Alrighty everybody....

Alrighty everybody,

to start out, I need to tell my family how AWESOME they are for studying Preach My Gospel! :) It will be a HUGE blessing and you guys will be blessed with many experiences that put to work what you are learning! Don't be afraid!!! :)


So I need to tell you guys a funny story. Do you remember the guy named Jose Luis that I shared my story with about the play? Well we've been super tight since then and we usually see him every week. He's a little crazy but he's a great guy. Well my family knows that a few months ago I was thinking a lot about what I want to be when I grow up and do when I get home because I was super confused. Well I just decided to forget about it because right then it didn't matter. About a week ago I was talking to an Elder and remembered about a dream I've had for a long time about making a Grilled Cheese Sandwich Restaurant with a ton of different Grilled Cheese Sandwiches (And having the special Marchant Grilled Cheese w/ Jam) haha. Well I sat down and started making a list of all the different Grilled Cheese sandwiches that I could make. :). Well the other day we were with Jose Luis and he said to me "Elder, I've been having this dream. I've had it twice and if I ever have the same dream 3 times it comes true. So I want to tell you about it. I've been dreaming that I was with you in the United States working some kind of weird sandwich shop. You and your dad were the owners and I was working there. Well this restaurant became super famous! Even the prophet came to eat there!" hahahaha! He just kept telling me about the restaurant! He described the uniforms and the sandwiches (grilled cheese by the way. they just don't have those here) and everything! It was so weird!!! He said he'd call me if he had that dream again :). hahaha!


Anyways, it's been a good week. On Thursday afternoon, all of a sudden I felt a HUGE relief of stress...... I don't have any clue why :). haha. It's been a lot better! Me and Elder Cowley have been working hard and seeing lots of miracles. And I have felt the Spirit stronger in the last few days than I have for a long time! :) We are in kind of a pickle... Our 3 GOLDEN investigators called us yesterday and kind of dropped us. They said that they are having a lot of doubts. But we think we know how to fix it! We were super bummed last night but after my bedtime prayer I felt like I needed to go look up a scripture. Well I found about the most AMAZING lesson plan ever which is exactly what these people need! So we are gonna be doing all we can to get in with them again! :) We know that if we do, we can fix everything!


So I will be sure to let you guys know how it all goes down this week! :) Everything is great though! We have good attitudes and lots of faith. I'm praying really hard that I can get a baptism here with Elder Cowley before I leave. But now it's my job to go do everything I can :).


Que tengáis una buena semana! Os queiro un montón!
Hasta ahora!


con cariño,


Élder Marchant

I LOVE his desire to work!

I love Elder Cowley!!! He is the best!! We get along super good and I LOVE his desire to work! We have seen so many miracles recently as well! Last Monday a woman called us and said that she wanted to meet with us. We set up a cita for the next day and she brought 2 friends with her. Turns out that they had been having some problems in the church they were attending. They also said they got our number because they saw one of our investigators at their church and she was "so much happier than usual" so they went and asked why and our investigator gave them our number! We had a great first lesson with them and Elder Cowley invited them to be baptized and all three accepted! They couldn't come to church yesterday but they are still planning on being baptized in September! :) We are so excited and blessed!


Also, I've talked with you guys about Angeles before (The lady with the crazy dog that I've been teaching my whole time here). Well guess who came to church yesterday!? ANGELES!! I was SO surprised! We have invited her every week and she has never come! But I talked to her yesterday and she said that usually she doesn't come because she can't get up in time. And saturday night she prayed that she would be able to wake up and come to church. She woke up Sunday morning at 6 and couldn't go back to sleep! So she got up and got ready and came! :). She loved all the meetings and made TONS of friends! :) We showed her the baptismal font and will be talking to her again about baptism this week! :) I WANT TO BAPTIZE HER SOOOOO BAD!:) haha. I am praying really hard to be able to baptize with Elder Cowley. I gotta do it quick because I'm not gonna be the missionary finishing his training. President told me that he has stuff for me to do and that I'll be out of here in September.


I've had a few of you guys asking me about the weather here. It's terrible! It is SO dang humid and hot! haha. I am SO grateful that we have a good AC in our piso! I get out of the shower in the morning and literally never get dry! Super ready for fall here ! ;)


Well everything is going great! Elder Rodriguez leaves on Thursday and then it will be just me and Elder Cowley tearin' it up here in Torremolinos! :)


Have a great week everybody and I love you guys!


Elder Marchant

Pictures:

Torremolinos 

  

Family Photo!

