Busiest, funnest, and most successful weeks of the mission I think :)

So this week was the busiest, funnest, and most successful weeks of the mission I think :)

So last week we had a goal as a mission to find 888 New Investigators in one week. I don´t know if that is a lot outside of Europe but here, it is a lot! We ended the week with 897! :) Elder Oldroyd and I were super happy that we got as many News as we did to help with the goal. We got 10. The goal for each companionship was 9. So we were super happy to have hit the goal because all week we were trying to prepare a couple people for baptism and didn´t have as much finding time as we wanted. But the Lord definitely blessed us with some miracles and we found some great people! And have a few more baptismal dates! :)

So Saturday we baptized Alicia! :) What an awesome experience! :) She is so awesome! She lived in the US for a few years but can´t speak english almost at all but she tells us ¨You boys are my sons¨ all the time :) haha. I was so happy to have ended Elder Oldroyd´s mission with a baptism. I also got to go interview a woman for baptism for another companionship in our district and that was a really neat experience. It´s awesome to get that personal with someone and ask to hear their testimony about their experience up to baptism and she shared it with me and it was so neat :). So they were baptized on the same day. I got to conduct the service AND play the piano!!!! I have been practicing the piano a lot and I´m gettin GOOD, MOM!!!!! Elder Oldroyd usually plays during sacrament meeting because there is no one here that can. So the bishop said that I´LL start playing! I can´t wait to tell mom THAT! :) hahaha!

So Elder Oldroyd baptized Alicia and I confirmed her on Sunday :).

I also went on Splits with the Elder in my District that are in Motril. That was fun to go help out over there and get to know their investigators and members.

So I am getting a new companion this week. His name is Elder Pomazón. He is from Peru I think. I´ve met him before but don´t know him too well. So I´m pretty excited to keep groing in spanish! :) haha.

I am super gonna miss Elder Oldroyd though. He has been an AWESOME companion! We have worked real hard and gotten along very well :). He has taught me so much as well :) I am very grateful that he worked hard until the end :).

I can´t think of much else :) We went and played soccer this morning with a Less Active kid in the ward that we are working with. His name is Sebastian and he is a riot :) Progressing well too :) I´ll have to tell you guys about him sometime :)



Have a great week! :) Love all of you! Give references to the missionaries ! :) haha

Elder Marchant

Have a great week! See if you can beat MINE! :) haha.

What´s up everybody!!! :) I got all your guys´ letters this morning! Thanks a ton! I wasn´t expecting letters from so many people! It´s always a huge push for a missionary when they get letters :)


Well this week has been crazy. Me and Elder Oldroyd are NEVER home haha. We have been able to keep track of how long we are home by how many songs have played haha. We only sleep there! It´s like living in a hotel :) We have been going crazy with the schedule to try to accomodate people and we are exhausted! :) But it is a great feeling! We are really tearin´ it up here in Granada! :)


We pretty much have 1 for sure baptism this weekend! Maybe 2! :) Alicia is gonna get baptized on Saturday! I am so happy to be having a baptism the last weekend of Elder Oldroyd´s mission. The members have been so involved with Alicia. We have been having family home evenings in the houses of members and taking members to lessons and having members call to ask her how church was and if she is planning on coming again and if she is excited to be baptized. By far the most I have worked with members in the mission. And it works!!! :) Alicia can feel the love and support from everyone and it´s so easy to see how great it is to be in the true and living church of God! :)


Manny, the guy who we are helping to quit smoking, is doing super good! The box that we made him worked so well but it really was his faith and the spirit that we helped him feel that helped him. He is american so we got to listen to Elder Holland talks in English with him and I think that helped him so much! :)


This week also is the week of finding. We have a mission goal to find 888 new investigators in 1 week! It´s gonna be hard! But if we do all we can, it is achievable! We are so excited to bring more souls to Christ! :) Keep the mission in your prayers! :)


Elder Oldroyd is an AWESOME companion! We get along so good and he just keeps teaching me with his example. I´m super sad to see him leave next week. But excited to use what he has taught me to teach my next companion :). I´m going on splits to other areas in the district this week to help them out and to get to know some Elders in the district. It´ll be another AWESOME week! I´ll be sure to take my camera everywhere, Mom :).


Well I love you guys and am excited to go home and read all the letters tonight :) Have a great week! See if you can beat MINE! :) haha.


Elder Marchant

Well it´s been an AWESOME week!

Sorry for not emailing yesterday! Spain has a bit of a problem with taking a day off of work every time a saint was born so yesterday all the locutorios that we could find were closed. haha


Well it´s been an AWESOME week!


