Week 3 in Barcelona

Hello Everyone!

Sorry that I didn´t have a chance to do a blog update two weeks in a row. Things have just been pretty busy here. We are busy trying to find new investigators and we have been seeing lots of miracles in regards to that in the past couple weeks. One of the really neat things that happened was that we were able to get in contact with this recent convert that the sisters had been trying to get in contact with for the whole last transfer. He is a young boy about 14 years old and his dad is actually a member up in San Sebastian. We thought that we were going to be meeting with an investigator but when we showed up, she was on her way in as well and she explained to us that "he doesn´t know that you are coming..." We thought that she was talking about her husband or something that was a member or something...but then it came out that it was her son and that his father is a member and lives in San Sebastian. So when we walked in, I was surprised and excited to see that it was Stephen. He had spent the whole summer up in San Sebastian with his dad and had been very active up there, but when he came back to Barcelona, for lack of support, he stopped coming to church and the sisters could never meet with him. I got to know him pretty well up there and he really liked spending time and meeting with us up there, so it was a real miracle that I got sent here. Everyone had been quite worried about him, but since he knows me and we got in contact with them, he expressed that he really wants to come back to church. It was a huge miracle and God just working his magic as always. He loves each of us so much and is always doing whatever he can to make sure that we don´t get lost.

Another incredible miracle that we had was when we were calling all the investigators that are in our phone. My companion is also quite new to the area and so she doesn´t know who a lot of the people are either. So we were calling all the investigators and trying to set up appointments with them and it didn´t seem like we were having much success...until Amalia answered the phone. She is a really sweet woman from Spain that has met with the missionaries quite a few times. She knew who I was the second that she answered and was so grateful that we called her. She had been preparing for baptism several times before now but kept being held up by her smoking problem.  But she told me on the phone how she really really wants to get baptized and she knows that is something that she needs to do and asked if she could start meeting with us again and prepare herself for baptism. She said that she is going to move to London right after Christmas, but she figures is she needs to, that she can continue with the missionaries there. We have met with her several times and she wants to prepare to be baptized on the 22nd of December. She has a lot of things that she needs to overcome first, but if she puts her mind and heart into it, she can and will be ready for baptism on that day. Keep her in your prayers.

Hermana Robinson...my companion...plays the flute and we have already had the opportunity to play together a few times. But the thing that we are really excited about is that we are going to have a Christmas Music Fireside on the 22nd of December as well. We are organizing it with our ward mission leader and we are very excited because it is going to be a good way to get people to feel the spirit really strongly and enjoy the spirit of Christmas. It will be a very good thing that the members can invite their friends to and even invite people in off the street.

Well, that is about all I have time to tell you about right now. I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season in preparing yourselves for Christmas. We certainly are and are preparing to see even more miracles here during this month.

Love you all,

Hermana Eyre