Hi all!
So Thursday was Pday, Friday was zone conference. We met with about 50 missionaries and it was a wonderful conference. We talked a lot of the changes that we need to make this coming year that can help us become the missionaries that Heavenly Father wants us to be. It was cool to be at a zone conference where I actually knew so many people haha. And Friday night we came home right after the conference (we actually had to leave the conference a little early).
I forgot to mention but on Thursday night we did some caroling in downtown A Coruña. We made the front page the next day (December 8th edition of La voz de Galicia) which was pretty exciting haha. I think you can find it online. Also Thursday night we had a really good opportunity to share the Book of Mormon with a guy who works as a taxi driver. He was interested in learning more and we had a Book of Mormon wrapped like a present that we gave to him. We had tried quite a bit to give out the 2 copies of the Book of Mormon that we brought and wrapped to hand out during the caroling. Well let's just say things didn't go as planned and we ended up finding this taxi driver that wanted one. So that worked out well haha.
On Saturday we had a piso inspection and we passed so that's always good. It was an overall great day. And Sunday I gave a talk in church and we had an investigator come that we weren't expecting to be there! That was a huge blessing.
Today we did all the little chores that needed done and then we took a moment to go look around Ponferrada. We went to the castle that is here and that is really cool.
I think the best thing this week were the lessons we were able to have and although we didn't have many, we had some pretty high quality lessons where we got to know the investigators so much better and really address their needs.
A miracle from this week...in Spain it really hasn't rained much. The whole country has kind of been in a drought. And so the crops haven't grown, the water reservoirs are running low and there were a couple fires that burned quite a few areas. So the cool thing is that many of the members around Spain were asking to pray and fast for rain at the beginning of this past month. And nothing really happened. But now, only a week later, all we have on the forecast is rain for the next week. There are puddles every where and cars have splashed us a couple times (just because there is so much water). It's pretty crazy but it's really good that Spain is getting to rain that they need.
I hope the Christmas initiative is going well! I've really enjoyed being able to participate and to help spread some smiles :) here's a scripture to remember:
Mosiah 2:17 "And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."
When we serve those around us we are only serving our Heavnely Father. He knows of every sacrifice we make no matter how big or small.
Have a great week!
Elder Openshaw
Elder Openshaw
Pictures:
Castle and surroundings
Caroling
With Elders Gil and Ethington
Funny statue
Front page of newspaper
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