Okay so I have to start off with the huge miracle we had this week so that it has all of your attention before you start fading out: So we had zone enfoque this last week which was amazing! We talked a lot about recent converts and less actives and that it's not all about getting a certain number of baptisms but about inviting people not only to "come unto Christ" but to return to Christ. But then because we kind of struggled in our finding new investigators last month we set a goal that every week each companionship would find 4 news. We were kind of worried about that Saturday night when we only had two. We had a visit set up but they fired and so we started heading towards the house of a family we haven't seen for a while. We were both sick with colds and so we were just praying that we could find an open door so that we wouldn't have to walk a long ways in the cold. There was a door wide open and so we knocked it. The first three floors we had the worst door knocking experience I have had in my mission. Each door yelled at us and slammed the door in our faces and it was only made worse with the end of the week tiredness and the cold. I tried to motivate us by telling Hermana Swenson that Harriet Uchtdorf was found on the 4th floor, 4th door, at 9:25 at night. We kept knocking. A guy opened the door, he was so sweet and when we asked him if we could share a message with him he said yes. We talked about the Book of Mormon a little in the doorway expecting no one else to be home until we heard "Hola! Quieren entrar?" and his was his mom inviting us in. We told them about the Book of Mormon and who we are as missionaries and asked if we could say a prayer for them and their home. Afterwards the mother was so grateful and invited us to stay for dinner. They were amazing!
The other two news we got were incredible as well, one was from a street contact several months ago who had been living in Madrid and called asking for Hermana Tuttle. When I told him it was me he said that he had moved back to Barcelona and wants to know how to be baptized. He said he feels something as he reads the Book of Mormon we gave him and he knows something is missing in his life. Then there is Jimena, we were contacting in the metro, and there were a couple of Bolivian women who said they were heading to the hospital to visit a friend of a friend they had never met, we asked if we could go with them and they said they would love that so that we could say a prayer with this girl. We have since visited her two more times and she is as sweet as can be. One day when we went to visit her we had some extra time and asked a few of the rooms that were open if we could sing them a hymn. We ended up singing hymns to a bunch of people and it was so incredibly powerful people called us their angels. This church brings so much peace.
As for the crazy side of missionary work: Today we surprised an elder outside of his piso for his birthday with silly string, water balloons, horns, and whipped cream. Then we played beach volleyball for our zone activity and it was amazing! The weather was perfect! We had so much fun!
I love you all lots!!!
Hermana Tuttle
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