Strange things are afoot at the circle K

Well, this week was mas o menos pretty exciting for us here in the
islands.  We had a solid week of lessons that actually happened here
and we had some investigators finally come to church, but man just a
ton happened.

One of the craziest things is that we got a call a couple nights ago
from our district leader telling us that we need to change pisos with
the hermanas in our area, because some people were worried about their
safety.  We were incredibly sad to leave our bright colored walls with
our pictures of wolves barking at the moon and eagles flying over the
mountains to enter into a piso with the smell of femininity and pink
sheets, but we are stoked to live closer to the church and to have a
change.  It is a little different over here, hence the subject line I
put for this email, but it's a cool new little piso and it still has a
dryer. All is well.

So we had the privledge of having a general authority, Elder Morera
come here to tour our mission.  He was one of the most lively speakers
I have ever seen, and he spoke to us in broken English, but wowsers
that was an experience to remember. He shook each of our hands and
gave us one of those talks with just enough love to feel like a pat on
the back but just enough fire to singe the eyebrows a little bit.  We
talked a ton about how we need to change our mission culture.  A lot
of times in Spain we think that we aren't really going to baptize a
ton of people or we aren't going to be that successful because of the
things we have heard from others.  But we talked about how we need to
change to be a mission with more faith both in ourselves and in the
Lord.  We talked about the way that we need to adjust the way we spend
our time and the way we teach, and it was truly a motivating
experience

This week I learned that it is incredibly important to listen to the
Holy Ghost no matter what the prompting is.  One afternoon we went to
go throw out the trash. As we started to walk away I went to go sit on
this bench to start to call some of the people we needed to for the
day.  I had this prompting to keep going and do it somewhere else.  I
kept walking until we got to another spot.  We sat down and started to
make some calls.  Our investigator walked by and came over and just
sat next to us without us even saying anything to him.  We have been
trying to meet with this investigator for two months, and we finally
had an opportunity.  We shared an unplanned lesson on the Savior, but
we were able to feel the spirit really strong. The Holy Ghost guided
us exactly where to go, and although this experience wasn't very large
or life changing for that investigator, it was at least a change for
him to feel the love that is felt when we have opportunities to feel
the Spirit.  The Holy Ghost really does guide us in small and simple
ways every day.

I'm so incredibly grateful for the chance I have here to be an
instrument in the hands of the Lord, and I truly know that this is the
Lord's work here.  He is at the head of it, and these are his Children
we are teaching.  He knows them, and if we listen to him, he will tell
us where to go and exactly what to do to help them.  I say these
things, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Elder Baron

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