Monday, January 30, 2012

This week was good. We had a baptism. Her name is Ana Franshezka...crazy way to spell the 2nd name. It's like Francesca. She is turning 16 soon. She was absolutely awesome to teach. She kept the commitments, she came to church, she always had questions and good ones, and overcame challenges. The Lord prepares people. I like her baptism because she was a JW before...not like hardcore because she left because she thought it was dumb that they don't do Christmas or birthdays. But she had taught with them before. She also told me some interesting things about them as well....anyways...back to the topic. She fits in well and she will strengthen the YW here--there aren't that many. We are teaching the rest of her family as well, but the parents have to get married and come to church more. Hopefully in the future the whole family will be baptized. Ana is an awesome person and I know the Lord placed her in our path.

The next changes are Feb 15th...I'm pretty sure I'll be leaving, but you never know. Maybe 5 changes in Zaragoza will happen.

This week we also had a multizone. I remember we talked a lot about our own conversion to the Gospel. Like Pres. Glazier said...¨I love the converts because I'm a convert. I was born in the Church, but I'm a convert.¨ And that really made me think--just because you are born in the Church doesn't mean you are good to go. You have to do everything that an investigator would do and be converted yourself. Really we all are converts to the Church...and if we aren't...we need to go through the process and become converted.

We also talked about how our purpose that we have as missionaries (help other people come unto Christ by faith in Him and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, gift of the Holy Ghost and endure to the end) is really the purpose of God as well. We share the same purpose.

It was a good multizone. I got the last package with socks and pop tarts and fruit snacks and goldfish and the family card and calendar....fun stuff...

I hurt right now. We played soccer today. I was playing defense and honestly idk what happened. I jumped somehow (I was so far away) into th e ball right as Elder Murdock kicked it. Apparently I did it in such a way that it was cool to watch because I kind of took out Murdock as well and stayed standing (and all the other missionaries were like...woah) But it hurt...haha I stopped playing for a minute. It still kind of hurts. I wish I had a video to see it. Everyone said it was super cool. They didnt score, so its all good. Fun story, huh?

Anyways...that's all I got really...love you

Pictures taken at the volcano:

Pictures from an "American" meal that a sweet family served them: