Standard of Truth

"Our missionaries are going forth to different nations. The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done."

-Joseph Smith

Monday, September 3, 2012

A Break from the Heat

This week has definitely been a lot better and in a few ways too. For one, the weather cooled of a lot, thank goodness. It rained pretty hard this past week one day and after that the temperatures just dropped. So we’ve actually been some good weather to go out and work in and not sweat too much, ha-ha. The downside is that it's been pretty cold in the morning now so I actually have to wear my long pajama pants and close the windows when we sleep so that we don't freeze at night, ha-ha. But it feels great now :).

The week itself went well too. We saw some pretty neat little miracles throughout the week and a lot of the people we are teaching are doing really well. This past week we did exchanges with the Elders in Barcelona and Elder Schwartz came here to Badalona to be with me. He's a brand new missionary who’s only been out for about two weeks now and he's fantastic. He's half Korean so whenever people would ask about him I'd say that he was my cousin and a lot of people believed us, ha-ha. It was great. We later told them that we weren't related at all though but it was still kinda fun, ha-ha.

On a bit of a less happy note I sort of accidentally erased everything on Elder Call's pin drive....yep. Everything. All 16 GB of memory. He had his pictures, little church video clips, and some other stuff on it. We had a little movie night as a ward activity and we brought the movie (Joseph Smith, the Prophet of the Restoration) and as we were pulling it up on the laptop, I just sort of accidentally formatted his pin drive and everything disappeared. I felt terrible. And I still do. And the worst thing is that I can't bring any of it back and there's not a whole lot that I can do to replace that. Sooooo that's about it, ha-ha. Luckily he didn't get really mad at me but still. I feel bad. Definitely not gonna do that again. But anyway…

The work has been progressing really well here and we have quite a few investigators who should be getting baptized by the end of this month. We're really excited for them. Especially a man named Carlos who has come to church the past few weeks but we just haven't been able to coordinate our schedules since he works a lot. But this week we're going to visit and we're excited.

I hope all is well back home and that the summer has been going well. I love you all so much and can't wait to tell you all about this coming week. It should be great :)