Transfer 10 week 3

Well the time just goes by so fast. I feel like everyday just goes by in a flash and blur. Things here in spain are going really well. The lord is definitely pressurijg his work, and we have been non-stop busy thansk to it. We have started teaching a few of the mmebers one on one English class as some service hours, and its actually really awesome because it is really helping our relationship with them, and it helps us to work better together.  So one of the people that we teach is our relief society president, who is from Brasil. So we went over there thursday morning, and as we were going in, we met this man. So a few weeks earlier, we had talked to this super kind, brasilian man on the bus and he said that he had somw friends that were mormon, and that he really admired them and how they lived their lives. So as were goingnto maria house we found him, Jefferson! So turns out that his super good mormon friends are our relief society president, and her husband. Cool right? 

Also, this week we started teaching this man named jorge. He is awesome, and really smart. He is feom Bolivia, but jas lived in the united states. He is a realtor, and has a family, and his life put together. So we taught him the plan of salvation which he loved, and he really had some super profound, and deep quesrions that were answered by the plan and the scritpures. It was cool. So we will teach him again next week. 

We also taught this other guy named jose. He is from Ecuador. His nephew serve a mission in barcelona and loves in vecindario. So he already knows a little bit about the Book of Mormon and the Restoration, etc. Its guay. Or I guess they say chévere in Ecuador. They say guay, or chulo here for cool. 

Also, we finally had a ward activity! The elders quorum put on a ward talent show! So we participated and had a ton of fun. We sang an EFY somg with some MEMEBRS, yours truly at the guitar and weird alto part that i never really learned. Thwn we did a, " How missionaries get ready in the morning" skit, or muppet thing. So all you cpuld see was my companions face, and I was her arms. So we ate cereal, I put on her makeup, I brushed her teeth, and wroked out, etc. The ward loved it! I definietly messed my companion up. So the funny thing is, is that it turns out that the lipstick that we used, and that i so carefully smeared across her face was permanen. Its te kind that is meant to stay on all day long. The poor thing. 

Okay, also the super tender Cuban lady that I told y'all about, named Cari, came to church! Sjw loved it, and the pesson in gospel principle was on point for her. It was exactly what she needed to hear. Then, in releif society she fell asleep, but just like president uchtdorf says, church sleep is the healthiest type of sleep. 

Then we went to susies house to eat, and then to watch the general womens conference. Then I fell aslwwp for the last talk. So dont ask me anymore uchtdorf qutoes because I couldn't tell ya. But then we left and went home and didi our studies, and weekly planning. 

All in all a super great week. I know that tjis is only a small fraction of all of the amazing stuff  that we saw and did, but I am really greatful for the week that I had. Well I felt like I should share a scripture with you guys; Helaman 5:12, and this story jist happens to include it so, cool beans. Its from, "Our search for Happiness". 

By the antagonistic philosophies of the 1960s, Steven found himself years later wandering around the country in pursuit of purpose and direction for his life. He walked one day through the streets of San Diego, California, when he saw two Mormon missionaries. Boys !, "he yelled at them as they passed by on their bicycles through a quiet residential neighborhood. "Are you selling something good?" The missionaries watched him and, for a moment, thought not to pay attention and continue pedaling. They had never seen a possible candidate who seemed less than promising. Steven had hair up to his shoulders, a thick, dirty beard, tattered clothes and dazies and a military cap. His face and hands were dirty, and a muffled cigarette hung from his mouth. Then, with the missionaries, they looked at each other. "No, we're not selling anything," said one of the missionaries, shrugging slightly and with a smile on his lips. "What we have, we're giving it for free. Very good! Steven replied. Somehow, during the conversation, the missionaries fought for Steven's spiritual longing, who invited them to his little messy mess. where they began to teach him about Jesus Christ and his important role in God's eternal plan for his children.After two hours, the missionaries arranged with Steven another visit for the next day. the missionaries discovered that Steven was not in his apartment at the appointed time, but there he was waiting for them, only this time they noticed something different in him, his eyes were bright and clear, and both he and his room looked very clean. soon as you were yesterday, "Steven told them excitedly, I took a shower, cleaned my room, and threw the bottle of liquor in the trash. cho more were surprised the next day when, upon arriving for a third visit, they found that Steven had shaved his beard and cut his hair. Once again, they heard him say, "I thought it logical to do it." He also thought it logical to buy clean clothes and get a job and break relations with certain friends. Each time they arrived at his apartment, the missionaries discovered that Steven decided to make it important to live. The missionaries had been teaching him about Jesus Christ and his gospel, but they had not yet asked him to make any change in his existence. Steven made those changes of his own volition and totally because the spirit of Christ was making changes in his person. In actuality, that spiritual tramp is a devout man of family, a prosperous businessman and a faithful disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. In one of the passages of the Book of Mormon, a noble spiritual leader named Helaman counseled his children: Remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, where you must establish your foundation, so that when the impetuous winds, yes, their darts in the whirlwind, if, when all their hail and furious storm whip you, it will not have the power to drag you into the abyss of misery and endless anguish, because of the rock upon which you are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation upon which, if men build, they shall not fall. "(Helaman 5:12)