Great Week

Hola:)

What a great week we had here in alcobendas:) The sign up sheet that we passed around in relief society last week, for the women to come with us to lessons, worked wonderfully. We were able to pass our goal for lessons taught with a member. We are also preparing everything for the packets!

Araisa - Ariasa is married Dominican investigator that has a cute little 4 year old son. We have been trying so hard to get her to come to the church and on Friday she finally agreed to come to the Noche de Hogar.... And she Loved it. We played a game at the end and she was laughing to hard. Next step...Sacrament Meeting.

Polin - Polin is doing really well. The members are so great and patient with him in the lessons. He also came to church on sunday and he reads everything we give him. His prayers are also very beautiful and very heartfelt. He just has a hard time really understanding what he is reading and recognizing the spirit. He lets his worldy knowledge get in the way of his spiritual progression. 

Nela - Is doing so well. We had a beautiful lesson with her on families and eternal marriage. She told us that she has a brother and sister that are both in orphanages in Romania and that she was getting ready some packages of clothes and shoes to send them. She was having a hard time finding things that would fit her sister and so luckily me and her are around the same size and we were able to find her some things to send her. God always opens up opportunities to serve and help others!

Marcos - Is our new miracle! We were proselyting on the street one day and he just said "hola hermanas" as he walked passed us. I asked my companion who that was and she wasn´t sure so we decided to run up to him and talk to him. Turns out about a year ago he was taking the lessons with the sisters but they had to stop because he was travelling to much for work. We had the first lesson with him this week and he told us he already knows that the book of mormon is true, that he already got his answer. He also agreed to prepare to be baptized December 6!!! So start praying for him:) He´s really great!

Otras Cosas:

Last Sunday in relief society I sat by one of the Elder´s Romanian investigators. This week the elders came up to me and said "Hermana Fuller you have to sit by her again...She Loves you! She told us that you´re friends." I sat by her again and then after she wanted to take a picture with me. It made my entire day:)

Valentin - Is doing so well! Hmna Seegmiller told me that he goes on visits with the elders all the time. and... I got to see him! We travel all the way to Barrio 2 to have our district meetings on wednesdays and so we planned it out so that we could go eat lunch together after:) It was so awesome to see him again. Love Barrio 2. 

That´s the summary for this week. The work is pressing forward! Love and miss you all:)

Hermana Fuller

Many are called....But few answer!

Hola:)

As you can see from the title of this weeks email, we have been calling everyone and their dog.... but nobody seems to be disponible. But that has not gotten us down. We have done a little work in our area book this week and we have met with a few old investigators so we have high hopes for them. We also are continuing our contacting quest in the street which is going pretty well.  

El Barrio - I´ve been super happy with the desire and involvement that the ward has with the missionaries. On sunday my companion and I got permission to pass around a signup sheet for some of the women to come with us to lessons and it happened to be that the lesson for that day was on missionary work. (Perfect!!) And a bunch of the women in the ward gave testimonies about going with the missionaries on visits so that made everyone excited to participate with us. All of us missionaries are also in charge of giving the class the 5th sunday of this month. I brought up the idea of doing packets like we did in Gijon and then also doing a 7 day prayer and scripture reading as a ward ending the with a ward fast for missionary work the first sunday of december. They really liked this idea so this week we are going to start working on the packets. We are also planning on doing a combined young womens and young mens activity and have them come with us on lessons and do contacting on the street. So... good things are happening in alcobendas. 

Nela - I just met Nela this week. She is an adorable Romanian woman that is married and has a 4 year old child that is deaf. We had an incredible lesson with her. She has so much faith in the restoration of the gospel. Her husband was really against the whole church thing at first but we thing he is starting to soften so we are going to try to have a noche de hogar with them sometime this week. 

Karen and Angel - Karen is a less active that really wants to get reactivated in the church and Angel is her pareja and our investigator. They aren´t married and for various reasons karen has been really struggling with the idea of them getting married... BUT this week was a miracle and Karen told us that they decided to get married in December:) 

Wellington - Recent convert here in Alcobendas... Blessed the sacrament this week! So he is progressing so well! 

Eusebio - the old adorable paralyzed Spaniard:) For a long time he has not been wanting to take the sacrament but this week we had a great lesson with him about the importance of it and he finally decided that he wants to be able to take it every week. so we are going to make arrangements for him to be able to receive that sacrament:) 

Polin - Polin is a german-chinese man that we found in our area book. We had a lesson with him this week and he has a lot of doubts, particularly about the book of Mormon, but he says he loves that way that we act and behave ourselves and he wants to know why we are so different from everyone else... So there is potential there!

That´s about it for this week. We are still on the search for new investigators so keep up your prayers and thank you so much for the ones that you are offering:) I can feel their strength. 

BESOS

Hermana Fuller

Little Special Surprise

Hola :)

So my first week in my new area started out with a little special surprise... So my second companion and half trainer Hermana Cançado just finished her mission. Her parents were coming to pick her up and do a tour of spain but they where scheduled to come a week later than the transfer So... she got to come be companions with me and Hermana Shurtz for the week. It was the best surprise Ever. It was so fun to be able to be companions with her for the second time and also be in a trio. 

This week we have been street contacting A LOT. There is actually quite a lot of work here. We have quite a few investigators but only a couple of them are progressing. So we are in the finding game right now. Keep your prayers up, I know there are prepared people here, we´ve just got to find them.

The ward here is fantastic. It is the best functioning ward or branch that I have seen or been in on my mission. Everyone is very on board with missionary work and they all are really fulfilling their callings within the church. 

Here are a few of the people I´ve met so far:

Hermana Shurtz - My companion:) She is from St. George Utah and she is 19 years old. She is majoring in English with a minor in mathematics. She is super fun and hilarous. She has been in the mission about 4 months now. 

Wellington - Wellington is a 22 year old recent convert from ecuador. He is basically the coolest kid ever. He has an awesome man-pony and he just happens to speak japanese, which I was a bit excited about. He has the sweetest testimony and you feel the spirit so much when he prays. 

Juan - Juan is a Spanish investigator. He got in a car accident a few years back and he has never fully recuperated mentally, but he loves coming to church and learning about the gospel. 

Eusebio - is an 80 year old spaniard that was baptised by the granddaughter of Gordon B. Hinckley. He lives in a Residency because he is paralyzed so we go visit him once a week. He is the cutest man ever and has the strongest testimony. He has a whole library to himself where he puts all of his church books. Such a sweet strong convert. 

Updates from B2:

Bartolome - Is preparing to recieve the priesthood!

Valentin - Has a job interview in Leganes sometime this week. (lots of prayers) 

That´s it for today. Love you all mucho!

Hermana Ariana Fuller