Hello everyone!
It has been a happening 2 weeks and I hope that it has been so for
you as well. Last week we did a companionship exchange for two days. I
stayed here in San Sebastian and Hermana Farrell went to Bilbao. We
visited tons of members in those few days and the whole rest of the week
and we are continuing our intense work and project with the members.
When we finish, I am pretty sure that the work is just going to explode
here. We have already seen many evidences of that already and we
continue to see more and more. There is a cold that seems to be going
around here in San Sebastian and we have both ended up with it a couple
times, but it doesn´t seem to slow anything down luckily.
Well, I don´t have tons of time to tell all the details this week,
but I do want to share our very incredible preparation day experience.
So we hiked the mountain that we wanted to hike, and without the
help of anyone in our ward. It was pretty funny...everyone that we
mentioned it too was very doubtful of our abilities to do it, and they
were all super worried that we would die or something. So we hiked Peñas
de Aia. It is an incredibly gorgeous mountain and was the highest
mountain I have been able to see around here and I wanted to hike it. So
we made our way to the town that comes nearest to it in the train and
then walked towards it on beautiful pathways next to the river. When we
got closer, we were able to find a trail, although it was not the one we
originally were planning to go to, because we got some
misleading directions from a person on the road. But we made our way up
and up until we came to a place where there were some cars parked and we
weren´t entirely sure which trail to take from there. Just as we got to
that point, a man came up the other side of the mountain and we asked
him if he knew which trail to take to get to the top. He said he would
show us and hike the rest of the way up with us. He was a really nice
guy and when we got to the top we started discussing the gospel with
him. We ended up teaching him for about an hour. He didn´t end up being
very interested, but I definitely feel it was a seed that needed to be
planted...because all the timing in the morning had worked out in the
morning and we ended up in the complete opposite trail of which we
had intended when we set out. But we decided to go back down the way
that we had intended to come up and were able to get down to the road
that led back to the town where we took the train back to San Sebastian.
On that road a family picked us up that was going back into town. They
were very nice but do not believe in God at all, but we had a really
great lesson with them in the car on the way back and hopefully someday
that seed will bloom and grow. But there were too many things that just
happened in the perfect timing that led us to those two people while we
were on our preparation day adventure that it is so incredible for us to
see the hand of God working in all things out here. It is God´s work
and if he needs us to just plant a lot of seeds that will be harvested
much later, he will lead us to do it. Both Hermana Farrell and I felt
the promptings of the spirit each time that we were choosing which way
we should go and it really was an incredible day. Plus...it didn´t hurt
at all that we climbed the most beautiful mountain that we can even see
around here. What a great day!
Well, we are having great success with Saul, our investigator that
is preparing for baptism right now. He has told us so many times how
he can literally feel all his desires changing and he is being touched
more and more by the spirit every day as he continues to read his
scriptures everyday, pray everyday, and attend church each week. It is
so incredible to be a part of the work of Heavenly Father. There is no
bigger miracle to see than to see Heavenly Father´s children change and
desire to be closer to him. I love it!
Well that is about all I have for you this week!
Love you all,
Hermana Eyre
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