Hello everyone!!!
This was a truly wonderful week! We had a very fun Christmas Eve and day here in Spain. Christmas Eve day was our preparation day. But some members invited us and one of the recent converts to their house for Christmas Eve and we had some wonderful food there. Apparently here in Spain, the bigger celebration is generally on Christmas Eve. No one waits until Christmas to open any presents. They open all of them on Christmas Eve. So that was definitely different. But we had a great time.
On Christmas day I made a wonderful breakfast (german pancakes and other delicious things) that we enjoyed with the Sister missionaries that live close by us. We were also invited over for dinner at a members house that is from California. They are a great family that just decided to come live over here in Spain for a year and they have a son on a mission right now, so they are always very mindful of us and if we are being taken care of...especially on the holidays. So we had a wonderful dinner with them and then we were able to skype with our families. It was so wonderful to see all my family members faces and hear their voices. It is crazy to think that it is only 3 months from now that I will see them for real. Time really does go by incredibly fast. And it seems to be going by even faster as I have become and felt more and more at home in the mission and felt better and better in the language. It is almost going by too fast now. But I am making sure to make the most out of the time I have.
On Friday this last week, our mission President and his wife had an open house in their home for everyone. We were able to bring all our investigators and recent converts to the open house and they were really able to have a really great time in a house where the spirit was incredibly strong, with all the missionaries that were present and it being the mission home. There was wonderful, and I mean INCREDIBLE American food there, all of which Hermana Pace and one of the couple missionaries helped prepare. It was amazing! All the missionaries went crazy over everything! Hermana Robinson and I also repeated our Christmas concert there with Hermana Pace and it was just a very festive occasion. Plus, everyone that we invited came and stayed just about the whole time. It was a really special night.
Well, we were finally able to get an investigator to church and his less-active girlfriend and children, that have been telling us every Sunday for the last month that they were for sure going to come. It was great to see them all there seated in the church as a family. We are working on them getting married as well as another man and his girlfriend that we are teaching so that the men can get baptized. They know the church is true and want to get baptized....they just need to get married and it is a pretty hard hurtle to overcome here.
Well....the best news of all this week is about Alberto. The change that has taken place in his life is just incredible. Since he was such a smoker...when he first started coming to church and meeting with us, he smelled of smoke to the point that the whole room would smell of it...and in general, he just appeared to be a mess all the time. But he has been gradually changing and stopping smoking and on Friday, he came to the open house all decked out in a nice suit and tie. He had cut his hair and was just looking very sharp. The other missionaries that knew him, as well as President Pace who also knows him, were all astounded at the change they could see in him. He came and he didn´t smell like cigarrettes and he just had a light about him that is just evident when people are making changes for the better in their lives. So the great news that we have, is that Alberto is going to be baptized this Saturday, January 5th. So please keep him in your prayers that he can be protected this week and continue in the amazing path that he has commenced. I can see him being a great leader of the church here in Spain one day. Everyone who meets him now thinks the same thing. Wish us luck with all the preparations!
Talk to you all next week!
Love,
Hermana Eyre
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