Ah this week has been awesome!!!!!
So first off. Ha, where do I even start? So we switched Sam, our fecha (one with baptismal date) to get baptized this upcomingSunday! We´re excited. Should work out, he is awesome and keeps coming to church every week, so we´re really hoping he´s prepared by next Sunday!
Also, so saddest thing, this was Hermana Cameron´s last week in the mission! So we some fun things! Last week for P´day we walked around the gorgeous center of Málaga, and went to a castle lookout point that overlooks the city and the ocean and that was way cool! We also ate at burger king. That wasn´t super cool or anything it was just funny because I hadn´t eaten there in like 8 months! But anyway...
On Tuesday we had a fun morning! So, Hermana Cameron´s brother asked her about her end of mission bucketlist, and she didn´t have one! So she started one, and one of the things was, contact 100 people in one day. So that meant that we wanted to approach 100 people on the street in one day, and try to talk to them about the gospel. And it counted as long as we tried and told them we were missionaries for the church of Jesus Christ, even if they walked away and wouldn´t even take a pass along card. Ha, so Tuesday we were going to do intercambios, and so we had only the morning to work together, and I was like, Hermana, you´re leaving next week let´s just do it this morning! We had no set citas (appointments) so we decided to do it! We put our info on like, 120 mormon.org cards, and we hit the streets! It was awesome, in a couple hours we contacted 100 people on the streets of Málaga. Many rejected us, some nicely, others not so nicely, but 17 of them gave us their information and told us we could contact them in the future to share our message! That´s not bad, almost 1/5. Ha, I was pretty stoked about it. It gives me and my next companion a lot to follow up on next transfer!
Also, yes, new comp! So, her name is Hermana Bangeter! She´s super cute, I´ve only talked to her a couple times, but I meant her when we both were going to trainer´s training 3 months ago. So she just got done doing the second half of training and now she´s coming her to be with me and she ends her mission this transfer! So she´ll only be here for a month and a half then she´s going back to the states! So I´ll at least be here in Málaga for 3 more months, which makes me so happy because I love it here! And I love the ward here! So yeah, I´m excited. Saturday was super fun! We went to the campo with our ward and they made paella and played a little soccer and it was a fun time! It was pretty cold, it´s been pretty chilly lately (but claro, not anything like Utah, I don´t miss that winter at all sadly enough! I don´t miss the snow like a lot of other missionaries haha) but not too bad for saying it´s December! It was fun, I really do just love this ward! It´s huge, and my goal to learn all their names in 3 weeks was a fail, I still don´t know all of them, but I´m working on it!
And yeah, exciting news!!! So I think I mentioned 2 weeks ago, Joy from Nigeria, the lady in our area book that we called and finally had an appointment with her after weeks of trying who ended up being golden and we set her baptismal date for the 7th of December? Well, yeah, we taught her a couple times and she ended up living the the AP´s area, so we passed her over, and they taught her and she got baptized yesterday!!!!!! It was amazing, and she just is bringing tons of friends to meet the missionaries and she wants her 11 yr old daughter to be baptized and she just LOVES this gospel! She´s seriously amazing. I just loved hearing her testimony and her baptism was beautiful, Michael, the recent convert who baptized Rosi, baptized Joy, too! It is great to see how it get´s him more excited about missionary work! It was just a tender mercy, I was so grateful the Lord lead Joy to us, because honestly we were about to give up on calling her and trying to set up appointments because over the phone things were just weird and never worked out, but the Lord somehow just kept pushing us to give her one more call, one more chance, until finally things worked out in His time and now she´s baptized and so so happy, and sharing her knowledge with everyone!
Also, last week I saw several of my friends! We live close to the bus station, and we were there after intercambios (Hna Cameron went to Granada) and we saw all the missionaries that are training next transfer! And, I saw Hermana Merrill and Hermana Garcia!!! I was like, ´´what are you two doing here!´´ Hermana Merrill has 3 transfers in the mission field and Hermana Garcia just finished her training! My hija (daughter) is training already!!! I was so proud. Those two are way too cool. I was just like, literally I´m so glad I came into the mission when I did. The Hermana´s who are coming in now are training younger because so many of our huge ´´age change wave´´ hermana´s are finishing. It´s a fun thing to see though, all these amazing missionaries training so soon!
I love this work! Also, I can´t not mention ´´He is the Gift´´ o sea, en español, ´´Él es la Dádiva.´´ The new church initiative to remind everyone of why we celebrate Christmas is so beautiful! I love it. It has been such a help to us, sharing that video with everyone, getting them in the Christmas spirit, helping them be reminded to focus on our Savior, and help everyone else focus on Him also. I didn´t get to see youtube yesterday, but I know the church was going to flood it with ´´He is the Gift´´ and I´m so grateful for the miracles we´re going to see from this! Last night was so fun! Another thing on Hna Cameron´s list was, ´´sing hymns on the bus´´ so last night we got our hymn books and haha, it was really funny mentally trying to prepare to just sing to random Spanish people on a bus, but we got on and Hna Cameron just announced to everyone that we didn´t want money and we weren´t selling anything, and that we just wanted to spread the Christmas spirit! Haha, then we sang, ´´Venid Adoremos´´ I think that´s O come all ye Faithful, and we also sang ´´Noche de Luz´´ Silent Night, and many sang along with us, which was cool! Then at the end we gave out ´´He is the Gift´´ pass along cards and it was way fun! We ended up talking to this one guy, who spoke english and was way cool, he gave us his number and told us he was interested so we´re excited to see where that goes! And then one older lady waved me over and was like, ´´Are you girls Mormons?´´ and I told her yes, and then she told me that about 5 years ago she would always have the missionaries over, and that she had a Book of Mormon, I talked to her for a while, she was so cute! But in the end when I tried to non pushily ask if we could come by and visit her she just brushed it off. But hey, she has our number, and hopefully seeing us reminded her of the great relationship she had with them. It was just a fun experience overall! I love being out here during Christmas, preaching of our Savior, who truly is the greatest gift the world has ever recieved! So all of us have the responsibility to invite others to let the light into their lives! But I can´t lie, I feel super lucky to be a missionary during this Christmas.
Descubre la Dádiva.
Acepta la Dádiva.
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