Feliz Noviembre!
I am not going to freak out about how it's
already November because I feel like I do that every time a month comes and
goes but can you believe how fast the time is flying? It's preparation day
again already! Crazy!
Updates from Barcelona
We have been getting super close with the
bishop and his wife, they are so sweet and are always inviting us over to eat
or to do a noche de hogar (FHE) in their house.
We visited a less active member named Betty on Tuesday and it went really well. She lives
with and watches over an older man named Augustine and even though he's not
totally there he really liked our visit and has such a sweet testimony about
God. We read a few parts of 2 Nephi 4 with him (so weird spelling Nephi instead
of Nefi by the way) and he just started crying and bearing his testimony about
God. It was so sweet and I think he and Betty are going to come to church this
next week (she hasn't been coming because of this job but he said he would love
to go too so fingers crossed!)
We had our monthly zone meeting on Wednesday where the leaders teach about what
they learned in leadership council and I was assigned to teach about the
obedience part of concilio and I actually got pretty nervous! In Valencia
Thursday of course was Halloween and it was so great! We passed by
a friend of ours who owns a churro shop and we scared him and said trick-or-treat
and gave us a free bag of these funyon chip type things (because the bag wasn't
full enough to sell but whatever it was still super nice), we wore black (I had
an orange scarf), Hermana Scoville's mom sent her pumpkin cookies which I have
been craving so much so that was awesome along with kit kats and twix's dressed
up like mummies for each of the four of us that share a piso, and there was
primary halloween party which was about the cutest thing ever (p.s. you know
that your bishop is awesome when he knows and sings every word to thriller
despite not knowing english while judging the primary costumes parade, it was
hilarious). Basically it was a pretty successful halloween.
We had some really good lessons with the Lopez
family (an investigating family from Brazil); Heidi, Ariadne, and Carlos (a
part member family, who by the way fed us hot dogs with ketchup, mustard, and
mayonnaise exactly how I like them, it made me super happy);Pati and Mireia
(another part member family); and Yudaili (the sweetest and happiest woman
ever!) and I am really excited about them, we have appointments with all of
them this week so I'll update you.
Okay but now the highlight of the week: fast sunday. I always love fast sundays but
this one was especially amazing because we were doing a mission fast and as
always we saw so many miracles. One of which was 6 investigators at church
(which I have only gotten a few times in the 6 months I have been out), and
another was when we went to pass by a few investigators who have fallen off the
face of the earth, they weren't there but as we walked away a man said
"Hola hermanas!" We didn't recognize him but it turns out he is a
member in our ward but hasn't come to church in three years. He is amazing! We
taught him a lesson and he said he'd come to church this sunday. I wish I had more time to
write out all of the little tender mercies we saw but I'm running low but I
will say: fast sunday miracles
really do exist, I see them every single month.
It's been a great week and I absolutely love what
I am doing. I hope you all have a great week. Thank you for everything and
happy birthday to my brother Big Chief! Love you!
-Hermana Tuttle
New address (or you
can keep sending them to the office I go there about every two weeks):
c/ provenca 501,1-1
España
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