Querido familia y amigos,
This week has been super good but as I look
back on things that have happened they feel like FOREVER ago. So this was more
of a highlights week rather than a go by day week so highlights:
THANKSGIVING: Happy Thanksgiving this week!!!!
Last Thursday an hermana told us that it was Thanksgiving so Hermana Durham and
I have been super excited because when today rolled around and we realized
Thanksgiving is actually this Thursday so basically I just get two
Thanksgivings this year, no big deal...neither of them with Turkey but we are
thinking about eating some chicken and making a pumpkin pie from some pumpkin
puret I bought from an American store a couple of weeks ago. I'll keep you
informed on how that goes.
FAMILIA LOPEZ: This is the family where three
of the four of them (well technically five but Lorena is underage) have
baptismal dates. We have really been working hard with them to build up our
relationship. We came over early in the morning on Saturday to work with them on homework for an
hour to try and eliminate all excuses for not coming to church on Sunday...they still didn't come to
church which was hard. The issue is that they live super far away from the
chapel and they have to switch to four different metros to get there and our
church starts at 9 so they just don't have tons of motivation to come but
hopefully as we keep teaching them and their testimonies continue to grow they
will have that desire to come to church. This week we are really going to try
to get them fellowshipped in. We have a Noche de Talentos (Talent night incase
you couldn't tell) and they said they would come which would be great! Any ward
activity is great for investigators.
TRANSFERS: Transfers are today but Hermana
Durham and I are staying together as we predicted which will be great because
we are really working on our place in the ward and developing our relationship
with a lot of investigators and members and it would be a really hard time for
a switch right now. Plus it means we will spend Christmas together! Woot Woot!
We are having lots of fun but the area is still hard and moving slow. Step by
step.
CATALAN: The stake is really making a press
for missionaries to learn catalan so that the Spaniards here are more willing
to listen to us so a woman from the third ward has offered to teach us a little
Catalan every one to two weeks and it's awesome. It's a mix between Spanish and
French. I can't say much, just introduce myself and set up appointments but I'm
learning and I love it!
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS: This ones short but on all
the streets in Barcelona Barcelona
NOCHE DE HOGAR: So every Thursday we have a family home evening with
anyone who wants to come in the stake center and this last week we were a
little worried because when the time came for it to start there was only one
person there but then five minutes later a ton of people showed up including a
less active who we have been working with and a part-member family we have been
working with and they all loved it! I was partners with Eliana the part-members
family 4 year old daughter who is the cutest little South American girl! It was
such a great night.
MIRACLE: You know the saying obedience brings
blessings, exact obedience brings miracles? Well lately we have been getting a
little frustrated that as hard as we are working our area just doesn't seem to
progressing. Other missionaries are having such great success all around us
while we are having had consistently low numbers. I started thinking about the
quote: If you always do what you've always down, you'll always be what you've
always been. So that was our focus this last week. To push ourselves, to fill
in any holes so that we would be blessed with success in this area. Hermana
Durham and I really pushed ourselves to be exactly obedient: to contact more,
to not cross the street when the light is red (so hard for me and my not
patient personality), to speak only Spanish out of piso, to get out of piso
right on time, etc. The day after we fasted we called a less active from our
area book named Cynthia. She was very sweet and invited us right over, after a
great lesson with her our next visit texted and canceled on us. With an extra
hour now we decided to knock the building. We ended up getting phone numbers
from almost every single door we knocked and several return appointments. We
have been calling the people that didn't set up appointments and we are so
excited about a lot of them! It was truly a miracle!
Wow this email is super long, sorry! But just
know that I'm living it up here in Spain
Hermana Tuttle
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