3.10.09
Thanks MOm and Emily for your letters! Im staying in Lorca keep the letters coming! This week has been crazy and I dont have near enough time to tell you all the crazy things that happened. First off and most important Martin a man we have been teaching was baptized saturday. Like always it was an incredible thing to be a part of and the spirit was felt strongly. I am excited for him and know he has already gained such a strong testimony of the Gospel. THis week I have traveled to Valencia twice which is 4 hours on the train each way. I have finally recieved my residency but it wasnt an easy process. After racing around Valencia in a taxi, Using Elder Fiske as a fake lawyer, and making phony goverment documents, the process has been finished. I will be going back in 40 days to pick up my card and to re new it since I have already been in spain so long. I was on the phone with the real lawyer and president all week running to a ton of different buildings and waiting in lines. More good news is that I was able to attend a firework show while I was in Valencia as well as visit some good friends. The families from the ward were shocked to see me and we had a good time. Yesterday while I was on the way to Valencia a 26yr old, attractive lady sat next to me and we begin talking. She actually spoke english quite well so we randomly switched in between english and spanish. She had gotten off the train before me and was waiting for me. We walked up to her and began talking again and then said we had to go. She grabbed my and then leaned in to give me besos (kisses) and I had to pull away. Her face was bright red and she was offeneded, I tried to explain that we couldnt as missionaries and I dont think she understood lol. We then basically just ran off and the whole situation was just super akward but funny as well. So many other things have happened but I dont have time. Eldr kempmkens my other comp the german got transfered. I am staying in Lorca with Eldr worthen. I m excited to see what we can do. I was also cursed by a gipsy week but other then that not much has happened. Hope everyone is doing well I love and miss you all next week is the official 1 yr mark...and thats crazy. Love you all Elder G
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Emily - Vigo Week 10
3.10.09
Hey Fam...Well the week went really fast and slow. It continues to be weird to me how mission time can be that way. We had a great p-day last Tuesday. A girl from Venezuela showed up at church. She works for a company that travels all over the world by boat looking for oil. She is a navigator. She invited us to come and check out the boat they are building. It is suppose to be ready this Wednesday for them to head out towards the US. They work five weeks on five weeks off. She was so excited to be with Mormons. After the tour she took us out to eat and bought us all lunch. The boat was insane. There were so many cables and wires everywhere. Everyone on the boat was from a different country but they all have to speak english. We talked to everyone and it was really cool to hear what they do. I think it made the Elders think a little bit more about what they want to do with their lives. In the port there were millions of guys working on the boat. Des, H. Rudder and I were like the only girls. Everyone was staring at us. I asked her if she ever gets nervous and she said the men that she works with take good care of her. It was fun for me to be with her and it made me start thinking up more adventures. Oh good story about that trip one of the Elders was talking to one of the men that work on the boat. The Elder asked him where he was from and he said the UK. Well the poor little Elder thought he said the Ukraine. Then he was like well what language do you speak there. The man was like ahhh english. Ohhh it was funny, especially because the man didnt even crack a smile. I tried not to laugh but it was hard.Oh my comp just reminded me to tell you that she knows Elder Wasden. We were looking through the pics from home and she was like oh I know him. He is from her home stake. CRAZY!We had Ricky´s baptism last night. I was a little stressed out but everything went really well. Camila a friend in the ward that lived in Utah for a long time came and played prelude music on her violin. It was beautiful! Yago a younger Spaniard that was baptized less than a year ago did the baptism. He doesnt speak a ton of english but he is always so good about talking to Ricky at church. He was really excited and nervous when Ricky asked him to do the baptism. He did the prayer in english and spanish. He was so nervous but he practiced a million times and did everything perfectly. He had even practiced things to say to Ricky like...Ricky Im bery happy far you, tank you far choosing me (keep the accent in mind). Anyways it was a great experience for both of them. All the missionaries sang together, Senor te necesito. I think in english it is I Need Thee Every Hour. I felt a very sweet Spirit last night. I love going to baptisms. We asked Ricky how he felt and he was just like, good good very good. Hey brother I have a funny beso story too. My greenie forgot that we cant give besos. A Dad of a family that we just started teaching definatley gave my companion dos besos. Then he came for me and I stiff armed him. It was SUPER AKWARD! He got kind of embarrassed and I just giggled a little and sat down. Its hard to get embarrassed anymore. So many akward things happen on the mission that I would have an ulcer by now if I worried about all of it. We also got cursed by some type of witch. We knocked into her and for about 5-10 minutes she prayed that the devil that was in us would be taken out. My greenie was freaking out the poor thing. I tried to talk to her but she just closed her eyes and prayed over us. There was a really weird creepy feeling. Anyways I think she was trying to freak us out so I just stayed calm. I bore my testimony and then told her it was nice to meet her. Once again there has been so many experiences like that, that its not worth getting worked up over. When we got in the elevator my greenies eyes were the size of apples, poor thing. I pretended like that was an out of the ordinary experience. No really Im very honest with her. I think its better that way. We are stil having a great time together. She just got a package from home and it was awesome. Its so weird to see stuff from the US and in english. Well I love you all so much. Thank you for your prayers and love. The weather is still nice although it rained for a day or two, its back to sun today. Love,The Sister
