Hey what´s up?
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| Elder Estrada |
Well I just got done with Zone Leader
Training and it was awesome. President Deere is amazing. He is the
most humble man on earth and he is going to work wonders here in the
mission. I am super excited for the work we are going to do with him.
I am in Fuengirola right now and there are three ladies sitting around
me and they are like 30 to 40 years old and they are saying a lot of bad
words. I feel like they should be with their families and children but
they probably don´t have any. They are acting like they are in junior
high talking about stupid and worldly things. Ha, it´s funny to see the
difference in people that live the gospel and don´t. I feel like I am
more mature than these ladies but anyway I am doing great. We had
another really good week in the field and it´s really hot here. So this
is week six here in Sevilla and I am pretty sure I am taking off this
transfer because it´s my fourth here. I have to be leaving because more
than four doesn´t happen often so we will see this Saturday where I am
going. The mom LOVED the photo she says thank you so much and is very
grateful. Thank you mother!
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| Having some good eats |
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| It's Party Time! |
So I got your package and it did make more than one
person happy. I got the letter and pictures from Heather and the note
from you mom. That was my favorite part; the part when I get to read
stuff! The picture of Donny Osmond was great. We ate over at The Kohs
house this Sunday, and we did a Family Home Evening with a less active
family that we are working with. So this less active family has an 11
year old and an 8 that aren´t baptized yet. We took the two kids to an
activity with the Stake this last week and they loved it. They are
progressing a lot and the parents want them to get baptized. So we took
the parents and the two kids to The Kohs house and we had lunch and a
lesson. It was really good and opened up the eyes of the family a lot.
The 11 year is named Meryan. She is the most beautiful 11 year old that
I have seen in Spain and just a sweet girl. This family is from
Ecuador and they have been sealed in the temple and the father was a
High Priest. They dropped the church like 9 years ago and it breaks my
heart because they have 3 older sons that are now atheist that hate the
missionaries.
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| Just trying to keep it real?! |
So a cool little story for ya´ll. I think it was
Thursday afternoon and we got completely failed lesson after lesson so
we contacted in the street while passing by our back up plans. We were
about to ring the door of a person that was less active and a Spanish
man stops us and tells us that he had just tried to get into the church
because he wants to know more about it. We talked to him for like 10
minutes and he was just asking us tons of questions and wanted to be a
member of the church. So I get his number and invite him to the baptism
that was going to be held on Friday afternoon. So Friday comes a long
and I call him to remind him and tell him to come a little early because
we wanted to talk to him about the church. So he shows up a little
early and we show him the church and he loved it. Sorry I forgot to
mention this man is named Manolo and he is in his late 50´s. He is
super smart and is so prepared and open to accept everything. He loved
the baptism and loved that we baptize by immersion and felt really good
there in the church. After we went and taught him a lesson 0 which
introduces the Book of Mormon and explains what we do as missionaries.
So he loved it and then stayed for the activity we had there in the
Stake Center and we had 4 investigators go and watch it. The activity
was a talent show and in the middle Manolo wanted to go and read the
Book of Mormon instead, so I said of course. After the activity there
was a lot of food and drinks and he was out there like handing out
drinks and food to people it was hilarious. The next day we taught him
and and it was a great lesson because we brought a member and they were
friendly with each other. So he is off on the right foot step. Then
Sunday he came to church he loved it.
So the other investigators are doing well. Alba has
to bring her parents to the church to sign the permission for her to go
to EFY and we are just praying for a miracle that her parents let her
get baptized. We are still teaching her and it is going well. Jaquelin
is doing well but she was sick and didn´t come to church. We taught
her Sunday and we had a really amazing lesson on the Spirit World. The
spirit was way strong and she had the question about people dying with
out knowing the gospel or Christ. So we taught a good lesson about
temples and the Spirit World. Alfredo is still traveling so when he is
in town he lets us know and we call him. The family with the DVD´s we
practically dropped because the mom acts like her life is too busy and
her daughter has to take care of her baby.
So that was about it this week and we have Zone
Conference tomorrow with President Deere and his family. His family is
amazing the kids are great. The daughter is really cute but super shy
so I didn´t talk to her. The older son is a champ and the little one is
super funny. Haha we all slept in the same room with the sons last
night.
Thanks Family love you!!!!!!!!
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