I love you so much!! I trust you all are
doing well (since I haven't heard otherwise :) ), and I'm excited to
read the emails I've printed off!!
I am out of time, again. X)
Dear President Pace,
I am doing fantastically well, and I love my new companions! Élder Seegmiller and Élder Wheat are outstanding missionaries! Élder Seegmiller is a very thorough thinker, and he teaches with great clarity and courtesy. He also has a great sense of humor, which is wonderfully witty and appropriate. What a fantastic missionary companion in lessons! He is assertive, and is very clear-headed in decision making moments. He is always trying to improve his Spanish speaking skills. Both of my companions are so humble, and aside from their excellent Spanish skills, they really impress me with their personal dedication to BE missionaries. Élder Wheat is an exceptional example of modest spiritual strength. He is very thoughtful, and kind, and is always looking for ways he can help. He conducts himself in a very well-mannered and respectful way. He doesn't see problems--he sees opportunities to try things differently. What a blessing to have such amazing companions to love and work with!
Our biggest challenge is that we have so much work to do that it is difficult to get to everyone (an interesting "problem"). We haven't had time for much planning, studying, or mediodía as a result of having so many people to visit, transportation, and challenges in getting members to accompany us (so that we might go on splits, and work in both areas). My fear is that people might start to fall through the cracks, as it were. What a blessing it is that Heavenly Father trusts us, and believes that we can do it! If He thinks so, then we can. I firmly believe that if we all work together, Heavenly Father will help us achieve the unachieved.
Our friends who've accepted to be baptized for this week (Veronica--I haven't met her yet, and we need to get into contact with her. It's likely to be postponed, but I trust É. Seegmiller´s conviction that she will be baptized.)
A less-active sister we have been working with invited us to her house, and we arrived to terrible news: her "pareja" of 15 years just died, in her país, that morning... she was devastated. We did the best we could to provide comfort and support, and we began teaching the Plan of Happiness, to remind her of the hope that Father in Heaven has for her. Listening attentively was a friend of hers named Nancy, among the other friends who were there, also there to comfort her. We sang hymns with her, and promised by the Spirit that she would find peace. She invited us over the next day, and the peace and hope filled her heart as we went over again the Plan of Happiness. Nancy was there again, and she felt the Spirit. Long story short, she accepted to be baptized, and after praying together, she set her date for the 19th of April. I'm so grateful for the privilege of having been able to be used by the Lord to help comfort and console our less-active sister, and to simultaneously help Nancy decide to come closer unto Christ.
Miguelina (a Dominican woman I contacted a month ago, whose son is a bishop back in the Republica Dominicana) and Jose Maria (her Spanish husband) are also planning on being baptized the 19th, as is Mari (the wife of a recent convert, found through contacting, from Cameroon). We are being blessed right and left!! I am so grateful to Heavenly Father for the divine privilege of being able to participate in this miraculous work!!
I love this work!! I love these people, our friends, our ward, and my companions!! What a tender mercy to have the Spirit guide our lives!!
Love,
Élder Zubeldia
To
sum up: the summer is coming on, things are warming up, and (now that
the baptismal fonts will definitely have warm water) they will be filled
up with so many of our friends here in Sabadell!!
Literally, our problem is that there are so many
people to work with, we simply can't visit with them all and help them
progress with just two companionships (we need the members to actually
work with us or for more missionaries to join us!!)
To answer some questions from last week real quick:
Dear Mother -- well, where does Levi want to go for 9th grade?
Sofía -- I have absolutely no idea at how many copies of the Book of Mormon we've handed out (quite a few).
I love you all!! My companions want to go play basketball, and so I need to get off!! I love you!!!

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