First package from home! I can get mail-hint, hint!
My new address:
C/La Victoria No. 64
BLK A 1oG
29012 Malaga
SPAIN
Hey familia!! Not going to lie, this week was pretty hard! I started out the week going to Fuengirola for residency (which was awesome by the way, homemade food by Hermana Deere and time to talk to other new missionaries about their experiences, it was cool!) then Hermana Johnson and I got to work in that new area finding people and setting up stuff for the elders. We had a lot of miracles with finding and new investigators, so that was so great!
All week we have been running into this man, Francisco, and his son, Jose. Seriously we did not go a single day without seeing them! Even as we started teaching them, we would still run into them as we were on our way to other teaching appointments too!! The Lord REALLY wants these two to have the gospel I guess!! hahaha even they started commenting on how "somebody up there wants us to meet!" Francisco started referring to us as his "angeles" because every time he would think about us, we would show up! They are such good people and so ready to hear the gospel now, I am so grateful they were put in our path and we were able to start teaching them.
Since they are both men, we can´t go into their piso without another woman and one day we just could NOT get a member to come to our lesson! We called EVERYONE and nobody could come. We stopped by Francisco´s piso to tell him that we couldn´t go in and when we told him about the situation, he said no matter! We would have the lesson in the plaza outside! Hahah so while we were teaching them outside on a bench, this woman walked up and asked me what church I´m from and when I told her she got SO excited and asked if we could come by and teach her! If we hadn´t been on that park bench we would have never met Nicole! Obedience really does bring blessings!
Nicole is wonderful. She´s in her late twenties, from Romania (but her Spanish is better than ours!) and she has the most beautiful little 5 year old son. It was such a miracle meeting her and really I know that she was prepared. Its cool seeing the Lord´s promises come to be!
Spain is so funny becuase really everything shuts down in August! It's DEAD everywhere but in the centro or at the beach. And yes, its is HOTTTTTTTT here!! I get out of the shower and stay wet all day from sweat!
Then here comes the hard part, we´ve been working hard in this new area all week and then Friday afternoon the elders called us all together and said they think it would be best if we just started working in our new area now and that we should switch pisos. SO Friday night we packed up our piso and switched with the elders and now we are working closer to the beach, in the center of the city. In under 2 weeks now, I have worked in 3 different areas!! Hahaha so crazy... But its been hard because just as we are starting to see success and the fruits of our labors, we move areas. So its been frustrating these past two days but I know that this week will be amazing. Look forward to hearing about LOADS of miracles because we are really going to have to rely on the Lord this week. Our mission made the goal of 555 new investigators this week and the most ever done before is 236 in one week so this is the perfect week to start in our new area because we are really going to work hard to get new investigators!
Overall though, I am settling in and the language is still coming. I can understand our Chilean district leader now, so I know I must be improving! I love this work and I love this gospel and seeing how it can help people! LOVE YOU ALL!!
Oh and by the way, Elders do NOT know how to clean! We´ve been slowly cleaning the piso because it is GROSS!! But also HUGE!!
I think I will be here for awhile but we will find out in two weeks with transfers! But we are all pretty certain I´m staying in Malaga. So you are pretty safe sending stuff here.
love you all!!!!!
Hermana Folsom
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