hey y'all 21 Apr 2010

Hey Hey HEY!

Big week, good to hear from you, not much time to answer you.... welcome to the story of my preparation day email life.

Lets get going, time to fly through this sucker. There has been some serious coolness going on in the temporary homested.

We went to the temple today and then had a killer big soccer tournament with almost all the elders in madrid. Time is spent, it is my own fault, lets get running.

Wednesday: (is that really how you spell it? i dont even know anymore, AAH! no time to contemplate it!) Elder Wallace loves risk. Elder Bartholomew and I dont really care to much for it. We decided to go ahead and make his day by playing with him and created an unbreakable alliance against him so we could crush him and get on with our pday. Well, we started blasting the Enya, but things went a little different than we planned. We did indeed crush him, and it was a thorough crushing, but the addictive poison of possible world domination had already worked its way into our veins and we were done for. We got him out after about 30 min, but we ended (and by ended i mean i ended up throwing the board through the air yelling "second coming!") 3 hours later. We didnt even want to play.

Thursday: More on the workish spiritish side of things. We had some really amazing lesson experiences on this said thursday. We went by an investigator named Liliana who just had her husband walk out on her. We had a really great lesson and at the end the spirit said to my companion, "Elder, give her a blessing." We explained it, went through with it, and it was exactly what she needed. It was incredible. Later that night we got to have another visit with the Enrique and Elvira (the drunk guy that got hit in the heart by the book of mormon). He is a really sharp guy when he is sober. He read and loved it, but is having a hard time understanding everything because he is connecting things together a little too quickly. We were explaining the pattern of apostasy and in the middle of things the spirit said to me, "Elder, tell him his family can be together for ever." We did, and it was so humbling. While we were trying to explain everything and give him the logic of it all, just letting him know a simple truth is what brought the needed comfort. You could see it happen in his face. He just relaxed and understood that there is a bigger picture. He is doing amazing.

Friday will remain a mystery.... no time!

Saturday: So apparently a lot of the members are unhappy with us. In the past the elders had spent a lot more time in the houses of the members. We just dont see the point in going by every week. They are bothered because they like us a lot more than the other that were here, but think that we are being rude by not passing by every week. We have already given them the run down on it all. If they want to invite someone over, they can invite us too, but otherwise we have way too much on the blessing menu. There was one member in particular that actually denied a calling to be a ward missionary (huge step, the ward has never had ward missionaries) because he thought we didnt like him. We went by on this saturday and talked to him about it. We told him that we are very sorry that we have not had time to pass by on a regular basis. Then we felt that we should show him why. I love those feelings. We went ahead and taught him the message of the restauration. It was a really cool experience. He apologized to us at the end and said that he understood and thinks once every 3 to 4 weeks is more than enough.

Sunday has fallen in with Friday, so many secrets! AAAH! No time!

Monday: We had a lesson and there was a guy there that you could just tell his life was totally hammered, just like he was at the moment. It was really funny because he kept trying to sneak in to sit closer to us. When we would catch him and try to say something he would run away. At the end we knelt down to pray with the investigator and i opened my eyes and he was kneeling with us mirroring us exactly. It was cool to see how much he was craving to feel a bit of what i think he saw in us or felt with us.

Tuesday: Hma Watkins gave the coolest talk ever in zone conference. She talked about the damages of working too hard, or better said, being a perfectionist. If i had more time i would expound, but i dont, so i wont. Sorry.

Loves,

I will give you time for the mother-s day call next week,

Elder Sky