This was a great week and also a busy one! Lots of stuff preparing for Christmas and lots of goodbyes. The transfer is now over, I'm going to be now in my 5th transfer and in 4 days I will hit 7 months in the mission! Lots of exciting things.
Tuesday: we had district meeting in the morning. The last one of the transfer and so we enjoyed ourselves. We then came back to Gandia from Valencia and had a visit with Alberto to teach him about the Sabbath day. After we did a family home evening with some members from our ward and our friends we are teaching. It was focused on the light the world campaign the Church is doing to focus more on Jesus Christ during the Christmas season. This month of December we're focusing on serving like Jesus did, and the first week we're focusing on serving the world. So we had everyone write a letter who they are going to send to their friend or family member in another country. We're a very diverse group so this worked great and everyone liked it. We are going to do one of these every month and so we're hoping to get more people involved and get everyone involved in the campaign.
Wednesday: Today we met with Praise and let her know we can't keep meeting with her. She is not completing the invitations we have extended to her and so we are still friends with her and she's still invited to read the Book of Mormon and come to church but we can't keep meeting with her regularly. Later we had some plans and they fell through but we came in clutch and met with our friend Maria. We taught her the Plan of Salvation and she seemed to like it a lot. We are going to keep teaching her and see how it all goes. Later we had English class and our friend Vanessa out of know where came and gave us Christmas gifts, really early. She gave us both keychains of a bill that says Spain on it, a magnet of a Spanish ham leg, a mug that says valencia, and a license plate that you have on the wall that says Gandia. All in an American flag bag. It was really really nice of her, so very thoughtful!
Thursday: This was easily one of the best days of my mission, by far. So so spiritual. We started with a lesson with Vanessa and a member named Liliana. Liliana is a Columbian member and she is literally the best member I have ever met. She is so perfect for the people we are teaching. In the lesson she gave all the support and help needed to help Vanessa with her doubts and start progressing in the Church. I'm so excited to see how it all works out! And then after we met with a Columbian couple named Diana and John Freddy. And this lesson, also with Liliana, was amazing. Diana and John were crying and also Liliana and we could see how prepared they are to be here and enter in the church and the waters of baptism. It started great and then that night we met with Carolina and taught her lesson 2. She's progressing towards baptism as well and just today we received permission from the mission president to put a baptismal date on her and go through with the ordinance which is amazing. Totally an amazing lesson and just a great day altogether.
Friday: We started off with weekly planning. Later we taught Maria some English and a little about the Book of Mormon. After that we had interviews with the Mission President and I found out my companion is leaving! He's headed to Zaragoza to be a zone leader and my new companion will be Elder Crawford. He has come from the Madrid mission like my past companion Elder Peck and I'm excited to have him come. I have had an amazing time with Elder Tingey. He's amazing and he's going to be a great leader in Zaragoza.
Saturday: not much happened, a few goodbye visits for Elder Tingey and that's about it.
Sunday: Today we went to church and then ate some Spanish tortilla which was super good. After that we met with Alberto to say goodbye and teach him some commandments. He loved the lesson and we set a baptismal date with him for the 29th of December! After that we met with Carolina and taught lesson 3 pretty simply. Recently we've been hoping to get a little more interaction from her as well. She hasn't been reading in the Book of Mormon so we keep inviting her to do that. We hope it will all work out so we can continue towards baptism with her.
As a church we are using this initiative Light the World every day! It's been a great opportunity to serve others and share the gospel in a casual way! I encourage you all you look up on the church's website and learn how you can participate in the event and serve like Jesus did! Also make sure to use social media to publicize and show your friends what you are doing!
Everything went well! Time flies really quick! Love you all!
Elder Keith
1. Columbian food!!
2. Dominican food!
3. Light the world fun, making gift plates
4. Christmas decorations up in gandia!
5. The plates we put together
6. Spanish tortilla and chicken, lots of good food from the members this week
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