Hey everyone! Things are going great out here. It´s pretty much been pretty similar to last week, haha well the MTC is all pretty much the same everyday. Study, comp study, grammar lesson, study, teach a lesson, eat, study, grammar, study, sports (which we played American football this week!!! And it was sooo fun!), shower, eat, study, teach a lesson, study, sleep, and then repeat! But somehow it´s one of the most amazing things I´ve done in my life. If this wasn´t His work I would be going crazy, there´s great strength in knowing that! We also find ways to have fun, and it´s funny how small of things MTC missionaries find to be so entertaining. I bought a ball at one of the little stores near by and I could swear no ball has been enjoyed as much as it has been in all of Spain. We play games during language study so we can take somewhat of a mental game, like we each have to say a different adjective in Spanish when the ball is passed to us and we try to do it really fast or other things like that to stay sane.
The Park this week was AMAZING, I got paired up with my zone leader, Elder Baron who is from Tustin, CA and we handed out 7 Book of Mormons!! A personal best for me and for him, actually I think it´s the highest out of everyone in the MTC for our group, which is cool but the part that I´m most happy about were the quality of the lesson or discusions we had. We taught a lot of students from America this week (some from Chicago and one from Texas). We could just see that they could feel the Spirit when we testified about the Book of Mormon, and that is one of the most amazing feelings ever to know that you just helped them feel the Spirit. In reality the Spirit is the teacher and we are just trying to help people feel it and recognize what it is and what it means when they feel it. Missionary work is the most satisfying thing I´ve done in my entire life.
So I´ve learned some tricks procyliting during my stay here and I wanna share these simple things I´ve learned that made all the difference in my Saturday Procylting experiences:
1. You sit down on the Metro(subway) and whenever someone comes on, you give them your seat then talk to them. People can really tell that you´re sincere when you are willing to serve them.
2. Let people know how the gospel applies in their life and how it can help them. (Spaniard´s tipically don´t like religion) But when you tell them that they can be more happy in life or live with their family, they are totally willing to listen! The Gospel is AMAZING and it can help ANY person
3. Talk to them and get to know them! We teach people not lessons and they can tell when we do. Every soul is worth SO much to our heavenly father we can´t even comprehend. He knows everyone personally, the least we can do as missionaries is know the people we teach or talk to personally and by name.
4. Love everyone and praise them if they already have a religion! Our message isn´t to disprove anything, it is to help others to come unto Christ and the way we do that is faith in Jesus, baptism, recieving the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end. If they already have a relationship with God that´s great!!! And we need to let them know that.
5. Lastly, just talk to EVERYONE. The worst thing we can do it shut our mouth, when you think about how Satan tried to stop Joseph Smith in the Sacred Grove, he tried to shut his mouth. Satan wants us to shut our mouth, DON´T do it yourself!!! There are soooo many people that are waiting to hear this Gospel and are missing blessings and a better life everyday because we won´t open our mouths. Don´t be afraid, the worst they can say is no!
I love you all so much and hope all is well. God loves you and I can feel it just writing this email. I´m SOOOO pumped to be able to head out to the field pretty soon! I only have one week left in the MTC and I´ve been out a month now! Crazy huh?
Les Quiero MUCHO
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