Wow I'm going to be honest... I did really bad at keeping track of what happened this last week and so I'm going to be summing up what happened today the best I can.
Tuesday I picked up my new companion, his name is Elder Crawford. He is from Idaho and has about 1 year and 4 months in the mission. He has come from the north of Spain, the part added into our mission from the Madrid mission. So he is my second companion from the Madrid mission now. He wrestled in high school and is overall a very active person. I'm glad he's here and we're going to be working together. He has a different style of work which is ok. With every new companion you have to go through a transition phase of adjusting and getting to know your companion, which isn't easy but it's what you have to do. The beginning is hard but in the end we end up just fine. We had a normal day and just did normal work.
Wednesday+Thursday: We had a lot of good lessons. Tuesday I was without my new companion and looking at the week, and we didn't have any plans, none at all. So I went through thinking it out and set up a full week of lessons. We didn't have to contact we just met a lot of people and had some great lessons. I introduced my companion to many people we are teaching and we only had one lesson fire which is not too shabby.
Friday: We went to Valencia and had district meeting. After we came back and had a normal day. We met with a new friend named Brahim. He is a Moroccan man, and we taught him English. In the end we shared a short message about prophets and we had a good 20-minute conversation about religion. He is Muslim and was letting us know about what some of their beliefs are and surprisingly we believe a lot of things in common. We gave him a Book of Mormon to end the lesson.
Saturday: We had not a lot but the highlight of the day was teaching Edwin about the church. For the last 6 weeks we have taught Edwin about English and sharing small simple messages with him. And finally he became open to listen to us and just learn about the church and the Book of Mormon. Turns out he never was raised in a church and doesn't know that much but most of all he wants to raise his kids with religion and so he wants to learn more and become a better father to teach his son more. He's an amazing man and we hope to work with him more.
Sunday: We had a normal morning with the church services and then we met with a member named Maria Flores. She has a cat and I'm allergic and so I was keeping my distance but my companion was petting it and having fun. Elder Crawford begins to get itchy and have a runny nose. He then starts rubbing his face and his eyes and looked at his hand and we had to leave. He had a serious allergic reaction to the cat. It left him with a really swollen and red face and neck, with red eyes, and hives all over. It was super extreme and so we went to the chapel and I gave him a blessing quick. He then called the church doctor to get medicine prescribed to him and we got him some meds and ended the day. He's feeling a lot better and the meds are helping, they just wear you out because its Benadryl type medicines. So he fell asleep in the chapel later that night which is fine but it all worked out fine.
That was my week but there was a great quote I heard from this last week. As we know as a church we have prophets and they receive revelation for the church. This means we always receive new changes and advice from God for the church. And so we have a 70 in our ward, a leader in the church, who saw this first hand. He said revelation does not work how most people think. Changes in the church don't come because all of a sudden President Nelson receives revelation and knows exactly what to do and just changes it. That's not how it works, it comes through ideas that the prophet presents to his apostles and then to the 70s. After they discuss it they put it to the test. For the last 5 years they were trying the 2-hour block of church in some parts of South America. For a long time they experimented on the idea and in the end we now are going to change to the 2-hour block. That's how revelation works: 1.) we receive ideas, 2.) we experiment and study the idea, 3.) we look for the results. If it brings forth good results it's revelation from God and if not it was just an idea.
That's it, hope to hear from all of you during this Christmas season!
Elder Keith
1. Christmas decorations
2. My companion is allergic to cats apparently. Crazy story
3. Small map of Gandia
4. Beach volleyball for preparation day.
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