A fantastic future missionary!

4/20  So we had a pretty great adventure this week with a member named Manel. It was his birthday, but he still decided to come help us with a visit out in a little pueblo. When we got there, we were waiting outside for a little bit, and a guy walked up and contacted us. He asked us who we were and what we were doing. Manel jumped at the opportunity and told him all about who we were and what we do as missionaries. He ripped the Book of Mormon out of Elder Jonson's hands and gave it to this guy, explaining what it was. He seemed very interested and gave us his number so we could set a visit up. It amazed me how quickly Manel got all of that done! The lesson with our investigator right after that went really well. We were going to talk about the plan of salvation, and all of her questions led us right to the next point in the lesson. Even before we started she shared her beliefs on life after death, which sounded exactly like what we believe about the spirit world. It was a great lesson! 

We caught a bus to get back to Vilafranca, and while on the bus, Manel contacted a lady sitting next to him. She was really nice, and we gave her our card that we thought had our number on it just before she got off. When the bus started to drive away, she saw that our number wasn't on it, and tried to get our attention. We promptly jumped off the bus as soon as it was stopped at a stoplight to give her our number. We spoke with her for a little while longer and learned that she lives in Barcelona, so we will have to pass that reference to the office. We later found that there was no easy way to get back to Vilafranca from where we were. Needless to say, we spent a lot of travel time on the train to get back. We had to go to the furthest stop south, then get on another train to take us up north to Vilafranca. It was quite a fun adventure, and I had a great time with Manel.

This weekend we had stake conference. We had an area 70 come speak, and he was by far the best speaker I have heard since I have been in Spain. His name is Elder Reina, and he speaks so naturally it's almost like a conversation. He spoke a lot about getting members to help the missionaries and do missionary work. I learned a lot about how I can help the work progress as a member when I get home.