March 5,2018 Week # 32 Malaga Mission YOU NEED TO READ: "Repent of our selfishness"/We bout to chow/Noah and his Ark

So were sitting here in a gigantic Asian buffet waiting for them to open, they let us wait inside which was nice because it has been raining non stop for a week now. I'm pretty sure Noah is like one of the three nephites and is still here, because I haven't seen a piece of dry ground in days. I wasn't even gonna go to the buffet because you know money is tight but Elder Stewart, my former eating competition rival, and me are now in the same district and he really wanted to go. So he cut a pretty slick deal, he gave me enough food to repay the money I would spend on the buffet. So yeah i got paid in food, to go eat food. Pretty great deal I would say. #gainz

We had a good week, we have an awesome investigator Jenny who we set a baptismal date for, and she's progressing super well. We also received a reference for a man in our area from his sister in Utah (it was weird to see that 801 # haha) and hes absolute gold we met with him yesterday and hes super prepared! God knows where his sheep are! Other than that not a whole lot. We have seen a lot of miracles running into people who have had contact with the church before which has been cool. We met one guy who met the missionaries in Algeciras in 1992 and said he had been contacted by an Elder Sampson from Alpine Utah! Dude had a crazy good memory. Because there was not a lot of people in the streets from the onslaught of rain we did a lot of organizing and paper work which hurt my head haha and then a lot of walking around in the rain passing by long lost members. But not a ton to report on this week. 

I was reading in the end of Mosiah this week and ended up finding an absolutely amazing talk by Elder Neal A. Maxwell called "Repent of [Our] Selfishness". If you want to be more successful in any aspect of your life, if you want to improve in anything, apply the principles taught in this talk. Practically what I took from it was; You will learn more, and improve more by focusing on others than you will by focusing on yourself! You will be happier too! But I CHALLENGE each of you to read and apply the principles taught there. 


We be eatin (for like 4 hours)
Little break in the rain 
Issa Elder 





We use the butane to  work out 

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