Hey Fam...Well the week went really fast and slow. It continues to be weird to me how mission time can be that way. We had a great p-day last Tuesday. A girl from Venezuela showed up at church. She works for a company that travels all over the world by boat looking for oil. She is a navigator. She invited us to come and check out the boat they are building. It is suppose to be ready this Wednesday for them to head out towards the US. They work five weeks on five weeks off. She was so excited to be with Mormons. After the tour she took us out to eat and bought us all lunch. The boat was insane. There were so many cables and wires everywhere. Everyone on the boat was from a different country but they all have to speak english. We talked to everyone and it was really cool to hear what they do. I think it made the Elders think a little bit more about what they want to do with their lives. In the port there were millions of guys working on the boat. Des, H. Rudder and I were like the only girls. Everyone was staring at us. I asked her if she ever gets nervous and she said the men that she works with take good care of her. It was fun for me to be with her and it made me start thinking up more adventures. Oh good story about that trip one of the Elders was talking to one of the men that work on the boat. The Elder asked him where he was from and he said the UK. Well the poor little Elder thought he said the Ukraine. Then he was like well what language do you speak there. The man was like ahhh english. Ohhh it was funny, especially because the man didnt even crack a smile. I tried not to laugh but it was hard.Oh my comp just reminded me to tell you that she knows Elder Wasden. We were looking through the pics from home and she was like oh I know him. He is from her home stake. CRAZY!We had Ricky´s baptism last night. I was a little stressed out but everything went really well. Camila a friend in the ward that lived in Utah for a long time came and played prelude music on her violin. It was beautiful! Yago a younger Spaniard that was baptized less than a year ago did the baptism. He doesnt speak a ton of english but he is always so good about talking to Ricky at church. He was really excited and nervous when Ricky asked him to do the baptism. He did the prayer in english and spanish. He was so nervous but he practiced a million times and did everything perfectly. He had even practiced things to say to Ricky like...Ricky Im bery happy far you, tank you far choosing me (keep the accent in mind). Anyways it was a great experience for both of them. All the missionaries sang together, Senor te necesito. I think in english it is I Need Thee Every Hour. I felt a very sweet Spirit last night. I love going to baptisms. We asked Ricky how he felt and he was just like, good good very good. Hey brother I have a funny beso story too. My greenie forgot that we cant give besos. A Dad of a family that we just started teaching definatley gave my companion dos besos. Then he came for me and I stiff armed him. It was SUPER AKWARD! He got kind of embarrassed and I just giggled a little and sat down. Its hard to get embarrassed anymore. So many akward things happen on the mission that I would have an ulcer by now if I worried about all of it. We also got cursed by some type of witch. We knocked into her and for about 5-10 minutes she prayed that the devil that was in us would be taken out. My greenie was freaking out the poor thing. I tried to talk to her but she just closed her eyes and prayed over us. There was a really weird creepy feeling. Anyways I think she was trying to freak us out so I just stayed calm. I bore my testimony and then told her it was nice to meet her. Once again there has been so many experiences like that, that its not worth getting worked up over. When we got in the elevator my greenies eyes were the size of apples, poor thing. I pretended like that was an out of the ordinary experience. No really Im very honest with her. I think its better that way. We are stil having a great time together. She just got a package from home and it was awesome. Its so weird to see stuff from the US and in english. Well I love you all so much. Thank you for your prayers and love. The weather is still nice although it rained for a day or two, its back to sun today. Love,The Sister
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Emily - Vigo Week 9
3.3.09
Hey Fam...Well sorry Mom, I hope you werent freaking out but yes I had zone conference. I forgot to tell you. I cant believe that I only have two more left. The weather is still great and I actually think its starting to warm up but that doesnt mean that it wont rain again. I got letters from brother(I loved the pictures), mom, Aunt Laura and jess. I love getting letters. By the way that pic of us looking out the window together is us waiting for the mailman. Well its been another crazy week, like always. Ive been a little stressed out getting everything ready for the baptism. On Saturday he had his interview. He is pretty fuerte because he understands the bible really well and likes to preach. Our district leader came out of the interview with really red cheeks and sweating profusely. I think the conversation became a little intense. Our DL asked us to come in afterwards and he told us he answered everthing fine but he didnt think he was humble. Anyways after talking to him for a while I found that they both needed to humble themselves. I told our DL to call him back in, kneel down together to pray and then redo the interview. In PMG it says that the interview should be a spiritual experience. They both came out looking a lot better and the 2nd interview lasted about 10 minutes. His baptism is Sunday.On Sunday after mediodia we had a list of people to passby. About a week ago we recieved a reference from someone in Valencia. He says he knows brother. Anyways I have been trying to get a hold of them. Its a family from the Dominican Republic. Before we left for the tarde I asked Heavenly Father to help us find the people in house who needed to talk with us. We went to their house first and actually the reason we werent able to get a hold of them before is because the address was wrong. I decided that we would just go a timbre the whole building to see if we could find them. We got there and the first piso we timbred opened up for us with out asking who it was. When we got up there the door was open. A lady came to the door and welcomed us in like she knew us. It was like they were waiting for us. The husband had been taught in Valencia and was looking for work there. Then came back here to his family. Anyways we had a great lesson with them and I felt the spirit very strongly. They treated us like family. I love their culture. They even invited us to her birthday at the end of the month. I pray that they will accept the gospel. They have a beautiful family.I loved zone conference. I think it was just for me. It was so nice