Well,
one of the baptisms happened. But I´ll get to that. Thursday we were knocking
doors and found a Cuban woman who was a Jeohovah's Witness. But she is like a
super strong one. She offered to give us a copy of their book and I said sure,
and we went in and talked to her and her son. She just talked and talked and
talked for 30 minutes straight. And I feel bad because I think she thinks I´m
actually interested in knowing if their church is true or not...but o well.
We´ll see if she lets us teach her anything.
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| Elder Calvin Wiley and Elder Englund with a new Member and friend |
After,
we went to go teach our German investigator, named R.... He´s really
nice/interesting guy. Loves to hike and just kind of does whatever he wants
with his life. He told us he wanted to go to a restaurant, so we walked over to
a tea parlor/hookah bar. We took our shoes off and sat down on the ground,
right next to us were three pakistanis smoking a huge hookah. We ordered some
weird fruit infusions (without tea) and chatted. R... is a weird guy but I love
him. He told us he´d finally come to church, and he did! But we found out he´s
not married to the woman he´s lived with for 12 years, and he says he´s not
sure that he loves her...so that´s sad.
Friday
was annoying because we had to get both of our investigators to their baptismal
interviews in Malaga, and neither of them have any money. Luckily there was a
meeting we had to go to with the ward council so we were able to get one a ride
with the elders quorum president, but the other one had no way to get there, so
I had to give him 4 euros to get to Malaga. They both got interviewed that
night and it all went well.
Then
we had to figure out how to get M... to his own baptism. He lives in a pueblo
and none of the members from that pueblo were going to the baptism, so saturday
morning we had to take a bus to that pueblo, give our investigator 10 euros so
he could go to his own baptism, then take a bus back to torremolinos, eat, and
then take a train to malaga for the baptism. It was really annoying and I´m out
of money but he got to his baptism so its ok.
So
then at like 6:45 we´re getting everything ready for the baptism and our
investigator C..... comes, and says he´s not going to get baptized. He said
he´s still not sure if he can live all the commandments right now, and he
doesn´t want to be baptized and then break the commandments right after. We
were a little disappointed but happy that he was taking it that seriously. But
M... still got baptized. He´s the guy in the picture on dropbox. we
didnt have time to take a picture before the baptism.
We
called C..... yesterday though to see when we could meet him again, and he
told us he was leaving to go live in Colombia forever on Friday. So we won´t be
able to baptize him. He says he wants to be baptized over there, and I think he
will. It´s a little sad but we´ll keep in touch. I´m happy he finally found a
way to get back home. He had been going crazy here stuck in Spain.
Church
yesterday was really good. The mom of the two little kids came again and really
enjoyed it. We talked about repentance in gospel principles and she was crying
like crazy. She has all week off of work so we´re gonna go over tonight and
hopefully give her a baptismal date.Her kids and loving church. Cl.... has to
give a talk in primary next week so we´re going to help her a bit.
O
yeah, it was really weird. So I confirmed M.... during sacrament meeting
yesterday, and then right after they announced that he´d be receiving the
priesthood right after church. Usually you wait a few weeks...we hadn't even
taught him about the priesthood yet!!!! so he´s a priest but has no idea what
that means...we´ll go over it with him this week though...
Youth
programs are more or less the same. no scouts. they have EFY once a year for
all of spain.
and
we need to find people to teach, we've been busy with the investigators we had
but now we´re all out.
O
and Elder Buckway baptized a guy named M.... last week in Chiclana. He and I found M like 3 days before I left, so it was pretty cool to hear he got
baptized!
Love
ya!
adios
Calvin
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