hello everyone!!! How is everything going???? I am doing just
absolutely fantastic here in Elche! This week was really really great.
Yesterday we had two of our investigators at church! One of them was a
young man that´s been investigating the church for about 3 months and this was
the first time he came to church. We´ve been asking him every week if he could
come, but the thing is that his parents work every day except for Sundays and on
Sundays they most the time do little family vacations and just go somewhere and
do something for the day, but he was able to come this week. We´ve been asking
him to meet with his parents too, but not much has happened with that at this
point. We did go with him to the church on Friday to start his Family History
and he´s filling out the papers with his parents so that´s super exciting and
maybe we´ll be able to meet with them this week! Our other investigator at
church was a lady from Romania that we´ve been meeting with for a couple of
weeks. She´s super sweet and she hasn´t been able to make it to church the past
couple of weeks, but she did this week and everyone was really welcoming to her
and she kind of just fit right in to everything.
We has transfers this past week, and everyone´s companionships changed but
ours, so we have a completely new district and as a companionship, we´ve been
doing a lot of changing in everything to improve the area and the work here.
Especially now that we have a phone, we can start new and fresh. I´m really
excited for what this new transfer is going to bring. I can feel that it´s going
to be a really awesome transfer and just from this week it already has
been.
Yesterday we had an amazing experience while contacting. We were on our way
to the church for choir and on the way we saw this cute little old man that
always stops and talks to us and gives us candy, so we talked to him for about a
minute or so and then continued on our way. While we were walking there was this
lady walking right next to us at about our same pace and we both new that we
needed to talk to her, but we were trying to figure out how to start the
conversation, then by divine intervention, my companion dropped her candy while
trying to open it, and this lady commented on now she has to continue without
candy, and that was the start of the conversation. We ended up walking and
talking with her for about 10-15 minutes. She´s really nice and she was really
curious as to what the mission is, so we explained it to her a little bit and we
shared a brief version of the Restoration with her and she didn´t object to
anything we said she just commented that it was really interesting. She was
really impressed that we were so young and that´s what striked her the most
about us, because she´s a strong believer in Jesus Christ and God and she said
something about how she wished that she found what we had before she got
confused or mistaken about everything. It was a really cool experience, the only
down side about it is that she lives in the area of the other Hermanas, so
they´d be the ones teaching her, but that really doesn´t matter. What matters is
that were helping others come unto Christ and to take the steps necessary to
return back to the presence of our Father in Heaven one day. We got her contact
information though and passed it on to the other Hermanas right away and they´re
going to call her today and set up an appointment to meet with her. I´m really
excited to see how it goes though.
Right now in the summer is the time for vacations and that´s exactly what´s
happening here in Elche and Spain. We meet so many people all the time from
different places around the world. Yesterday at church there was a family
visiting from France and the dad is from England so we were able to talk English
with them a little bit and it´s really cool to meet such a variety of people
everyday and every week. It´s definitely not something that you experience
everyday in Idaho.
Ohhhhh...I just don´t have enough words to tell everything and to describe
the joy that I have to be out here in Spain serving a mission for my Heavenly
Father. This really is the best two years/1 1/2 years of the life, up until this
point. I hope and pray that you all are sharing the gospel in your own way and
that you´re experiencing the joy that it brings into our lives when we really do
put others needs before our own. I love you all and hope that you all have a
fantastic week, and don´t forget to write me!!! :)
Love, Hermana Rowley
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