Happy Monday Everyone!

Happy Monday Everyone!


Well this week has been pretty slow. We only had 6 lessons with investigators but we found 7 new investigators so that was a huge blessing because the work has been really slow here.


My companion and I get along well. I was getting really frustrated at the beginning of the week because I felt like I was just dragging him everywhere but I found out what his favorite scriptures were and I hung them up on the door and we read them whenever we leave to work and since then he has been working harder and complaining less. :). That's good! I still feel like we aren't working as hard as I want to but he says that we are working harder than he has in the mission so that must be good! haha. Now we gotta keep going harder a little at a time. But he's funny and we get along good. He's helping me a lot with Spanish. That's a plus haha. And he has a guitar! So during language study I sing him songs in Spanish :) hahaha.


We have been working with a less active kid named Walter ever since I got here. His family is from Argentina and they are SO great! I LOVE going over to their house! Well he just turned 17 and he is just at an age where he doesn't wanna be in the church. He is some rough friends and doesn't have a dad so it's hard to be here like that. Once a week we go over to his house and teach him a little english and I teach him guitar. Then we share something with him from the scriptures. He knows it's all true. He just doesn't want to follow the rules... his Mom and Grandparents are a little TOO overbearing on him as well so it makes him want to rebel. But we went to his birthday on Thursday and I bought him a capo for his guitar because before he always tied a pencil on haha. And I wrote him tabs for a guitar song he wanted :). We had a great time with him and he introduced some of his friends to us and they are actually pretty interested :) So we hope that good things come from that :). Him and his family are in one of the pictures I sent you. The last one I think :).


I honestly can't think of a whole ton of stuff that happened this week. We are just working and praying for new good investigators. We found a lot last week and hopefully good things come of them :).


Love you all! Have a great week!


Elder Marchant

Pictures from his time with Elder Wiley 

It's been a pretty long week haha. Elder Wiley was a great companion and I miss that kid a ton! I love having companions that I love so much that I miss them when we leave though :).


Not a whole ton to report. The work is pretty rough here but in Europe for the month of June we are having the Month of Invitation and all the members are going to invite someone to church! So we have been really encouraging the members all week long to be praying before June for a name and a face of someone who is prepared for the Gospel so they can invite them to the Church next month! Then we can teach them! Yes!! :) haha. I am praying so hard that the work picks up a ton this next month! We need it.


In small news, Les Miserables is playing in Malaga from June 20 to July 20 and that is about the biggest temptation I've ever felt my whole life! hahahaha :) I wanna go so bad!! The Sound of Music was playing in Sevilla while I was there and I wanted to go to that too but this is even worse!! Maybe if an investigator invites us..... :)


Also, mom, get on my facebook and accept a lady named Susan (well accept everyone else from here too haha). She is a lady from Britain that we contacted and taught a couple lessons to but she just lost her job here and had to go back to Britain and she called us and told us all of this the day Elder Wiley left so we couldn't meet up with her. But she asked for my facebook to keep in touch with me. Will you ask her to email on this address or something so I can be in contact with her and get her met up with the missionaries there? :) Thanks!


So my new companion is named Elder Rodriguez. He is from Barcelona. I've heard a lot about him and so far most of it matches up haha. He's cool and we get along good. He is really fun and friendly and the first companion that I've had that really loves having a clean piso :). But he is about to finish his mission and is super dead. He doesn't have much of a desire to work and looks for excuses to not. It's hard because I have a lot of drive to work and it hinders my ambition to work hard a little bit. I'm praying that he finds the desire to finish his mission working hard and being obedient. I told him when he got here that "I am here to work and I work hard. I'm obedient. I know you're dead. But while you're my companion we are gonna go find, teach, and baptize. I don't care if you sleep in and miss studies but during work time we are gonna work." haha. He said okay and we've been working pretty hard. He drags he feet a bit but he's just ready to finish. I am gonna get him a baptism here though! haha. I want so bad to have success here but it just isn't coming like I want! I'm being patient and trying real hard to have a good attitude :). But I am so ready to see some success! I know it'll come though :)


All is great though and I love the mission! :) I promise I'll be better at taking pictures, Mom. But I don't have anything... :) Elder Wiley is gonna send me all the pictures we took on his camera when he left though so you'll have those soon! :) Love you all!


Elder Marchant

Happy Mothers Day SKYPE!!!!

 Random picture I stole from the mission blog of Derick's Easter party.

This week was the Week of Consecration

This week was the Week of Consecration.


Roughest week by far of the mission! haha. We are obedient missionaries so we didn´t have to change much but I have never had a week so hard as far as the work goes. It honestly felt like all of Spain hated us!


Day 1: We get flashed by some crazy lady at the train station.
Day 2: We taught literally the craziest lesson I have ever had or WILL EVER have. This crazy woman told us stories for a straight hour about the visions that she has had; from the city of Atlantis, to casting out demons with her banjo, to the coast of the United States being destroyed by China and Russia. This lady told us the CRAZIEST stuff I've ever heard! haha.
Day 3: I've never been kicked out of a building that I've been teaching or contacting in. In ONE hour we got kicked out of 2! Every single plan we had for that day was cancelled.


The ENTIRE week was like that! haha. We went home every night just laughing at how terrible our day was! :) We kept a very good attitude and worked hard and stayed obedient but wow. What a hard week! I think my companion will be transfered next week too so it'll be hard being here and starting with a new companion and not having anything. But that's the mission :) haha.


We did see several miracles. Last tuesday we were walking passed a soccer field where the young men and bishop and some members usually play to try to get investigators to come. We went to see if we had any investigators there and there weren't any so we were leaving and all of a sudden someone yelled and I looked and saw a member named Ramon on the ground. He's an older guy and it was a hot day. He had collapsed on the ground and was shaking. I told the bishop that I had oil on me and we ran into the field and gave him a blessing. He regained consciousness and we waited there with him and did everything we could until the ambulances came. We went to his house that night and he was totally fine! He said that the doctor's couldn't explain what happened and they figured it was just low blood pressure. He got up and bore his testimony yesterday and was talking about the hand of the Lord in our lives and how it was such a miracle that we were there right then to give him a blessing and that we saved his life. I had heard stories like that all my life but never thought that I would be in that situation ever! It's crazy to think that one day I will be telling those stories about the priesthood and how we need to be prepared and about the hand of the Lord in our lives. :)
I am very grateful for the priesthood and that the Lord is mindful of ALL of us :).


I finished the Book of Mormon in english this week! That was good! :) and now I am reading the New Testament in English and the Book of Mormon in Spanish! :)


I'm excited for this next week and ready to see even more miracles! :) Hope you guys have a great week!


Elder Marchant

 Pictures are from the Castle in Malaga 

MALAGA

Random Pictures from Seville.

Layouts from last weeks pictures.