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Well all is well here in Fuenlabrada. Training is going good and I am learning a ton! This week was a little on the hard side but we have been really trying to strengthen the branch here. Difficult work but just have to keep pushing forward.
Thank you for all of your emails and support!
Last Monday was great! We relaxed a bit to give our bodies some rest and then at night we met with Wisdom, who is a friend of Mikes. Not sure if I have already said this but he took the lessons in England and then moved to Switzerland. He is down here for a bit because he and Mike go way back but he wants to be baptized with us! He's pretty ready and we could have a little surprise baptism here in Fuenla haha.
Tuesday was great. We are beautifing the chapel a little bit and finishing off our missionary board which is looking great! We had lunch with Andrew and he taught us how to make Fufu and vegetable soup which is some amazing Nigerian food. After medio dia we met up with a less active named Jesus Conde and went to another less active members named Estela. We had a good lesson with them!
Wednesday morning we prepared some paperwork for our meeting with the President that night . After medio dia, we went to pass by many peoples houses but no one was home. We ended with the meeting with the branch president which actually went really well. During the meeting he called up David Guzman and told him that he was going to be called as our mission leader! We are really excited about that.
On Thursday we had Zone Conference in Pavones! It was awesome and I learned a tooon. We got haircuts while we here there too which was great. When we got back to Fuenla we had a meeting with Mike and talked about him sharing the gospel with his friends. He is really excited about missionary work but has a lot of other stressful things on his mind as well. After, we met with Jesus Conde again and we went over family history and had him show us a few things.
On Friday we had to plan the week during the morning because we missed it on Thursday and it was actually a really good planning session. We are definitely getting better at it. We then went to Carlos Murillos for lunch and had a great time with them. After, we met up with Purificacion to start her family history work. She doesn't know too much about computers and didn't even have an email account but we got Jesus Conde to meet with us and got her all situated. She's really interested! After we met up with the President at the chapel and headed to Ana's to help her buy her glasses. Jesus Conde tagged along too which was great. After we had Noche de Hogar which was wonderful and I really felt the spirit. we talked about sharing our light and how we can help the lives of others.
Saturday it started to rain and it hasn't stopped since! In the morning we made some calls to everyone about the cooking class we were having at 7 that night. We went out and contacted a little too which was good. After medio dia we headed to Loranca and had a great lesson with John. We set a baptismal date with him which I am really excited for! I hope he follows through! We headed back and made it to the cooking class. A lot of members showed up and Juan Romera came too. He's awesome. We were joking around and having a great time. The class took forever and we ended up having to leave early just to make it home on time. We didn't even get to eat!
Sunday was a decent day. It continued to rain and very little people were in church. Jesus Conde didn't come which was a bummer but we found out that he was in Toledo for the morning. Ana and Andrew came though and lets just say that we have secret plans to get them married haha. David was called as mission leader which was wonderful and Elder Beuden and I gave talks! They went really well and I continue to feel more and more comfortable with spanish. Afer medio dia we had a lesson with Kenny the nigerian lady and we set a baptismal date with her too! She is so receptive and promised to come to church next week. After we called up a woman named Sonia who I had met with before and she said we could come over. She gave us her address and we went to her house. Turns out that this was a different Sonia that I had never met before haha but she was really interested! I remember contacting her though. There wasn't a male home so we had a lesson in the doorway and it went good! She said that she is going to go to noche de hogar on Friday so we are excited about that and that we got a random new investigator! Oh how the Lord works.
Today we have some winter clothes shopping to do for my son, Elder Beuden. I'm really excited about this week and we are going to try our very hardest and re-dedicate our selves to the work. Thank you all for your wonderful examples in my life. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for all of you. Keep up the hard work back there at home.
Elder Franklyn
**Check out our new table we made out of some random stuff we found! One second its a dinner table, the next its a ping pong table!
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