I think I told you guys about Alicia. She is the Ecuatorian lady that made lunch for our district a few weeks ago. Well this week we had a lesson with her and were talking about the Great Apostasy and we were using like the pyramid of cups and showing that when Christ and the Apostles died that the authority was taken and all the things of Christ´s church were lost. And the pyramid crashes down. Well one of the cups said tithing. And at the end of the lesson we asked her if she had any questions and she said ¨I wanna know about tithing.¨ And me and Elder Oldroyd were like CRAP!! haha why did we put that on a cup! Because tithing is a huge doubt for investigators. Well I explained to her what it was and she says ¨I know what it is. How do you do it in your church? Do you pass the plate?¨ I said that we put it in an envelope and gave it to the bishop and she said ¨okay! So I just gotta go ask the Bishop for an envelope on Sunday!¨ We were thinking WHAT THE HECK!! And she said ¨Well because I´m going to your guys´ church now, I wanna pay my tithing at your church. I know that tithing is a commandment and I don´t wanna rob God.¨ I was flipping out! haha. I said ¨Alicia, we see that you have a huge testimony and strong desires to follow Christ and his Commandments. Will you follow his example and live his commandment and be baptized?¨ And she just said ¨Of course!¨ She will be baptized on the 25th of October. RIght before Elder Oldroyd goes home :). Since then she has come to church every sunday, came to conference, came to a ward activity and has been over to member´s houses to eat with them after church. She is SUPER accepted here and we are SO excited for her!!!!


Last week we had a Ward activity of the Party of the Nations. We have 10 different countries in our ward so we all did a presentation of our countries and brought food to share from our country. We had Argentina, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Chile, Spain, United States, Venezuela, Nigeria, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Alicia came to represent Ecuador and brought food and everything. She had so much fun and everyone got to know her. Ali came too but he´s super shy haha. I made Rice Krispie Treats to represent america and everyone LOVED them haha. I wore my Knuckle Ball Jersey too :). Elder Oldroyd has pictures and I´ll send them soon.


We have a member in our ward who was really strong in the church but has since started smoking again. It´s devastating him and he wants to be worthy of his priesthood again. We have been working with him a lot. This last week we made him a kit to quit! haha. His wife, who also smokes but doesn´t want to quit, left for the week so during this week He is quitting. We are visiting him every day and I downloaded conference and lent him my pindrive for the week so he could watch them on the TV. He is doing good so far and we are super excited for him as well! :)


We are seeing some great things here in Granada! I love it! I´m super happy with what we are doing here and how hard we are working!! I can´t believe I have a year out this week! There´s so much more to do still!! :)


Love you guys! THIS CHURCH IS TRUE!!! I LOVE IT! :)


Elder Marchant

Layouts from some of last weeks pictures.

pics, pics and more pics.

Alrighty everybody,


Now that all the pictures are out, I feel a little safer emailing :) I´m sure my emails from home will be a lot more loving..... ;)


What an awesome week!


Our investigator, Ali has a baptismal date for the 25th of October! He has been super prepared by the Lord. He needs to quit smoking before but he has come to church and he came to watch Priesthood session of conference with us and enjoyed it :). He is super great. We walked up with him to the Alhambra the other day because he lives really close and had a lesson up there with him. He is great!


Last Thursday there was a HUGE storm! There were huge rivers going down the street and golf ball sized hail falling down! It was nuts! Luckily we had just gone into Hanni´s house. She is the girl from Israel. It all came down! So we talked with her and she made us some food haha. It was crazy to watch!


We have another great investigator named Alicia and she is from Ecuador. Last week she came to the church after district meeting and made all the missionaries an Ecuatorian lunch :) We had a lot of fun and she feels super comfortable with all of us. She came to conference too :)


Elder Oldroyd is an AWESOME companion! He is going home in 3 weeks but he is the hardest working companion I´ve had and he has taught me a ton!! We get along really good and have a lot of fun together! We always talk about Torremolinos and all the crazy people and friends there :) I like him a lot!


Conference was super cool! We missed a few talks because we are always busy and doing stuff but I´m looking forward to reading them!


This week we are having a Party of the Nations in the ward. We have people from 13 different countries in our ward and we are gonna have presentations and frood from all the countries. We are doing the United States haha. Some countries are doing dances.... so we are thinking about doing some dumb American Dance move (there´s a new silly one every year in the states) or Thriller hahaha! But we will see!


I´m loving this area! We are getting great work done, I love the city and just everything so far!


I know that everything that was said this weekend in conference was the word straight from our Lord to help us. I hope you all take the things you learned and apply them NOW!


Have a great week! Love you guys! :) Enjoy the pictures! :)

Elder Marchant

Angeles and her crazy dog

 Picasso

Chas and Tong, my English students haha

 Mark

 Symbas Family

P-day sightseeing, RHONDA.

Plaza de Toros in Ronda! 

 What I would have given to have a sword in there!

Nico and Julie

Big clothes fashion show!

  I got me AND Elder Cowley into my suit! hahaha

 Inma and Lorenzo

 The Lugones :)

Nice little reunion with Elder Medina!

GRANADA! This is my area!!!

Elder Oldroyd´s Birthday Lunch

 Elder Oldroyd

 Foo Foo (Nigerian Food)

We walked up to the Alhambra with Ali and had a lesson in the forest.