Note from Mom: I am kind of trying to play a little catch-up here! I think I forgot to update this because my mom was visiting over spud harvest break and she didn't leave until October 1st and I forgot to write this for Gabe! We got to talk on the phone with Gabe while Grandma Sue was here, which was fun, but some crazy things happened in the world these past couple of weeks! First, President Russell M. Nelson passed away at the age of 101 on September 27th. Then, the next morning, which was Sunday, September 28th, a bad dude in Michigan drove into an LDS church building and started shooting. It was all over the news. Then a few days later, we had General Conference on October 4-5th. Elder Dallin H. Oaks is going to become the next prophet, and it was good to have conference after such a crazy week!
Meanwhile, there have been some protests going on in Spain because people are mad about the U.S. helping Israel in the Palestine/Israel war. I honestly don't know enough about it as I should, but Gabe told us that his mission president told them not to speak English in public, which is a bit unsettling as a mom! Other than that, things are going fine for Gabe. He still is having fun with his 4 room mates and all seems well! They are teaching so many people that I am having a hard time keeping up!
Here are his notes for the past 2 weeks:
September 29 - October 6
1. Zone Pday!
2. Amigos
3. General Conference
We had zone pday this week which was why we had pday on Tuesday. We got to go to the temple and me and Elder Taylor did a workshop which went pretty good. We did a day of nations at our ward building because we have people from a lot of different countries in our zone. This was like a day to honor people from different nations around the world. So we all ate some hype food.
As far as amigos, we are teaching Cecilia's daughter. Her mom (Cecilia) got baptised last week. We also have been having a great time with Jean, who also has a baptismal date. Besides that though, we've eaten with a good amount of members this week also. Which has been awesome.
Because of the time difference I only got to watch like 3 and a half sessions of conference, but the talks we did watch were awesome.
Here are his second "summary of week" notes - October 7 - October 12
1. Amigos
2. baptisms
3. Transfers soon
We've had a super great week with people. The worse was this guy that showed up on drugs to our lessons. He was kinda tweaking but it was still pretty good. Then we found a guy on Thursday that we got from a reference and then met with him Friday, he came to a church activity on saturday, then on Sunday we gave him a baptismal date at church. His name is Leonardo and got he got deported from the states buts super hype. He's about 40 from Honduras.
We have the baptisms of Carmen and Fabrizo this week so we are busy prepping that. Carmen is a women we've been teaching this whole tranfer that one of the members is friends with. She's awesome but always be flaming me for my gringo accent😭. Fabrizio is a 9 year old kid from the ward. His family is less active and we've been working with him so he can get baptised and hopefully bring his family back. We also got exchanges in the hype city of Toledo today so that's cool.
We will get transfer calls this week which is crazy because this transfer has gone by so fast. It's a 5 week transfer but still feels like I just got here. It's been awesome seeing all the members again and its been such a good transfer. I'm excited to see what happens this transfer though.
Day-by-Day Notes for the past 2 weeks:
Monday, September 29: We left early this morning for Alcazar. We have exchanges with them on Tuesday so we decided to pass Pday with them. We had a very boring day. We ate kebob and that was about it.
Tuesday, September 30: We had a booty exchange in Alcazar. All the lessons canceled so me and Adams just street contacted all day😭. It was like deja vu from when I first got to Alzacar to be companions with Elder Adams.
Wednesday, October 1: Today was hype. We left the apartment and visited Carmen (the woman who has a baptismal date) and her member friend Dora. The lesson went great and they gave us Causa after🙏🏼. Then we had a gas lesson with Jean. We gave him a baptismal date for October 25 and he asked us, "Why do I have to wait so long?" Then we had a lesson with Scarlett and her daughter Abby, who is 16, and it was awesome. She speaks perfect English and she had notes from her last lesson and asked for homework because "It's for the eternal life of my family I need to study"🙏🏼. Crazy good day.
