Our English class is bumping right now, and there are like 7 kids that come. Oh man last week they were nuts! We could not control them at all! I brought some jelly beans this kid in Barrio 8 gave me to help keep them at bay. I thought they were normal. Well, I started to hand them out and the little girls were like, this is absolutely horrible, what the heck did you give us.... turns out that they were the Harry Potter jelly beans that taste like booger, vomit, and other gross stuff. I was way nervous about them going home and telling their parents that the Mormon missionaries gave them vomit candy, but they came back! My companion and I split English class and he taught the kids! He promised them a race at the end. That was pretty awesome too! Other things in this week, well, this guy asked me today in the metro to take his picture. He then casually took off his coat and hung it on his shoulder, leaned against the wall, and posed in perfect model position for the picture.... that one got us laughing too.
We've been doing a ton to work with the members and show them we love them recently! This ward has some really awesome people in it. We made them a ton of little missionary t shirts out of paper and gave each family a note of appreciation, We played soccer with some active and less active kids, we watched the Young single adults get their PDA on at the ward party and then do the EFY dance, we ate a couple of really good and really sketchy meals at their house, we went to seminary, and yeah, life's a party! We are really hoping to work hard with the members here so that we can find more people to be blessed by the gospel!
Ive learned a lot to treasure the tender mercies of the Lord on the mission. There's always little miracles that happen in the life of the average missionary. Sometimes we just forget about them. That's why it's so important that I repent and write more in my journal so that I can remember more of them! But this week we've seen the hand of the Lord and felt his love. We've given it our best to work hard and share the gospel in every opportunity we've had. It's been a successful week.
Today we went to this sweet little town called Toledo in the outskirts of Madrid where they make a ton of swords and cool stuff out of gold and silver, and yeah life is going good! We have a sweet missions tour with a member of the 70 and we are hoping to have two baptisms with two twelve year old kids this weekend!
Last two funny things that happened this week with those two twelve year old twin boys. I will never forget the look on their faces of disgust and horror as we talked to them about the birds and the bees and the law of chastity. Kids man are the best. I will also never forget what the missionary who did the baptismal interview told us after. In asking one of the boys who his favorite sibling was, he replied Jesus Christ.
May We always remember how much our older Brother Jesus Christ Loves us this week!
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