Sometimes I wish you guys could watch me through a camera to see what life is like here, haha. For example, on Tuesday we went to a noche de hogar at a members house (a Spaniard... way rare around here, almost all our members are South American) she invited another Spaniard member and a non member Spaniard friend over. We shared a message about how to know that the Book of Mormon is true and then ate dinner with them. I felt like I was at a fancy tea party haha. First off they talk way fast, and Spaniards are harder to understand.. and second off, all the silverware was super nice and fancy and we ate fancy food haha. We had this soup in a goblet and then had quinoa (I thought of you Tyson) and some other fancy stuff. It's just funny sometimes, my comp and I will look at each other and smile. We are just two little Americans trying to be all proper in Spain. It's fun.
On Tuesday we met with this girl named Erica. I can't remember if I've told you about her yet but we found her on a bench one day and asked if we could meet with her. Apparently the elders had been teaching her a couple months back, and she wants to be baptized but can't cuz she works every Sunday (that's the hardest part of it all, no one can ever come to church cuz they always work! Even lots of the members) so we asked her to pray for God to help her to find a way to make it to church. She gave the last prayer at the end of the lesson and it was really good, I was really impressed with her desires to follow Christ.
Thursday we ate lunch with a meenos activo named Brother West. IDK if I've told you about him yet but he's a goofy guy. You ask him where he's from and he wont tell you, he says "nobody knows, not even me!" But he's definitely from NY. All he wears is NY giants stuff haha. Anyway, he took us to get chinese food.. usually he takes us out for pizza but last time Hermana Benson got sick so we got chinese food this time. Can you just picture for a second what chinese food in Spain is like? So strange. They didn't even have soy sauce. Yeah, talk about a nightmare for poor little fras haha. JK. But really. No soy sauce? what the..
Later that night we met with a lady named Estella. She's from Honduras. Wanna know the coolest part about her? Shes got a gold star on her front tooth. I might get one when I get back. It was pretty rad. So we met with her on a bench and she took us to her piso. There we met her daughter and her nephew. It was sorta intimidating at first, but we shared a little about the Book of Mormon with them and our purpose here as missionaries. Good news is we have plans set up with her daughter (named Ludis) tomorrow to teach more! So that's pretty exciting. Unfortunately, Estella is going to her country for a month tomorrow, so we won't see her. But hopefully we can start teaching Ludis more. I think it's cool sometimes how God puts people in your path. Even though Estella won't be around, we found Ludis through her! Cool stuff.
Afterwards we had a lesson with Samuel. He was asking questions about Adam and Eve again. We had him write them down so we can answer them better for him next time. I'll be honest, I was a little discouraged during the lesson cuz I couldn't understand much, and it was hard to explain his questions in Spanish. But, I just need to remember that God knows I can't speak well yet, and I know little by little, it'll get better. I just need to be patient with myself and continue to work hard at the language. I can't wait for the day when I can speak it fluently haha. For the most part right now, I'm starting to understand a lot more. I still can't speak super well though, my comp and I try to speak Spanish to each other in the streets though. When I read, I understand almost 100%, people just gotta talk more clearly haha. It'll come though.
Ok here's a good story, so the next day we went to eat with our investigator Angelica. She was still preparing lunch when we got there and opened a container of these grey wormy looking things. I asked her what it was, with a big smile on my face, and she said something about it being a type of fish.. I still don't know what it was. Anyway, she made us her favorite salad which consisted of lettuce, hard boiled eggs (everyone loves those here....) and those slimy wormy grey things! gah. My comp and I were struggling hardcore haha. Anyway, when we were headed back home.... we both started to feel super sick. Oh my, I dot' know when the last time is that I've felt that sick haha it was so bad!!!! We were dying laughing and dying of that food... let's just say... I'm glad we made it to the bathroom as quick as we did. TMI? sorrryyyyyy.
So back to Angelica, it's sad, she too wants to be baptized but lives with her boyfriend. She has thought about marriage, but if she gets married, she wont get money from the government anymore and she doesn't have a job right now. Shes kinda stuck. It's sad, I don't know how to help. Luckily shes reading in her BOM and she comes to church fairly consistently. So we told her to keep praying, and God will help provide a plan for her. I hope I can see her get baptized.
All of our investigators are kinda stuck right now. We can't get a hold of Onome. We call all the time and have stopped by a bunch too. I keep praying for her, but I'm worried we are losing her. We are doing our best to find new people, but we haven't had a whole lot of success yet. We have some good stuff set up with members this week so hopefully that'll produce some newbies. Finding on the street isn't super successful. But we keep trying! Also this morning my comp and I rented a tandem bike. I'll send pics. It was a greeeeat time ahah we were laughing our heads off. They are hard to balance! People were STARING at us haha, more than normal. It was good stuff. Anyway, sorry that was a way long email. Hope you all have a great week! LOVE YOU ALL!
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