This week I decided to write my weekly email as one of the first things I did so that I wasn't just scrambling to get out a couple of boring paragraphs at the end. After all, if you all are sweet enough to read these updates then I figured I need to try to make them a tad more interesting...emphasis on try...don't raise your expectations to high, I mean I am still slightly-lacking-in-the-
So training is going great! Honestly, Hermana Walker is amazing! We had intercambios this last week (yes, again) where she had to go up to Hospitalet (Barcelona) and my STL came down here. And while the intercambio was great and I learned a lot and loved the STL that came down, I realized how attached I have gotten to my trainee. I missed her so much! But now she's back and we are taking Valencia by storm, you know, the usual.
We had set our goals pretty high this week and once again Saturday night came and we were a little nervous about getting 6 investigators in church the next day since we only had like 3 people say they were for sure coming. When we got to church only two of those people we were sure of came but then two more that we haven't taught for a month just ended up being there and two more showed up for the sacrament meeting right after ours and it was such a miracle. The power of fasting is real. It truly can bring miracles. It changes dramatically when you fast with specific people and blessings in mind from when you are just not eating cereal in the morning because you want to avoid a guilt trip from your parents. With how hot it is here and how much we were running around saturday night (because we started our fast Saturday after medio dia), I was so hungry and thirsty and I was just craving the Pops cereal that I just bought (ya... Pops... I don't think I have had them for YEARS but they had them at Consum and I got so excited to eat normal cereal that I got them and they are SO good...way too much information) but I just kept thinking about how much we and our investigators truly needed the things I was fasting for and I truly saw miracles on Sunday. We also found a lot of new investigators. We were able to get in contact and set up appointments with some people that Hermana Shaffer and I found knocking doors back in May as well as some people that we contacted in the metro last week. We ended up getting 10 new investigators which is a lot.
So lately us Valencia missionaries have become obsessed with the game Mafia (except we change it to Apostates where Mafia = Apostate Missionaries, Detectives/Police Officers = Ayudantes (Assistants), and Guardian Angel = President. It's pretty hilarious. Last P-Day we all just met up in the chapel and played that, ping pong, and random card games, it was super fun. This week we took a half hour train ride to a castle in Sagunt but it ended up being closed (as pretty much everything touristy is on Mondays) but it was a nice hike, pretty view, and fun to be with the Valencia missionaries, then of course we played Apostates like 3 more times. Oh and we stopped at a convenient store!!! It was great! It's crazy how excited we get about the little things that feel like home/the states like gas station stores.
A couple of other bullet point miracles before I end about this week:
When we were street contacting the other day we had a woman ask us what time church started. She came to church yesterday and in the testimony she bore she said that she hasn't been active for a long time but when she saw us walking in the streets she had this overwhelming feeling of "what are you doing?" and she knew she needed to talk to us and come back to church. She was so sweet and I was very grateful the Lord placed us where we needed to be.
A woman literally asked us if and when she could be baptized. We haven't taught her any of the lessons yet but I will keep you posted.
Victoria is doing so great. She has such a strong desire to know this is true. She reads everything we give her as soon as we leave and is praying and asking lots of questions. We are preparing her to be baptized on the 24th and I know she will receive her answer by then.
So that's life in Valencia, it's going pretty great still hot and humid but my little hand fan helps a lot (plus I feel like a TOTAL spaniard).
I love you all! Thank you for all of your love and support!
-Hermana Tuttle
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