New companionship!
Arcos de la Frontera
Hello lovelies! So news.... I´M A MOM. We picked up Hermana Andrus on Tuesday and got back to our area to offically start her training on Wedneday. She´s from Sacramento and is super chill. This is shaping up to be a pretty good transfer I think! Training an American is a lot different than a Spaniard. The only thing we really had to do with Hermana Corral was practice like the actual lessons so she knew which points to hit and stuff. With this, I actually feel like I´m doing something. She hears us speaking Spanish and is all like, WHOA. And I´m like, just you wait like 2 more months and you will NOT be that impressed with our Spanish sista! Haha but she´s sweet and learning fast. She gave a STELLAR talk in sacrament meeting and I was like, BUSTED. You DO speak spanish!Kinda cool tradition. So last monday was el día de los tres reyes magos (Three Kings Day) and they have this cake called the Roscón de reyes. In it there is a bean and a little ceramic toy. If you get the toy in your piece, you are the King and you wear a crown but if you get the bean in your piece you have to pay for the next year´s Roscon de Reyes. Guess who got the bean? BUT since I won´t be here next year, we decided that the buck gets passed to the poor missionaries who are here then:) It was fun, we spent the evening with the Streeters, since Sister Streeter is Spanish. So it was like an American Spanish mix of a celebration. Pretty good first and last Three Kings Day.Having a new missionary is like having a miracle magnet. I am a firm believer that the Lord puts cool miracles in their paths to help them along in their first few weeks. We´ve been having a hard time getting people to accept baptismal dates, but one of the tasks for the first week of training is to invite someone to be baptized. So Hermana Andrus invited Petri´s sister, Loli and also another investigator, Joel, to baptism and THEY BOTH ACCEPTED!! Also we found this less active woman and she said if we can show her where the capilla is, she will start coming again, she had just moved and didn´t know where the capilla is! Stay tuned for more miracles:)WE HAVE THE BEST MEMBERS IN THE WORLD. The American branch is getting so excited about missionary work and now they are all asking us to do lessons at their homes. I´m just like, well we only have one English investigator, but YOU all have friends, so.... Hahah but they all love us. Today, Millie took us to Arcos de la Frontera, a famous BEAUTIFUL white pueblo here in Cádiz. I took a million pictures and it was so fun! And they are offering to take us to another one when they get back from vacation! WOO! Really we are well taken care of here:)
Random Things
Cool miracle: we are teaching a member´s sister, Loli. She´s come to church three times now and we wanted to get her to commit to baptism. We taught one of the best plan of salvation lessons I´ve taught yet on my míssion and when we explained the celestial kingdom to her, we asked her what she was willing to do to go there. THEN SHE ACCEPTED A BAPTISMAL DATE! It was great and the spirit was so strong.I saw people on base wearing seahawks gear and i was like THATS MY TEAM!
I´ve noticed that our investigators that are progressing the best are ones who we teach with all or mostly members present lessons.
My scripture for you is Helaman 5:30. I love to use this when I explain to people how the Holy Ghost answers our questions. Its not a voice of thunder or something loud and shouting at us. It's a still small voice. and we need to be looking for it to answer our questions. It's not going to come and shout in our face, we have to actively seek it.LOVE YOU ALL!! Have a great week!
Hermana Folsom
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