to see everyone. I became really good friends with the people in my other cities. Its been hard for me here to not have the friendships of the Elders. I think its because we live really far away from each other. To further explain our relationship, after zone conference they got on the train with out us and didnt even realize we went with them. We came later with two of our Elders. I did have a good conversation with one them on the way home. His name is Elder Sayaz and he was in the CCM with brother. Oh ya I pretty much embarrassed myself over and over again at zone conference. My comp and I did the special musical number. We practiced with out a piano and didnt realize how high it was. Oh man there were parts huge chuncks actually of the song that we just didnt sing. We both got all flustered and started singing the 1st verse again. I was barley keeping myself from laughing through the whole thing. H. Truscott played the piano and I could tell she was about to burst herself. We sat down and Pres. started to talk. We all were shaking trying to hold in the laughter. Then I spoke in the tu form when I gave an answer. I corrected myself and then looked at President all scared. I really am loosing my mind. Then President asked in the middle of his talk if anyone had a degree in Theology. He was trying to make a point because he knew none of us did and dont worry I raised my hand because I thought he said psychology. In english he said H. Gogarty you have a degree in theology and I was like um no sorry. Dont worry I had my whole table laughing. Im pretty much a crazy person.LOL!Oh ya just so you know my address is:c/ Travesia de Vigo 171, 3 derecha-it means rightVigo (Pontevedra) 36207my address has been different every time but luckily the letters have been coming to me with out any problems and it gives me a good laugh. I sure love you all a lot. I know God loves us and listens to our prayers. I pray for you everyday.Love,The Sister
ps happy anniversary mom and dad!
Hey Fam...Well sorry Mom, I hope you werent freaking out but yes I had zone conference. I forgot to tell you. I cant believe that I only have two more left. The weather is still great and I actually think its starting to warm up but that doesnt mean that it wont rain again. I got letters from brother(I loved the pictures), mom, Aunt Laura and jess. I love getting letters. By the way that pic of us looking out the window together is us waiting for the mailman. Well its been another crazy week, like always. Ive been a little stressed out getting everything ready for the baptism. On Saturday he had his interview. He is pretty fuerte because he understands the bible really well and likes to preach. Our district leader came out of the interview with really red cheeks and sweating profusely. I think the conversation became a little intense. Our DL asked us to come in afterwards and he told us he answered everthing fine but he didnt think he was humble. Anyways after talking to him for a while I found that they both needed to humble themselves. I told our DL to call him back in, kneel down together to pray and then redo the interview. In PMG it says that the interview should be a spiritual experience. They both came out looking a lot better and the 2nd interview lasted about 10 minutes. His baptism is Sunday.On Sunday after mediodia we had a list of people to passby. About a week ago we recieved a reference from someone in Valencia. He says he knows brother. Anyways I have been trying to get a hold of them. Its a family from the Dominican Republic. Before we left for the tarde I asked Heavenly Father to help us find the people in house who needed to talk with us. We went to their house first and actually the reason we werent able to get a hold of them before is because the address was wrong. I decided that we would just go a timbre the whole building to see if we could find them. We got there and the first piso we timbred opened up for us with out asking who it was. When we got up there the door was open. A lady came to the door and welcomed us in like she knew us. It was like they were waiting for us. The husband had been taught in Valencia and was looking for work there. Then came back here to his family. Anyways we had a great lesson with them and I felt the spirit very strongly. They treated us like family. I love their culture. They even invited us to her birthday at the end of the month. I pray that they will accept the gospel. They have a beautiful family.I loved zone conference. I think it was just for me. It was so nice to see everyone. I became really good friends with the people in my other cities. Its been hard for me here to not have the friendships of the Elders. I think its because we live really far away from each other. To further explain our relationship, after zone conference they got on the train with out us and didnt even realize we went with them. We came later with two of our Elders. I did have a good conversation with one them on the way home. His name is Elder Sayaz and he was in the CCM with brother. Oh ya I pretty much embarrassed myself over and over again at zone conference. My comp and I did the special musical number. We practiced with out a piano and didnt realize how high it was. Oh man there were parts huge chuncks actually of the song that we just didnt sing. We both got all flustered and started singing the 1st verse again. I was barley keeping myself from laughing through the whole thing. H. Truscott played the piano and I could tell she was about to burst herself. We sat down and Pres. started to talk. We all were shaking trying to hold in the laughter. Then I spoke in the tu form when I gave an answer. I corrected myself and then looked at President all scared. I really am loosing my mind. Then President asked in the middle of his talk if anyone had a degree in Theology. He was trying to make a point because he knew none of us did and dont worry I raised my hand because I thought he said psychology. In english he said H. Gogarty you have a degree in theology and I was like um no sorry. Dont worry I had my whole table laughing. Im pretty much a crazy person.LOL!Oh ya just so you know my address is:c/ Travesia de Vigo 171, 3 derecha-it means rightVigo (Pontevedra) 36207my address has been different every time but luckily the letters have been coming to me with out any problems and it gives me a good laugh. I sure love you all a lot. I know God loves us and listens to our prayers. I pray for you everyday.Love,The Sister
ps happy anniversary mom and dad!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Logan - Lorca Week 8
3.2.09
Hey I recieved a bunch of lettter this week thanks to Lis, Jordan, Mom, Ashley, Bryndee,Jessica and Jordana Jonshon. I really appreciate it and I ll try to write you back today.
