Hello everone!
This is likely my last week here in San Sebastian...at least it
feels like I am going to be transferred this next week...but we will
see. If that is the case, I am really sad to go because I love this area
with all my heart! The people are fantastic as well as everything else.
It will be a good week regardless though. Saul is still going to be
baptized on Wednesday and we are just absolutely thrilled about that! It
will be a really neat baptismal service because all his kids and his
wife are going to participate in the program. He is incredibly prepared
and is a perfect example to me of how Heavenly Father really does not
need us in or to do his work. He is the one that touched Saul´s heart
and he has made all the changes necessary to take this step of baptism.
We just taught the lessons (even though he already knows everything
because he has been an investigator for 6 years). This is God´s work and
it will never be any different than that.
I spent this last week in Bilbao on companion exchanges. It was a
very long exchange, (5 days, which is very unusual) but I really had a
good time and learned a lot. And my companion here in San Sebastian,
Hermana Lichfield, totally knows the area and the ward here well enough
to show it to the next missionary that is going to come up here. We have
actually been hoping that they will send another companionship up here
to help with all the work. While we don´t have tons of investigators
right now, the ward is just overflowing of less-active members that we
are trying to visit and are more than willing to meet with us, but we
just don´t have sufficient time to meet with all of them.
The weather has still been changing here quite drastically. It was
pretty cold and we thought we were headed into winter, but then this
whole last week it was quite warm and it just barely started cooling off
again. The leaves here are starting to change finally...but it is not
quite the same as Utah. We were grateful for the change of daylight
savings, because now we are not running in the complete dark.
Anyways...enough of my rambling. Things are going well here and I
am looking forward to seeing what the next transfer is going to bring
me. Thank you all for the great support that I receive from you. You all
mean the world to me and everything that I hear from each of you just
keeps me going out here. This is the most important work and I feel
privileged to have the opportunity to be out here and participating in
it. If any of you reading this have ever wanted to serve and are on the
fence about it...come out and do it! You will never regret it!
I love you all!
Talk to you next week!
Love,
Hermana Eyre
Dearest Hermana Eyre,
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking you probably don't get these comments since they are posted by Chelsia! but we have LOVED keeping track of what you're doing and what you're thinking and all the great people you're working with! We are so very proud of your fantastic progress in every way. We love you!