New Year, more success

This week was such a good week. I feel that as we start this new year in the mission that the Lord has soooo much in store just waiting for me out here and for the rest of this mission. I started the week going to a special conference from Monday night until Wednesday afternoon and the meetings were incredible. We talked about things in the mission, how we can improve, we talked about our success from last year and what our potential is this year, how we can involve the members even more, and pretty much everything about missionary work, ha-ha. The Spirit was the biggest thing though. You could feel the presence of the Spirit so strongly in that room of 40 or so missionaries so strongly. You could leave the room and come back, and just get hit by a wall of something and it was the Spirit! As we set goals for this next year and as we talked about what the Lord has in store for us, I learned so much and I left that conference so excited to go work again. The Lord truly is preparing His people and all we have to do is follow what he tells us so that we can find those prepared people. Even though I left with that excitement and drive to work again, I just happened to get sick, ha-ha. We missed half a week of work because I was gone and my companion went to another area to work with a different set of missionaries and then we got back, worked for a day, and then I got sick. Great luck huh? Luckily I was able to go back and work after about a day and a half even though I might not have been 100% allright. But I didn't really care, ha-ha.

We've been seeing some great miracles and some amazing success out here. We have four people who are preparing to be baptized this month and we're really excited for them. We were going to have three get baptized this next week but we didn't feel that they were ready so we pushed back the date a week. They feel more comfortable about it and so do we. I'll let you know next week about how they're doing :).

Yesterday, Sunday, we were in a meeting with some members and the Bishop came to us and said, "Elders, there's a young woman who just walked in looking for a church." So we pretty much jumped up from excitement but he said that he was going to go talk to her a little bit and then he'd come and get us. So eventually we went to meet her and she's incredible! She said that she saw the church name on the building the other day and wanted to come to church but came late and missed the meetings. She said that she's looking for a church that has the truth and that she wants to learn more. We have a visit with her tonight and she's excited to learn more. Unfortunately she lives in the other Elders' area :( But that's how the work goes. I feel that they need a little bit of help anyways. They've been struggling a bit with investigators and things.

Tonight Elder Watkins, my companion, is going to Madrid to finish his residency stuff so that he can stay here in Spain legally. Originally they told me I was going with him too and I was really excited but at the last second they told me no, ha-ha. But that's ok. He gets back late Tuesday night. I'll just stay here working with the other Elders on exchanges. Hopefully I can help them learn and improve. The weather here has been about the same: cold but not too cold, ha-ha. It's right at the point where you need a coat but at the same time you don't. So it's allright.

I hope things back home are going well and that you're all safe and healthy and happy. Good luck back at school with studies, ha-ha. And I miss you all and love you lots!!