Wow what a great week! The great weeks just don't stop coming here in
Tortosa. We truly do have a lot going on and the branch is on the
brink of a ton of growth! We are putting the pedal to the metal and
just working 110% every day trying to help our friends here in
Tortosa! The great thing is that everyone else is as well! The members
of the congregation are hitting a turning point and everything is on
the up swing here!
A couple weeks ago our dear friend Orlin reappeared from off the face
of the earth and this week we had a similar miracle. Our dear friend
Iru undisappeared off the face of the earth! The story is even better.
We were in the town that Iru lives in which we go to once maybe twice
a week. We had found someone in Tortosa who lived in Iru's same town
so we decided to take advantage of that time and we went to pass by
where Iru works. He takes care of an old Spaniard lady and lives with
her all the time. We are not allowed to ring her doorbell because she
does not like us because we believe in God. So we passed by and called
him a couple of times but he wasn't answering. So the normal Elder
Bristol would say, "ok this is a waste of time let's go find people"
but something inside me told me to wait and make a call to one of our
other friends that lives in Iru's town. So we made that call standing
right outside Iru's house and during he middle of the call Iru comes
walking down the street! He greets us and we get to talking. And he is
back! He has reduced smoking from 40 cigarettes to 1-2 cigarettes a
day since we taught him that smoking was not in accordance with the
commandments of the Lord. He said that he will be baptized when he can
get all of the bad things out of his life (like smokimg) and he
committed to read the entire Book of Mormon by Tuesday! This happened
on Saturday. What a miracle! We are so glad the Lord used us as his
tools in this moment to find His lost sheep Iru!
Elder Riggs is stellar. As I keep telling you, he is a spiritual and
scriptural monster. He knows the scriptures like the back of his hand
and it truly helps. I have never met someone with so much knowledge of
the scriptures! He truly is amazing. I am learning to take every
moment of study seriously from him because I want to be a scripture
master like he is.
As for my personal development I am doing well. I am still
progressing. This week I have put a huge focus on my personal study
and I am trying to take advantage of every moment in that hour so that
I leave that hour being spiritually enriched. It is working!
A great/fun experience from this week was that after the conference we
had on Thursday with a ton of missionaries we had our interviews with
the mission president that we have every six weeks. We were the last
interviews and we were running late for our train so President Dayton
gave us a ride in his car! It was so fun. We had great time with just
President Dayton for twenty minutes in his car. Whattan experience!
I am happy here in Tortosa. It is the land of miracles.
With love from the land of miracles,
Elder Bristol
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