Well this is it! The week of finding has arrived. Our goal is to find 555 new investigators throughout the whole mission. The most we´ve ever found was a little over 230. We´ve prayed and fasted as a mission, planned well, and are now about to commence the work and see many miracles! I am really excited to see what happens this week, to see the hand of the Lord and His angels working side by side with us. So next week I should have some good stories! As for this week...
Specilized training in Alicante was on Thursday with President. We talked about teaching PEOPLE and not lessons. Really focusing on the people and trying to help them rather than checking off a list of criteria that we have created in our minds or in our agendas. His training was super good, super spiritual, and super inspired.
After that I went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders and we tried to find some more people. Like I said Elche is going through a bit of a dry spell becuase everyone is at the beach and we were only able to teach 1 lesson in 24 hours, but that´s alright! This week that all is going to change. We´ve been working really hard to increase our faith in the area and that the Lord is preparing people. And this week we´re going to find those people.
This last week in Elche was the "festivos" where they celebrate the Virgen and the other catholic things that Elche represents and on Tuesday night was the Asencion of the Virgen (where they believe that the Virgen Mary was taken up to heaven by angels and is now with the Father having never tasted death) and there was a huge fireworks display that night from 11 to 12. The senor couple from the office was in Elche that night doing piso inspections and checking out the city and so President gave us special permission to watch the fireworks. Words cannot describe how incredible they were! Way way way better than anything I had ever seen in the States. There aren´t any regulations and so the fireworks are much more extravegant. We watched them from the rooftop of a members house and it was the perfect spot. The fireworks were going off in about ten different spots all over the city and we could see them all. At the very end the grand finale was a gigantic firework that covered almost half of the city that exploded in the shape of a palm tree. Super duper cool people. I highly recommend coming to Spain just for that.
So overall a pretty quite week this last week. But that´s all gonna change this week! Super excited for the week of finding. Please pray for the missionaries that we can all find new investigators and meet our goal and that the people will be receptive! I love you all and will talk to you next week!
Elder Webb
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| the mishies watching the fireworks |
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| Saturday there was an activity and they made a stinking delicious paella in honor of me. No not really, but it sure seems like it doesn´t it? |
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