Well I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. Lol we ate octopus with our Branch President. It was also my parents anniversary on Thanksgiving so shouts to them for that #therealmvps Last PDay we went with members down to the border of Portugal in a city called La Guardia. It was super cool and probably top 5 most beautiful things I've ever seen. Pictures to follow. We found these old hut things and I don't speak Galician so I couldn't read what it was about hahah. The girl hooked us up with some Cuban chicken though and it was cool cool stuff. We have this 18 year old brotha from Senegal that comes to English class every week and he's like my best friend in Vigo lol. I see so much potential in him and so we've tried to introduce the gospel slowly with him and offer him "special lessons" outside of English class to get him by himself. So after beating around the bush for a couple weeks, we cut to the chase last week. Taught him the Plan of Salvation because he's Muslim and they believe like the same thing, so he's all excited and stuff. We tried to teach in English but he just doesn't understand so we switched to Spanish after like thirty seconds. It went so well that we kept teaching the restoration! It was a really spiritual experience and he loved it. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he was shocked it was free. He said he would read it and pray and we'll see him again on Wednesday to see how everything went. I'm really excited because it felt like I was just teaching my best friend! Oh and I don think I mentioned that our one investigator we had with a baptismal date is no longer a thing. After much prayer and thought we decided to stop teaching her. She wasn't progressing at all. she was actually de progressing if that's a thing. Wasn't accepting anything and refused to keep commitments. So after getting our hopes up after seeing a little success it got shut down. It's easy to see why this used to be the second least successful mission in the world (1. Vatican Mission) But we're working really hard to switch that! And the members still have that mentality, but we're seeing a lot of change and we kind of set them straight this past Sunday and said if they want more members they need to pull there own part. But it's exciting seeing the change, but I think I'm getting transferred this week so that's really sad. I love it here and am tight with a lot of people. A miracle from yesterday: Elder Howard's companion has been like dead the past three days and Elder Howard needed to run pick up some investigators. Literally like run. We did service for them Saturday (which is another miracle that people allowed us to do service for them) and they decided to come to church. So we run to their house and she decides to bring two friends! We were thirty minutes from the church and needed to be there in 10 minutes and, like last week, were blessed by the Lord. This taxi out of nowhere pulls around the corner and I literally jump in front of it. We throw in the women and throw the taxi driver money and tell him where to go. We start running to the church when this less active family pulls in front of us and we jump in the back of their van and cram ourselves in there. So first miracle is that we did service. Second miracle is we got investigators to church. Third is we got them a ride there on time. Fourth is this less active family made the right decision by deciding to attend church and helped get us there. It was great. We walked in and sat down in the chapel right as sacrament started. If there's a will there's a way. It was an awesome sacrament meeting and I'm glad there were investigators there to feel the spirit. Also Vigo goes hard for Christmas. I need to get pictures of this place at night. it competes with Temple Square I kid you not. Except it's in the middle of Babylon. And not spiritual. But they go haaaaarrrrddddd. The lights are beautiful and make me trunky for home but it's awesome. And I never thought I'd miss the dry cold of Utah, but it's sooooooo much better than a windy humid cold here. And there's snow in Utah. None of that here I had the opportunity to read the three talks from conference from the new Apostles. They're more like testimonies. But just reading them, I could feel the spirit and new these men were called by Jesus Christ and it was a privilege to sustain them live here in Spain. I loved Elder Renlunds "Through Gods Eyes." We need to see every person through the eyes of our Heavenly Father. I promise if we do this, we'll have so much more love for everyone, have more patience, charity, love, desire to do good and serve them. This is coming from a kid who had a hard time being patient with people and looking for good within them before his mission. I know it sounds hypocritical of me to say that but I've seen the change in my heart in these three months and it's astounding. I want you all to feel the same. Sorry this is long but I hope you were able to take the time to read at least the last paragraph. Much love from España to wherever you are reading this. My prayers are with you during this wonderful holiday season until the next week my friends. It's beginning to look a lot like (a not white) Christmas, Elder Gearig
Kyle is serving a 2 year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. To learn more about missions and what Kyle believes visit www.mormon.org
Monday, November 30, 2015
Thanksgiving in Spain = Spain-ksgiving
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