May 20th, 2013

Hola Familia!
 

Holy crazy week! The training with President Deere was stinking amazing, and we had zone conference on Friday which was super super awesome as well, and we found 3 new investigators, two of which are super promising!
 

So Tuesday and Wednesday was the training with Pres. Deere and man was it good. Super inspiring. President Deere is such a spiritual GIANT. I feel so luck to have him as a mission president! The assistants to the prez talked to us about how to better use the time given to us in District meeting, how to better serve our districts, and be better leaders for them. President talked to us about always knowing exactly where we are and where we are going as far as the work is concerned. Always having the vision in mind, and setting goals to work towards that vision. Our goal this year is to have 555+ baptisms and 20% growth in attendance in sacrament meeting. Right now we´re aren´t exactly where we should be, so President gave us the Spain Malaga Mission Backup Plan! Goals, and steps that we can take in order to be back on track by August. On Friday in the Zone Meeting, the zone leaders talked to us about the Standards of Excellence and always keeping those in mind. That if we set goals every day to get us closer to the Standards, we will be able to acheive them every week, and the mission will be able to reach our goal of 555+ baptisms. Right now, the mission is super young, we keep losing missionaries, and recieving even more that left, and our youth is reflected in our numbers. But that´s okay! Once we all get some more time under our belts, all of the south of Spain is going to get baptized!
 

So we found three news this week, and two of them are super awesome. They are Antonio and Daniela and they live in a pueblo like an hour away from Jaen. Anotonio is from Bolivia and Daniela is from Romania. Antonio had participated in church activites in Bolivia, and new a little about it. And when he had learned from Fousto that theres a church in Jaen, he got super excited and told Fousto to have us call him. He told us that he wants to participate in the Church because he likes the values we have. Super awesome! The only problem is that they live super far from Jaen and don´t have money for the bus to come on Sundays. So we´ll be trying to figure out a solution to this. They both agreed to be baptized after they checked out the church more and decide that they like it. Super cool!
 

I´m sooo stinking excited for Gentry! Be sure to send me lots and lots of pictures! I can´t believe how quick it´s come. Time passes so quickly, it´s incredible. The month of May is almost over! Who´s idea was this?? Be sure to send lots of pictures of when you go camping. I hvae no clue of this place that you are going, but it sounds cool!
 

We went to the Alhambra again this week, but only part of the zone and two americans came. There are two americans studying in Jaen and they´re super cool dudes. These are just some pictures of some gardens around the area. It´s a pretty spectacular place to visit, lots of really cool arabic architecture.
 

This week we´ll be going to Malaga for specilized training again with the Malaga Zone and President and Hermana Deere. Super excited for that! That´s basically how the week went. This week will be super awesome because we´re going to get the Standards of Excellence. I´m determined. I love you all so much! Make sure to send lots of pictures of the wedding! Love you!
 

con amor,
 

Elder Webb

Shane at the Alhambra