It´s great to hear that you are all well. I assume that you are all well at least. Things are grand over here in España. The weather has been beautiful, I finally wore an American suit again today and people told me I had gained weight, and we´re getting out of the office earlier and earlier now that I have tackled and conquered the mountain of stuff to do in there. I feel settled in, and things are going well these days. Which is good. Hooray. But really, it´s all about the missionary work, so let´s talk about the good stuff.
William and Claudia are from Peru. I really can´t remember if I´ve talked about them already, but they´re legit. He worked in the distribution center in Peru, but right as he started listening to the missionaries, he whisked off to Spain. Five years later we contacted them on the street. She was SUPER pregnant. I called a couple times and nobody ever answered. Which is pretty typical. But we ran into them on the street again. Gave me a different number (the wife´s). Called it. The husband answered. Ummm my wife is giving birth right now, can you call back later? Well yeah dude, good luck with everything. Called back 2 weeks later. Taught them a lesson. It was true. She had given birth. She was skinny(er), and there was an extra child in their house. They´re way good. When we had gone back the second time, they had read the folleto we had left and were like answering our questions with sentences like this "Well that pamphlet you left us told us that prophets are people who tell the people what God wants for them." That never happens. The problem? He works on Sundays at 10:30 in the morning, which is when our church starts. So we´ll have to see if he´s willing to find the solution to that desafío. Sometimes Spanish words come to my head faster than English ones. Forgive me.
There is also a Colombian family that we have been teaching lately that is pretty cool. The mom has a 14 year son that is going wayward and "fumando porros" and causing problems in the family. He doesn´t want to be in our lessons, but the family wants more harmony in the home. So they´re giving the church a shot. But the mom is married to a guy in Colombia (two kids dad) and living with a different guy here now (and they have a kid). So that´s a situation. But we´ll keep going and see what the Lord has in store for them.
The best part of our week was Sunday. Let me explain. So Saturday night I was saying my prayers and I asked Heavenly Father to bless us with a miracle. Not like a vision or something super crazy, but just like some situation that He needed His missionaries to be in. Sunday morning, we were going to pick up a Dominican menos activo (who had contacted US in the street about a week before, a miracle in itself) and as we were on our way two people stopped us. "Hey elders!" We were like, what the....Elders? They explained to us that they were members and hadn´t been to church in a while because they didn´t know where it was. That morning they had decided to just go out in the street looking for it and look at that, they had found us. We were like yeah! Let´s go to church! So we all went together to pick up José (Dominican) and then to church. She bore her testimony and José was super active in lessons and stuff. Legit! Then Sonia´s (remember her?) daughter, who we had run into in the street Saturday night and invited to church, came to church with her boyfriend. He is from Columbia and has gone to a lot of different churches so we asked a member if we could do a Noche de Hogar with them this week and asked them to invite those two. We´ll see what happens. Super cool, eh? I´m not done. ALSO there was a guy from Ecuador there that has been dating a member and they want to get married but she wants him to learn more about the church before they get married (even though she doesn´t ever go, go figure). So he was there telling us that he would like to meet with the missionaries too! Ugh. "Ask and ye shall receive". If you don´t believe it, try it. I know that the couple could have looked up the church´s address on the Internet and the others could just be called fluke people showing up at church, but I definitely know it was the Hand of the Lord blessing us. So that was a really cool story I thought ya´ll might like to hear.
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| Haha! Sweet a street named after Sil! |
That´s basically it for this past week. We taught Nani and Adel about the temple and are hoping they can go with the youth to a Baptisms for the Dead activity that is coming up in November. We also went to the temple today for P-day. As I was sitting in there feeling so happy, I decided I was definitely called to this mission for a reason: I need the temple. hahaha I know we ALL do technically, but I seriously just realized how much refuge I find in the temple from the storms of this crazy Spanish sea. It´s been a good week. I´m extremely grateful to have a temple in my mission that I can attend. I´m grateful for a family that´s so dang legit. I´m grateful for TWO families that are so dang legit. Keep it up. Invite a friend. Maybe a life will be changed.
Love,
Elder Jeppson
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