May 21, 2012 - Family Email

Well here are some fotos! 

We had the baptism of ya boy Julián!  We got all the members to do everything like baptize him and give him the Holy Ghost.  It was a great baptism a lot more members came for the first time and even President Clegg and Hermana Clegg were there!  President Clegg even talked at the very end of the baptism it was excellent.  Elder Lignell and I had to give talks in the baptism Julián made us speak haha.  Julián gave his testimony at the baptism as well it was really special and the Spirit was so strong.  He is a truly converted person and I know he will have leadership here in the church one day.  He comes to church every week in a suit and tie and he is just the best.  I thought he was 30 but he really is 42!  So the baptism was great. 

Elder Manning, of course! :)

The other is Elder Pratt, he was one of my ZL´s when I was in Puerto.

So the work is good.  We had a really rough week.  Grace and Isabel dropped off the face of the earth and wont talk to us at all.  We don´t know where they went or why.  So all we can do is keep trying and try to get them baptized.  Sorry but there is nothing really to say more about them because I haven´t seen them in over a week.  Katerine is doing well, she was going to get baptized with Julián but she said she wanted to do it next week and we fought with her a while and she said she drank a cup of coffee and felt really bad.  So she is getting baptized next week so that will be good.  We will still try and work with Rosa.  We have plans to bring members with us to try and help us get her to commit.  The mom is great and said she will be baptized in the future.  So I won't be there for that but she just needs more time and she needs to be friends with some members.  Lorena just works all the time this month and it really ruined our week with lessons!!  We didn´t meet with Bridgette at all this week either.  We had a really rough week but we got a baptism.  I am happy no worries!  I am really sick of living with the people I live with though, except for Seely he helps me clean the place.  The piso is literally disgusting and we just cleaned it.  The kitchen is clean and the bathroom because that is what Elder Seely and I cleaned.  The floors look like they didn´t even get swept or mopped and that was Elder Mastersons and Lignells job.  I also make my comps bed everyday haha.  Oh well I think I am out of here soon.  Well the work goes good and we did a lot of finding this past week out in the streets so hopefully we will see some new investigators this next week and some baptisms!  Pray hard for Katerine, Rosa, Grace and Isabel!  They just opened up a new mission in Africa, well a new area that is part of our mission so the AP and Elder Bailey are going out there today!  Elder Manning is staying AP solo until the end of the transfer.  Well that is about all I got for you about teaching!  This last week we had Zone Conference and I had to practically do almost all of the setting up!  I really have a lot of lazy people that surround me except for Elder Seely.  Things wouldn´t get done all the way or correctly if I didn´t do it!  But the Zone conference worked out great and Elder Manning told me that he loves how prepared it was.  So that made me feel good but I didn´t tell him I practically set it all up myself!  Well I am doing great and I will find out if I stay or go this Saturday!  I love you all!  You are all amazing.  So yeah wait to send the package.

Our district with the Hermanas, they are great! I love them.

Elder Hafen

May 14, 2012 - Family Email

Okay so that was great to talk to all of you!  I found some really nice pants today that were on sale, so, I bought two pairs that are really nice.  I bought ones with material that won't wear out so I am happy with that purchase.  So I have an accent??  haha dang that is funny.  I have been told by people that I have picked up a good Andalucía accent which is South of Spain accent.  So I went to a Catholic Cathedral today as well and that was fun. I am excited to take you guys around Spain and show you my country.  So yeah we haven´t been teaching any Bolivians. Well I don´t like them because they just don´t progress.  They are really nice humble people, they are just so flaky. So Julian is a boss.  He is practically Mormon he just needs to get in the water.  I really don´t have any more information for you all about them.  It was great to talk to you all and I love you!!!

Hey I am switching appartments in like a week or so.  Send off stuff soon!  I forgot to tell you, plus I am out of Sevilla in like 2 weeks I am sure!!  I love you all!  I have the best family in the world.

