October 27th

So this week is FINALLY transfers! Okay that sounds like I´ve been waiting for it. It's just weird cause I knew 2 weeks ago what was happening with me so its been an odd wait. I´m bummed that Hermana Hurtado is leaving though:( We love each other. She is going to SEVILLA! So jealous... BUT the plot has thickened with me... Remember my redheaded hija, Hermana Andrus? Well she has foot problems and has to spend some time down so she is coming to live with me and my new hija and she will study and sleep with us but then during proselyting time, she´ll go to the office and be the first ever "Office Sister."

This week was finding week again for the Misión de España Málaga. Our goal this week: 888 new investigators in one week. Each companionship needed to find 9 new investigators in one week. Our week started out great- we met person after person after person. THEN we hit a ROUGH patch on Wednesday and didn´t find ANYBODY all day wednesday and thursday. I actually kinda broke a little on Wednesday. But Friday we woke up and did a GREAT weekly planning and decided that it was a new day. And in 1 day we found SEVEN NEW INVESTIGATORS!! By the end of the week we as a companionship had found 14 news. It was truly a week of miracles. We worked so hard and saw incredible things happen and now we have a LARGE pool of investigators to teach which will be great for my new hija who comes on Tuesday!

One of our news is C... He was found in a member´s home last week and we called and met with him for the first time on Tuesday. C.. is from Colombia and works as a waiter at a restaurant. He doesn´t have a lot of time, but is super interested. We read with him the promise in the Book of Mormon and it really interested him and he read 3 Nephi 11 like 3 times! He said he wanted to continue, but really wanted to understand what we left him and he even related it to his life and had been pondering it for a few days. He said after he read, he tried to remember the 3 things we invited him to do, but couldn´t find the promise again in the book, so we re-explained it and he committed to pray about the book! He is so sincere and I can see he really wants to know if its true. His friend asked me about him on Sunday and he was so happy and they actually had been talking about the book too! Its great cause his member friend is less active and is coming back to church, so its great for him too to be able to support his friend! I love this work!

 

RANDOM THINGS

 I ate feijoada this week! Did you ever eat that on your mission? We ate it with a Portuguese member who just moved from the elders´ area to ours (poor elders... ;) ) and has already invited us 3 times over to eat at her house just this week! She said its a little different than Brazilian feijoada but still the same principle. It was surprisingly good! And we have a brazilian member who also lives right next to us who is going to prepare us a Brazilian feast soon:)

 

An.. and Se.. are still waiting for a date. The juzgado takes forever cause everybody goes there cause its free. Teh ayuntamiento costs like 100€ but they can do it in like a week. an anonymous donor from the ward has offered to help them with that so they can get married faster, but idk if they´ll accept it! They are looking up about that this week.

 

 My scripture for you is Alma 37:44. This way really is so easy. All we have to do is like the children of Israel in the desert when they were plagued with the snakes and just had to look upon the cane and live. All we have to do is look to Christ and follow 5 simple steps and live. But we aren´t even capable of that sometimes! I get frustrated with people here because we give them simple answers to their problems: read, pray and come to church and the Lord will tell you this is true and help you. But they won't! It frustrates me, but also helps me see how I want the rest of my life to be as well. I love this work. I love this gospel.

LOVE YOU SO MUCH FAMBAM!! HAve a great week!!

Hermana Folsom