What a crazy awesome week! We found a few new investigators, set a baptismal date with one of em, started teaching an entire family of Seventh Day Adventists (they keep trying to teach us at the same time that we´re teaching them), had a super aweomse Zone Training in Malaga with President Deere, and found out that we´re going to have a baptism that isn´t ours!
So the new investigator that we found and set a date with is named Edwardo. He´s from Ecuador and lives in a Pueblo, Porcuna, and is friends with another investigator or ours. We had gone to porcuna to teach a man named Antonio and Edwardo was there hanging out with him. Me and Eddy jammed on the guitar for a little bit and then taught them both The Restoration. Eddy told us that he had lived in a catholic convent for 10 years and didn´t like it at all and felt like it wasn´t the right church. He agreed to be baptized in two weeks! However we have to change it because one he didnt´come to church, and two in two weeks is stake conference and we can´t have a baptism or confermatino that weekend. It´s all good though, he´ll get baptized in like 3 or four weeks. He´s super solid!
In the zone training we talked about being born again and how lots of people are searching for somethign like that, but they just don´t know how or wear to find it. Christ taught that baptism is how we put away our old selves, and are born again, new in Christ. Nephi taught the doctrine of Christ really clearly in 2 Ne 31 and we practiced using that to invite people to be baptized. That was on Friday, and the next day in Porcuna, Elder Flores and I did exactly what we had practiced and commited Edwardo to baptism! Super awesome.
So about this baptism that isn´t ours. There is a family that lives here and the mother is divorced twice. The second man she married isnt´a member and now lives near Barcelona. After a lot of time, he decided to listen to the missionaries and is now joining the Church. He´s coming here to Jaén to be baptized and confirmed by his former step son. It sounds kinda weird, but I think the family still has strong ties with him, so it´s not that weird. So we´re going to have a baptism this Friday! I¨ve never met the man, but I spoke to the missionaries in Barcelona and they say that he´s beyond ready. Im super excited to meet him, and to have this baptism!
So that was basically it for this last week. This coming week is gonna be super awesome, with a baptism, a birthday, and moer new investigators! The wedding looks like it was amazing! And Rachel is so freaking tall! When the heck did that happen?? I love you all very much and I hope that you have a wonderful week! Keep the Spirit in your hearts!
con amor,
Elder Webb
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| Manuel and Elisa Giron. Friends that will be coming to Utah. |
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| Shane with Snail Shells, THAT HE ATE! |
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| We were also doing some service painting a members house, and I was painting the ceiling above the stairs. I felt really cool doing it like that. |
He looks and sounds so happy on his mission...there is an inner glow that comes through in his smile and letters.
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