Shane In Spain: Fab Four

Hola Familia!

Holy stinking week! It was awesome. On Wednesday the hermanas got here.
Hermana Hodson is from Sandy Utah, been on the mish for about 10 months.
She visa waited in SLC for a little while, and spent the last two transfers
in Malaga. She´s training Hermana Anderson, from Alpine Utah. She´s 19, and
got here straight from the Madrid MTC. They´re both super awesome hermanas
and are going the help Jaén a lot! All of the ward members here are super
excited to have sisters once again. I´ve got some good feelings about the
area here, we´re going to be seeing a lot of miracles!

We had a really good family home evening with Esther and Luis. We talking
about the restoration, and putting God first by coming to church and
keeping the commandments. We invited them to be baptized again, this time
for June 29 so that there is time for their papers to come. They both
accepted. They were more sure than I had ever seen them before, and this
Sunday (yesterday) Luis didn´t come to church. Not sure why, however,
Esther did come it she had a super Spiritual experience. We´re going over
there tonight to talk about it, and to eat some stinking amazing Bolivian
food! More birthday meals :)

This week we also found three new investigators that I think have a lot of
potential. One woman, Francia, is from Peru and she and her husband and
daughter live here in Jaen for about 11 years. She has attended LDS
services in Peru when she was a little girl, and when we taught lesson 0,
she said that it feels good to be talking about God again, and trying to do
the right thing. Her husband works a lot so meeting him might be a little
diffecult, however if we can help her feel the Spirit and recognize the
blessings that come from repentance, I feel confident that she´ll encourage
her husband to listen to us.

The other investigators are a family. The mother, Inosencia, and her four
children all live together, and they´re all older children with kids of
their own. While we were teaching, the mother said to us that she can see
something in our faces, a calmess and peace that she doesn´t have, but
wants very badly. (Awesome! she´s recognizing the Spirit!) and she accepted
an invitation for baptism once she knew it was true. In that moment, when
she said that to us, it made me realize just how important it is that I
live the words that I preach. The Lords elect will be able to see the
Spirit in our faces when we live worthily of its presence. Before they
start keeping commitments and repenting and feeling the Spirit, they have
the opportunity to experience the Spirit and that´s through me. That´s one
more reason that it´s crucial that I live worthily of the companionship of
the Spirit.

So for my birthday a member offered to take us out to lunch. We went to a
Chinese buffet and it was sooooo stinking good. 8 bucks for all you can eat
of literally everything you could think of. There´s chinese buffets like
this all over Spain, and yes, it´s run by actual Chinese people, and yes
they speak spanish. Not very well though haha. Super good birthday present,
I thought so anyway haha.

That´s basically it for this week. I hope that everyone at home is doing
well and that you´re all excited for the wedding! I know I stinking am! I
love you all.