Zone Conference

May 7, 2012 - Family Email

Okay so I was dying yesterday,

President Koh and his family

There is this lady here in Sevilla that met her husband at BYU and they invited us over for dinner yesterday.  The husband is named President Koh because he is the first assistant to President Clegg in the mission.  They live here in Sevilla and they both speak English.  So haha we ask them at dinner how they came to know the church and their whole conversion story and the dad goes first he met the missionaries in Singapore.  So then it´s the moms turn and she starts laughing and she says DONNY OSMOND.  I start laughing so hard, so this lady is literally in love with him and went to BYU to try and meet him and got baptized.  Haha this lady has like 4 note books full of news paper clips glued them in of The Osmond's and has pictures and records of Donny through out the whole house, even the daughter loves him.  So of course I told them I have met him and my mother cleans his teeth from time to time and Dad has done work on his teeth.  So I have a really big favor.  This lady got baptized because of Donny Osmond and they are like the strongest members in Sevilla, can you get something signed of him and a note to Ana María from Dr Perry??  I think it is absolutely hilarious!!  I have attached pictures of her and her family.  The daughter is GORGEOUS but is kinda going in active, we are trying to help her out, maybe this little Donny experience could help her out.  So this is the coolest family in Sevilla they said when you all come out to get me we are going to eat over there in their house and they speak English!  They always invite people over so it will actually happen.  So you will have to show Dr Perry the pictures and see what you can do!  Thanks

Ana María and her Donny

Grace is to the left and Isabel to the right

Okay so this last week was great, but we didn´t really find any new people.  So first off Katerine is doing great she told us she has received her answer and wants to get baptized and she is reading a ton of the Book of Mormon.  Her little sister Rosa is kinda rebellious and says I don´t want to get baptized, but she loves church and I had a dream this last week that she told us she wants to get baptized!  So I am not worried or scared, if she doesn´t get baptized no big deal! They are doing great they both came to church with out their mother.  Why?  Because Lorena got a job and now works on Sundays throughout this whole month which kinda sucks so that is a bummer but she will get baptized in the future.  The girls like church and are starting to fit in with all the young women so that will be good.  Bridgette is doing well, she couldn´t come to church this last Sunday because she has to help take care of the baby and she told us that she had to study.  She still does´t understand the importance of the church.  We are trying to move along with her but it´s a little hard.  They loved the videos and are extremely grateful!  She will get baptized one day, hopefully soon.  We are almost done with teaching her all the lessons and after we are gonna be like, what else do you want to know?  There is an activity this Friday for the young women's and she has a friend that is a member and they are going to go to it together hopefully!  Isabel and Grace are UNREAL!  They read so much of the Book of Mormon and they are obsessed with it!  We assigned them a chapter every day this week because we can only teach them on Saturdays and Sundays.  They are getting baptized for sure!  We taught them this last Sunday with two members that are ladies around their age and it was a great lesson.  They intern or take in and remember (I forgot the word or verb I wanted to use I only remember it in Spanish: interar) everything we teach and what they read.  So they are little miracles I love them, they even wanted a picture with us so I got one with them too.  Grace is to the left and Isabel to the right.  They couldn´t come to church yesterday morning because they were in the hospital.  Grace got way sick, but they still came to the church in the afternoon to teach them.  So Julian is solid as well all we have left to teach him is tithing and he already knows what it is, so he is ready to get baptized too!  He came to church and the members love him and they want him to get baptized.  Paco is good, we are bringing a guy with us to teach him this Wednesday that will just tear him apart!  He needs it, spiritually speaking. 

Zone Leader Conference

Zone Leader Conference

So I will call you at 12 o clock your time I guess sorry that isn´t very specific I don´t know what time that is here in Spain so I guess be ready, sorry my companion made up the time and isn´t very thoughtful of others, he just told me at night time??  So I get to talk to you all for an hour and a half because Elder Lignells parents are divorced and he gets to talk longer.  It will be on the phone not Skype.  In the package hmmm how about ranch dressing mix?  and just more candy!  I love you mom you´re the best!!  I am about to get on a train Málaga for Zone Leader Conference again wooo!! Good food from Hermana Clegg.

Zone Leader Conference

Love,

Elder Cody