Week 5 of Transfer 2 in Leon

Privyet!

I'm pretty sure that's how you say hello in Russian. Well this week has been really great, and also exceptionally fast,  but that's life right? Well, the quote of the week, "They don't think I know a butload of crap about the gospel, but I DO..."

I really think I out did myself with this one. 

LUNES:

Well we had P-day. We made caramel apples, and they turned out really good. After that, we went and visited our friends Norberto and Nalda. They are super cool, and are really hilarious. So we went by them and had guitar, piano, english classes. It was way fun. After that we shre a thought with them about Jesus Christ, and who he really is. It went over great, and we really felt the spirit. After that, we ran home so that we woulden't be late, which normally isn't a big deal but they live like 1 hour from our piso. Don't worry... We made it. 

MARTES:

Alright. Well we meet with our friend Hortensia every Tuesday morning. We had a really great lesson with her about the Gospel of Jesus Christ which is: Faith, Repentnce, Baptism, Recieving the gift of the holy ghost, and Enduring to the end. PRetty great stuff in there. This was what Jesus Christ, and his Apostles taught when they were on the earth. The restored gospel of Jesus Christ is just the same, because it is "RESTORED." I Like to think of it as a car. So say for example your Grandpa bought a brand new Ford Mustang in 1967. It was shiny, and without imperfections. Your grandmother didn't think it was responsible to drive such a fast car so Grandpa puts it in the garage for a long time. Such a long time in fact, that the paint starts to chip off; There are large patches of rust; all of the tires are flat and delfated; the upholstrey is ragged and moth-eaten; The engine is a mess, it coulden't start even if it wanted to. Then one day someone finds the car. They drag it out of the old leaky garage into the sunlight, which the car hasn't seen for a very long time. They take the car to a new garage, and with able hands begin to work on it. Take apart, clean, and refurbish the engine so it's brand new; run new electrical line; patch the rusty spots, and sand it; lay a fresh coat of paint; reupholster the seats and dashboard; and get new rubber for the tires. It is the same car, "RESTORED," to it's perfect state. The state that your grandpa bought it in so long ago. You put the key in the ignition and the engine roars to life. It is the same with the Gospel. Jesus established his gospel and authorized his apostles to teach and preach the world. After his death, and the deaths of his apostles, the peple of the earth wanted to follow him but didn't have the authority nor the guidance to do so. When this happens it is called an apostasy, or a falling away from God and his teachings. So the simple and pure truths of the gospel were changed and molded by the people to suit their desirse. These saving ordinance such as baptism were changed. Thus, when the light of the world, Jesus Christ died, the world was left in darkness. Becuase of his long period without the guidance of prophets or apostles, there arose many churches. Many of them had good, and true things but were not complete. In the year 1820, all of that changed. God clled  prophet once again to the earth to guid his children, ad gave him the authority to perform these sacred ordinances like baptism. This prophet called Jospeh Smith, called 12 apostles and gave them the authority to preach the gospel of The savior once again in it's pure and simple form. The gospel was restored. Faith, repentance, baptism, the gift of the holy ghost, and eduring to the end. Good stuff.

MIERCOLES:

So we went to distrcit meeting today, which was fun, and afterwards we visited a pueblo caled "La Baneza" which is about a hour in bus from LEon. It was pretty, and we met lots of great people. I lost my planner on the way back. So as missionaries we have aganda where we plan for every preson that we will go by the night before, and also it has all of the things that we must do that day. I lost mine.. So i got a new one when i got home but i'm still pretty bummed out. But it was a great day and La Baneza has the coolest graffiti that i hav ever seen. It is super fly..

JUEVES:

Well Today was reallly good. We had a bunch of lesson set up, which failed us. It sounds like a bad start but that's just being a missionary. So after that we went to correlacion, Which is a meeting that we have with our mission leader who is a member in the branch or ward who is in charge or oversee's the missionary work. Our mission leader is amazing, he is called Pedro. Well we had a really awesome meeting with him, and talked about of amigos that we are teaching, and also talked about how we can what the big picture of missionary work not only in Leon, but in Spain. It was awesome, and i learned a ton. It is easy to fall into a outine and only think about what you have directly in front of your face, but in this work, and also in life it is important to keep a perspective of what is really important, or what the big picture is. So that was cool, and then after that we met this really cool spanish guy in the street who was really interested. That never happens. Miracles... 

VIERNES:

SO we left early in the morning in a train for madrid! WE had intercambios, which is where you switch companions for a day, and in our case, areas of proselyting. IT was awesome becasue we were in the very center of madrid, which is called Cuatro Caminos.. YOu should look it up, its cool. It was realy fun, and i learned a lot. Man, madrid is big..And super loud and crazy, but cool. 

SABADO:

Well we were still in madrid, and our train left at 11:05. We left and got to the train station at like 11:03 because the other Hermanas that were with us got lost, and it wasn't like we knew where we were. But we made it...barely. When we got back to LEon, we met with maria- dolores, and had  great lesson. So my companion has been in leon for 4 transfers. A transfer is for 6 weeks. So she has been here for almost 6 months which for an 18 month mission, is a considerable chunk. So she will more than likely go to a new areathis next transfer, which is the coming monday. So we told Maria-dolores this and she took it okay but then just started balling..She was telling us how she didn't want tus to leave, and how we had been her guardian angels. She is a little Dramatic, but she really loves us. We really love her, and i can feel the love that the savior has for her when we are there. It was just really sweet, and  have to admit that i cired a little too. It's just nice to feel like you helped someone in the little way that you can. Then we had a big turn out for enlgish class. We had 5 people there. It gets bigger eveytime. Great day. 

DOMINGO:

SO today we had church, which was aweosme as usual. We talked to our president wife, Virginia ad asked her when we could come by and she said that we could go by on Thursday, which normally she just says no.. Progress! We passed by Our friend Lesly who just got back from Norwega. She is doing really good, and we had a stellar lesson with her about repntance, and the restaurcion. She was loving it. Then we went to the familia riveras for dinner and celebrated my companion, and lucy thier daughters birthdays. The bought a giant cake. IT was super cool. We sang like 5 diffrent versions of Feliz cumpleanos, and happy birthday at the same time. 

IT was a great week! I love Spain. I love the people of Spain. I love my Savior. I love my family, In fact I love them and appreciate  them more and more each day I am Here. I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!