Dad thanks for keeping me posted on the bike shop its super fun to see how everythings going. What is the name of the shop going to be ?
Well theis week has been quite crazy where do I even start. I m sure you ll be happy to know that yes thats right im still an illeagal citizen. If I get stopped on the street by the police it will be an instant 150€ fine. I will be going to Murcia again on Tuesday and hopefully this will be the last time. THe other news or warning is that I strongly recomend everyone to avoid the hair cutting schools at least here in Spain. This week I thought I would save some money and get (practiced) on. The girl that cut my hair was shaking so bad that she almost cut me multiple times, when I say me I mean my head not just my hair. Finally I sent out an SOS and the teacher came over and tried to fix it even though it was past the point of no return. I could go on but lets just say I had to buy a hair clipper after and it was still hard to fix.
We had zone confrence in Murcia and its exactly what I needed. THe topic was obedience and enduring to the end. I was suprised as I felt he was specifically talking to me through out the condfrence. It reminded me that he is called of God and recieves inspiration and revelation specifically for each of us. The best part was bearing testimony after the confrence. I felt the spritit strongly and it was nice to have a strong confirmation remind me that I m exactly where I need to be. WE were fasting with a man that we are baptizing this saturday that he could find work yesterday. I have seen so many miracles come from fasting on the mission. I know withouth a doubt its a true and powerful doctrine. We started fasting saturday togther and on sunday morning he recieved a job offer in murcia so he took his papers to the office and they are thinking of hiring him. he has been here a year without work and it was truly a mircale that someone came to him with an offer.
Mom! I made root beer and it tasted super great. I was so shocked that it was that easy. Thanks for sending the syrup. All is well here love you all. Make sure to send letters to the mission office after today because I may be moving. I ll let you know tuesday morning. Have a great week
Love, Elder G
my english is getting horrible !
Hey I recieved a bunch of lettter this week thanks to Lis, Jordan, Mom, Ashley, Bryndee,Jessica and Jordana Jonshon. I really appreciate it and I ll try to write you back today.
Dad thanks for keeping me posted on the bike shop its super fun to see how everythings going. What is the name of the shop going to be ?
Well theis week has been quite crazy where do I even start. I m sure you ll be happy to know that yes thats right im still an illeagal citizen. If I get stopped on the street by the police it will be an instant 150€ fine. I will be going to Murcia again on Tuesday and hopefully this will be the last time. THe other news or warning is that I strongly recomend everyone to avoid the hair cutting schools at least here in Spain. This week I thought I would save some money and get (practiced) on. The girl that cut my hair was shaking so bad that she almost cut me multiple times, when I say me I mean my head not just my hair. Finally I sent out an SOS and the teacher came over and tried to fix it even though it was past the point of no return. I could go on but lets just say I had to buy a hair clipper after and it was still hard to fix.
We had zone confrence in Murcia and its exactly what I needed. THe topic was obedience and enduring to the end. I was suprised as I felt he was specifically talking to me through out the condfrence. It reminded me that he is called of God and recieves inspiration and revelation specifically for each of us. The best part was bearing testimony after the confrence. I felt the spritit strongly and it was nice to have a strong confirmation remind me that I m exactly where I need to be. WE were fasting with a man that we are baptizing this saturday that he could find work yesterday. I have seen so many miracles come from fasting on the mission. I know withouth a doubt its a true and powerful doctrine. We started fasting saturday togther and on sunday morning he recieved a job offer in murcia so he took his papers to the office and they are thinking of hiring him. he has been here a year without work and it was truly a mircale that someone came to him with an offer.
Mom! I made root beer and it tasted super great. I was so shocked that it was that easy. Thanks for sending the syrup. All is well here love you all. Make sure to send letters to the mission office after today because I may be moving. I ll let you know tuesday morning. Have a great week
Love, Elder G
my english is getting horrible !
