Week 1 in Barcelona

Hello Everyone!!!!

 

How are all of you? Things here in Barcelona are going well so far. We really have a huge area (population wise)...and it is a little bit intimidating. We have a gigantic ward and the church that we attend is the stake center and it seems bigger than pretty much most of the stake centers that we have there in the states....I am sure that is not true...it just seems like it after coming from our tiny little church in San Sebastian. 

 

So the greatest news of the week is that I absolutely love my companion. She is such a sweetheart! Her name is Hermana Robinson and she is from Gilbert, Arizona. She likes to run which is just a heaven sent for me and we get along just great so far. There are so many things I admire about her and I am really grateful that I will likely get to have her for 2 transfers since this next transfer is during Christmas and she only has one transfer in the area anyways. 

 

We definitely are going to have to do a lot of finding this week and in the coming weeks because we have basically no investigators, because they just baptized the investigators that they had before I got here. But we have already found a couple people this week. The person that I would love for you all to keep in your prayers is named Alberto. He is from here in Barcelona and he actually came to us. He met with the missionaries a few years ago but still wasn´t ready to change. He really has the desires now to change, but he has a lot of obstacles that he is going to have to overcome and he is going to need all the strength he can muster to overcome his challenges. So keep him in your prayers. We also found another girl whose name is Elizabeth. She just showed up at church on Sunday and it turns out that a member invited her to come a few months ago and she finally decided to come, even though her friend was not there and is actually currently inactive. She is such a sweetheart and the ward got right in to fellowshipping her the moment that she walked in the door. She actually does not live in our area so the Elders are going to continue teaching her, but I hope to see the great things and change happening with her. 

 

We have been focusing a lot this week on visiting less-active members and trying to find all those that still live around here and there are many more to find. Many are just waiting for someone to reach out to them and show them that they care and that they haven´t been forgotten, by the members, or by God. I want to invite each of you to reach out to those you know that have gone inactive that may just be waiting for that invitation or that visit to show them that they are not forgotten and that they are important. We need them and our Heavenly Father needs them. Take that advice from Elder Ballards talk in the last conference...find a way each day that you can perform some small act of service for someone (member, less-active, or non-member). It may not seem like much in and of itself, but if we all do that everyday as members of the church, the effect on the world will be incredible and people will start to recognize that love of Christ through us. 

 

I love you all and will talk to you next week. 

 

Love,

Hermana Eyre