My beloved family,
This is what happened last week:
Monday-- we cleaned piso, found a great supermarket with great fruit and great everything, and spent the day with members and less actives. I love these people. For lunch we went to Burger King, and the cashier was an 18 year old guy who asked me about the Church. His name is Pablo. We are SO going to teach him!!! :)
Tuesday-- We had an intercambio with the elders on Menorca (our district includes Ibiza & Menorca--one set of missionaries on each island). My companion left for Menorca, and I was, for my first time, the Senior companion!! I was in charge of everything--the phone, making sure we didn't get lost, etc. It was crazy! My companion for the day was a missionary who had been out for a year.
Wednesday-- This was the day that we were going to switch back. We tried to have District Meeting (which we do via Skype), but the connection was bad, and so we didn't really have it. Before he went back, he showed me how to make cheesecake--our investigators here are going to love it (I still haven't given it to them. I hope it's good!). He said he would give me more recipes.
Thursday-- Élder Bozarth and I organized a Talent Show for Thursday night. We announced it last Sunday. Haha, if we didn't give them a lot of time to prepare, it didn't show--IT WAS A SMASHING SUCCESS!!!!!! We had about 55 people there, and more than half were nonmembers who the members had invited!!! We are going to visit these people in the coming weeks. It was so much fun! My companion and I both participated in various acts (the branch made me play the piano, since one of the acts didn't make it). I think that there are videos on the Rama Ibiza facebook page.
Friday-- I learned (like I learned on Tuesday) that an older companion really does influence the younger companion. I know that this mission is, if you think about it, kinda like a 2 year fast -- if we want to fully benefit from it, we've got to have the right attitude. We worked hard that day.
Saturday-- English class was SO much fun!! We hadn't had a bunch of time to prepare, but I felt (at the last minute) that we needed to prepare a game to play, to help them learn the material. I prepared it real quick, and then started the class. We had another new student show up! We had such a BLAST!! If every class from now on is that much fun, we are going to have tons of people flooding the church, I know it. :) Which means that if I want that to happen, I need to make sure that our English classes are well prepared. Miraculously, the Mission President called us that night. He wanted to talk to me. He told me lots of stuff, which I don't have time to write about, but basically he told me to not be afraid to insist on obedience. There was more to it, but that was one of the most important bits. I needed that call.
Sunday-- Church was great! I love these people!! Yesterday afternoon...Well, I wrote a little bit about it in my letter to President Pace.
This is what I wrote to my President this week:
Dear President, Thank you so much for your call two nights ago. It meant a great deal to me. Thanks to the Spirit, I was given things to share from my notes that I had been prompted to bring, and I was given words and experiences to share. Obedience brings blessings. Exact obedience brings miracles. We will be seeing more and more miracles here, President.
I have the best life ever -- I have such an AMAZING FAMILY and such AMAZING FRIENDS who all love me at home; I get to BE A MISSIONARY FOR THE LORD here in Ibiza, an isle of the sea; and I have a Heavenly Father who is aware, and who I know is aware, of me, and He gives me strength and guidance every day.
It´s just the best, is all. :) I love you guys!!
Thank you for your emails, those of you who've had time to write. For those who still haven´t written, why procrastinate the day? ;) I understand if you don´t have time--just know that I am still thinking about you, and that I love you. Why else would I work so hard and use so much time to stay in contact with you, when I´m on a crazy island in the Mediterranean? ;)
God WILL bless us for our dedicated and constant obedience!! Take the Grand Canyon, for example. We might not see the effects of a trickle of water along the ground, but if we give it a chance, it WILL, over time, leave a mark, and if we increase the flow, it will carve deeper and deeper, writing itself in our hearts, until it is obvious and beautiful.
How do we set the water running? READING THE BOOK OF MORMON. How do we increase the flow? LIVE WHAT IT TEACHES. I´m still learning, and I´m not 100% there yet, of course, but this is what I´m finding out, and what I´m inviting strangers to find out; so why not share it with those I love?
Simply,
Élder Zubeldia
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