Monday, February 23, 2009
Logan - Lorca Week 5
2.23.09
Thanks mom for your letters! I got two this morning from you and One from EMily. AT least the family is faithful in letter writing! EMily I will send the camera card today with a letter. Well Iam still illegal which is kind of exciting in a sense. We havent had to run form any cops but just knowing that I might have to is fun and my alertness has been raised a notch. I went to the office the other day and they have no clue about anything. Everytime I go they tell me somthing different and give me different papers to fill out. This time I pulled the whole Hey whats you name and number because you will be getting a call from my Abogado or lawyerer. They refused to give me their information becasue the girl wasnt quite sure on the whole situation herself so she said she wouldnt be able to tell the lawyer any new information. I got more papers and I m going to try to take out residency again in a bigger city 30 mins away on thursday. I hope it works out. Mean time the lawyer has not answered his phone. We ll see what happens this week. Dad th Chrismas letter was hilarious both of my companions were on the for laughing. I also thought it was great. This week we were walking in the center of the city and a man frm Ecuador came to us and said he was inactive and so was his wife but wanted us to come over. He also told me that he wanted us to pretned we hadnt talked to him so that his wife would think that we were guided there by the spirit. Little did he know it was amazing that he even found us because we are no normally in the part of the city where he lives. WE went by to suprise visit them and we couldnt find the piso. WE were in the area and had given up. WE decided to head back and he whistled out the window but from where i was he just looked like a crazy man. I finally felt that we should at least see who it is and it happened to be him. WE went up and taught them and the spirit was felt strong. At the start of the misison I was a lot more timid. I feel like I ve become very bold which sometimes a bad thing. Needless to say in this apt. it worked to our advantage. I plainly told them to get their lives back and order and stop being flojo or lazy, (you get sick of hearing the same excuses everyday day after day) We set goals to start doing the little important thigns that make the big differeance, scriptures, prayers, and church. I then told them that we were willing to do everything in our power to help them accomplish those things becauser thats how important they are. THey got the point and we saw them at church yesterday which was great. Menos activos are hard to deal with because they always say we ll see you at churhc and then dont come and then week after week you have to listen to the new but same old crappy excuses. It was nice to see them rise to the challeng or put off the natural man Mos 3:19. Well everything else is going well. I like Lorca and I am not excited for the heat to come. I could be moving this transfer which would mean that you shouldnt send letters after the 2nd of March. I m coming up to the year mark! crazy. We are also having Zone cnfrence this week so I lok foward to that. Love you all have a great week Elder G
Thanks mom for your letters! I got two this morning from you and One from EMily. AT least the family is faithful in letter writing! EMily I will send the camera card today with a letter. Well Iam still illegal which is kind of exciting in a sense. We havent had to run form any cops but just knowing that I might have to is fun and my alertness has been raised a notch. I went to the office the other day and they have no clue about anything. Everytime I go they tell me somthing different and give me different papers to fill out. This time I pulled the whole Hey whats you name and number because you will be getting a call from my Abogado or lawyerer. They refused to give me their information becasue the girl wasnt quite sure on the whole situation herself so she said she wouldnt be able to tell the lawyer any new information. I got more papers and I m going to try to take out residency again in a bigger city 30 mins away on thursday. I hope it works out. Mean time the lawyer has not answered his phone. We ll see what happens this week. Dad th Chrismas letter was hilarious both of my companions were on the for laughing. I also thought it was great. This week we were walking in the center of the city and a man frm Ecuador came to us and said he was inactive and so was his wife but wanted us to come over. He also told me that he wanted us to pretned we hadnt talked to him so that his wife would think that we were guided there by the spirit. Little did he know it was amazing that he even found us because we are no normally in the part of the city where he lives. WE went by to suprise visit them and we couldnt find the piso. WE were in the area and had given up. WE decided to head back and he whistled out the window but from where i was he just looked like a crazy man. I finally felt that we should at least see who it is and it happened to be him. WE went up and taught them and the spirit was felt strong. At the start of the misison I was a lot more timid. I feel like I ve become very bold which sometimes a bad thing. Needless to say in this apt. it worked to our advantage. I plainly told them to get their lives back and order and stop being flojo or lazy, (you get sick of hearing the same excuses everyday day after day) We set goals to start doing the little important thigns that make the big differeance, scriptures, prayers, and church. I then told them that we were willing to do everything in our power to help them accomplish those things becauser thats how important they are. THey got the point and we saw them at church yesterday which was great. Menos activos are hard to deal with because they always say we ll see you at churhc and then dont come and then week after week you have to listen to the new but same old crappy excuses. It was nice to see them rise to the challeng or put off the natural man Mos 3:19. Well everything else is going well. I like Lorca and I am not excited for the heat to come. I could be moving this transfer which would mean that you shouldnt send letters after the 2nd of March. I m coming up to the year mark! crazy. We are also having Zone cnfrence this week so I lok foward to that. Love you all have a great week Elder G
