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2/20/2017

To answer your questions, Mom, Yunior is okay. He is at the point where we will drop him or he will start to progress. It's hard to tell what he wants. He jokes around with us and sometimes it's hard to know if he really wants to do what we are telling him. Isabel is the girl from Bolivia. She didn't show up on Saturday or pick up her phone so.... I don't know what will happen with her. We aren't getting a car yet. President Pack would have to take it from someone, so it could be a while and I could be gone. Yadira's boyfriend isn't sure if he wants to take lessons and they couldn't meet this week, so that was hard. The new village assigned to our area is Avila.

I found out that Primo, the dad of Jorge, my convert in Barrio 8, is getting baptized this Saturday! So I'm pumped to know that in a year they will be in the temple! I'm excited for them!!

So for my week - we did a lot of running around and people were not able to meet - so a lot of let downs. We did get the number of an old friend and we will try to meet with them. Not much else. Hope that helps with your questions.

Stake Conference

2/13/2017

Not much happened this week. It was Stake Conference on Sunday and so we had to go all the way to Madrid. Most of our day was spent traveling. So we left Segovia at 8:30 in the morning and we got back around 6:00 that night. We also had interviews so we had to wait awhile for our turn. I don't know why we went last since we are the furthest away. Everyone else got to go before us, but whatever.

This week's been good. We met with a new investigator. She's from Bolivia. She's cool. The area's good. We are doing our contacting and stuff. I'm enjoying it.

I'm been making fun of the English in my companion but I think he's starting to get tired of it so I'm going to have to chill out. He's a cool guy.

We got permission to work in nice little village that is new to our area. My companion asked for a car because he's English and has his driver's license so we may be getting a car here soon. That would be fun. We have a whole lot more work because of this village because there are a lot of less actives there. So tomorrow I think we are going to go there and visit a whole bunch of members. We're just going to go and spend the whole day just passing by. We're going to find out who still lives there and who we can work with – who has interest and who doesn't. But I'll be excited to work with some of the members there – see if we can get the branch a little bit bigger. There used to be like 30 people, but now there's 10.

I don't really have a lot to say. I'm ready to go eat at this American place – not really that great but its okay. Fun to go eat out. That's how it is.

Hope you have a good week!

Love you! Bye!

Changes in Segovia - Welcome Elder Liptrott

2/6/2017

So I just sent you an email last Wednesday. So, the rest of that Wednesday, we finished up our p-day, finished up doing a few things here and there. We went out and did some contacting and talked to a couple people. I don't think anyone wanted to talk to us. Thursday, I don't remember what happened – it was kinda boring. Friday we had district meeting. We skyped in so we didn't have to come in all the way to Vialba because that takes a lot of time. In the afternoon, we visited with Yunior, our faithful investigator. That night we had English class and then did some more contacting. It was pretty chill. Saturday we did our weekly planning in the morning. Then, helped a member with something – I forget what it was. It wasn't anything exciting. Then we visited a member, had a lesson, did some contacting. Then we went to the church for transfers. While we were there, I was in the kitchen and dropped a glass on my ipad screen and it shattered. Elder Johnson is being transferred to Torrejon, my old area, with just a few minor changes. I'm getting Elder Liptrott. He is English with an American mom. He's very English. On Sunday, Elder Johnson & I went and visited everyone in the branch. Its pretty easy to do that – all 10 of them. We got a lot of food appointments. We normally only get about 2 a week. We were going to teach Yadira's boyfriend, but he didn't have time – had to go work later that night. We'll teach him about the Restoration next time, but we were disappointed we couldn't do it this time. I'm on my way to Madrid right now to pick up my new companion. We'll play some sports while we're there so that will be fun. Have a great week! I'll talk to you next Monday.

Missionary Conference Changes

2/1/2017

Hey, everyone. This week and a half, not a whole lot happened. The highlight of the week - I went to the temple. It was really fun. Found out my sister is rooming with the sister of Hermana Walker (We were in the MTC together – we came out at the same time) at BYU-I. That was funny to find out.

