Badalona - Week Eight

Hiiii FAMILIA!

First off, shout out to MAKENNA and SHANNON for their birthdays this week! I can't believe Makenna is ONE. What the crazy? I have never even met her! She looks super cute though. For real. Can I adopt her? Did you know missionaries can't hold babies? I think they are worried we will drop them. So it's been a long while since I've held a baby.

Also sorry I haven't sent pics in forever, the place where we email hasn't been letting me. I promise I'm taking pics though. Well sorta. I'll be better. But I'll try and send them when I can. haha

Anyway, this week was actually pretty good! We were super busy with citas, which was a nice change. We set up visits with everyone. We're trying to see all of our members to work with them better. I really love this ward a whole lot. There are a lot of super great members. We are also going around to all the members houses to heart attack their doors. It's been good so far!

We had a good lesson with Eduardo this week. We taught him the restoration  and he really liked it. He came to church on Sunday too! We were also teaching his 14 year old son Alejandro, who said he didn't believe in God. I asked him "if there was a way that you could know that God exists, would you like to know?" and he nodded his head. We talked to him all about prayer, and why we do it and how we do it and invited him to try a prayer for himself. He's actually read in the Book of Mormon too, he's got lots of potential because he's super willing to act.

As well, yesterday we had a sweet tender mercy. One of our visits fired on us so we were contacting on the way to our next visit and I contacted this lady in the street. Her name is Rosa and she's from Bolivia. We asked if we could share something with her and she was really open to it. She told us we couldn't come to her house because she only rents a room, but that she would meet with us in the church. She was so eager about it she asked if we could show her where the church was right then. So we walked about 15 minutes with her to the church and talked to her all the way. She told us all about these miracles shes had in her life that have helped her to know that God exists. It was really neat. She was one of the most receptive people I've talked with since I've been here. It just amazes me to see God place prepared people in our path all the time.

I think the biggest thing I'm learning here is to never lose faith in miracles. They can come at any moment. It all just depends on our faith. When we act with faith, God always surprises us with miracles. I've learned how much power there is to a sincere prayer. God wants us to see success just as much as we want to see it, we just have to ask for it. I'm really grateful for Badalona. This past week I really felt like I had so much support, I can't really explain it, but it felt good. Anyway, life is good, as always. My companion is doing well. We had a scare this week cuz she drank juice (not knowing it was juice) and is allergic to it, but she's all good now. She's super sweet.

Love you to the moon and back! un abrazo!

Hermana Reid