Christmas miracle

We really have seen a miracle this week. Its the thing we´ve been working to find all this time. We have someone with a baptismal date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His name is Manuel Jose. We´re really excited, he´s a pretty solid baptism. We´ve even got a member who will go with us to all his lessons and they´re already friends. Manuel couldn´t come to church this sunday for personal reasons, but he really wants to come. He WANTS to learn from us!! This is amazing, people. No one ever wants to learn from us. 

It´s in perfect timing that we found him actually. Because this week our mission set a really high goal for finding new investigators this week. 800! That means every companionship needs to find 8 investigators this week. We´ve been prepping all week by working with the members and trying to find references, fasting and praying and studying specifically for this. I know we can do it. I´m really excited for this week of miracles. It´ll be really hard and we´ll have to pray a lot, but I know that the Lord will lead us to those 8 people that are ready in our area, because this is His goal more than it is ours. 

Preparing for this week has really shown me how VITAL the members are to missionary work. We can knock and knock and talk to everyone on the street, but one member referral is gold. Gold. We treat our member references so well and try to really do our best to contact them. 

This weekend we got to do something really fun for Christmas. Every year the Granada ward puts together a big concert with the Granada city band. This year us missionary´s sang in a chior with the band. We had missionary´s from several cities (2 zones) come together and spend the afternoon practicing. It was so fun to see the everyone. It was a bit stressful because we never practiced all together. We had hymnns we sang just as a choir and they played songs and then we ended with 2 songs together. It was... interesting. The choir had a hard time knowing when to come in since we never saw music and the director just practiced with us. In spanish. So it was okay. But the thing was a hit and everyone said it was wonderful.

 Hna Roan sang a solo that was FANTASTIC! She really brought the spirit, it was so awesome. We weren´t allowed to proselyte at all since the city was involved too, but hopefully we´ll see some results. Manuel came to the concert and while we practiced a few Elders from Granada showed him around the church, including the baptismal font and from what the Elders said he was really excited about it. We´re so excited for him!!! 

This week Hna Roan got a couple packages from her mom that were full of christmas decorations and hot chocolate!!!! SO excited about the hot chocolate. The stuff they have here just isn´t the same. So we decorated our little tree we bought a few weeks ago today. Our apartment finally feels like it´s Christmas!!

This last week really has been such a huge blessing. We have someone to teach and he is so ready for the gospel.