I love you all soooo much and I am glad to hear how everything is going. I am very glad that you had such a fun week in Oregon. It sounds like it was a blast.
I know that I say this a lot but this last week for us has also been fantastic. We are very busy, Elder Cerro and I. We right now are teaching 4 single women who are absolutely incredible, 3 of them have baptismal dates in May, and 1 needs to get married to set a date with her. I will tell you a little about each of them.
Elisa is still going strong. She is about 35 years old from Ecuador. She has a little 3 year old boy in her country and that is one of the most important things for her. She basically is a miracle. Like I told you last week she came to church after inviting her the day before in the street, even before teaching her. She came again this last Sunday and stayed again the 3 hours. The Relief Society seems to be really strong and really united. She is reading in the Book of Mormon and is making a lot of friends in the church. We hope that she can be ready for her baptism the 14th of May. We also went with her to a baptismal service in the old Cuatro Caminos chapel, where I used to be.
Lizeth. She is from Honduras and is about 40 years old, maybe. She has 4 children, all of them are in her country. It is amazing to see the sacrifice of some parents that come over here to Spain to get money, or to get ahead, so that there children can study and have a chance in the world. It is, or they are incredible. It seems like Lizeth is one of those faithful parents. She was invited to go to church by missionaries in Cuatro Caminos and went to church there 2 Sundays ago. The sister missionaries there found out that she didn´t belong to that ward so they sent us her reference and we invited her to come to our church the following day. She did so, as the church is only 1 metro stop away from where she lives. She also stayed the three hours and loved it. She is very sensible to the Spirit and has a baptismal date for the 7th of May. She is wonderful.
Belquis. Elder Ketchum and I taught Hermana Belquis at the end of December and a couple months after, but then we dropped them for a little time because they weren´t really progressing. We went back to teaching them when Elder Cerro and I saw them in the street one day, and they asked us what happened to us. The mom, Belquis, seemed to have missed us and she has come to church the past two Sundays and this last Sunday she stayed for the first time the full three hours. She told us last night that she liked it and sayed something like she wanted to stay the whole three hours again. Her baptismal date is for the 14th of May, because it is hard for her to read.
Consuelo. She is from Nicaragua and has had a kind of rough life. She had 2 children with another man and then when she came over her, her boyfriend, they weren´t married, was getting married to pastor´s daughter, from a church that she had assisted before. She almost lost her children, but finally she won them and is now here in Spain with another boyfriend from Brazil and they have another baby. They are not married, however the miracle is that her boyfriend wants to get married and has the paper to do so. It is her that has not wanted to. So in the second visit, because she is so good and so ready (sometimes you can just tell when people are ready or have been prepared to receive the gospel), we talked to her about getting married and explained briefly that it is a requirement to be baptized, because we need to comply with the Law of Chastity. She said, as this was yesterday, that she would talk with her husband about this last night, and that he was going to be very happy to hear this.
So this is our life right now. We are very happy and love the work. Élder Cerro is wonderful and we are working well together. Élder Cerro is very motivated and a very driven person and I like that about him.
Today for Preparation Day we went with the Office Elders to visit a castle less than an hour from Madrid. It was precious. I will include one picture of it.
I love you all very much, and please keep informing me about all of the details of life at home. I love hearing about it. I love you all.
Love,
Élder Driggs
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