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First things first (not as powerful of a phrase in spanish dad, sorry, ive tried to use it with investigators and they just kinda look at me weird like ``uh, ya, and...???`` jaja) a good story from the week.  We went to eat lunch with the members one day and my comp and i went into the bathroom to wash our hands... When my comp finished rubbng his hands with the bar of soap, he went to set it back down next to the sing and he squeezed it too hard... the bar of soap made a miraculous flight from his hand and bounced, TOTALLY BOUNCED onto a little planter/decoration thing ontop of the back part of the toilet, then landed on the toilet seat, started to slide around the toilet seat like an in-n-out shot in basketball, and then, as we are watching absolutely stunned, it takes a dip right into the toilet... oh gosh we started laughing soooo hard at the amazing trip that eager little bar of soap made that for some reason, not thinking at all, just being dumb and laughing, my comp and i both thought the exact same thing and reached forward and flushed the toilet and laughed as we saw the bar of soap get flushed down...  the lesson to be learned, dont leave the seat up right?

Alright well other than that its been a really normal and cool week in the full time mission field!  First off, on monday, we went to the area of the sister missionaries to help them find some new people to teach, and we just hit it up in apark talking to as many people as wel could... And ya i dont really have anything specific to say about it, just that its sooooo cool to preach just on the spot like that in the street.  Ive been trying more than anñything to try to listen to the Spirit and ask inspired questions that make the people talk, and not just talk myself, so that they then talk about what it really is that they need in their life, and then when ivegot that opened door into their lives i try to relate it to the gospel, and its soooocool how well it works!!  Even when the people turn their shoulder and tell us they dont want to hear anything about our message, i walked away from every little mini conversation with a stronger testimony because each and every time i felt inspiredto ask a question that then opened them up and help me put myslef in their shoes and relate the gospel to their lives.  Perhaps what i like most is that doing missionary work this way is that i feel good, i just plain and simply feel good, this way even if the people reject us i always walk away knowing i felt the Spirit, i did my part, i know with more surety what im doing is right, and i know the other person knows it too, even if they havent chosen to believe it yet.  Elder Claytons talk mentoined that a bit, choosing to believe.  when missionaries work with the Spirit, people always, always know its true, there are countless examples of that in the scriptures, its just a matter of whether thepeople are going to face reality, humble themselves, and accept what they know is true, or whether they are going to lie to themsleves and keep living in ignorance and fake happiness.  So ya monday night was especially a fun night cuz i went to bed knowing id done my best to testify of Christ and His Father`s plan for us, madeknown by the restored church!

Alright so general conference, what i saw was awesome!!!  The only problem is, i didnt see much unfortunately... Saturday it was just a buffering bar almost the whole day... I did get to see it in english luckily, even though im the only gringo and/or english speaker within miles, the branch presidente here brought his laptop to thechapel and i watched in english, saw most of the saturday mornign session, but almost nothing of the afternoon or priesthood session. Sunday didnt have too much problems though and it was sweet!!!

Alright well thats about all ive got for now, this area, Zarzal, is really cool!!  The branch here is small but has some great people!!  The only interesting thing is that its been a branch for years, like ten or twenty i think, and there are super good leaders, most of them returned missionaries, and tons of missionareis from the branch in toher countries right now, but for some reason the branch justistn grwoing...so my comp and i are doing our best to energize everyone here and give them hope in a sense... 

Oh pues la ùltima cosa que les tengo que decir hoy es que, desafortunadamente, hay mucha gente aquì que no sabe leer... Y despues de haber conocido a algunas personas asì, mi compañero y yo decidimos empezar clases en la capilla a fin de enseñarles a leer, màs que todo, para que puedan leer el Libro deMormòn.  Sè que el Libro de Mormòn tiene poder para ayudarles a aprender a leer porque pues es asì que he aprendido mi español, asì que estaremos enseñando clases de leer y debe ser chevere!  Doy mi testimonio que el Libro de Mormòn es otro testamento de Jesucristo.  Sè que contiene la plenitud de Su evangelio, en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.

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