Hope everything is going well on the other side of the atlantic. I'm just living it up here in Valencia. Getting a nice tan, eating a ton of great food, meeting wonderful people, you know, all that good stuff. It is getting very hot and humid here and it's tempting to just chill by the beach which is what EVERYONE in Valencia is doing these days but I'll have to wait a little bit longer to do that.
So this week was great! We didn't have as much success as we would have liked. We knocked a couple of buildings that didn't give us a single contact. But even with that I count it as a great week because...(drumroll)... Princess got baptized!!!! It was beautiful and I am so happy for her! It is crazy to think that just a couple of months ago we were in a metro stop and a woman began waving at us telling us that her aunt, who is a recent convert, has been trying to find the chapel here in Valencia since she just moved here from Nigeria. We visited her aunt and Princess and now Princess has come to church (an hour away from her house) every single week since that day including stake conference, she has given up coffee and wine, and she has been baptized. I am so excited for her. After she was baptized she told us that she felt different, she could feel a change and that she felt great and very happy. She was smiling from ear to ear. As I said last week, she made herself, Hermana Shaffer and me African dresses to wear to her baptism. Mama Africa (from Cameroon) loved it she was so excited when she saw her "daughters" dressed up like Africans, a Nigerian man named Wisdom said that we were now officially Africans, and Joy, who is also from Nigeria and is super sweet and hilarious (we tell everyone we are literally sisters that we just have different moms and that's why we have different skin tones) just laughed and said "Dad would be so proud." It was beautiful day.
We have started to teach Manuel the recent convert lessons and our last lesson was about the priesthood. He was so excited when we told him that he could hold this power of God. He told us about how he would do anything God asked and how it is his greatest desire to serve God and be a disciple of Him and a tool in his hands. He just kept saying "I will do it" and "I am ready." We also invited him to begin the Book of Mormon from the beginning and he said "I will do it, but I don't think I can read it in one day." We explained to him that it might take him a few months to read it and that that is okay but he replied: "give me two weeks." He is amazing. We gave him some pictures of his baptism and on one of them it said "We love you Manuel, Love your sisters." He just smiled and said that it made him "so very happy."
Sorry this email is kind of short, I know that I have a few friends who are entering the Madrid MTC next week to serve in Spain so just know that you are about serve in one of the most incredible and diverse countries on Earth. It is beautiful! The food, the people, the culture it's all amazing. The Lord is hastening his work, he needs more missionaries here in Spain because the people here are becoming more and more open and prepared to hear this wonderful message. I am so grateful to be here. Thanks for all of your love and support.
Love always,
Hermana Tuttle
P.S. Transfers are next week so it might be a little crazy and I'm not sure when/if I will be able to email.
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