Note from Mom - So, I was a little sad for Gabe at the beginning of this week. I had actually somehow seen a screenshot of the text that Victor had sent Gabe in his google photos. I read it (and with my insane Spanish skills) was able to piece together that Victor was backing out of his baptism date, which Gabe had been sooo looking forward to after working with him for the past month. There really hasn't been a lot of investigators (or "amigos") in this area, so I felt like Victor was like, the one thing keeping Gabe and his companion going this whole time. Then he texted on Tuesday and backed out and basically ghosted them. :( So, I started praying for them on Tuesday really hard that they would find people to teach and that things would start improving for them so that they wouldn't lose hope.
Then on Sunday, I did probably my longest fast in years. I actually didn't eat from like 10pm on Saturday night until 8pm on Sunday when we got home from our family pictures, and I was just really praying for Gabe to find more people. I guess it worked! Because they had 3 people just randomly text or contact them out of nowhere and all three are really promising! Gina, Anabel, and Gaby, and then another guy named Nicolas who they met through a member! So, I'm really glad things are looking more hopeful for them with teaching people this week!
Here are Gabe's emails!
Tuesday, August 5 - Monday, August 11, 2025
(Week 7 in Alcazar)
1. Death of Victor (not really dead)
2. Compensatory Amigos
3 Hottest experience of my career🔥😁🔥
Well, Victor texted us on Tuesday and told us he wasn't ready to get baptized. But, he also told us he wanted to keep doing lessons and coming to church. But since this week started, he hasn't been responding to any messages or answering any calls. His baptism was supposed to be the 10th😭. I'm sure the missionaries will get him in 20 years or something though🙏🏼.
The good news is, when we started getting ghosted by Victor, like 3 other people came out of nowhere for us to start teaching. First, we got a random text from a woman named Anabel who had been taking missionary lessons 2 years ago, but got cancer and had to stop meeting. She's a chill Spaniard lady who likes everything about the church and is always talking about how she dislikes the Catholic church. She came to church on Sunday! Then, we got an online reference for a woman named Gina, who had also taken lessons a long time and suddenly decided to go online and find missionaries again! She is retired and has a surgery coming up, but she came to church as well and we gave her a baptismal date for the 31st of August. We also started teaching a new guy named Nicolas! He's a chill 18-year-old that we meet at a member's birthday party. (See pic of him; he's the guy with braces)
We also got an online reference and started teaching a girl named Gaby and she's awesome and wants to get baptised, but the only problem is she's living her boyfriend. He's also 32 and she's 19😭💀. (*Note from mom - This situation is actually really sad. After talking to Gabe, it sounds like this girl is an immigrant with no family who has no job and no place to live, so she's basically living with this bad dude in order to have a home, which is literally a garage with no windows. They need to get her to church so the members there can help her.) When we went over to her house it was already 103 degrees outside and then her house was literally a cement block, so it was even hotter and humid inside. We were also in there for an hour and we were all dripping with sweat. Very un-hype. When we walked outside into the 103 degree weather it felt amazing in comparison. Even Arizona boy was dying(Adams.)
But overall I'm enjoying the mission a lot right now and we are consistently have about 2 or 3 lessons everyday, which is nice because we basically were only doing street contacting for the first month.
Gabe's Day-by-Day notes:
Tuesday, August 5 - Thursday, August 7: I sold and forgot to write in my journal; that's my bad. We've been having some hype street contacting though. Which is good because we've been doing a lot of it. We found a guy who basically loves deep doctrine and we talked in the street with him for 30 minutes and read some of Alma 42 with him and went crazy(in a good way). Victor has been selling and hasn't met with us because he been getting done with work late and he doesn't want to get baptised this week😭. He texted us and told us that on Tuesday. But a cool lady named Anabel sent us a message and was meeting with the missionaries 2 years ago but had to stop when she started getting cancer treatment. But now we are meeting with her tomorrow (Thursday), so we will see how that goes. The street contacting skills have been improving, and even the Spaniards have been letting us talk for a couple minutes about Jesús😭🙏🏼.
Friday, August 8: We might have had the best day of the past month. We started this morning with a lesson with Anabel, the woman from yesterday who had cancer. She's a super chill Spaniard woman that loves the church already and was almost baptised like 2 years ago before she got cancer. But she loved the Restoration lesson and is coming on Sunday. We also had a hype second lesson with a guy named Nicolas who we meet at the birthday party of a girl from the ward. We also then drove too Tomelloso and Gina accepted the 31st of August to be baptised. Then we had a lesson with Angel. He was baptised in Columbia in February and has only been here in Spain for 2 weeks.
Saturday, August 9: We had a very hype meal with Jaime (old man who is a member, whose wife is passed away and he goes to the temple every week to "have a date with his wife") which was fun. He's moving to Madrid this week to be closer to the temple, so that's a rip for us. But then me and Adams had the Hottest lesson I've ever had. We were in a cement block and it was 105 degrees outside and hot and humid inside that house. I was dripping with sweat for the entire hour as this woman was trauma dumping on us. It was lowkey wild. She's really nice thought and might come to church. Her name is Gaby. We walked outside and felt amazing even though it was still 105 outside. It had to have been 115 in there. Even Arizona boy almost died (Elder Adams).
Sunday, August 10: Church was pretty hype today. We had 40 people and we also had Gina and Anabel come to church today! We also had a super good lesson with Nicolas and Belen (his girlfriend) and he likes and understands everything. We also visited Pablo. He's this like 90-year-old guy who doesn't even speak Spanish. He does, but he so old the members don't understand him, so we didn't have a chance. His house has millions of framed photos and I think at one point he was Muslim because he has a bunch of Muslims tunics 😂. He also had a framed picture of one of the past missionaries, Elder Broadbent, which I thought was really funny.
Monday, August 11: Pday! We just stayed in Alcazar today. We got haircuts this morning, and that went well. Then we literally did nothing all day, which was hype. I called family though and we talked for a while (we didn't talk yesterday because I knew I'd be home bored today.) After 7:00pm, we did district counsel and street contacting.
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