Time is absolutely crazy out here... Ugh it goes too fast. Anyways my week. To say the least it was interesting.
Last P-day we went to Avila, a little town close to Segovia, and we did all of the touristy stuff. It´s really famous for having the second (only to China) best preserved wall. It was built by the Romans around 300 AD. Cooool. Then we went and saw the great and abominable church. It was a typical tourist P-day in Spain. :)
This week we´ve been dealing with ward drama. Funny how that always seems to happen. Some of the members here are worried that Roger and Roger got baptized just to get money from the church. It´s really interesting how everybody only seems to look at the bad and accuse people of things that they haven´t really done. So we´ve been investigating, talking to members, Roger, his landlord and just everybody so that we could clear things up. We feel like he isn´t trying to do any damage to the church so we trust him. Then what was perfect was that yesterday during church we all recieved a little revelation. So the EFY for Spain is here in Segovia so this Sunday we all went up to a hotel to have Sacrament Meeting with all of the Counselors. One of the members of the second qoroum of the seventy came and spoke to us. BOOM. Charity. He basically went off on how drama and gossip is the exact OPPISITE of charity. However he did it well and I´m pretty sure that we won´t be hearing any more ward drama for the next little while. :)
Last P-day when we were on our way to go email everybody. This man stopped us and talked to us. He asked us who we are, what we do and what church we were from. Being good missionaries we jumped on this and gave him a Book of Mormon, challenged him to read it, got his number and address and set up and appointment. He´s a cool guy from Spain who said that he´s a strong believer and would like to learn more. So we went and taught him yesterday with Soledad (an awesome member here). It turns out that he´s the Pastor of one of the bigger Evangelist churches around here. He´s a super guy, has a family three little kids and looks like he knows what he´s going to do with his life. We sat down and gave him the first lesson and he said he liked it, he had read in the Book of Mormon before we got over there and every thing. Golden. However, he told us that he believes the exact same thing and doesn´t need anything else. So we went pretty hard and told him about the authority and priesthood and hopefully he understood. He was pretty firm on not changing or doing any of the things we asked him to do as we were leaving. After the lesson Soledad was smiling super wide and we asked her why she was laughing. She said that we should be expecting a call from him soon and that she seriously believes that he will read and will call. Sooooo we´ll see.
We´ve found a few people to teach and we´ve been trying to fill up our time the smartest ways possible and it´s been working out pretty well. My feelings are good. Nothing too sad, nothing terriblly exciting. Good old missionary work which is awesome in itself.
I love you all and I´m super happy to have all of the support from you!
Love,
Elder Hawks
P.s. D&C 121:34-38
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