Hey Family! How is everyone doing this week? Also my package came! Except I guess I can't pick it up till tomorrow. BUT THANK YOU! I cant wait to open it!!
So this week was good. We ate at this guys house named AJ. He's a recent convert from Nepal. He made these sweet delicious dumplings that are called momos. I love being here cuz we get to eat such sweet food from all over the world. We also taught Samuel again (hes the 18 year old from Colombia). We taught him about the plan of salvation. He was asking a bunch about Adam and Eve.. it was a struggle. I couldn't really understand what was going on haha I still get lost in the Spanish in the lessons sometimes. But the lesson still went well. I just tell you that cuz it's experiences like that, that really help me to be humble. I always remember how much this is the Lord´s work and how much we rely on the Lord to help us. I know I can't speak the language or understand it super well yet, but I know if I focus on teaching with the spirit, it wont matter that I can't speak super well.
So on Monday I got a call that the mission was gonna send me down to Barcelona to pick up my residency card. So Thursday, Hermana Benson and I took an hour and a half bus to Bilbao to meet up with some other missionaries,.. she stayed there with another sister and then they sent five of us greenies on a 7 hour train ride down to Barcelona. It was fun to be reunited with some of my friends from the MTC again. We got to Barcelona and stayed with some sisters there and then picked up our cards the next day. It was funny cuz there was a whole big group of us new missionaries trying to navigate our way around this giant city.. but somehow we managed to get to all the buildings they sent us to. Then after we got our cards, we waited around until our train ride back. So I spent a lot of time traveling this week. The 7 hour ride back felt pretty long. But 14 hours of bonding with other missionaries is good stuff haha, we had a lot of good laughs so it was fun. It was fun to go back down to Barcelona too, but I was definitely ready to be back home by the end of it. It was fun, but the only bummer is, we didn't get to do a lot of teaching because of how much time it took so this week was sort of chill.
Also on Sunday, President and Hermana Pace came up to our ward! It was so fun to see them, I wish we could see them more often. They came up because our building is literally tiny. We have no room for people. And if we bring investigators, we have to make sure they are early otherwise they have to sit in the extra room (I think I said this before, but they broadcast sacrament meeting in one of the classsrooms on a tv) Anyway, they talked about splitting our ward into two branches that meet at different times until they can find another building. Or having two sacrament meetings. So half the ward will go to sacrament at 9, then everyone will come for the second two hours.. and then half the ward will go to a sacrament meeting at 1. Does that make sense? Hope so haha. I don't know what they will do. They had a big meeting about it with President and all our ward leaders and the Stake President. President Pace wants to bring two more elders up here for our ward, which would be awesome... but we need more space for our investigators! Anyway, who knows what they will do.
As far as our investigators.. Samuel, Angelica, AND Onome came to church on Sunday! It was awesome. We were so excited to see Onome cuz we haven't been able to get ahold of her for a long time. But she told us we can see her this Thursday. The Nigerians are so funny. If they don't have time to see you they always say "I don't have chance today" haha but you gotta hear them say it with their accents. It's way funnier. Shes great though, I just hope we can help her get back on track. Angelica consistently comes to church, she even is planning on going to a relief society thing this week, she's got good support in the ward. I just don't know what to do with her cuz she lives with her boyfriend. But we are going to see her tomorrow and lay out her options to see if we can figure out how to get her baptized.
Also this week we found some good new people! We found these ladies named Gloria and Norma. They were just sitting on a bench one day so we went to talk to them. Gloria said it was a blessing that we came to talk to her. We are meeting with them at 5 today to teach them the restoration. I am way excited. I think they could be solid investigators. We have a bunch of stuff set up with some newbies this week too, so cross your fingers! I hope they are really interested!
Everything is going well, its been getting kinda cold here lately, I think I'll be up here for the next two transfers (hey I already made it through my first transfer!) so I might need to buy some thicker clothes. Who knew Spain would be cold? Anyway, I love the work! Its super fun. I love being here. I have never felt closer to my Savior. We have been so blessed to continually find people to teach. The Lord is really hastening His work. Anyway, I love you all! Sorry it wasn't a super eventful week,.... agur! (PS that means bye in basque) yeah. Don't worry I'm learning two languages like a champ. jk. Basque is impossible haha. I'll stick with Spanish for now.
LOVE YOU ALL!
Love Hermana Reid
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