Thursday, October 2: We had a crazy long call this morning with the STLs planning things for next week. After that though we had a great lesson with Fabrizo (the nine-year-old boy) and his mom. He and his sister are getting baptised next week then we got some food for Dora (the hype member). After, we just street contacted and then Elder Taylor made a very high quality dinner while I made some bunk beds. I will not need to sleep on the couch anymore!
Friday, October 3: More calls today with the district leaders. Then we had a hype plan of salvation lesson and then we visited Boyan (my second baptism of my mission way back last year). He's chill, but he has not been coming to church as much as he should. Then we street contacted the rest of the night.
Saturday, October 4: Today was pretty boring we spent the morning in Aranjuez doing all of our studies and then spent mediodia in a McDonald's in Ciempozuelos. After we had a hype lesson with a women we met yesterday named Katiuska. She believes in God but has never prayed before. Crazy work. But after that we watched conference and traveled back to Aranjuez for the night.
Sunday, October 5: We watched general conference most the day (at home in our piso), but we did have a great member meal with an awesome family from Brazil today. General Conference is on here in the evening, so we watched the first Sunday session from 6-8pm, and then the second one from 10pm-midnight.
Monday, October 6: We woke up this morning and did all of our studies and took like 2 hours to get to Valdemoro because of bus problems. Then we had a gas member lesson with Carmen, the women getting baptised soon. And Dora the member was there. Dora is amazing and always giving us hype Peruvian food. Then we left for Madrid because we have a workshop tomorrow. We also had a crazy videocall with the whole mission and president gave us some new rules so we wouldn't be targeted🙏🏼. Theres a lot of worry because of all the Palastine protests. The biggest rule is we can't speak English in public now.
Tuesday, October 7: We had a pretty good zone pday today. We all went to the temple and then had a workshop. Everything went pretty good. After that we all ate food that people had brought from their home countries which was hype. Then we had sports and call family time. After that me Elder Gil, Elder Taylor, and Elder Malachowski all had a couple lessons and then got Mcdonalds.🙏🏼
Wednesday, October 8: Today was pretty sad. Elder Gil hurt his leg yesterday playing soccer and while we were playing he messed up his ACL. I was with him all day because of the exchanges and we found out he was almost certainly going home. He's an awesome guy too so it was pretty sad. We only had like 1 lesson and the rest if the time was trying to fix his leg.
Thursday, October 9: Today was super hype. We left the apartment at 9:30 and traveled to Valdemoro for a good lesson with a street contact named Pedro. After that we street contacted until our lesson with Manish (random Indian guy who barely speaks english and no spanish). It went good too. With google translate he understands the Book of Mormon. Then we randomly stopped by an inactive member named Jhon who I visited once with Elder Bright. He started crying mid-lesson and his friend was there while we talked and gave Jhon a blessing. We set up on lesson for Sunday to go back and teach the friend as well. After we returned to Aranjuez and I had a super funny call with an elect guy who spoke perfect english and lived in the United States.
Friday, October 10: We started the day off with a hype lesson with Leonardo. The guy from the phone call yesterday. He was super interested and the lesson was awesome. After we traveled to Ciempozuelos and had a gas lesson with Cecilia and her daughter, Ariana. Then we had a lesson with Fabrizio and his mom. He's getting baptised next week.
Saturday, October 11: We had a hype lesson this morning with Jean and talked about him coming to church. Then in the evening, we had a hype day of nations where all the members brought food from their countries. It was all so good. Leonardo also came and some of our of her amigos. Leonardo was telling us crazy stories about him getting deported👀. But it was all super fun.
Sunday, October 12: We had a pretty good time at church. During the second hour we had a lesson with Leonardo and gave him a baptismal date. He's so elect. Then we had a super funny member meal with the Yubero family. The dad dropped the Nword😭. Then we traveled to Valdemoro for a lesson but one of them canceled and the other named juan was off the wok. He was tweeking mega hard but locked in for the lesson. It went ok all things considered. Then we journeyed back to Aranjuez for the night.
Monday, October 13 - ** from mom - I am pretty sure this is the day Gabe went to Toledo for P-DAY, but I will include that in the next post!
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