Speaking of office stuff... Well, i realized now that we were not talking about any office stuff, but now we are so take this: the mission office is moving on the 14 of june. Plan accordingly! that is where all the letters and stuff get sent to.
Spain Madrid Mission
Calle Fuerteventura 4, 2º, Oficina 8-B
San Sebastian de los Reyes
28703 Madrid
Finally! On to the real stuff.
This last week was a biggie. Super biggie. I think the coolest of all was the baptism this last saturday. Surprise! Dont worry, it was for me too. I dont know if she told you, Mom, but Alejandra decided to get baptized. This was a huge miracle condsidering there are no longer missionaries in Talavera. She finally decided that she had had enough, quit her job, went to church, made the decision and made it happen. We got to hold the service in the stake center (our church) as a double service with the outlanders (the elders with a car that cover all the pueblos that no longer have missionaries, also not really called outlanders, that is just my name for them). It was unbelieveable. Okay, so this is why it was such a big deal. First of all, Alejandra was the first proressing investigator i ever had on the mission. So that was really cool. But even more meaningful, to me at least, was the fact that it came from Talavera. When i left on the mission i remember hearing alot about the importance of setting goals. To be honest i had no idea what to expect on the mission and even moreso in spain so i avoided the numbers (which are lame to me anyway) and just set the goal to make a difference in every area i served in, or in other words, baptize in every area. I never cared how much, i knew i would work hard, but i just wanted that to be my vision. Well, as you know, it didnt happen. Elder Carr had to be humbled first. And as you may be aware, it took a whole year (and the humbling never really happened, the tender mercies jsut started kicking in). My goal and dream was shattered before i even had a chance to get going. Well, the church is true, and i am one of Heavenly Father's favorite children so i got another chance. Talavera was taken care of, and not to mention it happened in such a way that it is a killer reminder that it has nothing to do with me, for heaven's sake i wasnt even there! (looks like the whole humbling thing is still in effect, at least a little bit) And the cherry on top of my bubbly tender mercy mountain: I got sent back to my first area. It is soooooo sweet!
Okay, time is short. Sorry, lots of silly extra tasks we have to do all the time.
On thursday Elder Caussé came to visit and train all of the bishoprics and auxiliary leaders in Madrid. He is actually the only member of the area presidency that has not done a mission tour yet so he went ahead and set his own appointment with the president and set up a surprise leader council. That was pretty legit. 10 missionaries, President Watkins and Elder Caussé sitting together in the high council room for 4 hours just getting the spiritual throw down. Even though my hind quarters fell asleep like 100 times it was a very cool conference. He just gave us the run down on the european vision and then let us ask questions for the rest of the time. Lots of big changes in store.
AAH!, really fast, we have this investigator named Stephanie who is awesome. I will tell more about her in the coming weeks because she is awesome. She is a 17 year old girl who came to church on her own one day and now she is one of the best ever. So, we had an appointment with her for last saturday and the member we set up to come with us stood us up at the last second so we were stuck in a pickle. Luckily, we consumed the pickle and found our way out of the crisis. We are always on temple square and since the MTC is right there we occasionally run into the missionaries staying there. We saw two sisters walking around and had the crazy idea to have them help us with the lesson since we cant teach single women. We called president and he gave us the go ahead so we had one of the coolest lessons ever. They both had about 2 weeks in the mtc and were totally spiritual powerhouses. THeir spanish was terrible, but honestly, it made no difference. It was cool to see at the end that some of the questions and prayers they had expressed were answered, stephanie loved it, and everything worked out in time for the next appointment. It was a way cool experience and i am really sorry i cant tell anymore about it.
I love you,
Elder SKy
ps i sent you a picture with me and franco.
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