Well it was a pretty basic week with a few high points.. we had lots and lots of visits with less actives and they all went pretty well.
Antonio, the guy who contacted us last week in Denia met with us in a bar this week. It was pretty cool he shared his whole life story and about how he found the church and whatnot. Over the past 10ish years he was living in a place where the church wasn’t nearby so he wasn’t able to attend. However during all of this time he would go onto the church website normally about once a week to read the talks and watch videos. He had lost his Book of Mormon before he had the chance to read it through. We gave him one there, set the goal for him to read it cover to cover and started by reading the title page and introduction right there. He’s a cool guy.
The other notable experience we had this week was with a less active guy the other elders met on the street. Hey had asked him what he works in and he had said audio and video. He also lives in a place called Moradix which is like a super pijo town just full of really nice vacation homes. They also told us to make sure and bring our bibles. So we are walking down this road just lined with super nice houses nervous that we are going into a cita with a super smart guy who owns like some kind of electronics company haha. So we are walking looking for number 9 and it’s nowhere to be found. Then we notice that there is this old abandoned house tucked back in some overgrown trees. The front gate was shut with a bike lock 
we call him and he comes out to let us in.. man this house was so sketchy I thought we were gonna get kidnapped or something. (I’ll attach the pictures so you can see what I’m talking about.) Anyways we went up to the main room which smelled like straight campfire. On the table was a glass of what he said was rum which literally had mold floating in it.. he offered us a drink to which we promptly declined. After that he began us his entire life story, which is nuts! To make a long story short I’ll just mention some of the main points. He was ran one of the largest English academies in Madrid, one day he decided he wanted to quit so he sold it and threw a massive party with all of his students and friends. He then went traveling all over europe just jumping on different trains and hitchhiking. After that he started working with a friend drug trafficking, during this time he tried all sorts of crazy drugs and claims to have had crazy visions and seen ufos. They eventually got caught and were sent to prison. In prison he became friends with one of the guards who helped him to escape. He then rode a motorcycle all the way back down to France. This is when he came upon a program that allowed you to mix music and pictures, basically its just a bad version of animation. (This was when that type of stuff was just coming out.) So he thought this stuff was revolutionary and started making a video that he has been compiling for the past 18 years of his life. Just about a month ago he started getting nauseated and passing out. So someone took him to the hospital where he found out he has several tumors in his brain and lungs. They kept him in the hospital for 4 days but he finally said he didn’t want to die in a hospital bed so he ran off to live the rest of his life free! Anyways super interesting guy. I didn’t believe his story at first because it was so crazy but he showed us tons of pictures and its legit. Haha so that was the crazy experience of the week! I hope you guys enjoy all the pictures :)
Still working with Carole, she is improving little by little. I think she will eventually muster up the courage to come back to the church.
Enrique is still planning on moving up to France. In case he actually does we have already spoken with the missionaries up there and it sounds like it will be alright. The branch there will actually be closer than the one here is to his house. Also there are quite a few spanish speakers there.
Yeah so thats basically it for the week. Love you all!
- Élder Alex M. Childers
- Élder Alex M. Childers
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