Elder Read's Mission to Spain - La Misión a España de Elder Read : Haircuts and Baptisms

Elder Read y su nuevo compañero Elder Orr

Elder Read and his new companion Elder Orr

Last week Elder Read was unable to send any photos as the computer in the internet café wouldn't accept his camera, so on Monday they went to a different one, although it costs a bit more - and sent lots of photos.

Paquete de cumpleaños

Birthday parcel

He and his new companion, Elder Orr, are getting on really well. He's excellent and really funny. And he's 2 metres and 4 centimetres tall! That's nearly 6ft 8in. When they went to the post office to collect the parcel we had sent Elder Read for his birthday, Elder Orr had to "bend double" to enter. A woman said "How tall that boy is!"

This last week has been really excellent and yesterday they were going to Sevilla Capital to play "pingpong" with other elders. Yesterday morning while they were cleaning the flat they received a call from an elderly sister in the ward asking for a blessing. They changed really quickly and left running - arriving somewhat hot and sticky.

On Sunday they went to see an investigator whom they met in the street with her brother and invited her to pray about being baptised on the 26th. They were going to visit her again today, while yesterday evening they were going to see Eva, the woman who wants to be baptised. She is the bishop's sister-in-law and has been attending church for over a year, so she's well prepared. She will be baptised by her husband.

Rodillera - Knee support

Elder Read has bought a razor for cutting his hair! And also a knee support which is very good and he's now using it to prevent his knee from getting too hot. He cut his companion's hair yesterday morning and then Elder Orr reciprocated by cutting Elder Read's hair. It was the latter's first attempt at cutting someone else's hair and he says it turned out really well.

There's not much else to say except that they are continuing to teach and soon ...............BAPTISING!!!!!!! He's most anxious to have another baptism as it's been 8 months since his last one. And,Neftaly's sister now has a date for her baptism. He phoned Elder Read to greet him and said that she wanted to hear the missionaries, so he gave Elder Read her phone number and he passed it onto the missionaries in her area. Then the other day Naftaly told him she had a date for her baptism. How wonderful!!!!

Recently they went to Seville where they saw the cathedral and Elder Read took these photos.

Hace poco fueron a Sevilla donde vieron la catedral y Elder Read tomo esas fotos.

Elder Read dice:

Hoy - lunes - fuimos a un diferente locutorio, pero cuesta un poco mas... entonces ya no vamos a venir aquí jaja. Pues Élder Orr y yo nos estamos cayendo SUPER bien! Es muy bueno, muy gracioso y MUY alto. 2 metros con 4... Entramos a correos para recoger el paquete por mi cumple; el tuvo que agacharse para entrar jaja. Una mujer dijo "¡Que alto el niño!" Jaja :P

Esta semana ha sido muy buena. Hoy vamos a ir a sevilla Capital para jugar pingpong con otros élderes. Hoy mientras estuvimos limpiando recibimos una llamada de una hermana mayor del barrio pidiéndonos una bendición, nos cambiamos super rápido y salimos corriendo. Llegamos con mucho sudor jaja :P

Ayer vimos una investigadora que tenía fecha hace tiempo. La enseñamos en la calle con su hermano. La invitamos a orar acerca del 26 para se bautizada. Vamos a ver si podemos visitarla mañana. Hoy tenemos una lección con Eva, la mujer que se quiere bautizar. Es la cuñada del obispo y a asistido a la iglesia por mas de un año. Está bastante preparada :)

Pues, compré una maquina para cortar mi pelo. y también una nueva rodillera, es muy buena, la estoy usando ahora mismo :) Es muy buena y mi rodilla se mantiene calentita :) Hoy corté el pelo de mi compañero y luego me fui al baño para cortar el mio. Fue mi primera vez cortando el pelo de otro y salió super bien :)

Pues no hay mucho mas para contarles, seguimos enseñando y pronto. ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡BAUTIZANDO!!!!!!!! Estoy ansioso para tener otro bautismo. a sido 8 meses mas o menos desde mi último. ¡La Hermana de Neftaly tiene una fecha! Él me llamó hace algunas semanas para saludar y decirme que su hermana quiere escuchar los misioneros. Me dio el número de ella y la pasé a los misioneros de su área, me dijeron el otro día que ella tiene una fecha :D ¡Que guay!