March 12,2018 Week # 33 Malaga Mission-Algeciras "You be sittin on the bench like the bus coming"

Well another great week has passed and it was quite interesting to say the least. We had a zone conference in Seville on Wednesday, and then stake conference Sunday in San Fernando so we did a lot of traveling. We saw some cool stuff, and met some cool people. 

All of our investigators our doing good, God is putting those who are prepared in our path and we are blessed enough to be involved in it. We extended Elmer a baptism date, and he said he is going to pray and read and get back to us(so a for sure yes) and we had a really cool family home evening with a recent convert Ana lía. She's the only member in her family but we sat down with almost all of her family and had a Family home evening and the spirit was felt and we watched it change people's hearts. One of their family friends that was over and was present, he had tears in his eyes as we finished singing Families can be together forever which was just a really special moment.  It wasn't until this morning when we were thinking a lot about him that we realized that he has came to church one time almost every month the past 4 months and somehow has been slipping under the radar. No worries though Pretty soon we will have him ready for the font.  But everything's is good down here in Algeciras. 

From a talk by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland he said: "On those days when we have special need of heaven’s help, we would do well to remember one of the titles given to the Savior in the epistle to the Hebrews. Speaking of Jesus’”more excellent ministry” and why He is “the mediator of a better covenant” filled with “better promises,” this author—presumably the Apostle Paul—tells us that through His mediation and Atonement, Christ became “an high priest of good things to come...I think of newly called missionaries leaving family and friends to face, on occasion, some rejection and some discouragement and, at least in the beginning, a moment or two of homesickness and perhaps a little fear.

I think of young mothers and fathers who are faithfully having their families while still in school—or just newly out—trying to make ends meet even as they hope for a brighter financial future someday. At the same time, I think of other parents who would give any earthly possession they own to have a wayward child return.

I think of single parents who face all of this but face it alone, having confronted death or divorce, alienation or abandonment, or some other misfortune they had not foreseen in happier days and certainly had not wanted.

I think of those who want to be married and aren’t, those who desire to have children and cannot, those who have acquaintances but very few friends, those who are grieving over the death of a loved one or are themselves ill with disease. I think of those who suffer from sin—their own or someone else’s—who need to know there is a way back and that happiness can be restored. I think of the disconsolate and downtrodden who feel life has passed them by, or now wish that it would pass them by. To all of these and so many more, I say: Cling to your faith. Hold on to your hope. “Pray always, and be believing.”"

I want to testify of these same things, that there is a light, there is help, and there is a purpose. I know of the truthfulness of the statement that "SOME BLESSINGS COME SOON, SOME COME LATE, AND SOME DON'T COME UNTIL HEAVEN; BUT FOR THOSE WHO EMBRACE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST THEY COME. 

I love all of you and hope you have a great week!

Pics:

We missed our bus so we went to Plaza España

I like me some coconuts 

We went to Gibraltar again for the suspension bridge