Nov. 11, 2013

'Hola familia!

The Lord helped us end the week on a good note. I say that because near the end it looked like we weren´t going to end up very well because we had zone conference friday and we were out of the area all day, and then saturday my compy got sick and we didn´t work at all. However, the Lord heard our prayers and totally provided a miracle for us. I spent Saturday studying in the piso and calling all our investigators to remind them about church the following day. I called one family and the husband told me that he wasn´t sure they were going to come and he would talk to his wife when she got home and he told me to call the next morning to verify. Well I did that and when I called, to my surprise, the whole familiy was up and getting ready to come to church! So we went and picked em´ up and all walked together and they totally loved church! Huge miracle from the Lord because we hadn´t seen them since the previous Sunday. We had an atendance of 13 this week, four of which were investigators! Biggest number yet! 

We found two new investigators that are super awesome. Two young men named Jose and Jose(Papu). They´re both 16 years old and really smart and awesome kids. They keep ALL of their commitments, and have real desires to find the truth. Especially Jose (not Papu) becuase about four months ago his dad died and he really misses him. He totally loves the plan of salvation and was giving really smart answers like "if this is true then that means I should follow this path". they both have agreed to be baptized on the 23 of November! They´ll be the first youth here in Motril to be baptized and when they were told that, Jose shouted with joy "YES!! Finally I´m the first in something!" They´re both really great kids and the Rama (branch) needs them badly. Please pray earnestly for them so that they will recieve a witness and be able to resist Satan´s temptations!

So the zone conference was super great. We learned some new methods of planning to help us focus on our investigators and help them progress. The mission has grown a lot and all of our numbers has increased since the biggining of the year except for church attendance and baptisms. So President is making that a focus now. We´ve all learned how to find and if we can learn to teach well and get our investigators to church, then we´ll get them to the baptismal font as well, obviously. After the conference the senior couple from the office came to Granada to have a half P-day with the zone. We played baseball, soccer and had a barbeque and I stinking loved it. I kept thinking about the scene from Farris Buler when they go to the baseball game and almost get caught on TV. Classic movie. 

This week we have some exchanges with the district leader and is important that we meet with our investigators becuase in two weeks are their baptismal dates! Jose, Jose Carlos, Toni are those with a baptismal date. Miguel Angel is another investigator that we´re working a lot with. He´s become a really good friend of mine and is struggling to let the Spirit affect him and accept the baptismal invitation. Please pray for all of them! They need all the prayers they can get. 

Well familiy I love you all and wish you well! I hope you have a good week this week and look for all the ways that the Lord blesses you. Love love love! Chau

Elder Webb

Sunset while returning from Granada!

Making hime made ice cream. What a pain!