Transer Eve

Hello my friends, I greet you. 

This is the last p-day before transfers next week, and there are going to be some big changes. Elder Simmons is for sure going to head out; both Elder Phillips and Elder Ferguson will be going home, and we might be getting a new companionship of sisters. It's gonna be crazy! We'll see though. It’s not for a while; and we never really know what's gonna happen till it happens, but onto the week!

Not a lot happened, just a lot of talking and a lot of calls. It's been getting hotter and hotter every day. It’s been an average of 37 Celsius (100° F) the past couple of days. A little more everyday, not as bad as the Malaga mission or anything, but still pretty hot. We're surviving though.

There were 3 new things we did this week that were fun.

The first is that we did service in a residency center nearby in a pueblo called Navalcanero. We brought Alvaro with us, and we went and just talked to old people there for about an hour. It was good; although, I understood practically nothing of what was said. There were some very think accents being spoken; even Alvaro was having trouble understanding, so you can imagine how lost I was. We also did service at another pueblo; we just helped move a bunch of stuff on this little farm into a storage compartment. 

The other big thing we had was an activity in our ward called "Mostoles Summer Kickoff". They wanted a name in English, so that's what we came up with. It was fun. There were a bunch of water games for the kids, a futbol tournament, a ping pong tournament, and a bunch of other little things. A lot of people brought friends, so we spent the majority of the time talking to all of them, and it was great.

Not much else going on. Alvaro is still doing great and getting ready for his fecha. Juan Carlos is also doing well. He is still praying to receive an answer about the priesthood. The rest of our investigators are either pretty new or have stopped answering our calls. I'll give another update when we have more consistent investigators. It's going good though, poco a poco.

For my spiritual thought this week I wanted to talk a little bit more about Alvaro and sacrifice. Like I've mentioned many times, he's a super good kid. To give you a little more info about him, he loves futbol, rapping, and play station. Those 3 things are pretty much all he does. He spends most of his time this way, because his group of friends are always trying to get him to smoke or drink, and he prefers to just be by himself and be on the play station all day then put with them and getting tempted constantly. So this Sunday after church, we taught him about keeping the Sabbath day holy. Immediately after, he told us that on Sundays he was going to stop using the play station, rapping, and playing futbol. That was just amazing to me, because he is immediately choosing to give up everything he enjoys to keep the Sabbath day holy. Literally, that is all he does, and he is sacrificing it to be obedient. We can all learn a lot from that. How often do we focus on ourselves and our earthly possessions and passions instead of focusing on Christ? What can we sacrifice now to become better and closer to Christ?

I love you all, thank you all for the sacrifices you have already made to follow our Savior.

Con cariño,

- Elder Bassett 

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