Well, we sorta got our butts kicked this week, ha-ha. It was looking like a good week to be honest and we were excited for our visits and everything. But one thing after another just didn't go right: we didn't have any minutes on our phone and for some reason it's taking too long to get more from the office, visit after visit fell through, and we had no idea why all this was happening. But after lots of personal prayer and just thinking, I came to the conclusion that my companion and I were probably getting a little too cocky with ourselves. As we know, the Lord likes to humble us. And that's pretty much what happened this week, ha-ha. More than half our visits fell through and we had no idea what to do. One day after six visits fell through, we had no idea what else to do. I turned to my companion and told him, "Let's go pray." and he just asked me where. And I said that I wanted to go somewhere a little secluded where we could kneel down and pray vocally. It was around 8:15ish and dark out already and we went to a big park and found a little area off a path that was secluded with trees. We both knelt down and prayed for help and guidance. I said a prayer first and then my companion said one and afterwards we both sat in silence just listening for the promptings of the Holy Ghost. After about a minute we both looked at each other and said what we felt we should do. And we both felt that we needed to head in a certain direction towards a certain house. We didn't know why but we went and did everything we could on the way to find whoever the Lord was going to put in our path. We talked to about 10 people on the street in the span of 15 minutes and about 6 of them gave us their information and a few of them were actually great contacts. I don't know how any of these people will turn out, but I know that both my companion and I were prompted to go that way and to find the children of God who are prepared to receive the Gospel. I feel that throughout the week we became a bit more humble and we began to rely on the Lord more. And to bless us for doing that, the Lord gave us a huge miracle. It actually started when I first got to Tarragona. We received a reference from the office in a town called Tortorsa which is over an hour away on train, and we never would have gone there if we didn't get this reference. Long story short, the reference doesn't exist. But we had found a few inactive members that live there and we decided to pass by and we set up a few visits with them. One of them was a woman named Patricia, a returned missionary. She was so excited to see us and she asked when we could pass by. She said that when we come by that she'd bring a friend to the visit. The first visit we had to do splits because the town is so far away and we needed to have a few other visits. But Elder Tyler came back that night and told me that the friend of Patricia (Maribel) was a golden investigator. We just had another visit on Sunday and she is incredible! She asked how she can know the true church and that she wants to be baptized in the true church. And we taught the Restoration and she just ate it up. She said it all made sense and she said everything was clear. During the visit when Elder Tyler was testifying about something, the impression came to invite her to be baptized. I pushed it away the first time because I told myself, "She lives too far away. She probably wouldn't even come to church." But the impression came again and this time even stronger. As I started talking again the feeling spread from my chest outward until it filled me and I knew that I needed to invite her to be baptized. And she accepted without thinking. She said, "Yes! I want to be baptized." We set the fecha for December 10th originally but as she looked at her schedule for work and stuff she asked, "Can we have in November 27th?" I was totally caught off guard, ha-ha. Unfortunately, she can't because she needs to come to church but as we kept talking we realized the 10th wouldn't work either. So we set the 24th of December, a white Christmas for her. She said that she's so excited to learn more, to read the Book of Mormon, and even said she'd take the train to Tarragona to come to church on Sundays. She's so excited for her baptism and her friend said that she'd be there the whole way at her side. The true miracle was that we were led to Tortosa by the Lord. He knew that we'd never go there unless we had a good reason. And that reason was the reference from the office. Even though the reference didn't exist, someone else did who was and is ready to hear the Gospel message. This work is incredible! There is nothing better that you can experience, and I just hope that when I get home that I can continue to share the message with others.
