterday we finished our fast and continued praying throughout the day as we passed by other people/members. As we were walking in the street, we found 2 new families who want to hear more and in a visit with a member we found another couple. 3 new families that the Lord has prepared. We have plans to visit them again this next week and share them the wonderful news of the restored gospel. I know that through fasting and prayer, along with diligently looking and finding, the Lord puts prepared people in our path.
I kinda lost track of really how everything in this work is the Lord´s, not mine. Every good thing and every blessing that we see is not because of my skills or my knowledge as a missionary. It´s because the Lord loves us and wants us to have success. I know Satan starts attacking like crazy when he knows something good is about to happen (Joseph Smith right before the first vision) and as we keep praying with all our hearts pleading for the Lord to release us from the grasps of Satan, we will see the miracles. That´s the sweet part.
Fam if you ever have doubts or are feeling the grasps of Satan come down on you, pray with all your might. Know that he doesn´t want us to have the blessings of the gospel and he´ll do anything in his power to stop us. Keep praying, keep fighting. It´s all worth it in the end. This is the Lord´s work. Love you all
Elder Reeves
Girlcation huh? Nice! The girls are finally catching onto the trend. Don´t party too crazy. Haha. Sorry I havent read any of the other emails yet (I print them out and read them when I have more time) so if i dont answer anyone´s questions it´s not my fault.
This week was a little harder especially because of not having anyone come to church. It really showed that a lot of our investigators are not progressing as they should be and that we have to let some of them go for a little bit. It´s been super crazy because we´re starting to see around the mission right now that Satan is attacking hard. We only had 2 baptisms in the whole mission this last weekend... probably the lowest EVER. That was the bitter part. President sent us a text on Friday and asked everyone to start a fast on saturday and fast for our investigators, members, and areas so that we can fight against the work of Satan and see the success that God wants us to have. Yesterday we finished our fast and continued praying throughout the day as we passed by other people/members. As we were walking in the street, we found 2 new families who want to hear more and in a visit with a member we found another couple. 3 new families that the Lord has prepared. We have plans to visit them again this next week and share them the wonderful news of the restored gospel. I know that through fasting and prayer, along with diligently looking and finding, the Lord puts prepared people in our path.
I kinda lost track of really how everything in this work is the Lord´s, not mine. Every good thing and every blessing that we see is not because of my skills or my knowledge as a missionary. It´s because the Lord loves us and wants us to have success. I know Satan starts attacking like crazy when he knows something good is about to happen (Joseph Smith right before the first vision) and as we keep praying with all our hearts pleading for the Lord to release us from the grasps of Satan, we will see the miracles. That´s the sweet part.
Fam if you ever have doubts or are feeling the grasps of Satan come down on you, pray with all your might. Know that he doesn´t want us to have the blessings of the gospel and he´ll do anything in his power to stop us. Keep praying, keep fighting. It´s all worth it in the end. This is the Lord´s work. Love you all
Elder Reeves
Monday, June 11, 2012
Hospitalet week 2 - Rebellious Nerea
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
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
Friday, June 8, 2012
Hospitalet week 1 - No time
It´s been pretty crazy going back and forth from my area to here in the office so I haven´t had a preparation day in the last couple of weeks but I´ve finally found some time to write! My preparation days are on Monday now but since the office has them on Wednesdays i haven´t been able to have them because i just go back to my area and work on Wednesday.
The miracle I wanted to share actually comes from this last Sunday. I had heard a lot about the members and how incredible the ward is from Elder Middleton but in this last sacrament meeting I really saw the truth of it. As you know it was fast Sunday and I had wanted to get up to introduce myself to the ward and to share my testimony. Bishop Gilier, who was directing the meeting, finished baring his testimony, turned the time over to the members and as soon as he sat down, IMMEDIATELY about 15 members stood up and started making their way to the front!! As I sat there for a second thinking how crazy it was that so many members were getting up at the same time, I realized that if I didn´t get up right then I would have no time to bare my testimony! So I jumped up and got up to the front as fast as I could. I ended up being able to bare my testimony and I told the members how impressed I was by them and by their testimonies. I really have never even seen that happen on the mission so far - I dont even think back home I ever saw that. I truly have seen how the excitement and the help of the members makes this work of the Lord run. I know we will see SO much success in this ward. Baptisms EVERY WEEK!! That´s our goal and we´re going to be working with these members so that we´ll be able to see that goal be put into place. I love the Hospitalet ward and I love you fam. And yes we had the baptism of Daniela this last saturday. She´s 10 years old, from Honduras. Her brother who got baptized like a month ago baptized her. Huge miracle. Bon día
Elder Reeves
The miracle I wanted to share actually comes from this last Sunday. I had heard a lot about the members and how incredible the ward is from Elder Middleton but in this last sacrament meeting I really saw the truth of it. As you know it was fast Sunday and I had wanted to get up to introduce myself to the ward and to share my testimony. Bishop Gilier, who was directing the meeting, finished baring his testimony, turned the time over to the members and as soon as he sat down, IMMEDIATELY about 15 members stood up and started making their way to the front!! As I sat there for a second thinking how crazy it was that so many members were getting up at the same time, I realized that if I didn´t get up right then I would have no time to bare my testimony! So I jumped up and got up to the front as fast as I could. I ended up being able to bare my testimony and I told the members how impressed I was by them and by their testimonies. I really have never even seen that happen on the mission so far - I dont even think back home I ever saw that. I truly have seen how the excitement and the help of the members makes this work of the Lord run. I know we will see SO much success in this ward. Baptisms EVERY WEEK!! That´s our goal and we´re going to be working with these members so that we´ll be able to see that goal be put into place. I love the Hospitalet ward and I love you fam. And yes we had the baptism of Daniela this last saturday. She´s 10 years old, from Honduras. Her brother who got baptized like a month ago baptized her. Huge miracle. Bon día
Elder Reeves
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Oficina week 25 - Curve ball
Sully as high priest eh? That´s super neat that you got to set him apart dad. Julie and Brett are in the other ward right? And what?? Kidney removal surgery on Sam?? When did that happen? I´m so glad to hear that everything worked out good.
