What´s up guys :).
Pretty slow week. Not gonna lie :)
We ate Guinea Pig! That was pretty interesting :) haha. :) I took pictures so I´ll send them. The same family that made us Snail Soup made Guinea Pig for us :) haha. I´m a little scared for what´s next haha.
The Christmas Light´s came on this week here :) The center of Granada is SUPER pretty with all the lights!
We spent most of the week inviting people to the Christmas Concert we had at the church. The Granada Orchestra played a concert in the church on Saturday. It was really good! :) But we spent almost the whole week passing by old investigators or potential investigators and less actives inviting them to the concert so we didn´t get much else done.
This week my companion is in charge. I gave him the phone, and told him that he would be leading us in plannings and working in the area book. I feel like I´m not getting much help and he sometimes has no idea what is going on. It kind of makes sense. He´s always been companions with Leaders. I spent a lot of time thinking what I could do to get him to help me out a little more. He seems like someone who would take offense to criticism. So as I was thinking I realized that I have a problem haha. I hate asking for help. If I can do something I do it instead of inconveniencing anyone else. So I told him that I need to get better at that so this week I would ask him to have the phone, make the calls, plan, and work in the Area Book. I said I would help with whatever he needs but that he needs to learn how to do things so that HE can be a leader sometime. So all I have to worry about this week is working! :)
I have been pondering a lot this week about how to explode the area. One thing I have really learned on the mission is to always be happy but never be satisfied. I don´t beat myself up about things not being perfect but things ALWAYS must be progressing! In everything!
I listened to a talk this morning by Sister Holland called ¨Walking on Water¨. I loved it! It talked about how when Christ called to Peter on the water, Peter was able to walk on the sea for that brief moment because for that small instance, he had so much faith that he FORGOT that it was impossible. That´s what more missionaries need. Including me!! We need to have so much faith that we FORGET how seemingly impossible it may be to acheive a goal. I will be working on that a lot in the coming weeks :).
Well...sorry for preaching but nothing crazy happened this week and this stuff is what´s been on my mind :) So I shared it haha. I invite you guys to apply it to yourselves.
Have a great week! I love you guys! :)
Elder Marchant
Crap! I forgot a huge story!!! So last wednesday we had transfers. One of the Zone Leaders went home so we had to watch Elder Metcalf all morning until his comp came :). SO...we were lucky enough to have the car for the morning!
We decided to take advantage and go to a cita that buses didn´t get to. So we park the car in a line of cars on the side of the road next to a construction site. And go to our cita. An hour later we come out and there is no car!!! Instead, there is a little green sticker telling us that we got towed!!! NOT OKAY!! We had more lessons to go to and we were FAR away! haha! So we call up a member and ask if he can take us to the tow place. We called the tow place and asked how much it was gonna be to get it out because we needed it that day. 106 EUROS! Elder Metcalf had no money. So I payed to get the car out.... I am broke! haha. Luckily the mission is riembursing me and I will have money tomorrow haha. But we were running everywhere all morning! From my piso to get my money to, member´s houses to get in a car to get to the Tow Truck place, to the bank because they didn´t take card, back to the tow truck place, and finally to the bus station just in time to pick up Elder Metcalf´s companion! What a crazy morning!:) At least it was an adventure :)
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