I´d be lying if I said I felt ready/able/the right guy for the job. We´re in a pretty tough area relatively speaking. (Doesn´t mean I don´t love the hard work.) But I know that that´s how the Lord works, and I remember a story from Elder Eyring in a BYU talk that came to mind as I was pondering this:
A Stake President feels the need to call a slightly less active member as the stake clerk. He feels like the member won´t accept the call. But he acts on the prompting and the member says,
"No. There are much better men for the job who are more active and worthy." And the Stake Pres. says, "Well, I guess our stake won´t have a clerk."
"What??"
"Well the Lord called YOU. Who are we to pick somebody else?"
There´s my thoughts. I love you.
Elder Stew.
P-Day last week was fun, weather is nice, got a hair cut etc. etc. We can refer to my journal for boring stuff. The biggest news is contained in the subject line. Definitely a fulfilling and productive week.
WE HAD A BAPTISM!!! WOOT WOOT!
Her name is Ada, and I´ve talked a lot about her. Well, her baptism took place! The coolest part was to watch her progression the whole six week transfer - she was our project basically the whole time. At the beginng she said things like, "I´ll never go to your church" "I only need the bible" "My church has a prophet too" "I guess I could get baptized, if you guys are the only ones with authority in Spain. I already did it in my country."
Mateo carried out the ordinance, Giacinto and Manuel were the witnesses, Elder Emmett gave a talk, I made sure everything went smoothly, Hermana Barkle played the piano, and the missionaries sang the primary song "I like to look for rainbows..." It was one of the most spiritual meetings I had ever seen. (General Conference excepted)
In her testimony, both at the baptism and at church on sunday, she did things like
1. Explain how strong she felt the spirit.
2. How excited she was to take the step of faith to be baptized
3. Bear her testimony of Thomas S. Monson
4. Bear her testimony of Joseph Smith
5. Bear her testimony of the LdM.
6. Quote Mosiah 5:4, from which we had NEVER ASKED HER TO READ.
7. Cry.
That was really cool, because it was pretty much our project of the whole transfer.
Speaking of transfers, Elder Emmett is leaving! I only got six weeks with the guy. They were six excellent weeks. And now, I will be training. Yup. President (and therefore the Lord) have decided that some poor brand new Elder is going to be trained by me. Definitely a huge responsibility, but I´m really excited. I won´t even know his name until he comes up on a train, really late Tuesday night - I´m about two hours away in a city called Leon. I´ll be living here for a couple days. So more on that when he actually shows up!
Love,
Elder Stew.
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