Hola Everybody!

Wow, what a week! This week has been busy but good. So this week there was a worldwide training for missionaries and some of the quorum of the twelve taught, and some of the quorum of the 70. It was an awesome spiritual boost, and it really gave us some ideas of how to help the people here in our area.

Something that Elder Bednar taught was that; sometimes, "teaching is not talking. It's ears to hear, and eyes to see." And the "Holy Ghost is the teacher." It was super cool to hear from modern day prophets, and they are great examples to me. Then, President Pack came up for interviews and it was awesome to see him again. We were talking with him, and he told my companion and I that he would love to see Villagarcia with 15 people actively coming to church each week. So we set a goal of 15 people and we are super excited to take what we have been learning and apply it here in our area.

One thing I am learning more and more to do, is to listen to the promptings of the spirit. On Sunday we went to go and visit a less active family that didn't come To church, when I had the feeling that we should wait. I felt like it was good we were visiting them, but we should wait a little bit. So we sat underneath a bridge where it was dry and made phone calls for about half an hour and then went and stopped by. And what happened, was their little boy Adrian was sick and so as we were teaching the lesson it was hard to get anything across because he was making so much noise, and wanted the tv on really loud. Finally we were about to leave and come back some other time when he was feeling better, when Adrian fell asleep. And for a few minutes we turned off the tv and we had a really spiritual lesson on the importance of reading in the Book of Mormon. And the cool thing, is that if we didn't wait before we went, we wouldnt have been able to give them that message that I think they really needed.

So it was all good. Oh and we found out this week that our investigator Maria Jesús, who was super awesome is actually in Pontevedra's area :( . It was hard to let her go, But it's ok, she will be taught the same gospel by some awesome Elders!

Haha then yesterday a drunk guy stood right in front of us while we were making calls on a bench and it was the funniest thing. He was went off on a rant of how there used to be Collosiums here but they were turned them into Fútbol stadiums, and how he almost died in Mexico and it was weird because they are like America and they believe in God. It was kind of funny to watch. Then, after he gave us a fist-bump and told us he didn't need us because he believed in his own salvation.

It's been a great week and we are trying to always work hard! I hope you all have a great week!

-Elder Chandler