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Cordoba Elders:  Elders Simon, Wilson, Pomazon and Read.

Peruvian Pride!

Wet day in Cordoba, but it's not stopping Elders Read and Pomazon!

 The dangers of Cordoba..

Sevilla Zone Conference, 1 October 2014

Finding 10 Investigators- Encontrar 10 Investigadores

Doble personalidad - Double Personality

This is Elder Read's "Epistle" from 20th October, so I'm gradually catching up.

They've had another good week!!  They have a baptism date, less actives attending church and investigators.  They're happy and this week they have a really large goal to find new investigators.  The mission as a whole has a target of finding 888+++, which means their target is to find 10.  They are going to do it, says Elder Read.

For P-Day on Monday they played football - and he really enjoyed it.  Although Elder Read says he's still not very good he put in a couple of goals, which was great. 

Last Sunday something rather interesting happened.  They were walking towards an appointment and saw a drunk in the middle of the road intent on committing suicide.  There were lots of people watching, but the elders helped the drunk from the road and got him seated. They didn't leave until they were sure that he would be all right. 

Nobody wanted to help the drunk. Another drunk said "Leave him alone, a Romanian less in Spain," which was daft as the man who said it was also Romanian!  The adversary has much power in this world, but Elder Read knows that the Lord will win.  He is winning and he's going to win. The truth is that he could do it on his own.  He doesn't actually need us, but for one reason or another he gives us opportunities to be his hands and his instruments.  Elder Read knows this is true.

At the Museum of the Inquisition last week

Al Museo de la Inquisición la semana pasada

Pues hemos tenido una buena semana. Tenemos una fecha bautismal, los menos activos vienen a la capilla, tenemos futuros, estamos felices y esta semana tenemos una meta MUY alta de encontrar a nuevos investigadores. Como una misión tenemos la meta de encontrar 888+++ nuevos investigadores. Hemos puesto la meta de encontrar a 10 esta semana. Lo vamos a hacer. 

Bueno, hoy jugamos a fútbol y la verdad es que me divertí un montón jaja :) Metí un par de goles. Todavía no juego bien pero me gusta :) 

Ayer pasó algo interesante. Estuvimos caminando hacia una cita y vimos a un hombre borracho en medio de la calle intentando a suicidarse. Había mucha gente mirando. Le ayudamos a salir de la calle y a sentarse. No fuimos cuando estuvimos convencidos que iba a estar bien.  

Nadie quiso ayudarle. Un borracho cera dijo "deja lo allí, un rumano menos en españa" La cosa mas tonta (Por decirlo así) es que ese hombre también era rumano. El adversario tiene mucho poder en este mundo. Pero sé que el señor ganará. Y está ganando y ya a ganado. La verdad es que nosotros no hacemos NADA. El Señor no nos necesita. Pero por una razón u otra nos da oportunidades para ser sus manos y sus instrumentos. Sé que eso es verdad.

Look at this carefully and you'll see that it's for sisters!

¡Miralo con cuidado y puede ver que es por hermanas!

Dedos mejorando

 That's not Toynbee School!

¡No es le colegio de Toynbee!

 We've seen this Red Bull Mini before.

¡Hemos visto esto Red Bull Mini antes!

A Week of Miracles - Una Semana de Milagros

Sent by Elder Read on 13th October

One thing Elder Read learnt the previous week was never to put his fingers in boiling oil!  It was an accident and it hurt!!!

Una cosa que he aprendido esta semana es que nunca debo meter mis dedos en aceite hirviendo. Aún se era un accidente. ¡NO LO HAGAN! Duele... 

It had been raining a lot and it even felt a little cold - 19 or 18 degrees!!  Since that feels cold, how's he going to cope when Her returns home in December??

Last Monday 13th October they were going to a Museum of the Inquisition, so we could be forgiven for thinking that he hurt his fingers there!  It costs 3 euros to get in so he was hoping it would be worth it.

