2 new baptismal commitments

12/14  We have seen so many miracles here in the district, the largest of which were the 3 miracle baptisms that Tortosa had on Saturday. I got a call on Thursday from Tortosa, and Elder Streadbeck told me they just got out of a visit, and 3 of their investigators who had been investigating for a while decided to be baptized that coming Saturday. Long story short, on Friday we had to travel to Tortosa and then take a bus out to the smallest pueblo I have ever seen to do 3 baptismal interviews. They are a wonderful family, and they were so prepared. The next day on Saturday the baptismal service went well. They got there really late, but when the did get there it went really well. It was such a cool miracle to see them get baptized!

One of our investigators is named Alejandra, and she is for sure getting baptized in January. She came to the service and told us of how excited she is for her baptism. She absolutely loved it and already has a super strong relationship with a lot of the members. We are also really excited for Ferran. He is prepared to be baptized, we just need to pick a date. We are hoping for the 26th of December. We have several other people who are really close to baptism as well. Elder Cook and I get a long very well. After the little time we have had together, I already feel like we are pretty much best friends. Along with that, I feel that we teach really well together. We are doing so good here in Tarragona, and I am super excited to get to work here!

One thing I learned this week is the importance of setting goals. This week in district meeting we talked a little bit about the goal to get 1 baptism per companionship in the month of December. I felt inspired to push the district a little harder, and we set the goal to get one more baptism per companionship in this month. We set goals to help us achieve that as well. We are all excited in the district, and we are all going to work really hard to achieve this ambitious goal. I realized that if we don't set goals to accomplish things, we are just left with empty wishes that will never come true. Goals are the essential first step to making a desire or wish come true. I know that God will help us achieve our spiritual and temporal goals if we put our trust in him and live his commandments.