This
week was fairly eventful. We had a lesson with a guy who has known the
missioanries for years. He´s from Philadelphia and has lived in Torremolinos
for a really long time. He really has no direction in his life. But
he´s a good friend of the missionaries. He always calls the Book of Mormon the
Joseph Smith Bible. Not in like a mean way. He´s just a very simple guy who
doesn't understand much about the church. He has a lot of problems but he likes
us and will make us fried chicken sometime.
We
found a new investigator this week named M...... He´s a 20 year old Romanian
kid who speaks perfect Spanish and English. We teach him in english. When we
found him he told us he had been praying every night for help, because his life
has been so hard. We think he´s pretty golden. We tried to see if he could get
to church this weekend on his own, but he didn´t come. So next week we´ll try
and get a member to take him. We´re really excited about him. We found some
other really good people that we´re excited to go by. The problem is they all
live in a really far part of town that we have to take a train to. But we´ll
figure it out.
Thursday
we went to I... and the fam. They are doing good. L..... got the aaronic
priesthood Sunday and I ordained him. They told me right before the ordination
that I was going to do it and I didn't know how to do it so they had to whisper
it in my ear. It´s funny, Lorenzo really loves church but his only desire is to
sit and listen. The bishopric told us to get him excited to bless the sacrament.
Yesterday
I gave a talk at church. The sacrament meeting was about missionary work, so
the primary sang, and some returned missionaries talked, and then I talked
about what it means to be a missionary. It went well, I think.
O
yeah one funny think happened this week. We had to go to Malaga for a meeting
on Tuesday morning, and we were running late to catch the train from
torremolinos to malaga, and so we were running and I jumped on the train just
as the doors were closing, but Elder Marchant was a little farther behind me
than I thought, and he didn't make it on the train, and the train started
leaving immediately. So we just stared at each other through the window in
horror as the train left. The train goes by every 20 minutes, so he just waited
until the next one. And then I got off at the first train stop I could, and
waited there until the next train came by with Elder Marchant on it. So we were
only apart for about 20 minutes. I called some other missionaries to let them
know we were separated, and then talked to a nice Austrian couple while I
waited. All is well.
For
Pday we are going to the castle in malaga. I´ll try and take some pics. Things
are going well with Elder Marchant. He works hard and we get along. Not much of
an age difference except a year ago he was in high school. I heard you emailed
his mom you stalker...
Well
that's it for the week!
Love
ya all
Calvin
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