At last they have found someone to teach.  The other day they passed a man sleeping on the ground, which suggested that he was poor and homeless.  Elder Pomazón continued walking on, but Elder Read felt that he should return and help the man, so he prayed in his head about how to help the man, while hearing the words "minister to thy brethren."  So they returned to see how the man was, but he didn't wake up, so it occurred to Elder Read to buy him something to eat.  There was a supermarket close by so they went and bought something - a couple of sandwiches and a drink - and placed them beside the man with their card and phone number.  From past experience they really didn't expect to see that man again.

However, just half-an-hour later He phoned them!  His name was Jon and was a very humble man.  On the Friday they taught him and his friend and invited them both to be baptised. And they accepted so a date is going to be arranged very soon. Elder Read says that Jon is very good and sincere and all he wants to do is to serve God.  On the Sunday he arrived at church just as they were finishing, but they were expecting him to arrive on time the following week. 

The Lord expects us to help others whenever we can, so Elder Read asks us to seek the opportunity to do so.

Pan - Bread

Pues, esta lloviendo un MONTÓN. Ahora mismos no pero hace un poco de frío. 19 o18 grados. ¡ME DA FRÍO! D: Voy a morir cuando vuelvo a casa. Hoy vamos a ir a un museo de la inquisición. Vale 3 euros la entrada. vale la pena. Espero....

Pues por fin hemos encontrado alguien para enseñar. Le otro día pasamos a un hombre dormido en el suelo. Se notaba mucho que era pobre y sin casa. Mi compañero seguía adelante pero sentí la impresión de volver y ayudarle. Hice una oración en mi mente para saber que hacer las palabras "minister to thy brethren" vinieron a mi mente. Entonces volvimos para ver como estaba. No se despertó. Entonces me vino la idea de comprarle algo para comer. Había un supermercado cerca y fuimos y compramos algo. Un par de sanwiches y una bebida. Dejamos la comida alado del hombre con nuestra tarjeta y número. Honestamente esperé nunca volver a ver ese hombre otra vez. Tal como me a pasado muchas veces antes.

¡PERO!  ¡Media hora mas tarde nos llamó! Se llama Jon y es un hombre muy humilde. El viernes enseñamos a él y a su amigo y les invitamos a ser bautizados. Aceptaron y vamos a fijar una fecha con ellos muy pronto. Son muy buenos y sinceros. Solo quieren servir a Dios. Jon vino a la capilla, un poco tarde, de hecho justo cuando terminamos vino. Pero va a venir la semana que viene :) 

El Señor espera que ayudemos a los demás cuando sea posible. Aún cuando no sea posible espera que hagamos todo lo que podamos.

Por favor busquen una oportunidad de servir a alguien esta semana :)

Enjoying Conference and Mission - Disfrutando Conferencia y Misión

La foto de mi con el misionero y las misioneras es parte

de mi familia misional. Mi nieto, mi hija, y mi nieta

jaja :P ¡Ya soy un abuelo!

The photo of Elder Read with the Elder and Sisters is part of his mission family: his grandson, his daughter and his granddaughter.  That makes him a grandfather!

Great missionaries come in all shapes and sizes.  Shown here are Elders Gutierrez, Orr and Narcizo. 

You will remember Elder Read serving with Elder Orr. 

Elder Read has had yet another good week - and they really enjoyed conference. They had permission to watch every session, with the result that they were at the chapel from 10 in the morning until midnight.  He took a load of notes.  President Deere invited the missionaries to go with two questions> Elder Read's were: "How can I raise this area in such a short time?" and "What does the Lord want me to do when I return home?"

It appeared that the answers were in practically every talk:

To the first question: work with the less-actives and contact really hard.

To the second: study and start a family.

Yesterday they went to eat with a member by the name of Emilio, who took them to Dominos.  Deeeeeelicious! says Elder Read.

In truth, Elder Read is really enjoying his mission and describes it as a marvellous thing.  He has to make the best use of this time while he has the authority which he'll never have in the same way again.  The Lord only gives them two years!  So he needs to make the best possible use of the time that he has.

Who remembers this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF_DO6NH8Do   

Hey Let's all go to A&W

Food's more fun at A&W

We'll have a mug of root beer, or maybe two or three

Pick the perfect size from the Burger Family

Hey Let's all go to A&W

I can taste it now can't you?

Hop in the car

Come as you are

To A&W

Hop in the car

Come as you are...

