Note from Mom: Gabe seems to be pretty happy to be back in his old apartment! I think he was pretty bummed about it at first, but now that he's there and he's met the other four elders that live in the apartment and they all get along really well, he's actually having a lot of fun. He does say that being a zone leader is a LOT of meetings and phone calls, but it's fine and he's probably learning a lot about being a leader in the church (lots of meetings and phone calls!) He really likes his zone leader companion, Elder Taylor, and his greenie, Elder Plewe, and it seems like he's doing pretty well! My only real concern is that his shoes look awful and I keep telling him when I see them in pictures, "Start wearing your black shoes or I'm going to send you new shoes!" (He insists I don't need to send him new shoes.)
Here are his notes!
1. Baptism of Cecilia
2. Crazy travel
3. Temple with Ademir
We had Cecilia's baptism on Friday which was awesome. She's been really fun to get to know and teach. The other Elders had started teaching her about a month ago. And we starting teaching her about 2 weeks ago. She's super nice and we are currently teaching her daughter as well.
Because we live in Aranjuez but out area is in Valdemoro we have to travel about an hour everyday to get to our area. We also had interviews with President and zone conference so we were out a lot this week. I've been hitting the "please help us get a piso in Valdemoro" prayer every day🙏🏼.
Ademir is the man me and Elder Bright baptised when I was here a year ago. On Wednesday I got to go to the temple with him for his first time. He brought the name of his grandpa and was baptized for him and 14 others. So that was awesome.
Day-by-Day Notes
Tuesday, September 23: We had a great videocall with Cecilia today. Then we went to Valdemoro and had some great street contacting and found 5 people. Afterward, we met with Boyan and Katerin. Both the lesson were great and after we had a videocall with Juan and I had to clap him because he hasn't been going to church.
Wednesday, 24 of September: We had an amazing temple trip where we did baptisms with Ademir in the temple for the first time. He was my very first baptism of my mission. He was baptised when me and Bright were here my first transfer. After that, we basically just managed interviews and had some videocalls.
Thursday, September 25: We woke up early this morning for zone conference and had a very clapped breakfast and then had the conference. It went pretty good, but I got flamed a couple times by president😭. After that we had a ZL and STL meeting with President and I got flamed for being 19💀. Then we traveled back to Aranjuez and had a pretty normal day after that.
Friday, September 26: We had a videocall for Elder Plewe and then his mentoring session this morning. Then we went to Valdemoro and had some hype street contacting again. After that we had the baptism of Cecilia!! It was gas. We had to set up the font there because they just have this pool thing that we have to use. (Daguimar videoed me taking down the font and messaged it to my mom, which mom really appreciated! ;))
Saturday, September 27: We had a 3 hour zone leader mission call this morning which was devious. Then we had a lesson in Valdemoro with Hebert and a videocall with Ariana. Then the APs showed up and we had our exchange with them. It was only like a 3 hour exchange. But me and Elder Saxey ate food with a hype Brazilian family and they have a Honduran living with them and she made us some gas max and cheese.
Sunday, September 28: We had some hype church activities then went and ate with Ioan and his wife, a less active family, and a recent convert and her husband thats not a member. Crazy lesson. One was crying, others were screaming. After that though we studied and planned for next week.
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