Buuueenos días! Qué tál todo? I was happy to receive your emails. I'm
glad that things are well, that you are all so faithful and diligent!
Elder Schinder is great. I do kind of miss working with Elder Dayes, and
it is wierd to see him at church with the other ward, but Elder
Schindler is a special missionary! He has a way with the members and
winning over the hearts of them with their trust. He is a good teacher
too, he explains things with boldness but in a way that makes sense.
Super conductive to the Spirit! We are both kind of neutral and
impartial, so I've kind of had to practice being more assertive and
decision making. Which is good =) We didn't teach as many lessons this
past week, but we set a few fechas. We have 2 for this weekend, 1 for
thursday the next week, and 1 for the 25th. There are like 5 others who
we can and probably will set a fecha with soon.
This last week we had a special meeting in Catarroja with the
bishoprics and missionaries in the stake, to talk about an upcoming
activity, and also how to work more unified between the wards and the
missionaries. It was really inspiring and I saw even more about how
great the stake leaders are. In Utah the leaders are always great, but
there are lots of great members too, just a few "slots" for leadership.
Here the leaders really stand out as something special. There are great
things about both perspectives, and it has really inspired me in a new
way. President Pace was also there, and gave a great message about
unity. He also answered a question from the stake president about how
our numbers were about a 100 at the beginning of the year, now were are
130ish, and by the end of the year we are supposed to have 200. The
stake president then told the bishops, if you want some of those
missionaries to be sent to Valencia, you need to have work in your
wards! You need to be giving the missionaries references and work!
That's what animates them, which helps them work harder than their own
efforts, that's where success will come, and where there is success
there will be sent more missionaries, and with more missionaries there
will be even more success! It was an interesting insight. Joy (the
mother of the two baptisms we had last week) told us in one of our
visits last week about a story they had. They said when they went to be
baptized (her and her husband) like 5 years ago, all they had left was 5
euros. Thats it. The bus pass was 5.05 euros. They didn't know what to
do. They decided to use it, found 5 cents, payed the bus and went to the
church thinking they'd just walk home or something. After their
baptism, someone went up and congratulated them, and after shaking his
hand left 40 euros. He tried to excuse it, but the man said they needed
it. He said they hadn't told anyone about their situation. On their way
back, they found a bus card laying on the ground, kind of new. (There
are tons of abandoned bus cards on the ground, usually empty) They
thought it had nothing, but they picked it up and tried it, and it was
brand new with 10 trips on it. They said they knew without a doubt that
the Lord lived, and that this was His Church, without a doubt. They have
the greatest miracle stories, and their family is so great!
This sunday was mothers day in spain, so they had the special
sunday service combined with testimony meeting. It kind of went from a
worship service and testimonies of the Lord to a mother worship and
testimonies of moms and family, which is good I suppose, but with a
couple I felt like it wasn't too focused on the Lord. What can you do
though, it's one day a year and moms are really special. It was a good
sunday.
Thats about all I have. I look forward to talking on Sunday! That
should be fine, around 4 or 5 here maybe. Just keep your eyes peeled =)
Have a great week!
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