Mountains to Climb (March 17, 2013)

Birthday cake with friends and Elder England

That´s nuts about the airplane [MH370]. 

Transfers are in 2 weeks but I´ll be here for at least another 2 months. Elder England is leaving. 

Yeah, I´ve seen “mountains to climb”. I watched it last week actually. really good!

Last P-day we went and stuck our feet in big bowls of water and fish ate the dead skin off our feet for a half hour. It was pretty fun but we chose the wrong bowls and the fish weren´t as hungry as in other bowls.

We had a lesson with a woman and gave her a baptismal date. She is sincerely reading and asks good questions, the problem is that she just got this dog that is about 4 months old and is just the worst dog in the world. It literally doesn’t stop biting, jumping, peeing, barking the whole time we´re in the lesson. I won´t describe all the ways I want to deal with that dog. So it´s really hard to get anywhere in the lesson because the dog is always messing with stuff and we have to stop. But she has a baptismal date for the 30th. I think it might be hard getting her to church the first time. But she doesn´t really have any other problems.

A message for the Missionaries who like to climb this peak just above Malaga

I had a good experience that God answers prayers. We were having a terrible week as far as amount of lessons because we were so busy preparing for the ward activity Saturday, and Thursday night we only had 2 hours to work because we had to go to Málaga for a baptismal interview and then had to stay and eat at a members house. We were really stressed but before we left the house I said a private prayer that we would work hard for those 2 hours and have success, and it was incredible. We ended up having some really good conversations with the first people we began talking to, and then two times while we were walking someone came up and asked us who we were and we talked with them for about 20 minutes and had lessons with them and got their info. It was really cool. 

The view from the climb.

Saturday we had the activity that we as missionaries planned. It was a bunch of “minute to win it” games set up around the church. We all worked hard getting it set up but only about 35 people showed up...and they were pretty much all primary kids. We did everything we could to get the whole ward there, so it was pretty disappointing. But the people who came had a really good time. The ward needs a lot of help to get more involved. So now we´re back to the drawing board.

That´s the week pretty much

Love ya

Calvin