Sunday, October 25, 2009

Last week in the Spain MTC

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~ "It´s been such a good 6 weeks, it´s going to be sad leaving all these awesome people here. I am going to miss my companion so much, he´s been amazing. He´s basically fluent, and it´s going to be great to see the success he receives. I´ll email you from malaga!!!!!!" Brian travels to his mission field on Tuesday 27th of October.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Learning to feel the spirit

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~ It´s awesome being here, it´s so much fun! The best times in my life are when I´m doing something all day everyday, I´m loving the schedule, up at 6:15 and learning till 10:30. Good habits are so powerful! Preach my gospel is so great, we really try to teach to the investigators needs, and I love it. It´s easier to help someone when you know exactly what they need. We work a lot on asking the right questions and getting the people thinking, it´s so much fun! We watched a talk by elder Bednar about knowing what the spirit feels like and it was great, because he simply said don´t worry about it. he shared three different times where he made a decisions that at the time he thought they were just his own thoughts, but afterwards looking back and seeing what had happened he realized it was what the spirit had wanted him to do. He said all that we need to do is try our best to be good boys and girls. It´s taken away all the doubts and second guesses I had with my choices, as long as I´m trying my best the spirit will be with me, it was so reasuring to hear an apostle say that some of his choices that did turn out to be the spirit, he at first was unsure if it was just him thinking it. The spirit works with us, and it´s awesome. My companion and I don´t really prepare for our teaching practices, we like to just begin them and ask questions and go with the spirit, and if we begin something that feels and seems important for the situation we will stay and go deeper with it. We taught our president here and he told us that we shouldn't feel like we need to get to every point in the lesson, instead we should find what is most important to them and stay with that. It´s great, this church is great the people only want to help and lift those around them.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Saturday at Sabados en Retiro Parque

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This is a picture of Brian in the park in Madrid. They go there every Saturday. His letter said this: "I was paired with an elder Roos when we went to the park this last Saturday and we both didn´t know much Spanish but we were able to talk to a lot of people, they kept asking us if we were brothers and it was an easy way to explain to them that we´re all brothers and sisters of God, it was great. Spain is crazy but I love it. The food is very good, the cooks we have prepare the best food. We eat a lot of meat and it´s the best. They prepare a lot of seafood and I like it more and more, the same with the Serrano ham, the soup is amazing also. All the food has a different taste than in the U.S. but it´s good. I know it´s crazy for me to be in church clothes all day but it´s awesome! I get to learn all day every day about how to help the children of God it´s amazing."