Week 14 in Hospitalet

Hello everyone!!!

 

How is everyone back there in the fantastic United States of America!!! I hope everyone realizes how blessed you all are to live in the United States. I love it and miss it soooo much!!! There are so many things that we take for granted there! Make sure to thank Heavenly Father for living there, everyday!!!

 

Anyways...things here are good. We had zone conference this last Friday that was just fantastic. It was very uplifting and motivating. We are also getting a new mission president on Friday this week. We are all so nervous! But we have heard really good things about the new President and his wife. Incoming is President and Sister Pace. It is really sad to see the Hinckley´s go home...but they have been here away from their family for 3 years and are ready to get back to them I think. The Hinckley´s really have been such incredible mission president´s. President and Hermana Hinckley are really incredibly inspired and give us lots of needed guidance, correction, and encouragement. 

 

This week was another hard week for us. The new people that we found to teach last week have had lots of things come up and they have bailed on us, and we are still struggling to find some more new people. But I know we will. We have been trying to visit everyone in the ward to both get to know them and invite them to think of people that they could introduce to the Gospel, and it doesn´t have seemed to produce much fruit yet but we know it will as they continue to pray to have missionary experiences. 

 

A hard thing for Hermana Stephenson and I as a companionship is that we are both still fairly new in the mission. She has only been here one transfer longer than me...and language is definitely our barrier right now. It is just hard to get the specific details of things right now because we aren´t incredible in the language yet...but I know that it will get better as well...time will fix a lot of things. 

 

It is incredibly hot here in Barcelona right now and has been for days on end...and apparently we aren´t even into the heat of it yet!!! I am definitely not looking forward to more heat. Maybe I will get transferred up north at the end of this transfer and then won´t have to deal with the heat so much. We will see. Anyways...things are good, but I hope that I will have an incredible story to tell you all next Monday!

Wish us luck with the adjustment of a new mission president and pray that he will be able to jump right into those shoes of President Hinckley´s without any trouble. 

 

I love you all so much! Have an incredible week!!!

 

Love,

Hermana Eyre

Week 13 in Hospitalet

Hello everyone!

 

Things here in Hospitalet started to pick back up a little more this last week. We continued working hard and we were able to find some great new people to teach and we had several new people show up to English class on Saturday. It was just great. 

 

I don´t have a whole lot of time left to email right now. But things are really going well. Hermana Stephenson is seriously great. I love being companions with her. We are going to love this transfer for sure! 

 

The end story on Moises is that he flew back to Chile. He called us twice this week to tell us that he is doing great down in Chile and that he was going to go to church. I even got to say hello to his dad. He still intends to get baptized down there and is so incredibly grateful that we introduced him to the restored Gospel and he wants to make sure that we never forget him. We won´t ever be able to forget him...that is for sure. 

 

He really has seen a lot of blessings in his life since coming in contact with the church. Moises is a real example of how it is really necessary for people to be introduced to the Gospel in the timing of the Lord and that it needs to be through the right people that they will both listen to and that will listen to them. His house in Chile is literally 5 minutes from the temple in Santiago and he had never come in contact with missionaries before he came to Spain. The Lord really works in mysterious ways. I pray that Moises will continue to exercise his agency and choose to be baptized and enter in the path of Jesus Christ. 

 

Well, that is all I have time to tell right now.

I love you all!

 

Love,

Hermana Eyre

Week 12 in Hospitalet

Hello everyone!!!

It has been a crazy hard week. We worked our butts off this week and unfortunately haven´t seen many of the blessings from it yet. They will come though...we just have to be patient. But the great thing is is that I love my new companion.  She is really laid back and not high strung at all, but is an incredibly hard worker as well. It is great.

We did not have a ton of success this week and have been struggling to find people to teach and had an impossible time in trying to help people get to church. 

We also advertised for our English Class this week like crazy...but only one person showed up. Not even the people that usualy come came. It was a pretty discouraging week to say the least. And there was a big drama over the weekend of Moises saying that he wanted to be baptized. We did everything we could to make it work out for him because he was really ready to let go of everything and give it all in order to have the gift of the Holy Ghost with him. But last minute I guess he decided that he wasn´t quite ready and he didn´t show up for his baptismal interview and rejected all our calls. But...he is going back to Chile. He left this morning. I talked to him on the phone and he thanked us from the bottom of his heart for teaching him about the Gospel and helping him feel and recognize the spirit. He told me that he will for sure find the missionaries down in Chile and get baptized down there where his family can come to his baptism. And he plans to come visit all us missionaries in Utah in a 1 1/2 as a baptized member of the church. I really hope that everything works out for him and that he never forgets all the things he learned and felt here. I hope we were able to change his life as much as he has changed ours. We really learned a lot about others and about ourselves in teaching Moises. 

Well, the one really great miracle that I really appreciated from this week, was how we were really an answer to Moises´s prayer on Wednesday. He had been having a really difficult time and really wanted to talk to us. He was over in the area where we lived and for some reason just decided to look for us instead of trying to call us. He had been feeling alone and had been praying for Heavenly Father to help him not feel so alone and hoping that he could talk to us. Well, we were just about to go out after medio dia and we had plans to go stop by a few less-actives. But just before we walked out the door I had the random thought that we should go make some copies of our fliers for English class and take them with us to post and to hand out to people. So we went across the street to do that. On our way back, Moises was able to find us. He had no idea if we would be at appointments, or at the church, or what. But our change of plans allowed him to find us. 

He then told us all about how he didn´t think that God was answering his prayers. But then we were able to point out how he did. We didn´t know when we made that last minute change in plans just because the thought came to my head that it was going to answer his prayer...but it did...and God has really been answering his prayers all along. He just hasn´t been able to recognize that they are coming from other people.

Well, that was one of the big miracles that we saw this week. We are working incredibly hard so I hope that we will be able to see the fruits of that labor this coming week with new people to teach that want to hear the message of the restored Gospel.

Well, that is all I have time for this week.

Love you all!

Happy Birthday to my amazingly studly little brother today as well!!!

Love,

Hermana Eyre

Week 11 in Hospitalet

Hey everyone!

 

It is a new week and I have a new companion. Her name is Hermana Stevenson. She seems really nice and we are excited to get to know each other and I am so nervous to be showing someone new the area! 

 

A lot of drama happened this last week which led to this unexpected transfer but Heavenly Father really knows what he is doing and I guess it really needed to happen.

There is not a lot going on here besides that. But I want to quickly share a miracle story that we were able to get Olga (Jaime´s wife) to church this week and she really really enjoyed it. We hope to be able to keep meeting with them because she seems really excited about the Gospel. 

 

Moises is going to be here is Spain for another month and we are going to continue teaching him.  We will see where it leads. Keep him and Olga in your prayers.

Hermana Stevenson and I are going to use this next week as a major finding week and spend our time trying to find those people that are ready and prepared to hear the Gospel. 

 

My dad is in Spain right now going to visit Andorra and see Barcelona and President Hinckley was nice enough to set up a lunch so that I can see him while he is here. My companion and I are going to lunch with him and President and Sister Hinckley tomorrow and I am really excited to see him!

 

Well, that is all I have time for right now.

Talk to you next week!!!

 

Love,

Hermana Eyre