Weekly update

HOLA TODOS

 

I hope things are going absolutely amazing for all of you!  Things are crazy here in SPain, but i think about each and every one of you all the time.

 

As far as Spanish, the Lord helps me when i put in the work i need to.  We teach two lessons in spanish every day and its amazing how sometimes i have no clue what to say, and the lord helps me explain myself.  I truly know that the gift of tongues is real, but only when we show our committment to the Lord and persevere.

 

The message i want to leave with all of you this week is about Faith.  So i got paired with one of my really good friends here, Elder Perri, as my companion to go proselite in the park to the Spanish people.  Elder Perri and i were so incredibly excited and determined to place tons of books of mormon at the same time.  Well, we prayed hard and did our best to prep, and we had a few good conversations, but no book of mormons.  I started to get down.  I told Elder Perri, you know, maybe we need to pray harder.  He quickly told me i was being ridiculous, and i was lacking in faith (We dont beat around the bush with each other)  10 minutes later, we found the people looking for us.  We were able to place like 4 book of mormons in 30 minutes, but thats not what was significant.  What was significant were the people we found.  We do not deserve any of the credit.  We found the kind of investigators we had been praying for.  I just needed to keep the faith.  Sorry this is kinda short but i just want to bear testimony to all of you that the Lord will help you in your life as you strive to do your best and make the right decisions. Sometimes, you wont see any rewards or blessings at first! DONT QUIT! HAve faith in him!  He will help you because he loves you soo much!

 

I hope all is well with you guys at home and if anyone has anything lifechanging they want to tell me, ill have my outstanding sister put my address on instagram if you want to write.  Take care, and keep on keepin on! Love you guys!

Colbs got to tour this really cool church on his P day. He didn't take anymore pictures this week but I'll ask him to take more next week! 

Here are the addresses to write Colby a letter and send him a package! He would love some real letters. That way he can read them throughout the week and doesn't feel rushed writing and reading emails. Only send letters to the MTC until October 27th. After that please send them and packages to the mission home. Packages can only be sent to the mission home because the MTC will not except them in Spain. 

MTC address

Elder Colby Craig Baron 

Spain Madrid Mission 

Spain Missionary Training Center 

4A. Planta 

Calle del Templo No 2

Madrid 28030 

Spain

Mission home

Elder Colby Craig Baron 

Spain Madrid Mission 

Calle Fuerteventura 4, 2, Office 8B 

28703 San Sebastian de los Reyes 

Madrid 

Spain 

Fun side note from Colby in an email to me: 

 We go to church in the MTC and every sunday we have to prepare a talk in spanish and we dont know if we are speaking until the meeting starts.

That would be so scary to me but I thought you all would enjoy hearing that! 

Love you all!