reactivating

It´s incredible how different missions throughout the world can be different, I love hearing from other missionaries about things going on in that area. Sounds like both Cierra and Heman are enjoying the heat, over here the weather is still grey and rainy. It´s a bit tough with the work, just being able to find happy people outside to talk with, but we´re doing well. I´ve been happier than ever though, and am doing well out here.

This week we had a particularly bigger number of fails, but it hasn´t been hard to count the blessings that the Lord has given us. We had one of our investigators come to church--Nick--who´s from Bolivia and is 18 years old. They were being taught by the missionaries about 4 or 5 years ago, and his older sister even got baptized, but afterwards I´m not exactly sure what happened because they kind of lost contact with the missionaries and the sister went inactive. But we´re in regular contact now, and Nick appears to be really interested and attentive.

We met a really nice Colombian family, at least the mother and her 2 daughters, in the street and they seem to have a ton of potential. After explaining what we do and while my comp was writing down her number we had said something else that we do and she got serious and said "You´re going to call me on Wednesday, ok? and we´ll talk." Haha we both were super happy to hear that. Her daughter is faily new to Spain, just arrived, and we´re both really wanting to be able to introduce her to the youth of this branch so that she has great friends right from the start, but a couple days after the initial contact we talked to her and she said that her husband is pretty superstitious and doesn´t want them to do anything with us until he comes to our church. We´re not sure if he´s actually going to come soon, because now she won´t answer our calls and we´re worried. Hopefully everything goes well.

There was the famous futbol classic--Real Madrid vs. Barcelona. It´s insane here. It honestly is these peoples´ religion. When the games start, the people disappear from the street and you can find them all crammed uncomfortably in the bars that are found on every corner of Spain. Sadly Madrid lost by one, but I heard it was a great game.

I hope all is well out there, I love seeing those pictures and hearing the stories. Tell everyone I say hi. Take care!!

Love Elder Franson