Emily - Vigo Week 8
2.23.09
Hello Everyone...The weather is still nice and Im so thankful. Also, we still have hot water. More and more I realize that Im not a rainy weather person. We had a really neat experience on Saturday morning. Planning as you all can imagine has been one of the hardest things for me about the mission. Filling up hours of time with good things to do is kind of hard. Once and a while we have visits plugged in there but even then sometimes the people arent there. We plan out huge chuncks of time and then huge back up plans. Im not very good at it. Anyways Saturday we had a huge chunck of time and I was having a hard time feeling the desire to leave the piso. I prayed to Heavenly Father that if there was someone waiting for us somewhere that He would guide me to them. I looked at the map and a street we had never really been on kept popping out. I decided we would spend the day on that street. I looked in the area book to see if we had any potentials and they werent. We put our bags on and headed out with a prayer. I didnt tell my comp anything. The road was very long and headed out to a part of our area we dont see much. It ended at a beautiful view of the ocean. It was so nice to be in some trees and have silence. I dont like big cities. As we walked out and on the way back I kept looking for something to stick out to me. The road didnt have too much on it for knocking like I had hoped. Well it got close to mediodia and we were tired from walking so we headed back. As we crossed the street there was a 50 year old man that stopped us and said in english, excuse me I need to talk to you. Usually I feel nervous as men try to talk to us but it was different with him. He went on to tell us that three years ago the Elders taught him. Well the areas changed and the church was moved from where he knew it and he lost contact. He said he has been looking for us and he couldnt believe his eyes when he saw us walking down the street. He is a Marine and works a lot with other people that speak english and he also travels to the US alot. He had a little cafe on the street where he found us and pretty much begged us to come by. He told us that we are very welcome to come by anytime. Im sure he remembers how he felt as the Elders taught him years ago. We are going to stop by this week. It was a huge miracle for me. I know that Heavenly Father hears our prayers and is very mindful of us. It really has been through the small miracles that I realize how much He loves me. Im one in a world of billions but I see His hand in my life and in the lives of others. Ana called us and canceled our follow up visit. We asked her to pray about getting baptized. She said Manuel needed to go to Portugal and just told her. We stopped by the next day and Manuel answered and said he had to go to a meeting. I wanted to say well we want to talk to Ana. I think he is getting frustrated because he is suppose to be the one with all the knowledge. In the lessons he starts saying crazy science stuff and then I testify and slam him, in a nice way of course. Ana loves the lessons and told us that for the first time she feels like all of her questions are being answered. Anyways we left the building and I felt a little discouraged because I knew Satan was doing everything to keep us from having contact with her. About 30 minutes after leaving Ana called us and said Manuel left and I want you to come over. When she called we were on our way to a less active to take her fresh bread and freezer strawberry jam. Yes mom I finally made the freezer jam. Anywyas we stopped in and said hi to them and then went to Anas. She had run to the store and bought a load of food for us. She made french fries, eggs and steak. Then for dessert strawberries and kiwis. It was sooo good and I was so glad that she called but I told her I dont want to do this behind Manuel´s back and cause her more problems. She said well this is how it has to be done. He wants to control me because he is unhappy. He thinks that if I get a job or friends I will desert him. She is praying and reading. I dont know if I already told you that one night she was praying and opened the BOM. She said she read exactly what she needed to hear. I told her that is the way I knew that the BOM was the word of God. I would pray after bad days at school and when I opened the Book of Mormon I felt peace and read exactly what I needed. Heavenly Father talked to me through that sacred book. Well anyways Manuel took her back to Portugal so they didnt come to church. In fact we were suppose to have 7 people and only our good faithful Nigerian Ricky showed up. I love Ana and Manuel. I keep praying that Heavenly Father will help us know how to help them. They are both at such differnt spots in their lives and they have so much baggage.The Romanian family were some of the people that were suppose to come. We went by their house early Sunday morning and they didnt answer the door. It so hard for people to change even as they have the Spìrit manifest to them that what we teach is true. Im so thankful to have the gospel in my life. Life is hard but it would be a lot harder with out hope and faith is something more. I know that I will be with my family in the next life. I will do everything I can to be worthy to live with you and God again. I love my Savior and I know that this is His church.I love you and miss you!Love,The sister