........How'd that get there?

Chumbos

New companion...

My new missionary is really cool. His name is Elder Cowley and he´s from Mesa, Arizona. He´s a stud! I don´t think he´s opened up completely but I´m sure it´s weird for him to be with 2 missionaries that are completely opened up to each other all ready. He´s awesome though.


I went to Fuengirola on Tuesday and the first thing we did was sit everyone down and we got to find out who our ¨kid¨ was gonna be. Then we went and ate dinner and just hung out and got to know everyone and had a meeting after that. Just like a last little orientation thing for the new missionaries. The next morning the trainers just hung out in the office for a while whilst the kids went and did residency stuff. Then we all just went back to our areas.


Elder Cowley´s ¨first door´ experience was pretty funny. He knocked a door and no one answered and then he knocked the next one and that guy answered and the OTHER guy answered the other door at the same time. Without thinking, me and Elder Rodriguez went to the SAME guy and Elder Cowley got SUPER left out to dry with the other guy COMPLETELY alone! hahaha I felt so bad! But he was a good sport about it and had a real good attitude.


Something that really stuck out to me that President Deere told the trainers was ¨Even though you guys think that if YOU invite, and teach, and do all that stuff that it will come out better because you speak the language, I PROMISE you that it won´t be like that. I promise that the miracles will come when you let your new missionaries teach, and extend invitations.¨ Well the other day I taught Elder Cowley how to invite to be baptized and everything and told him that THAT day he would invite someone to be baptized. Well we taught a woman that day and at the end of the lesson I was nudging him and telling him to invite but Elder Rodriguez invited the woman to be baptized (which was really weird because he never does that) and she said no. Well I asked her why not and solved her doubt and everything and then I nudged Elder Cowley HARD haha. He invited her and the spirit was strong and everything was quiet and she said YES! IT was awesome! I couldn´t believe it haha! So we have a baptismal date right now and are really looking forward to it! Elder Cowley is a machine and is super ready to work!!! When Elder Rodriguez gets home we are going to go CRAZY here!!! :) We gon´ baptize da world!! haha!


President basically told me that he has plans for me this next transfer and that I need ´to get everything done that I need to quickly with Elder Cowley´ So I am gonna be working REALLY hard for a baptism with him!


He´s great. Really looking forward to working with him more.


Elder Marchant

Going to be a trainer!

Well trainer´s training was super good!!! We went to the mission home and ate Cafe Rio tacos haha. Then we had our meeting. President Deere just talked to us for a while about what we should be expecting, doing, and preparing for training and everything. They talked a lot about loving our kids. It made me think about my training a lot. Elder Antezana was a great companion but I have realized a LOT of things that I will do different! hahaha! Especially as far as obedience haha. But at least I came out okay! :) haha. I´m really excited to be training. And I will be sure to let you guys all know about my kid next week!


I imagine I have told you guys about an investigator named Angeles that has a crazy dog that pees on us and destroys everything and keeps Angeles from going to church. Well if I haven´t....that´s a decent summary haha. Well I´ve been teaching her since I got here and she knows that everything is true but won´t come to church because of her demon dog. And she won´t get baptized because she doesn´t wanna take away from the act of love that her parents did for her to baptize her when she was a baby. Well she promised Elder Wiley that she would come to church someday and she promised us that she would come before Elder Rodriguez goes home. So she has TWO sundays left! haha. Well we went and visited her for the first time in a while a couple days ago and her dog was an angel!! We don´t know WHAT happened, but all of a sudden her dog is a normal dog! It didn´t try eating us or peeing on us or anything! It was just normal! I thanked Heavenly Father like crazy!!! hahaha. I told Elder Wiley too and he couldn´t believe it! haha. But we are planning on her coming to church super soon and that will be HUGE!


We have REALLY good investigators here that have accepted baptism and everything. But they are living as couples and not married. We have several families like that and we just can´t do anything until they fix that. They know that everything is true and want to be baptized but they have to get all that sorted out first. I REALLY want a baptism with my kid here! I´m gonna be working SUPER hard with him. I´ve made some pretty huge goals for this transfer and I´m gonna be doing everything I can do carry them out. It´s gonna be great!!


Everything IS great! I hope everything is great for all of you guys and I love you guys! Have a great week! And everyone keep reading the Book of Mormon! Start if you aren´t in the middle haha. :)


Elder Marchant

Pictures from District Meeting.  Derick is taking them so that is why he is just in the SELFIE one.