It was a pretty interesting week to be honest. Started out a bit wet and slowly got drier, haha. This past week I went on exchanges up in a city called Girona which is a pretty awesome place. I've been there once before and I was actually supposed to go there instead of Mataró when I had my hernia surgery, but hey I'm not complaining :). The last time I went up there it was raining pretty good and yep, you can probably guess what happened while I was there this time: it rained....a tonnnnn. It started raining right when the train pulled into the station and it came down in buckets and buckets. We didn't have umbrellas because we weren't expecting rain at all. So we had to run to the apartment for a bit but from the station and the overhang across the street, we got soaked! There wasn't anything we could really do and so we just went for it, haha. We were running through puddles and jumping over mud and everything and when we got to the main street to cross, it was literally a river. I am not kidding, haha. There was a good five inches of water and sometimes more. And there was no way around it which meant that we went right through it, haha. It was quite the start to the experience. It rained allll day and all night and then started raining again the next day. I guess I'm just not meant to be up in Girona, haha. But that was pretty sweet. Speaking of rain, Saturday we passed by our recent converts, Maria, Tania, and Jorge, and as we got in it started raining. This week was a very wet week, haha. Well, we didn't have umbrellas yet again and we were just hoping that we wouldn't get too wet. But I was taught a very good lesson that day by a little 10 year old girl. She offered the opening prayer and in it she said, "...and bless the Elders when they leave that it will stop raining so that they don't get wet..." I was a little skeptical to be honest because it did not look like it was going to stop at alllll. But right as we stepped out their door and went to the streets, it stopped raining until we got on the bus to go to our next visit. On the bus it started raining again but then when we got off at our stop, the rained went away. It was an incredible little experience for me that taught me that the Lord answers the prayers of the faithful. I almost laughed afterwards but it was such a great learning experience for me. Shows me just how little faith I have sometimes. At least I know that I can always improve :)
A few weeks ago we received a reference from the office of a man who lived at the very edge of our area that we hardly ever go to since it's so far away and it's such a small town and we have no members that really live out there. But we decided to pass by two weeks ago and as luck would have it he wasn't there. We left a note telling him we passed by with our number and the next day we got a text from him saying that he was out of town but wanted us to pass by this past Sunday, yesterday. So we went and he was home this time! We went in and started talking and he immediately started asking us if we could talk about the Book of Mormon. He sorta caught us off guard because we had never seen the guy and we didn't know how he knew about it already. So we started talking and it turns out he's English!!! hahaha. He said that when he lived in England he saw missionaries a lot and they contacted him in the streets once in a while but he never really got to sit down and talk. And so while he was there visiting a few weeks ago he saw the missionaries again and just felt that he needed to look for the missionaries in Spain, which happened to be me and my companion. So we brought a copy of the Book of Mormon and a DVD that he wanted and we had a great visit. He's very open and anxious to learn but he's also very intellectual which means he was asking lots of questions about physical evidences of the Book of Mormon. But the visit went great and the Spirit was there. As I was bearing my testimony about it all, a peace and quiet just came over us and I felt the Spirit bearing witness of the book to him. He loved our visit he said and told us that he wants us to come back. But the catch is that he's going out of town for three weeks, haha. So we won't see him for a while. But that's alright. It was another opportunity to see that the Lord is preparing people all over the world and of all different races to receive the Gospel. Maybe I won't be here to see David baptized, but he will be someday in the near future.
Today we actually had a District get together and had a ping pong tournament, hahaha. It was so fun. And for not playing for months and months, I didn't do too badly actually. I even won the tourney, haha. Not bad huh? But too be honest, the other Elders weren't that great. My little brother and sisters play better, haha. But it was still way fun to play :) Gotta do something once in a while right?
I guess I should inform you all that transfers end this week. I'm not sure if I'm staying or not but if I'm leaving, I'll email my new address next week to you all. I love you all and miss you lots! Until next week!