Hello Everyone...The weather is still nice and Im so thankful. Also, we still have hot water. More and more I realize that Im not a rainy weather person. We had a really neat experience on Saturday morning. Planning as you all can imagine has been one of the hardest things for me about the mission. Filling up hours of time with good things to do is kind of hard. Once and a while we have visits plugged in there but even then sometimes the people arent there. We plan out huge chuncks of time and then huge back up plans. Im not very good at it. Anyways Saturday we had a huge chunck of time and I was having a hard time feeling the desire to leave the piso. I prayed to Heavenly Father that if there was someone waiting for us somewhere that He would guide me to them. I looked at the map and a street we had never really been on kept popping out. I decided we would spend the day on that street. I looked in the area book to see if we had any potentials and they werent. We put our bags on and headed out with a prayer. I didnt tell my comp anything. The road was very long and headed out to a part of our area we dont see much. It ended at a beautiful view of the ocean. It was so nice to be in some trees and have silence. I dont like big cities. As we walked out and on the way back I kept looking for something to stick out to me. The road didnt have too much on it for knocking like I had hoped. Well it got close to mediodia and we were tired from walking so we headed back. As we crossed the street there was a 50 year old man that stopped us and said in english, excuse me I need to talk to you. Usually I feel nervous as men try to talk to us but it was different with him. He went on to tell us that three years ago the Elders taught him. Well the areas changed and the church was moved from where he knew it and he lost contact. He said he has been looking for us and he couldnt believe his eyes when he saw us walking down the street. He is a Marine and works a lot with other people that speak english and he also travels to the US alot. He had a little cafe on the street where he found us and pretty much begged us to come by. He told us that we are very welcome to come by anytime. Im sure he remembers how he felt as the Elders taught him years ago. We are going to stop by this week. It was a huge miracle for me. I know that Heavenly Father hears our prayers and is very mindful of us. It really has been through the small miracles that I realize how much He loves me. Im one in a world of billions but I see His hand in my life and in the lives of others. Ana called us and canceled our follow up visit. We asked her to pray about getting baptized. She said Manuel needed to go to Portugal and just told her. We stopped by the next day and Manuel answered and said he had to go to a meeting. I wanted to say well we want to talk to Ana. I think he is getting frustrated because he is suppose to be the one with all the knowledge. In the lessons he starts saying crazy science stuff and then I testify and slam him, in a nice way of course. Ana loves the lessons and told us that for the first time she feels like all of her questions are being answered. Anyways we left the building and I felt a little discouraged because I knew Satan was doing everything to keep us from having contact with her. About 30 minutes after leaving Ana called us and said Manuel left and I want you to come over. When she called we were on our way to a less active to take her fresh bread and freezer strawberry jam. Yes mom I finally made the freezer jam. Anywyas we stopped in and said hi to them and then went to Anas. She had run to the store and bought a load of food for us. She made french fries, eggs and steak. Then for dessert strawberries and kiwis. It was sooo good and I was so glad that she called but I told her I dont want to do this behind Manuel´s back and cause her more problems. She said well this is how it has to be done. He wants to control me because he is unhappy. He thinks that if I get a job or friends I will desert him. She is praying and reading. I dont know if I already told you that one night she was praying and opened the BOM. She said she read exactly what she needed to hear. I told her that is the way I knew that the BOM was the word of God. I would pray after bad days at school and when I opened the Book of Mormon I felt peace and read exactly what I needed. Heavenly Father talked to me through that sacred book. Well anyways Manuel took her back to Portugal so they didnt come to church. In fact we were suppose to have 7 people and only our good faithful Nigerian Ricky showed up. I love Ana and Manuel. I keep praying that Heavenly Father will help us know how to help them. They are both at such differnt spots in their lives and they have so much baggage.The Romanian family were some of the people that were suppose to come. We went by their house early Sunday morning and they didnt answer the door. It so hard for people to change even as they have the Spìrit manifest to them that what we teach is true. Im so thankful to have the gospel in my life. Life is hard but it would be a lot harder with out hope and faith is something more. I know that I will be with my family in the next life. I will do everything I can to be worthy to live with you and God again. I love my Savior and I know that this is His church.I love you and miss you!Love,The sister
Monday, February 16, 2009
Logan - Lorca Week 4
2.15.09
I got Jennys letters and My B-day package thank you so much!
First thing to say is that Grandpa G. Was wise in the not talking about surfing thing. At first it didnt bother me at all but the videos of Dad almost cathing tube and shredding across the waves as the sun was setting was a bit much. You should of warned me or somthing I was sitting on the Train and I plug the new card into the camera and started watching. All of the sudden I was junmping out of my seat yelling for you to paddle harder and to cut back etc. Everyone sitting around was scared. My jaw was dropped as I looked at the pictures and watched and notcied how your surfing level has greatly improved. I m jealous but everytime you go surfing while Im on the misison means you have to take me twice as many times to make up for it. Just remember that before you plan the next surf trip without me. NIck is stealing my place as co pilot for the surf trips but I m glad you have someone to sit with and talk and of of course occasionally snake a wave from. Ok enough about surfing Im shaking a little bit. THe way I get my adrenaline fix on the mission is just telling stories from the past or talking about surfing.
