Valencia - Week Seventeen

Hey Family!

Sounds like it was a good week! Glad everyone's alive! haha. We had a super good week here too. We had a bunch of miracles.

One of them was that MATILDE finally came to church!! We have been working with her for two months now and every week she has told us she would come, and every week something has come up and hasn't been able to. She sorta old as well, so I think sometimes she just forgot haha. But SHE CAME! A member brought her as well, so that was even better. She loved it! She's going to get baptized! She always tells us she wants to, but hasn't been able to because she hadn't come to church, but if she keeps it up, she'll be baptized real soon. She saw a picture of Jesus´s baptism on the wall and asked if that would happen to her too, it was cute.

As well, we found a new investigator named Frank this week. He's from Libera, 28 years old, and just moved here. He's kinda like Billy. Super tall. He lives with Billy, that's how we found him. Anyway, we set a batismal goal with him and he came to church as well on Sunday! We had one of our African members, Steve, translate for him. We asked how it was afterwards and he said "it was awesome!" haha, made my day. He will hopefully get baptized this month as well. He was a miracle.

As well, we are teaching the boyfriend of one of the young women, named Guillermo, which actually means William, FYI. He's 18 and from Spain. He doesn't have any experience with religion, only what he remembers from being a little kid in a catholic school. We had a lesson with him this week, and invited him to pray at the end of the lesson. It was his second time doing it, ever in his whole life, (the first time was a week ago with us) so he was nervous, but he said a really sweet prayer. I think that's one of my favorite things about the mission, is teaching people to pray. Most people don't really know what it is, or they think its a repetitive thing. But when they try to say a sincere prayer to their Father in Heaven, it's always a really tender experience. He came to church as well on Sunday, we were so crazy busy watching over some of our other investigators that came, that we didn't get to talk to him a whole lot, but he had his girlfriends whole family watching over him. The dad sat next to him in every class and explained it all, it was really great.

Anyway, as always, life is really good. I feel like things are really picking up in this area, we have lots of people that are really ready to be baptized, we just gotta help them take the leap of faith and do it.

Transfers are this next week. I'm sorta nervous, I think I may be outta here, but you never know. Anyway, so I'll write on Tuesday. That's all really. I love Hermana Vance a lot, she's super fun. We laugh all day every day together. It's fun having a blonde companion as well :)

love you family!

love Hermana Reid

I look super not that cute in these pics..but it is what it is. Its too hot to look cute here..

But the first is Matilde.. love the crocs she's wearing.. and the second is Juan and Lolin. they are our Spaniard parents (or grandparents) they feed us once a week, they are investigators. 

Valencia - Week Sixteen

Hey Fam! Can you believe summer is over? Didn't it just start? Holy wild.

So Valencia was like an OVEN this week. One day, we left district meeting and it was 108 outside.. for real. Super wild. I have never felt that kind of heat in my life. And it's humid. But let's get real, we love it, the weather keeps us on our toes haha.

Anyway, it was a super good week! I don't remember any of it haha, once the day goes by, I need my agenda to even remember what happened.

I'll give some highlights.

We made some progress with a part member family we are working with! Only the mom is a member, and this last week, she invited us over for dinner. It was just her and the two kids at home but it was really good, I feel like we're starting to develop a good relationship with her, so that was a really good miracle.

As well, one of our investigators, Barry came to church! Idk if I have told you about him. He's 23 and from Cuba, we hadn't seen him for a while but we were able to see him this past week and he came to church on Sunday! He seemed to enjoy it as well, so that's exciting.

I was in Barcelona yesterday for concilio and today we had a zone conference with President and Hermana Pace. It was a really great spirit filled weekend. I feel like it really gave me a whole new energy to work really hard and to use every minute I've got here. It was a really incredible time, I love being with the Paces. They are really incredible people.

Also, so something really neat is that every stake in our mission as well as all of the missionaries in the mission have a goal to start and finish the Book of Mormon together, from now until the end of the year. As we read we are going to study the attributes and testimonies of Jesus Christ. We did this last year, and it was a really incredible experience, and it helped build my testimony a ton. So I was wondering... if you, dear family, would want to join in as well? :) I'll send the attachment with the reading schedule. (have tytyb2 translate it for you) I think you only have to read two chapters a day, and we will finish at the end of December. To be honest, I would love if you joined with me. I think it would be a really incredible experience for our family, to all be reading together in unity. So I'll let you think about it :) we started yesterday, but today's not too late to start!

I love the Book of Mormon. Every time I read it, I feel my Savior´s love. I know it's true with my whole heart. I know that every time we read from it, we can learn so much. It was preserved for our days, and it should be studied frequently and carefully. It is a blessing in my life.


Anyway, I love you all lots and lots. More than you know. Keep being great :)
Hermana REID

Also the other day someone said something about how he had heard about "Hermana Reid Speed" haha apparently I walk fast..

inspector frassy legs.

haha. Nick.

One more thing

So I haven't eaten blueberries in over a year right? I know, imagine that cuz they are hard to find and when I find them they cost so much money for not that many blueberries. So I never buy them. sad life right? Like what is a life without blueberries? haha k that's weird. But you know what I mean.

Anyway, so I got back from concilio on Sunday, and my sweet companion had put a container of blueberries on my shelf in the fridge with a note that said "I love you just as much as you love blueberries" How sweet is that? So today, I ate my first blueberry in FOREVER. It was good. I took a video too. Too far? Maybe. But its fine. Anyway, I just thought that was cute and wanted to share it.