It was great to get to talk to you guys on Christmas! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas filled with the love of Christ! My Christmas was great! It was very relaxing! We ate like kings and really I was just able to enjoy the day!
The rest of the week seemed to be pretty rough... haha The Holiday season here is hard because its not like in the states where its Christmas and done. Spain seems to put all of their holidays real close to each other just to get everything done at once! haha The 24th we they have the cagatio, the 25th is Christmas, the 26th is like the Spanish Thanksgiving (At least that is what someone told me this week haha) Then New Years, and then Reyes on the 6th of January. So they still are celebrating the holidays here. haha It is hard but all you can do is just keep working! And thats what we did this week.
This week we were able to place a baptismal date with Berta. The single mom with her daughter Esmerelda. We had a great lesson with her and we tooka recient convert with us. This recient convert was going through a really tough time in his life before he was baptized and his life has completely changed since his baptism. We came to the lesson and shared one of the most powerfull testimonies I have heard from a recient convert. She accepted the date for the 11th of January and we are working hard towards that date! The daughter will be a little bit of work because her mom and dad are separating right now... We talked a little bit about it with her mom and basically she just doesnt want to cause more problems right now. We will see what happens.
The Hermanas this week also passed us a reference of a lady from Nigeria. We called her and set up a visit with her for Saturday morning. We went to the visit and when we entered the house we found a father (Momo), his wife, and three children! A family! As we sat down, we began talking to the father. He told us he has talked to the missionaries before. He wanted to show us pictures of the elders. Unfortinately we couldnt find pictures of the elders, but we did find pictures of his wedding. BOOM! They are married!!!! haha it was great! Well anyway, we didnt have much time so we shared a message about the Book of Mormon, set up a return visit for Wednesday and invited them to church the next day! Unfortinately, they all didnt come to church, but the father, Momo, did show up and he ended up knowing a really strong member in the ward. Turns out he used to work for him back in the day! It was great! We will be visiting then this week and be putting the baptismal date!
Well, so thats about it for this week. I hope you all have an amazing week and a Happy New Year! I love you all lots!
Elder Carrigan
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