D&C 20:10-12

10 And thy brother Oliver shall continue in bearing my name before the world, and also to the church. And he shall not suppose that he can say enough in my cause; and lo, I am with him to the end.

11 In me he shall have glory, and not of himself, whether in weakness or in strength, whether in bonds or free;

12 And at all times, and in all places, he shall open his mouth and declare my gospel as with the voice of a trump, both day and night. And I will give unto him strength such as is not known among men.

Monday, September 16, 2013

September 16, 2013

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PORTER!!!
I love you, bro!

Sorry, but that is the best I can do while I'm out here.

Anyways, life is great here! We are having a lot of success (and most missionaries don't have a lot of quantifiable success here in Torrevieja). Élder Rodríguez is a fantastic teacher, to everyone he speaks with. Everyday I see my Spanish getting better and he helps me learn how to teach with the spirit. That dude is a stud. He really knows what's going down out here in the mission field. Élder Rodríguez and I have a lot in common. He and I jam out in the piso to MOTAB and assorted churchy music. It's pretty fun.

Okay. Now to answer some of your questions...
 
My camera is nearly non-functional. The shutter button fell out, so I taped a thumb-tack to it, and it kind of works. It still takes pictures, but the screen is broken, and I can't turn on the flash or other options. It might be a good idea to send me a new one. (If you do, make sure it uses micro-usb rather than mini-usb.)
I am going to email President Deere and ask if we can use dropbox. That would be sweet.
You CAN send pictures/videos/assorted things to me.
we have 1.5 hours to email on p-day. It is quite nice. We go to the locutorio. It's a public computer place, but we have to pay.

I'm so freaking proud of everybody in the Family! They're just doing work!

This week we began teaching F & L. F is a menos activo. He is from Columbia, but lived in Norway for much of his life going to art school. He is a fabulous painter. L is our golden investigator. She is also from Columbia, but met F here in Torrevieja. She filled out a pamphlet's questions in the back! Completely! That is the first time Élder Rodríguez has ever seen that. She totally felt the spirit at our first lesson, and we have had a few more since then. She asked, "how can I feel that more often?" and we were, like, "Weeellll. Let us tell you about baptism." And she wants to get baptized!  But first, we have to set a date for marriage before we can set a date for baptism. F is golden too! He totally wants to come back to church, get married, and take her to the temple!  So, we will see how things go after F gets back from Norway next week.

We have district meetings in Cartegena every Tuesday. It wouldn't be so bad if we had a car, because it is a 25 minute drive, but we have to take the bus. It is a 2 hour bus ride, both ways... But, the people in my district are all way cool, and we are going to have a zone p-day one of these days and go do some cool things. I don't know what, but they will probably be cool.

Last week we had a day of absolutely no success (with a small exception). All of our plans fell through for that morning and that evening AND that night. It sucked. We walked from piso to piso, knocking every single door. We probably knocked 350 doors, and nobody would listen to us. We had little success making street contacts as well. That was the first day so far that I have truly wanted to just go back to the piso early and call it a night. It was really discouraging. But then, we had somebody answer the door, a man named H, - just a crack- and said to come back tomorrow (Sunday).

So we did. And it was perfect. His wife answered the door, and Élder Rodríguez began to introduce us in a slightly different manner than usual. And it worked. He was asking all these questions, and they were golden. Every one of them. We could totally feel the spirit, and she could too! She was just standing there in the doorway, talking to two boys with ties, crying-- despite the chaos of the kids having a nerf war behind her. It was an amazing experience. As we were returning to our piso that night, I was talking about the meeting with Élder Rodríguez, and he didn't remember much of what was said, which shows me that he really was teaching with the Spirit of God.

We are always busy, always tired, and always hungry (well, I am... but that is normal). Something that is so cool to me, is that even though we do about 7 hours of study related stuff per day, we have time to do everything else.

Tell everybody I love them! Keep working hard, and choose the right!

Os quiero mucho!
Élder Oliver

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