Transfers went way well actually. Only a couple bumps and mistakes but it turned out really well and i think President and Hermana were super happy about how it turned out. All the 21 viejos went home this morning. Huge hole in the mission but it´s alright because we´re in the second harvest of Spain. There are prepared people everywhere.
Well here comes the curve ball. The talk of transfers doesn´t end here because....... I got transferred!!! I totally thought this wouldn´t happen because my replacement hadn´t come 3 weeks in advance before the transfer like they usually do here in the office when someone is getting transferred. I´m now in Hospitalet (city right outside of Barc) and I´m Zone Leader with Elder Littlefield!! Super crazy. Totally didn´t see it coming. I pretty much dont know anything about Elder Littlefield because i just moved to Hospitalet last night. I´ll let you know about him next week. But he´s amazing. He´s been out for about a year and a half and he´s been Zone Leader for 2 transfers. I´ve always wanted to serve with him, he´s so humble and such a powerful missionary. My replacement, Elder Watkins, just got here yesterday to the office, so President told me i have to come in every day and work with him during office hours and train him. Then every evening i go back to my area! It´s going to be pretty hard because, first off, i have no idea how to be Zone Leader and secondly, it will be hard to learn the area only working there for a couple hours every night. But i guess i already know how that is. It´s alright though because we´re in a trio right now in Hospitalet with a Visa waiter who´s going to be serving in Utah. His name is Elder Salcedo from Peru! He´s lived in Spain since he was 9 and got baptized with his mom when he was 16. He´s so good. So Elder Littlefield and him will be working the area while im here training in the office. Huge change! I´m way excited though. It will be neat to get to know the zone and help them to become missionaries that baptize every week. Elder Middleton, the ayudante from England that i´ve been living with for the last 3 tranfers, was zone leader in Hospitalet right before becoming ayudante and he said Hospitalet is incredible. I´ve heard that investigators just drop from the sky and the members work super well with the missionaries. Referrals everywhere. We´ll be having a baptism this weekend too.
Keep praying for me because i REALLY need them now haha love you all. Adeu a tots,
Elder Reeves
Transfers went way well actually. Only a couple bumps and mistakes but it turned out really well and i think President and Hermana were super happy about how it turned out. All the 21 viejos went home this morning. Huge hole in the mission but it´s alright because we´re in the second harvest of Spain. There are prepared people everywhere.
Well here comes the curve ball. The talk of transfers doesn´t end here because....... I got transferred!!! I totally thought this wouldn´t happen because my replacement hadn´t come 3 weeks in advance before the transfer like they usually do here in the office when someone is getting transferred. I´m now in Hospitalet (city right outside of Barc) and I´m Zone Leader with Elder Littlefield!! Super crazy. Totally didn´t see it coming. I pretty much dont know anything about Elder Littlefield because i just moved to Hospitalet last night. I´ll let you know about him next week. But he´s amazing. He´s been out for about a year and a half and he´s been Zone Leader for 2 transfers. I´ve always wanted to serve with him, he´s so humble and such a powerful missionary. My replacement, Elder Watkins, just got here yesterday to the office, so President told me i have to come in every day and work with him during office hours and train him. Then every evening i go back to my area! It´s going to be pretty hard because, first off, i have no idea how to be Zone Leader and secondly, it will be hard to learn the area only working there for a couple hours every night. But i guess i already know how that is. It´s alright though because we´re in a trio right now in Hospitalet with a Visa waiter who´s going to be serving in Utah. His name is Elder Salcedo from Peru! He´s lived in Spain since he was 9 and got baptized with his mom when he was 16. He´s so good. So Elder Littlefield and him will be working the area while im here training in the office. Huge change! I´m way excited though. It will be neat to get to know the zone and help them to become missionaries that baptize every week. Elder Middleton, the ayudante from England that i´ve been living with for the last 3 tranfers, was zone leader in Hospitalet right before becoming ayudante and he said Hospitalet is incredible. I´ve heard that investigators just drop from the sky and the members work super well with the missionaries. Referrals everywhere. We´ll be having a baptism this weekend too.
Keep praying for me because i REALLY need them now haha love you all. Adeu a tots,
Elder Reeves
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