This week, we did some more intercambios with the elders from Vialba. They came here to Segovia and we talked to a lot of people on the street. It was enjoyable – it was chill. Basically all our lessons failed us but we were able to go meet with a member. She works at a place that cooks chestnuts. We went there and talked to her and she gave us a couple chestnuts. They are pretty good but they are an acquired taste. You have to eat them a couple of times to get used to them.

Kind of the same thing has been happening. We meet with less-actives, we meet with Yunior, our one and only faithful investigator. Oh, actually I do have something.... we have a new investigator. There is a less-active named Yadira and she is from Honduras. She is currently not attending church. She's a good lady. She's had a rough time from some of the members in the branch. We've been trying to meet with her. She gives us food every Sunday and its really good. We had hamburgers on Sunday and that was nice. The fun part of it is, she has a boyfriend who is not a member. He's from a pretty big city just north of here. He comes every Sunday because that's the only time they can see each other. It's kinda sad but it keeps them good. When we were eating at her house, they were there. After we finished, she said, “Hey, elders. We are going to read some scriptures, okay?” She had us choose what we were reading. So, we read about Enos. We found out that he's Catholic but really doesn't go to church. He's a good man who believes in God, but doesn't really know a lot. So we talked about prayer – real prayer, not just reciting something. We really had to explain a lot about the Book of Mormon. As we ran out of time, we told him we would explain more the next time. He was pretty cool with it, but when your girlfriend is forcing you to sit down with a couple of missionaries, you kinda have to be cool with it. You don't want to offend your girlfriend. That was kinda funny. He seems like a really cool guy. I hope things work out with him. It should help get Yadira active.

We found some people on our intercambio that we are going to call and try and set some stuff up with. That's just kind of the normal. It will be exciting to see what happens on Saturday because its transfers. My companion Elder Johnson thinks he's leaving, but we will see. Maybe I will get sent out of here and he will stay. I think that would be hard on him. This area has not been very easy for him. But, that would be funny & I would laugh and then say I'm sorry. But, that's probably not going to happen. I probably have two more transfers here at least. So, I'm glad. Hopefully I will get some awesome person with a bunch of fire, getting ready to work, you know.

That's everything I've got. Hope you all have a great week!

p.s. At the Missionary Conference, last week, there were a few changes for us. The way things are right now, our morning schedule that we followed is that we wake up and have a 30 minute workout. Then we have an hour to eat, get dressed and shower. Then we have personal study for an hour and comp study for an hour. Now with the changes, we get up and we can do all that in whatever order we want except we also have to plan for the day, which we used to do at night and comp study is anytime during the day that works best for us. We can be flexible with the time we spend doing comp study. It can be as short as a half hour. Also we have an hour for lunch and half an hour for dinner along with half an hour to an hour for language study. Then at night, all they ask us to do when we come back is write in our journal and go to bed. We have an hour and a half to do whatever we want. We also have an extra half hour in the morning that we can use for whatever we want, except we aren't supposed to sleep, which sometimes is tempting. However at night we can go to bed earlier. We don't have to wait until 11. We can go to bed as early as 9:30, if we want. In our mission, we only eat lunch so we eat and have a nap if we want during the rest of the hour. We can have a snack if we want at night and we fit in the comp and language study. There are changes on p-day as well. We get up at 7, eat, get ready and study for an hour and leave by 8:30. Also, we used to have 9 key indicators, but now there are 4. Baptism & Confirmation are one. New investigators are also one. The other two are investigators at Sacrament meeting and investigators with a baptismal date. We no longer count progressing investigators or lessons with less-actives. We no longer count member present lessons or any kind of lessons with investigators. Its really different but its supposed to help us focus on those 4 things. We will still visit less-actives but it will help us stay focused and not waste time.

On Saturday the members that live in Torrejón (the really far village) (but they are from Belgium) came to visit us and took us out to eat. It was soo cool seeing them. They are awesome!

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