Week 47: Basically spent the entire week watching the restoration video

Hola hola hola!!

Another good week in Murcia! This transfer has flown by! On Monday night we went to a noche de hogar with Sharon and a couple of members named Paula and Enrique who are super awesome. They gave us pizza afterwards and one of the pizzas had pesto and little sliced tomatoes on it. I think the only pizza that I really liked before coming on the mission was pepperoni, so you could say I'm a real adult now haha.

 On Tuesday we had district meeting, except it was in Molina instead of in Murcia, which wouldn't have been a problem BUT Tuesday was a holiday here and so the bus we normally take to Molina wasn't running... so it ended up taking 2 hours to get to Molina between finding the right bus stop, the right bus, and then walking through Molina trying to get to the capilla there. And we got to district meeting 30 minutes late haha. But it turned out good, and afterwards me and hermana Phillips got lunch at domino's so it was all worth it!

On Wednesday we were going to have two citas in the morning, but they both failed us, so we ended up drawing the plan of salvation in a plaza and talking to people on the street about it. On Wednesday night we went to the noche de hogar at Estefania's house and Thomas, a recent convert in our area, was there so it was really fun.

Thursday started out with weekly planning, and then we taught Eva. We taught her a mega-lesson about lots of things but she understood it all and was excited to read the folletos we had given her! Then in the evening we went to visit Sharon and Luis. We watched the restoration video with them, just the 20 minute one. It's very much from 15 years ago BUT it's really good and was a good chance for Luis (who's 13) to relate more to the story of Joseph Smith (who was 14). 

On Friday we spent the morning finding, just talking to people on the street and making calls and things. In the evening there was a baptism in the other ward and we got to go, and then when the guy who was baptized was changing afterwards, we watched... the restoration video.

Saturday we got permission to eat with the elders and Eva, because she really wanted to make paella for us which was so sweet! In the afternoon we met with Conchi and went over the restoration with her, featuring... the restoration video! It's really a good thing that Hermana Phillips and I like that video so much.

Mothers day in Spain in the first Sunday so everyone was just talking about their moms all Sunday which was kind of interesting. We had correlation and ate with a member family, then had a lesson with a man named Manolo in the park which went well!

I've been reading this week in the book of Acts in the New Testament. It had been a while since I read it, and I hadn't read it really in deep before. But reading about the early church led by the apostles has strengthened my testimony so much that this really is the same church that Jesus Christ established, restored in this time! I have really developed a love for the scriptures on the mission and am so grateful that we have them.

Love, Hermana Walker