Saturday, November 18, 2017

The Big 50!!

First of all a big heart HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY MOTHER! Happy 50th birthday my mother! Love you so much! You’re the best! 

I’ll be going to Ibiza for two days this week to work with missionaries over there so I’m super excited! It’ll be a great week! 

It was one great week here in Palma. We had a wonderful zone conference and the zone is so excited to have the new technology. We have seen miracles already from the new technology and everything is going really well. We had a wonderful week and we saw the hand of the Lord day after day. The zone had a great week as well and we are all looking upwards and tied together with the vision of Baleares 2020.

Abraham continues to be our miracle. This man has progressed so quickly. This last week the technology has been an amazing tool. We couldn’t call him earlier because his phone was a phone for outside of Spain and we were having to use membership phones who had WhatsApp to plan visits with him. But now with WhatsApp we are able to get things set up with him very easily. He actually has been thanking us for the constant contact we have been able to have with him. We sent him reminders to read and to pray and he said if he had not received those he probably would not have read. Technology has its first miracle here in Palma! But also he came to church yesterday and loved it. He loved the testimony meeting and Hermana Cummings gave a testimony about the power of fasting and after the meeting Abraham told us that he wanted to fast. He wanted to receive an answer so he said he was going to fast for it. We have gotten a text from him today telling us that he already received the answer earlier today and that he’d tell us about it tonight. So we are excited to hear about it tonight! He also asked for a priesthood blessing and we explained to him what they were and we gave it to him and then he cried after the blessing because of the things the Lord told him. He said it was the first time he had cried in a long time. He is an amazing man. 

Elder Bradshaw is a spiritual Giant. This week when we were teaching Abraham he bore some of the most heartfelt testimonies I have ever heard. He has a solid testimony in our Lord Jesus Christ and I love being able to work beside him every day. He is a great man and a great leader. I truly look up to him and love him.

The zone is doing well. The Marratxi district continues to destroy it and have great weeks. The Ibiza district is actually now doing really well. Our district is also doing well. The hermanas in our district will be baptizing this week and I will actually be able to perform the baptism and it will be a great experience. Menorca is not having a lot of luck in the streets as of late. The are not disanimated or anything. They are actually just hungry for success. Elder Ricks is a great leader. Elder Wood and Burr keep having a little bit of a tough time. We are doing an intercambio with them this week and we will try to animate them! 

I am personally doing really well. I am as happy as I have ever been. I love the islands! I love the people out here and I love the opportunity to be a representative of Jesus Christ. I love being able to help baptize people. I love baptism.

With love for baptism,
Elder Bristol


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