Category: Spain Málaga Mission

Email 5/9/15 Last week, I predicted that this would be the craziest and busiest week of my mission thus far, and, well, it was. On Tuesday, instead of our normal proselyting for the evening, the hermanas in our word organized a cosecha (“harvest”) for the evening where all of the missionaries were paired up with…

Email 29/08/16 Well, here I am again. Another week here in Elche has flew by. It started off with transfers, and although neither me nor my companion left the area, we still helped out all of the missions who were leaving and the many new missionaries arriving here to settle in a bit. It turns out…

Email 22/08/16 Today is the first official day of my second transfer in the field as a missionary. I can’t tell whether or not my time here in Elche has flew by or dragged on, but whatever the case has been, I survived. Reflecting on it, it’s been a difficult transition. It’s been a real…

Email 14/08/16 Hello everybody, There’s a member here, Juan, who seems to enjoy buying us KFC, so I’m back in this same KFC in the mall for the third time this transfer, and I honestly can’t believe that it’s already been a week since the last time I was here. This week definitely was one…

Hello everybody, I’ve been thinking a lot about security this week. First, I want to share an excerpt from the weekly mission bulletin from last week: We had a challenging experience yesterday afternoon. About 16:30 Sunday afternoon Elder Gozart and Elder Egbert went to the mission office. Upon arriving they were not able to open…

Email 1/8/16 (August 1, 2016) Today marks the beginning of my third month of being a missionary. I’m not counting down the days until I return home or anything like that, but I did calculate yesterday that I’m about 9% complete with my mission. I suppose I’ll just be focusing on making the remaining 91%…

I’ve spent a lot of time this week realizing how hard a mission is. It’s hard when you have investigators that aren’t keeping commitments. It’s hard when you have investigators who want to be baptized but can’t because other members of their family are preventing it. It’s hard when you have recent converts who experience…

“If the Lord loves you, he’ll send you to Elche for your first area” A missionary who was finishing up with his mission shared that quote with me last week. He said that his CCM president told him that. So far, I definitely think that it is true. The city, the ward, and the people…

Today’s been a great day. It started really early this morning as we had to take a train from Madrid to Malaga. The ride lasted for around three hours. When we arrived in Málaga, the mission president, his wife, and some missionaries from the office were there to meet us. After interviews with the president…

It’s crazy that I’m emailing again so quickly, but I guess that I’ll have to get used to doing this on Mondays since that will be preparation day for the remainder of my mission. Tomorrow morning, I’ll be leaving Madrid by train at around 7:30AM and arriving in Málaga or  Fuengirola, or wherever the mission…