Ok I visited murcia last week and they said that I still cant get my residence card. I have to go to barcelona and so that is in the process of being figured out. I m going to go by the office once more today and try and get a different lady to help me and see if that makes a difference. If not then I ll be headed up to Barcelona soon. As the way of mission work this week was kind of rought. We had to kids of 14ys that had dates to get baptized but they parents out of no where just said no. I was not very happy. They agreed a few months ago but have changed their mind. THe wierdest thing is that they kids both have bothers and sister that have already been baptized. I m very impressed with the kids because they come to church every sunday and are great memebers even though their parents arent memebers and dont support it. When you compare that to parents dragging their kids to church everyday you can see a big difference. These kids at a young age have already truly been convereted to the Gospel. The good news is that a older SPanish man that we have been teaching has finally accepted to get baptized. he has been coming to church for two years and was a devote Catholic before. When I first got here I asked why he wasnt a memeber and they just said he is stubborn and dosent like getting pushed. I m pretty sure I just said well I think he needs a little push. Durning planning we pray and talk about whaty to do with each person and then listen to the holy ghost prompt us in what to teach or do. WHile we were planning I felt that we should invite him to pray about the Book of MOrmon again even though he had already told us he knew it was true and was reading it everyday. We ended up doing it and that last appt. we had with him he said he had recieved a strong witness and is ready to get baptized. I m very thankful and for the Holy Ghost. I m learning better how to recognize the small promptings we recive daily. Some members I think oftenly always expect it to be a strong overbearing influence but I ve come to know that its more commonly new ieas or thoughts that pursuade to do good. Obviously this is somthing we here oiften in church but I thought I d mention it becasue its somthing that Im doing instead of just hearing from someone else and thinking ya I know. As we apply the principles of the Gospel lights just start turning on in the head and you come to know what youve already heard a 100 times. This letter is su`per long. The other exciting thing is that we have been visiting with our lawyer this week becasuse the office hasnt been paying our rent so we almost got kicked out. Everything is in good shape now though. The b-day package was amazing everything. The jump drive xd converter is great the lead and everything. I had root beer floats and they were fantastic as well. Thanks for the thought and care. Love you all
Elder G
I got Jennys letters and My B-day package thank you so much!
First thing to say is that Grandpa G. Was wise in the not talking about surfing thing. At first it didnt bother me at all but the videos of Dad almost cathing tube and shredding across the waves as the sun was setting was a bit much. You should of warned me or somthing I was sitting on the Train and I plug the new card into the camera and started watching. All of the sudden I was junmping out of my seat yelling for you to paddle harder and to cut back etc. Everyone sitting around was scared. My jaw was dropped as I looked at the pictures and watched and notcied how your surfing level has greatly improved. I m jealous but everytime you go surfing while Im on the misison means you have to take me twice as many times to make up for it. Just remember that before you plan the next surf trip without me. NIck is stealing my place as co pilot for the surf trips but I m glad you have someone to sit with and talk and of of course occasionally snake a wave from. Ok enough about surfing Im shaking a little bit. THe way I get my adrenaline fix on the mission is just telling stories from the past or talking about surfing.
Ok I visited murcia last week and they said that I still cant get my residence card. I have to go to barcelona and so that is in the process of being figured out. I m going to go by the office once more today and try and get a different lady to help me and see if that makes a difference. If not then I ll be headed up to Barcelona soon. As the way of mission work this week was kind of rought. We had to kids of 14ys that had dates to get baptized but they parents out of no where just said no. I was not very happy. They agreed a few months ago but have changed their mind. THe wierdest thing is that they kids both have bothers and sister that have already been baptized. I m very impressed with the kids because they come to church every sunday and are great memebers even though their parents arent memebers and dont support it. When you compare that to parents dragging their kids to church everyday you can see a big difference. These kids at a young age have already truly been convereted to the Gospel. The good news is that a older SPanish man that we have been teaching has finally accepted to get baptized. he has been coming to church for two years and was a devote Catholic before. When I first got here I asked why he wasnt a memeber and they just said he is stubborn and dosent like getting pushed. I m pretty sure I just said well I think he needs a little push. Durning planning we pray and talk about whaty to do with each person and then listen to the holy ghost prompt us in what to teach or do. WHile we were planning I felt that we should invite him to pray about the Book of MOrmon again even though he had already told us he knew it was true and was reading it everyday. We ended up doing it and that last appt. we had with him he said he had recieved a strong witness and is ready to get baptized. I m very thankful and for the Holy Ghost. I m learning better how to recognize the small promptings we recive daily. Some members I think oftenly always expect it to be a strong overbearing influence but I ve come to know that its more commonly new ieas or thoughts that pursuade to do good. Obviously this is somthing we here oiften in church but I thought I d mention it becasue its somthing that Im doing instead of just hearing from someone else and thinking ya I know. As we apply the principles of the Gospel lights just start turning on in the head and you come to know what youve already heard a 100 times. This letter is su`per long. The other exciting thing is that we have been visiting with our lawyer this week becasuse the office hasnt been paying our rent so we almost got kicked out. Everything is in good shape now though. The b-day package was amazing everything. The jump drive xd converter is great the lead and everything. I had root beer floats and they were fantastic as well. Thanks for the thought and care. Love you all
Elder G
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