Well it's been a pretty great week we have had lots of lessons and did some pretty cool stuff.
First off one day this week we met Toni out at the cemetery to dedicate his son's grave. It was a pretty cool experience. I’ve never really blessed a grave before or even seen it done so it was cool to do that. The spirit was really strong there and he was so happy that we were willing to come do it for him. Afterwards we went and found a bench and shared a short little message with him. We finally found him a magnifying glass so he can get reading the scriptures again he was really excited about that. He’s a great guy and I’m glad he is finally making the steps to return to full activity in the church after so many years.
Unfortunately one of our other investigators Rolando got deported this week. He went up to Barcelona to get his papers renewed and they denied them and sent him back to France. Sounds like he is doing good there though he has already found work and we are arranging for him to meet with the missionaries there.
Carole our English investigator is doing super well. We had two lessons with her this week and she came to church yesterday! At church since there are quite a few people from England. We have a wireless microphone and headsets to translate for them. Since the other three missionaries here are pretty new it's my job to be the translator every week. So yesterday as I was translating the testimony meeting I was worried for Carole that perhaps since she couldn’t hear them directly in her own language she might not be able to feel the spirit as strongly. As I thought this I glanced over to see her tearing up. She caught my glance and smiled. She told me after that she absolutely loved it. So that was a great comfort. The whole way walking back to the cars she was saying that she understood now why people want to come every week and that she felt like her battery had been recharged to take on the next week. She is so prepared it's amazing.
I want to just explain the branch a little bit real quick. So this place is a total mixing pot. We have members from Switzerland, France, England, Argentina, Columbia, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Mexico and even the Middle East. It is a really like vacation place so a few of the people have houses here that they only live in for part of the year. The branch is fairly young and its even more interesting because the new branch president who was called the week before I arrived is a convert of only two years!
Oh yeah one last thing. We almost got kicked out of our piso this week haha. So Wednesday night we get a call from our landlord and he’s all like “Hey what time are you leaving tomorrow?” So we are just like “Probably at like 10:30 that's when we normally leave.” Then he’s just like “No, what time are you leaving?” Again we say10:30 and ask why. He’s all like “I don’t think you are understanding what I’m asking... When are you leaving, like for forever.?” We say the 31’st of next month cause that's when the office had told us our contract was up and he’s like “No, that's wrong, you’re leaving tomorrow.” So we call up the mission office and explain the situation and they’re like “Well... that's not good.” hah So at this point its already like 7 pm and we are going into a lesson. When we get out its around 8 and we still haven't got a call back.
So we decide to call and we jokingly say “So do we have to move out tonight.” And they’re all like “Um well maybe.” Turns out they had forgotten to pay the rent for the month so the dueño thought we were leaving. He eventually told them it was alright for us to stay one more night while seeing if we could make a deal with the bank to keep it for 2 more months. The deal went through later the next day so we are good now but it was just kind of funny how it all played out.
Anyways yeah that's it for the week. Love you all :)
- Élder Alex M. Childers
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