To A&W

Pues que semana mas buena. Hemos disfrutado un montón de la conferencia. Tuvimos permiso de ver toda la conferencia entonces estuvimos en la capilla desde las 10 de la mañana hasta las 12 de la noche jaja. Tomé un montón de notas. Presidente Deere nos invitó a ir con 2 preguntas. Las mías

eran ¿Cómo podré levantar esta área en un tiempo tan corto? y ¿que quiere el Señor que haga cuando vuelvo a casa?

Parece que las respuestas vinieron en casi cada discurso. 

A la primera pregunta. Trabajar con los menos activos y contactar duro.

La segunda, estudiar y empezar una familia.  Vinieron bastante claras la respuestas.

Hoy fuimos a comer con un miembro. Emilio de hecho :) Nos llevó a comer Dominós. QUEEE RICOOOOOO

De verdad estoy disfrutando mucho de mi misión. Es una cosa maravillosa. Tengo que aprovechar de todo el tiempo que me queda para hacer todo lo bien posible mientras tengo la autoridad que tengo. Jamás volveré a tener este poder en la tierra. El señor solo nos da dos años. Hay que

aprovecharlo al máximo de verdad.

Creo que lo más ordenado que he tenido me escritorio en

toda mi misión jaja

He thinks this is the tidiest his desk has ever been on his mission!

La foto de mi con el misionero y las misioneras es parte

de mi familia misional. Mi nieto, mi hija, y mi nieta

jaja :P ¡Ya soy un abuelo!

 A minaret - Call to prayer?

Is this typical Córdoba transport?

¿Transporte tipico en Córdoba?

A Successful Week - Una Semana con Exito

Elder Read and his new companion Élder Pomazón

.Élder Read y su nuevo compañero Élder Pomazón

Elder Read says they are walking a lot, which  caused his feet to bleed a little, although when he wrote on Monday they were fine. He calls that scars of war!! And he's also losing weight!  He gained quite a lot in Huércal-Overa as it was such a small area.  However, I also suspect that it had quite a lot to do with the food!

They are seeing a lot of success with the less-active members of the branch.  Last week the elders gave them 9 discussions, making 16 duscussions including investigators.  Apparently it's the best week the area has seen for an awful long time. There's much to do - and little time to do it!!  

Last week Elder Read was reminded of England as it rained so much out there, which meant that his umbrella had to put up with a lot.  

On Monday they played football again and he says that, as ever, he played badly; although he enjoyed it.

Élder Pomazón has been ill, which meant that they had to spend a day in the flat, but he appears to have recovered.

Elder Read then said he couldn't think of anything else to tell us but he does have these photos for us.

This photo is on the Mission blog with the following caption: "Elder Reid, Hermana Read and Hermana Reed messing with us again.  Too bad we didn't get Elder Read in this picture too!" So four missionaries Re(a_e_i)d in the mission!!!

Élder Read dice:
Pues estamos caminando mucho jaja :P Mis pies estuvieron sangrando un poco pero ahora están bien :) ¡¡Cicatrizas de guerra!! En otras noticias estoy perdiendo peso :) gané mucho en Huércal-overa porque era un sitio tan pequeño jaja :P

Estamos viendo mucho éxito con los menos activos. La semana pasada tuvimos 9 lecciones a menos activos 16 lecciones en total. Supuestemente es la mejor semana que esta área a visto en muuuuuuuuucho tiempo.... hay mucho que hacer aquí. Y poco tiempo para hacerlo.

¡Estaba lloviendo esta semana un montón! pensé que estaba en Inglaterra jaja :P mis paraguas ya aguantan más jaja :P

Pues, hoy fuimos a jugar fútbol. Como siempre jugué mal pero me divertí :)

Mi compañero estuvo enfermo y tuvimos que quedarnos un día en el piso.

La verdad es que no sé que mas contarles. nada se ve viene a la mente jaja :P pero les voy a mandar muchas fotos :)

Siguen fotos de Córdoba:
Following are photos of Córdoba:

 What Elder Read describes as the mosque cathedral

Lo que describe Élder Read como la mezquita catedral de Córdoba